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The music that suits my personal emotional needs the best was made by Duke Ellington in 1938 without his knowing or caring anything about me or my needs whatsoever

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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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alright everybody stand up for this person to sing a really hard song about the war of 1812 solo a cappella, if they fuck up it will haunt them forever. then we'll play some baseball

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Rob Burgess @robaburg.bsky.social · 4h

Art is not a problem to be solved. It is the point of living.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 5h

I'll have to be vague on the details, but I've been sad to see and hear how the Vanderbilt report is being used opportunistically by people who never cared for humanities research to begin with to begin "debates" about the "state" of the humanities.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 5h

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 5h

“The office that you sit in is obviously off campus and that’s for a reason...Our main obligation is accountability." If there is legitimate karma in the world, these women will be professionals feted and respected as Theo Baker was www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...

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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)

The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.

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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 10h

SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 7h

The CEO of General Mills should receive the title “General Mills.” It should be like becoming the Dalai Lama. Everyone who works there should have a military rank.

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Aaron Ragsdale @aaronragsdale.bsky.social · 7h

The Venn diagram of the “restore Western culture” crowd and the “let AI generate you a personalized piece of music-like substance” brigade is a circle.

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Wes Flinn (now with new trombones!) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 7h

The last thing we need is personalized everything. We’re already atomized far too much.

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Wes Flinn (now with new trombones!) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 8h

I loved many things about my last gig, but the U of MN is now pretty much a hospital system that pays PJ Fleck hundreds of thousands a year to win a second-tier bowl game.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 9h

603) Tubabot. Ideal for both orchestral accompaniment and for punctuating another hilarious disappointment. #SmallRobotsRemastered

A robot in the form of a tuba with banded arms and legs It's body (i.e. the tuba) is shaded to look like reflective metal, its face on the conical bore (big funnel bit) blowing into its mouthpiece, which is on an extended tube from the opposite side of the instrument (because, interestingly and unintentionally, I used an image of a smaller tuba designed to be held at shoulder height for reference, rather than the more conventional style with the mouthpiece closer to the bell), and it has its eyes closed. The robot's arm is connected to one of the many looping pipes, emerging from within the workings to manipulate the valves mounted in the middle. Wide waves emerging from the bell indicate the bassy sound produced by the robot.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 10h

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Wes Flinn (now with new trombones!) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 9h

“Our attendance from Brainerd is dropping. What do we do?” “Don’t worry, boss, I got this.”

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Wes Flinn (now with new trombones!) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 19h

I keep saying it - your average Ivy League/Elite SLAC prof would absolutely go bonkers and take out a real estate license if they had to do a 4-4 for one year.

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Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 22h

PODCAST HOST: the blood from the crime scene was found to actually be from the murder victim PODCAST CO-HOST: wait… the murder victim… died? with blood PODCAST HOST: i know—i was thinking the same thing. but then i read in the report that they died from the blood not being in the body anymore

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sleepynaut @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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K2S0'Hara (hypernarcoleptic) @oharawe.bsky.social · 23h

Super Intelligence indeed:

A terrible Circle of Fifths diagram that ChatGPT produced last summer. Any way you can imagine it's wrong, it probably is.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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JBF @jbf.bsky.social · 23h

Gonna start a blog called Diary of an Anti-Fascist Soccer Mom First post starts like this: When I started volunteering my time supporting my local public high school’s boys soccer program, I didn’t know I was being sent into battle with private equity bullshit on a daily basis.

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Machine Yearning Model 🫠 @girlmeetsbrass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

God she just comes in like an F-16 and leverages the English language in a way few can to napalm this guy from 40,000 feet An all-time poster

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Wes Flinn (now with new trombones!) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Passersby were amazed at the unusually large amounts of blood. @theonion.com

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Wes Flinn (now with new trombones!) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading @deandad.bsky.social’s gloss on Annie Lowrey’s The Time Tax. I’m buying this book right now because I’ve often thought so much of what we do is bound up in some unholy combination of John Calvin and Franz Kafka. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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“The Time Tax” and Higher Ed

Getting the questions right.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it was right there in complaints that “concepts” and “histories” should be resisted or banned if they were “divisive.” And, of course, in the “demographic concerns” of race-science-curious evopsych popularizers

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it was all right there, for example, in the instantaneous shift from “concerns about peer review” in “grievance studies” to calls for “purging” academic institutions, all before Chris Rufo was even a name

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

The fact that the preferred political movement of the free speech set immediately set about establishing “western civics centers” while gutting the rest of the humanities and supports for marginalized students really does tell you what the source of their concerns really were

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the arc of centrism bends towards right-wing nationalist monoculture. or it would bend that way, if it had started anywhere else

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the year is 2032. you were 90 minutes late to your kids parent/teacher conference after your waymo got stuck in a roundabout. your kids educator, an ai version of benjamin franklin, is asking parents if yoga pants are actually acceptable present-day attire. he wont let it go. it doesnt stop

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

chris rufo (twitter): we’re going to lie and say school teachers are involved in satanic ritual abuse of children and these dumb fuck journalists will buy it jake tapper: and now we take a look at mcmartin preschool and the grave allegations against it chris rufo: thank you jake, fearless as ever

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone notice how Pete Hegseth spent the first few weeks of the Iran bombing campaign in front of the cameras telling us how awesome it was going and now we haven’t seen him for months?

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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you a faculty member considering, or committed to, early retirement because of changes to the way tenure works (at your institution/system, in your state or more broadly)? I'd like to talk to you for a @chronicle.com story. Send me a DM or email megan.zahneis@chronicle.com.

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Wes Flinn (now with new trombones!) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is relevant to both @historicalmarker.bsky.social and @dicknixon.bsky.social. US 50, Butlerville, IN. Photo taken today on the way back to CVG from the farm.

An historical marker for Hannah Milhous Nixon, mother of President Richard M. Nixon. This marker is located in southern Indiana, on US Highway 50 in Butlerville, IN.

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Wes Flinn (now with new trombones!) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This man is within four months of 92 years old. His eye is not dim, nor his strength abated. Still sharp as a tack and way funnier. Always worth the trip, even if it’s for less than 20 hours. #goals

My dad at 91 2/3, in better shape than any of his kids and possibly his grandkids.

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Nikki M @powderedsugarbear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You have been blessed by the friend onion :).

A clear container with fried onions in it the sign says "friend onion".

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Why shouldn’t I custom-generate all of my child’s media?” Because the point of children’s literature, music, art, and movies is not to optimize leisure time, it is to provide your children with cultural, emotional, societal, and epistemic touch points via which they can relate to the wider world.

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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nancy Guthrie has questions

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Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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A color portrait of drummer, singer, Genesis frontman, and Top 40 solo artist Phil Collins, circa 1990. Special Operative Yìchén sees the image and can’t help himself. He’s suddenly air drumming the 10-note tom-tom fill from “In the Air Tonight.” His director at the Eleventh Bureau shoots Yìchén a stern look from beyond the cubicle.

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Wes Flinn (now with new trombones!) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Amazing performance. More on that later. And now…

Two cheese coneys and a small three-way from Skyline Chili.

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Wes Flinn (now with new trombones!) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Come to Wunderbar in Covington for a brat or two and an ass-kicking.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel terrible for contemporary undergrads. Older people built them a jobless panopticon and told them to be Successful.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You should not be doing three rounds of interviews for a campus club, you should be sitting on a porch listening to music with your friends. Early careerism is poison.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We've stolen a lot of young people's lives by telling them they have to be planning A Great Career when they're like 19

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