Sometimes I think this is my fav Dylan song just because you get to hear him sing "The buyin' power of the proletariat's gone down / Money's gettin' shallow and weak" lol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGT7...
SZA to i_D on the rise of AI-generated music:
“It’s happening disproportionately with Black music. Why am I hearing AI covers of Olivia Dean, when Olivia Dean just came the f*ck out? She can’t even collect the streams.“
Cannot really articulate adequately how excited I am for Quinn Slobodian's new book on "Muskism" lol
www.harpercollins.com/products/mus...
Read my "KULA" piece on the political economy of "hallucinated" citations!!!
doi.org/10.18357/kul...
It's really crazy-making! But thanks for the additional context. Maybe I'll try Zotero as you've suggested...
Hopefully Tom Skinner got a bag lol
That new ~electronic~ Harry Styles just sounds like he was trying to remake "The King of Limbs" to me lol
New Eejungmi album out today for Bandcamp Friday!
eejungmi.bandcamp.com/album/water-...
First in 6 years!!!
Benjamin Recht - "The Irrational Decision"
Picked this up a few days early! Super excited to dig in.
Cool album of acoustic guitar covers of Autechre that came out last week that I'm lttp on - very sick idea!
shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...
AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.
Cool cinema stuff happening in YYC this month:
- Calgary Cinematheque is doing a Joan Crawford/Bette Davis series (calgarycinema.org/40s-divas)!
- Globe is also screening "Inland Empire" a bunch over the next 10 days!
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
You could write such a good paper on Undermind and its follow-up/clarifying questions that it goes through prior to the generation of the deep research report as subsuming/absorbing the labour of the reference interview.
(It's honestly really freaking good - better than me that's for sure lol)
So exciting - here is the new journal "Humanities Methods in Librarianship"'s first CFP!!!
cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/call-fo...
Patrick Hyland absolutely snapped on the new Mitski - wild that they've been working together for ... 12 years now?!?!
I wish I had a bit more time right now to write a piece on my 2nd viewing of Kim A. Snyder's "The Librarians."
Lots of complicated thoughts/feelings.
This Mitski single that I slept on is extremely Natalie Prass-coded IYKYK
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPy1...
Promotional image for David Harvey's new book, "The Story of Capital" from Verso showing him sitting in a chair reading to give a lecture in a dark Carhartt button up
David Harvey looking fresh in a Carhartt button up lol
Yes, this is the first thing I noticed about the photo
Just realized that Melissa Adler's 2 new books on Jefferson both came out over the last few months:
fordhampress.com/peculiar-sat...
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/surveilla...
Too many new books to read/review!!!
Somehow missed that Wiseman died this week. 96 years old!
I had a COVID project to go through all his films. Didn't make it even remotely close, but loved so many of them.
RIP
Consciousness to the stars,
Love, Understand the Universe
Amazing syllabus! (Hope Olson!)
Thanks for sharing.
One of my "JRL" reviews from 2024 got cited in a Wikipedia "Reception" section! Pretty cool.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding...
New 'elbows up' just dropped: Protecting our sovereignty by destroying our capacity to tell our country's history.
Ask any Canadian historian and they will tell you that things were already extremely dire at Library and Archives Canada. Not sure it will even be functional after this.
This is the best song of 2026 and it isn't even released yet lol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKou...
"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence."
Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
New Charli is so much better than I expected!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrsg...
New issue of "JRL" out on citational politics! Amped to dig into this.
journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/jo...
