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Music studies / STS - audio engineering - oud - eurorack performances as makamqore and as 1/2 of manifestoon platoon. Fuck LLMs. They/them

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
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Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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...
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AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry
Mythos is "the most psychologically settled model we have trained to date."
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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...
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"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds
Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
golly gee, would have never guessed that a plagiarizing chatbot would turn out to be a plagiarizing chatbot! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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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
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This is epic /s. Surely AGI is only a few months away at this rate: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/f...
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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.
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
zohran just declared the winner here, called by AP!
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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...
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It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now
YouTube video by Venus Theory
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Our newest book, Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies, was just reviewed in Tape Op! tapeop.com/reviews/gear...
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Gear (Book) | Gear Reviews | Tape Op
Review of Gear (Book) from Tape Op Magazine Issue 168
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Pathetic cowards. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
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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
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Kaleb E. Goldschmitt @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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.
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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..."
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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.
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This one's for everyone stuck in grading season right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=is4g...
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writing a college paper then vs. now
YouTube video by Man Carrying Thing
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
In "Gear," leading music technology scholars @samanthabennett.bsky.social and Eliot Bates (@makam.bsky.social) trace the "life of gear" through an examination of the 21st-century fetishization of professional audio technologies and formation of gear cultures: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255185...
Cover of the book 'Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies' by Eliot Bates and Samantha Bennett, featuring a close-up image of hands adjusting knobs on an audio mixing console.
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
New g̵e̵ar̵ book day Available now at MIT Press: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255185...
photo of eliot holding paperback copy of the GEAR book
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
On May 27, 4:30pm (EDT), we're celebrating our newest book Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies in an event organized by RILM. If you're in NYC come on down; out-of-town, it'll be livestreamed, register here: brookcenter.gc.cuny.edu/event/sites-... @samanthabennett.bsky.social
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Sites + Sounds + Scenes
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/04/2025
President Trump’s sweeping tariffs announced today stretched across the globe, including the remote Heard and McDonald Islands, which are populated by zero humans but lots of seals and penguins. nbcnews.to/3QXPQ31
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cory Booker's 24 hours into his epic, record-breaking Senate speech! Currently talking about John Lewis. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...
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Watch live: Sen. Booker continues marathon Senate speech to protest Trump
Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., is speaking and planning to hold the Senate floor for as long as he can. "I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble. I rise with the intention of disruptin...
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Every time someone my age says something about “a brainrot trend on TikTok…” I’m compelled to remind Gen X that we were obsessed with Gregorian chant for a year in the 90s. Like we *went to the mall* & *bought CDs of it*. We blasted it in our cars driving to our high schools. This was normal to us🥸
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/03/2025
Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
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Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine
At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics, a group of Democratic Senators have decided to collaborate…
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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad. Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...
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Farewell to Jonathan Sterne
We are very sad to learn of the death of communication scholar Jonathan Sterne, after a long battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. Sterne was James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at …
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Woke to this 💔 news on such a ☀️ day. In a world of metastasizing cruelty, where education — at all levels — is under threat, Jonathan’s work + life remind us of what is possible + desirable. In his honor today, listen to some 🎶 (ideally not on mp3!) + imagine impairment as an opportunity for grace 💐
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Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
As many of you know Jonathan Sterne is in hospice. If you would like to send a message to Jonathan and Carrie please send an email to heyjonandcarrie@gmail.com Carrie is receiving these messages and sharing them with Jonathan
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
US deports hundreds of Venezuelans "despite" court order. Meaning, of course: "in breach of". On the face of it, it looks like there is now a full constitutional crisis in United States, in that the executive is now freely ignoring court orders. Crisis point reached. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order
Their arrival comes less than 24 hours after a federal judge blocked a law Trump planned to use for the deportations.
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If someone you know has been informed about any potential for being deported from the US, be aware (and let them and their lawyers, if any know) that as of Mar 15, Chief Judge Boasberg has issued a temporary restraining order blocking *all* deportations: www.lawdork.com/p/alien-enem...
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Breaking: Court blocks deportations hours after Trump invokes Alien Enemies Act
The ACLU and Democracy Forward filed suit in advance of Trump's action. A federal judge hearing the case issued a classwide TRO as planes were reportedly taking off.
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Well, so much for any notion that the new administration would be... um... more "isolationist" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump orders airstrikes on Yemen in warning to Houthis over shipping route
At least 19 people killed in strikes on Sana’a and Sa’ada on Saturday, says Houthi-run health ministry
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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Trump and Musk are basically trying to deskill America: 1) kill all white-collar jobs and replace them with AI 2) kill universities 3) use tariffs to turn the U.S. into an economic island manufacturing, oil and ag hub 4) empty the cities 5) push men into manual labor & women back into the kitchen
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/03/2025
Holy shit. This is *the* gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.
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Claudia Friedlander @voiceteachernyc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It's time for Schumer to resign. He's unfit for office. Invertebrates were not permitted to hold office last time I checked.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
this image of a decomposing saguaro, honeycomb structure exposed, taken in tucson, feels like the mood of the day
decomposing saguaro revealing honeycomb interior
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...
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Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X
Dozens of big subreddits have already banned all Twitter links, and posts about potential bans are some of the most popular on the site.
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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 01/11/2024
Twitch has posted the definitions of what needs to be labeled under the new Content Classification Label for Politics and Sensitive Social Issues. Read it here: safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Co... #StreamerNews #TOSgg
Streams featuring former or current political officials if the content includes discussions with these individuals around public policies
Live coverage or commentary on elections, civic processes, or election-related disputes
Livestreams of protests, rallies, or civil unrest related to civil rights issues or government policies
Discussing military conflicts, foreign policy decisions, or national security matters
Discussing ideological or socio-political views on topics like gender, race, sexuality, or religion
Discussing legislation related to a sensitive social issue such as reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, or immigration
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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 28/10/2024
YES on Prop 1. NO on 2–6.
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 02/09/2024
Okay, so Elsevier, Routledge, and now Wiley are all out now. Sounds like academics really need to step our own efforts to create and sustain independent, open access, non-profit publishing. #academicsky
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 30/08/2024
"Academic publisher Wiley has revealed it is set to make $44 million (£33 million) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships that it is not giving authors the opportunity to opt-out from." AI in publishing going great then www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-s...
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Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors
The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
We did it. We finished a book. 119.9k words, all about gear. Off it goes to MIT Press, hopefully it's out in print later this year! 🙃📖😱🎤🎧
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Just the latest Harvard dirty money scandal: Harvard shutters disinformation research team after zuck & co donate $500m to Harvard: live-whistleblower-aid.pantheonsite.io/joan-donovan...
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 30/11/2023
Companies have scraped millions of copyrighted books/articles and copied them without permission to train generative AI. We are conducting a survey and would like to hear from you. Be sure to share it with your writer friends! form.jotform.com/233316136049...
form.jotform.com
Authors Guild Generative AI Survey
Please click the link to complete this form.
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Come work with us in the Music Dept at The Graduate Center (CUNY)! The listing is for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, to commence in fall 2024, application review begins Nov 27 but open until filled. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
And here's today's formalization of the proof that crypto, from bottom to top, is primarily about fraud and money laundering. Up to 110 years in prison for SBF: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Dr. Hyeonjin Park (they/them) @hyeonjin.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Hi everyone, Project Spectrum has written an open letter to the AMS, SEM, and SMT leadership about the lack of hybrid options to attend and/or present at the upcoming annual meetings. You can read our letter here: www.projectspectrummusic.com/open-letter-...
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Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Academic librarians, come work with terrific folx at CUNY! Tenure track and substitute jobs are hiring at multiple campuses: cuny.jobs/brooklyn-ny/... cuny.jobs/bronx-ny/lib... library.qc.cuny.edu/employment/
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
Happy that my own 3 books are up on the "notorious shadow library." The "shadow librarians" do far more than for-profit Cengage, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, and Pearson to make the academic work we do accessible to many. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social · 07/08/2023
Hello! The Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming polyrhythm game The One-Body Problem is happening soon!! Follow here to get notified when it launches! www.kickstarter.com/projects/piesaa…
A human in a blue and gray jumpsuit is connected to four colored wires: green, pink, blue, and yellow. Nearby text reads: THE ONE-BODY PROBLEM, next to a diamond logo with the same four colors.
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 13/07/2023
Electronic music/sound awards for UK-based women and Gender Expansive (Trans, Non-Binary, Agender, Gender Fluid, Genderqueer) creators: www.oramawards.com . Apparently this year they're additionally interested in "underrepresented regions of the UK." Due august 14!
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makam @makam.bsky.social · 12/07/2023
Lookee here american tax filers, turns out the largest tax prep companies give mounds of your personal data to tech companies. If we had actual consumer protection laws we'd be able to sue these asshats into oblivion www.cnn.com/2023/07/12/tech/tax-pre…
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