From different shores : perspectives on race and ethnicity in America : Takaki, Ronald, 1939-2009 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Includes bibliographical references

Ronald Takaki's books contain an excellent history of migration and plurality in the US, though his classic "From Different Shores" ends in the 1980s: archive.org/details/from...

AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry Mythos is "the most psychologically settled model we have trained to date."

what a surprise, anthropic, who have long demonstrated delusional traits concerning their tech, "sent" their newest frontier LLM model to a shrink to report on its "good mental and emotional functioning." No need for peer review when you have paid-for fake "science"! arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/w...

baked alaska... how could you top that?

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

cognitive surrender... a term for those zealous LLM users who are overconfident in the chatbot's answers, especially when they're wrong arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/r...

...don't get me started on the "those who can't do, teach" trope 🤡

Just the newest chapter in decades of anti-expertise buffoonery; in my (public) high school kids got beat up semi-regularly if they got As, contributing to a low graduation rate and poor job prospects for those who endured. Living in the UK and Turkey I rarely saw this there.

Rosalia's Lux getting some rotation around here... and Raye's album that just dropped

The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian

golly gee, would have never guessed that a plagiarizing chatbot would turn out to be a plagiarizing chatbot! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

March 26 at 5:30pm, for @cunygcmusic.bsky.social at the CUNY GC (@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ), we're having this presentation/discussion of the ethics of generative AI in music studies research. Much of the discussion will be broadly applicable to humanistic social science research, too!

They're not using the new Flock pan-tilt cameras, are they? The totally unsecure ones?

... you'll be SHOCKED to know these THREE TRICKS for getting the most out of your GEMINI EXPERIENCE! Or something equally dire.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

We're starting to get students who can't name a single musician at all—their whole frame of reference comes from listening to spotify's "lo-fi chill beats to study to". Some have also never seen a musical instrument played in person, and struggle to recognize what a guitar or violin is. Tough times!

picture of snow-covered walkway outside a building looking out towards a street where snow-covered cars are parked

I never could move past his early EFF years where he was the most rabid evangelist for eliminating all copyright/IP and became the biggest stooge for high tech firms in that capacity. His particular hatred of conventional authors and musicians was palpable. And only *now* we have enshittification?

it's not long, it was just prompted that way! 🤡

Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules Ongoing struggles with AI model instruction-following show that true human-level AI still a ways off.

This is epic /s. Surely AGI is only a few months away at this rate: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/f...

zohran just declared the winner here, called by AP!

Holy batman, that's epic! Congrats Mar, you deserved it!

It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now YouTube video by Venus Theory

I'm thankful every day I'm no longer dependent on album sales for the bulk of my "living," but real bummed how hard it's become with all the spoofing, impersonation, AI slop, and shit platform hijinks that currently define the streaming and digital distribution space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=plle...

I've been calling it shittipy gippity recently, which would make the user forms shittiper or gippiter, or something like that?

it hasn't helped that there were a few hasty "stories" by so-called "psychiatrists" (unvetted, of course) that "suggested" that shittipy gippity was no worse than talking with a talk therapist... at some sort of unspecified task, of course.

Our newest book, Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies, was just reviewed in Tape Op! tapeop.com/reviews/gear...

UPenn to ban transgender athletes, ending civil rights case focused on swimmer Lia Thomas The University of Pennsylvania will bar transgender women from its women’s sports teams and restore records to cisgender athletes, resolving a federal Title IX case centered on swimmer Lia Thomas

Pathetic cowards. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

web.archive.org/web/20250613... is probably the best we can get right now. Some of the IU websites being down appears to be unrelated to the program cuts.

In addition to many other important programs, IU Bloomington is eliminating its Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department, one of the most storied and successful in the country.

users of academia.edu, there's a new scheme of AI generated spam emails asking for your whatsapp number. This one began with "Please allow me to introduce myself briefly. My name is Simmons. I am from Bologna, Italy. I currently live in the United States and work as a systems biology researcher..."

a chainsaw-wielding memcoin-pimping grifter meddling in the midterms? what could go wrong? 🤡

Ok people were asking "What IS a small farm anyway?"

so let's talk farm size, how it's measured in the US, and what that can tell us about how agriculture really works.

wot, so has Gitlab partnered with that blasted, narcissistic, snarky language app owl now?