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Scott Hallgren 🇧🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🎹🎬🎵🎶

@scootmanmusic.bsky.social
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Emmy-nominated composer, author, professor, husband, Dad. And almost never in that order.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A historically unproductive Congress. By the numbers.
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‘Garbage’ says guy who has never worked in higher ed, whose kids went to private schools, and the only contract that matters is between students and the university?  www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Architect of Ohio Higher Ed Overhaul on Shared Governance: Garbage
Jerry Cirino, former chair of the Senate Workforce and Higher Education Committee, successfully passed a sweeping, controversial law in his state. He’s an example of state lawmakers getting more invol...
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🤣😂🤡
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WTF Just Happened Today? by Matt Kiser @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com · 18/08/2026
The 2026 midterms are in 78 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 813 days.
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Scott Hallgren 🇧🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🎹🎬🎵🎶 @scootmanmusic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Getting better at Greek! Resubmitting my Fulbright soon…
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 09/08/2026
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.
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Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Haters back off, the Steam Machine is the best tech purchase I’ve made in ages. I’ve been trying to make a living room PC work for years; this is the first time that a PC has felt like another console under the TV. And the performance is more than good enough for everyone except the spec fanatics.
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Today in 2006, some friends had reached out to ask if I could help with music for a Star Wars spoof they were submitting at San Diego Comic-Con. It won Best Comedy, the trophy presented by George Lucas himself. And who wasn't present that day? This guy 🥲. Anyway, please enjoy this short, Sith'D!
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Well, I lost the Emmy for best musical composition to a generative AI piece. But I'm so very proud to be nominated and to have had the opportunity to work on 'Photography', and am excited to include the score on my next album - soon on EarUp Records!
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She also rescued the original Raiders of the Lost Ark, which didn’t include the scene with Marian and Indy at the very end… 🥲
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 20/03/2026
I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up. youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0?...
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I spoke to AI agent Claude
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 21/03/2026
I spoke to my calculator, what it said will shock you.
Calculator upside down spells BOOBIES
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Love this - in writing music as well!
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WTF Just Happened Today? by Matt Kiser @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com · 07/04/2026
The 2026 midterms are in 211 days; the 2028 presidential election is in 946 days.
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I mean…
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“It doesn't feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US - Ars Technica @totter87.bsky.social
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“If democracy is not simply a constitutional arrangement but a lived experience of shared fate, ethical commitments, and civic presence, then millions of Americans have very clearly not lived in one for decades. And if your neighbors are not living in democracy, then neither are you.”
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/03/2026
Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg
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Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say
Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...
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Not sure where the “education” is in this?
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That quote from Secondhand Lions... 🥲
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Abercrombie & Fitch. Ohio State Wrestling and Dr. Strauss. Jeffery Epstein. Les Wexner is at the center of ALL of it.
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 12/02/2026
Jeffrey Epstein’s emails show that then-Ohio State University Board of Trustees chairman Leslie Wexner was served in a Jane Doe lawsuit against the deceased sex trafficker in 2009. Donald Trump was also served in the lawsuit. Epstein later settled. Full story: www.rooster.info/p/ohio-state...
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Ohio State should have known about Wexner's Epstein problems by Sept. 18, 2009
Epstein files show that then-Ohio State Board of Trustees chairman Leslie Wexner was served in a Jane Doe lawsuit against the since-deceased sex trafficker in 2009.
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Silicon Republic @siliconrepublic.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.
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New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.
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Teen social media addiction trial set to kick off in LA www.courthousenews.com/teen-social-...
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Teen social media addiction trial set to kick off in LA
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify in person during the landmark trial.
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And deserve… 😂
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This is amazing! substack.com/@reallyameri...
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Really American (@reallyamerican)
BREAKING: Hungary explodes with MASSIVE protests against Russian-backed Orban government. Peter Magyar is demolishing Orban in the polls and if there’s a free election, Putin loses his puppet. Protest...
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Omg this!
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A nice shoutout amidst all of the challenges we face. These collaborations are key to moving forward. @kentstate.bsky.social www.kent.edu/today/news/s...
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Scoring the Music Behind the Moving Pictures
The annual short film collaboration among Kent State, Cuyahoga Community College and the Contemporary Youth Orchestra gives young musicians the rare chance to record original music for films alongside...
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Since we know that pseudoscience will come from HHS soon: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
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Opinion | Autism Rates Have Increased 60-Fold. I Played a Role in That.
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Scott Hallgren 🇧🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🎹🎬🎵🎶 @scootmanmusic.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people" - William Adama, BSG season 2
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Amen.
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Session days are the best days!
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Wasserman said the principled position ought to be that lawmakers’ moments of confusion are news, period. Cleaning it up “is not really an option,” Wasserman said. “This is clearly performance related. And their job performance is your job to report on.” apple.news/AGb5foZPMR26...
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An Elderly Lawmaker’s Staff Keeps Walking Back Things She Tells Reporters. Should They Keep Quoting Her? — POLITICO
A media conundrum for the age of gerontocracy.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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We are so NOT ready for what's coming: techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/a...
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A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books without authors' permission | TechCrunch
The ruling isn't a guarantee for how similar cases will proceed, but it lays the foundations for a precedent that would side with tech companies over creatives.
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I mean...
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Welp. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Fulbright board quits due to Trump administration’s political meddling
The resignations follow scholarship cancellations and probe into Harvard’s work with blacklisted Chinese officials
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www.washington.edu/news/2025/05...
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AI headphones translate multiple speakers at once, cloning their voices in 3D sound
UW researchers designed a headphone system that translates several people speaking at once, following them as they move and preserving the direction and qualities of their voices. The team built the.....
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When the opposition to this reaches a certain point, can we make it a class action to get an injunction? Seriously, creative peeps, this is REALLY bad.
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WTAF are we doing?
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Winning?
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
In a few years (max) when people start asking why we thought AI was a good idea I am creating a record that we did NOT think it was a good idea and the main reason people were ever convinced was billions of dollars of propaganda
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Wut? Hey Jack, I’ll let my IP go as soon as you make your code public. 😉 www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/all-out-war-...
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‘All-out war’: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk call for an end to intellectual property laws - Music Business Worldwide
The battle over the future of intellectual property in the age of AI is escalating quickly.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Here's a description of the Russian attempted access to NLRB from the whistleblower complaint. whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/u...
21. On or about March 11, 2025, NxGen metrics indicated abnormal usage at points the prior
week. I saw way above baseline response times, and resource utilization showed increased
network output above anywhere it had been historically – as far back as I could look. I noted that
this lined up closely with the data out event. I also notice increased logins blocked by access
policy due to those log-ins being out of the country. For example: In the days after DOGE
accessed NLRB’s systems, we noticed a user with an IP address in Primorskiy Krai, Russia
started trying to log in. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming.
Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created accounts that were used in
the other DOGE related activities and it appeared they had the correct username and password
due to the authentication flow only stopping them due to our no-out-of-country logins policy
activating. There were more than 20 such attempts, and what is particularly concerning is that
many of these login attempts occurred within 15 minutes of the accounts being created by DOGE
engineers.
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Check out Highland Square Film Festival on '@filmfreeway'; deadline for applications is coming up! @filmfreeway.bsky.social
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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In case you needed reminding: www.factcheck.org/2023/08/scic...
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FactChecking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - FactCheck.org
Our SciCheck team has combed through RFK Jr's recent interviews to identify and correct some of his most common health claims.
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