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Dale Chapman 🍁

@decmusicology.bsky.social
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Author, *The Jazz Bubble: Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture* (UC Press 2018) Doomscrolling glumly since about 2015

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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 1h
There's a lot to unpack here First, there's got to be a way to politely demur when Stephen Miller's wife asks you to attend a party Like, thank you, but no, I'm unable to join you for Wolf of Wall Street meets Zone of Interest, because I'm shampooing my hair that night
But accepting an invitation from Katie Miller doesn’t necessarily imply a fondness for the couple. At least one longtime Trump ally told Vanity Fair that Stephen Miller’s despotic reputation is a part of the calculation.  

“I’ll say I love her publicly, but the truth is I can’t fucking stand her,” the ally said. “But if she asks you to go on the podcast, or come over for dinner, you say yes, because Stephen Miller is the second-most powerful person in the world.”
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 3h
alright, fine, if it's in my favorite niche media outlet, i'm going to have to do it. here's an explainer on why everyone, and i do mean everyone, who is posting about the plague situation is wrong. the tl;dr: what you are watching play out is a pissing contest about diplomatic norms
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 3h
This looks good -- plus I liked Garfield a lot in the film version of Tick, Tick....Boom! -- but whenever I see him all I can think of is him saying, "you better lawyer up, asshole, because I'm coming back for all of it"
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Mark Market Confrontation
Alt: Andrew Garfield as Eduardo in The Social Network, taking Mark Zuckerberg's laptop at Facebook headquarters and smashing it on the ground
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 3h
As we get closer to the inevitability of a Vance run in 2028, even this dim bulb may be inching closer to the realization that not everyone is on board with a societal vibe straight out of Mad Max Fury Road, and that he may need to hold his most bloodthirsty colleagues at arm's length
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3h
Today's Daily Cartoon, by Paul Noth.
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 6h
My man looks like he sent out for an Absentminded Professor costume for Halloween
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 6h
HOUSE DEMOCRAT: [leans forward] I got two words for you: piss tape.
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 7h
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Bill
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 7h
Serpico has Vertigo
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9h
Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85
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Will Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 08/10/2026
It was an immense privilege to have my former and forever teacher Billy Hart at Skidmore in September, with Ethan Iverson (@ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social), Craig Handy, and Ben Street. Huge thanks to my colleagues + the Zankel Music Center team for supporting this event.
Billy Hart quartet in performanceBilly Hart quartet curtain callWill Mason and Billy Hart photoBilly Hart, Ethan Iverson, and Will Mason at panel
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this video of Haruki Murakami super fans losing it after the Nobel Prize for Literature announced this year's recipient is Anne Carson (spelled Ann by store staff) is what it's all about, folks
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Headlines like this have been making the rounds seemingly annually since I was in my twenties, and I think it’s more interesting to ask why this has become a thing. What aspect of public discourse is this motivated to play to?
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"A truly elite human being"
Elon Musk, looking like a douchebag, brandishing the gift chainsaw that that Argentinian President Milei gave to him at CPAC

He is sporting a black t-shirt and blazer, douchey chunky shades, and a black "MAGA" baseball cap, while making a dumb face
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yeah, I think there was something in the Grundrisse about this lol
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Institutions of higher ed are required to hire H-1B visa holders at the prevailing wage for domestic employees, so I don't know what he's going on about Universities bring in international faculty in order to ensure they have access to the strongest pool of intellectual labor
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ceej @ceej.online · 08/10/2026
waymos are driven by the ghosts of people who died in debt
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I feel there aren’t anywhere near enough piracy-based sabbaticals approved these days
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Trix @trixranderson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It feels like whack-a-mole reporting these computer-generated 'authors' as they spring up, but at the moment it seems like all we can do. The move from harvesting articles to just plagiarising entire books is less of a creep than a sprint - but keep pushing back.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“.. one research firm is valuing the artificial intelligence company at a mere $150 billion and says Wall Street is about to face an ‘unprecedented test of investor gullibility.’” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/a...
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.
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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A societal cancer. Also so is online betting.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
A lot of people are struggling right now. Including your queer and trans fam, and your artists friends, and the people who are both. The mental health pressures are real and the consequences are potentially devastating. Check on your people. Let them know how much you love having them around.
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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Emily Watlington @keys-wallet-phone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
vital & necessary, from @annakornbluh.bsky.social www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
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How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration
What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial.
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Never thought that a clip from Bill Maher's show could do double duty as a powerful repudiation of both "OMG cities scary"-conservatism and that ridiculous column making the rounds here about the "epidemic of family estrangement" Anyway, check this out from Anand Giridharadas
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's a complicated moment Because yes, he did that, and from our moment that intervention looks especially noble But to try to address his flagging poll numbers he chose a running mate who was probably as responsible as anyone for planting the seeds of vicious nativism in the electorate's mind
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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’ve done this. I had to spend a good bit of time walking them through how to take notes, study for a blue book exam and how to respond to close reading. Less content/more skills. It worked wonderfully. They increased their skills for reading/analysis/writing substantially.
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When you confirm the Cabinet members that defy that constitutional order, confirm the SCOTUS justices that permit them to defy that order, and refuse to hold accountable the greatest threat to that order, then you're not so much a "lonely voice" as a useful idiot
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I guess of all the ways I imagined we might be able to get folks to read their Hegel and Derrida, "strength conditioning a brain atrophied from cognitive offloading" was not on my bingo card
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on Bluesky
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Cary Grant's Iconic Plane Attack Scene
Alt: Cary Grant's Iconic Plane Attack Scene
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Navarro's WH colleagues, looking at the dollar figure from his comparatively tiny conflict of interest
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Rookie Numbers Meme from The Wolf of Wall Street
Alt: Rookie Numbers Meme from The Wolf of Wall Street
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
When Brody loses his wife unexpectedly, he takes his daughter to a small mountain town to try to restart. What he finds is bad neighbors, worse cops, and ghostly intruders? Or is there something darker lurking in the town of Orolet? #Booksky FOLLOW TODAY! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...
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STAY WOKE -- A Thriller About Grief, Anxiety and Prejudice
Get notified when STAY WOKE -- A Thriller About Grief, Anxiety and Prejudice launches on BackerKit!
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American Century of BOO-miliation @johnperich.com · 07/10/2026
Deeply technical but satisfying thread on the specifics of computation and why an LLM that *frequently* arrives at the right number is not the same thing as a program that *calculates* the right number. Expect LLM boosters to pivot to "well, what even is 'addition' anyway?" shortly.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 07/10/2026
sometimes I think about the amount of critical theory that’s going to be required to even attempt to make sense of what the fuck has been happening over the last six years and I need to go lie down
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Footnote 23 in Reclaiming AI: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
footnote 23 Similarly, no finite set of ‘impressive’ observations about AIs/LLMs
establishes that they exhibit a (human) cognitive capacity. This link can
only be theoretically established; i.e., if we propose that a machine has a
cognitive capacity X , we must also formally charactise X such that the
machine’s capacity Y can be mathematically proven to be X ≡ Y under
relevant and naturalistic conditions, using appropriate proof techniques
(see, e.g. Blokpoel & van Rooij, 2021, Chapter 5).
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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection
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Gale Anne Hurd @galeannehurd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner for ‘On the Waterfront,’ Is Dead at 102 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/m... We both served as members of the AMPAS Nicholl Screenwriting Committee - I benefitted greatly from her insights into screenwriting . My deepest condolences to her Laurette and her entire family.
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Eva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner for ‘On the Waterfront,’ Is Dead at 102
A luminous beauty with dramatic depth, she brought a layered intensity to harrowing roles and seduced Cary Grant in the romantic thriller “North by Northwest.”
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/10/2026
The starting point for any discussion of declining public trust in higher education in the US has to be that since the McCarthy Era, the center-right has systematically misled the public about the purpose and practices of higher education as well as underfunded it.
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The first season of OA was mostly incredible, until like the last ten minutes of the season finale Like cringe-inducingly bad Then I just wasn't able to get into season 2, because that terrible turn put me in a defensive crouch lol
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For the record, I distrust both parties when their WH press secretaries take on prominent media roles after stepping down I know lots of folks like Jen Psaki, but it's not great for the health of media independence that she could go straight from her White House role to anchoring an MSNBC show
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Honest to fk. Dems are up in almost every generic poll nationally; they are making inroads in Iowa, Alaska, Kansas FFS Republicans, meanwhile, are freaking out, and trying to get the party leader to pipe down But for Politico Dems are never In Array. It's always "Civil War" or some goddam thing
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is going to kill music education in this country if it's allowed to go into effect. My partner teaches music at the graduate level and his school is lobbying as hard as it can to keep this from going into effect because it's an existential threat to their program.
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a quick reminder that Matt Y holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy Which makes both his dismissal of arts degrees and his sneering contempt for "your precious liberal arts degree" somewhat puzzling
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This seems a little too well-crafted as a bit; it seems tailor-made to annoy people That said, the ability to slip-cue vinyl records manually on two Technics decks and a two-channel mixer is a skill set that is undoubtedly in decline, given the technological shifts, and that makes me vaguely sad
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You know, the usual thing is to pursue your party base in the lead-in to primaries, and then tack to the center or center-right during the general election A guy who's willing to unilaterally disarm right out of the gate clearly has not given up any of the contempt he has for Dem progressives
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Really amazing being a conservative in American life, where going to prison on a conviction bound up in the molestation of children can still only get the press to admit that there were "allegations" of sexual misconduct
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There was something about It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, that shook me existentially as a kid The scenes with Linus wracked with angst, or Snoopy crossing No Man's Land -- creeped me right out lol
Linus doubts the arrival of The Great Pumpkin. Linus, from Peanuts, sporting his usual red horizontal striped shirt, sits in a pumpkin patch during a spooky fall night. Schultz has rendered him with multiple anxiety brackets around his eyes, for maximum effect
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe if you read literally anything else Josh Sheppard has posted or written -- or, really, if you just re-read the post you're dunking on! -- you might realize that you're both basically on the same side of this issue and that you can probably climb down from your staggeringly high horse
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