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Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert

@msacuthbert.bsky.social

Computers, AI, musicology, medieval, Artusimusic.com — longtime MIT prof, now Honolulu, Hawai’i

97 Followers  |  54 Following  |  8 Posts  |  Joined: 06.10.2023  |  1.7373

Latest posts by msacuthbert.bsky.social on Bluesky

what's the "support/sad/boost" response that isn't strictly a "like"?

29.07.2025 11:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Republican Proposal Would Make College Scholarships Taxable Income Republican lawmakers are considering making college scholarships fully taxable to help pay for continuing tax cuts that mostly benefit wealthy families.

Your local supermarket claims Bud is $18/six-pack, but with your loyalty card it's only $8. Should you pay taxes on the $10 saved at the end of the year as income? No! College scholarships work the same way but the new administration wants to tax the discounts.

www.forbes.com/sites/edward...

29.01.2025 11:01 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Pulling the security details from retired chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and threatening to demote them after retirement -- is that the strong support for our military that was once the Republican party's clearest advantage?

29.01.2025 10:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

yup!

10.01.2025 17:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seems like it. Reports coming in that it was centered near Kailua-Kona

04.12.2024 00:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Small earthquake felt in Honolulu about 2 min ago.

03.12.2024 23:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How terribly sad and shortsighted

27.10.2023 18:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice. Composer’s forum or whose class?

13.10.2023 08:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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LIVE: Announcement on Herculaneum Scrolls Breakthrough BACKGROUND: The Herculaneum scrolls are among the most iconic and inaccessible of the world’s vast collection of damaged manuscripts. Burned and buried in th...

Very cool: At 4PM today (US EDT), the University of Kentucky will livestream a press event about their project to virtually unwrap the Herculaneum Scrolls. This is a project that PI Brent Seales has been working on for 20+ years and has received funding from both NEH & Mellon. engr.uky.edu/live

12.10.2023 15:55 — 👍 37    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 3

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