Read an article this morning about how Allbirds is pivoting to become an AI company and goddamn if a company turning from eco-friendly shoes to water- and power-guzzling AI doesn't feel like a metaphor for this entire era
And since TurboTax worked so hard to kill even the slightest attempt to do that, I really wanted an alternative this year. I thought I was stuck using it bc of my wife’s self-employment income, but even that was free
I used it as well for the first time. It was great. So much more streamlined and cheaper than TurboTax, and it reads scans of W-2s and 1099s. Really helpful if you’re a gigging musician
This is the burden of knowledge those of us from “the satellites” carry 😆
But seriously, this is a wonderful donation. My regalia is still the most expensive outfit I own.
Fun fact: (I hope this is still a fact) the regalia is the same across grad degrees at all a university of a California campuses. My UCSD regalia is identical. It’s been a long time, but I seem to remember that being explained to me
I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.
But but but Elissa Slotkin is bringing the Alpha Energy
"This is what you get when you elect Republicans."
Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly.
Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time.
Fucking say it!
Without established terminology, I favor explaining your terms upfront in the paper or as a footnote the first time you use each term. It's essentially jargon, and in the pop/electronic world there is little standardization.
That said, I tend to use "drum machine" and "virtual drum machine"
She already is unsufferable, and as a Michigander, I am happily and relentlessly calling her out whenever she posts some new white bread consultant bs. I think she is like Mike Pence, so totally unqualified at their current job that the only strategy is to hope you get an unearned promotion
At the Lyric Opera for an afternoon performance of El último sueño de Frida y Diego by Gabriela Lena Frank. Not expecting to see so many Latinas dressed in tribute to Frida.
The title is A LOT
I actually just saw the post from that scold, and just kept walking...
Wait what? I thought we were scolding academics for staying on the racist hell-site. The backlash is truly backlashing
Here's one for Apology Watch. Although the article calls this an apology, it isn't. It doesn't acknowledge his actions, apologizes for "if anyone's feelings got hurt," invokes his daughter, and finishes with "I didn't mean to take a stand." How does this help?
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Make no mistake, whoever comes in will be as bad or likely worse, but won't generate the publicity she did. The firings on Noem and Bondi were not done for moral or competence reasons in the way you or I might think of them. They were done because they couldn't effectively shield Trump
Marco Rubio declared that under the Constitution being born in the USA does not make you a citizen unless your parents are citizens.
Marco Rubio's parents were Cuban immigrants who were NOT citizens at the time of his birth.
Do you think Marco will now self-deport?
Wang makes her best point, which was made in one of the briefs: Babies of Japanese citizens born while their parents were INTERRED during world war 2 were [wait for it] US citizens.
That history ALONE should be dispositive.
Slotkin is so gross with pretty much everything she does. So nakedly ambitious for power without any other bought to why than she wants it. She has to run for president bc she won’t get reelected in MI
Reupping my answer to a previous, similar prompt: Music theory isn’t a property that some pieces of music have in greater quantity than others, and music theory has nothing to say about whether some pieces of music are better than others
Efficiency in and of itself should not be an educational goal
I’m sorry what?
💯 but also, too much advertiser driven education leads some students to think this is what we should be doing. When we poll students for curriculum ideas they would like to see, these are the requests we get
When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern
57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals.
And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked.
And then the DEI office was killed.
And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.
It is scholarly. The authors are well respected. It also allows for assignments to include part-writing or not. I’m focusing more on analysis and not on part-writing. This works well with that approach.
Also uses embedded MuseScore files for some example playback
I'm really loving Open Music Theory. Free, open resource, online, interactive, has diverse examples, and an excellent section on pop music. Using it at Western Michigan U.
viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusicthe...
You are hopelessly naive and incapable of standing up for your constituents
The Guardian and Moira Donegan's @moiradonegan.bsky.social reporting have undermined so much of Botstein's pathetic defense of his relationship with Epstein. We know that relationship led to abuse of at least one Bard student. Bard's response has been pathetic.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
