Cela fait un an qu’Eva Gretzmacher, 75 ans, a été enlevée par des trafiquants d’êtres humains au Niger. Bon article de @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social sur l’intensification des enlèvements au Sahel. Et pensées vers les familles et proches des otages www.bbc.com/news/article...
Post a banger that’s not in English.
youtu.be/WbMvIRdsBEY?...
Hahaha I had weird listening habits and that piece stuck with me—I played a lot of classical sax in college, so I just didn’t get as much exposure to a lot of the great orchestral rep and gravitated to listening to some, uh, less canonical work
I’m admittedly not deep in the classical world but the first thing that springs to mind is Stravinsky’s Renard
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires.
Anyone can sign the petition — link below!
Great teachers make all the difference! I was enthusiastic about medicine when I started college because I’d had a great anatomy and microbiology teacher in HS, and then the premed core I began in college left me so uninspired because of subpar teaching that I changed paths.
Honestly, even though I never took another course in the field, the intro to psychology class I took was probably the #1 most valuable of all bc we studied how data is manipulated, which at that time in my life was 🤯 I’m grateful for the opportunity to learn thanks to gen ed requirements.
It really is striking to me how much the breadth of classes stuck with me. I began as a premed, my gen ed classes were too fascinating, and I soon wound up a music major with a short foray in history.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Darwinism (co-taught by a biologist, an anthropologist, and a philosopher)
2. Individual Freedom vs Authority
3. Performance Practices in Music
4. General Biology
5. Ethnicity in America
Niger : des tirs nourris entendus autour de l'aéroport de Niamey, le calme est revenu
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.
For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org
I always wonder what life would’ve been like if I chose to follow the thing I was better at (math, science) instead of the thing I enjoyed more (music, humanities) even though it was more challenging. Had much stronger math than verbal scores! But my premed classes were so boring, I had to get out.
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
This is a fabulous and important essay.
"In the end, generative AI might be a blip in tech history, over-promising and under-delivering until finally the cash runs out. But it seems it’s arrived just in time to shove universities over a cliff edge they’d already walked themselves up to."
The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
Awesome, thanks for sharing!
I've had lots of AI student work make me sad and disappointed, but having students use AI to write an assignment about Fela Kuti today was a new low
Today is August 1.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
Since we're sharing Tom Lehrer faves, here's one I don't see come up often that my research methods students have enjoyed: "Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlf...
I feel like I recently encountered mention that someone is working on a biography of him—but I can't remember for the life of me where I saw it, or who was doing it.
This is the highest quality of those 1 likes lists you’ll see.
Ethiopian War Pigs cover!!!
If you're not writing your long book what are you even doing. It's the summer of writing your long book, not the summer of experiencing happiness
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.
📣 New SPECIAL ISSUE of Journal of Popular Music Studies on MUSIC, DIGITALIZATION & IP IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH! Articles by Geoff Baker, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Pablo Infante-Amate, Aditi Deo, Oliver Bown and me, w/an intro by Born and me. Dig in! online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3...
