Karen M. Cook

Stoppinge the uncritical acceptance of Gen AI ys a labor and social justice issue.

Twitch Twitch is the world

Join a whole gaggle of awesome people tonight on stream at twitch.tv/bardicknowledge where we will toast @cooksterkc.bsky.social and my brother Matt's birthdays with ice cream and play fun surprise games!

Sending you every good thought for a safe procedure and speedy healing!!

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The 50 Best Stevie Wonder Songs The 50 Best Stevie Wonder Songs

Happy 75th Birthday, Stevie Wonder. 🎉

To celebrate, here is a list of the soul visionary's best 50 songs

RIP to a legend.

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The Sounds of America: 'Minecraft - Volume Alpha' Daniel Rosenfeld’s Minecraft theme has been picked this year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

I was super delighted and honored to participate in the Sounds of America series to talk about @c418.org's original Minecraft soundtrack, alongside C418 himself as well as @keefstuart.bsky.social (whose personal anecdote really touched me!) The piece is replayable here: the1a.org/segments/the...

BardicKnowledge - Twitch Ludomusicologist at Michigan State University exploring public scholarship with amazing friends, focused on the relationships between gameplay and audio.

It’s episode 300 of our Thursday show, team! Holy buckets.

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Yes, I have done it, and happy to chat.

Cough I haven't either (I think?) but still got it ...

It seems that some emails from AMS and SMT do not all get sent to the same folks at the same time - a bunch of other folks got the SMT announcement of my publication award a few days ago many hours before I got the same email!

Thanks!!

Karen Cook, "8-Bit Affordances: Jun Chikuma's Soundtrack to Faxanadu," Music Theory Online 29/3 (2023)
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Frank Lehman, "The Indiana Jones series is back, along with the iconic music of John Williams," The New York Times, July 7, 2023
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Excited and humbled to announce that a recent article of mine won the 2024 SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group Publication Award, alongside the inimitable Frank Lehman!

a transgender flag with the words trans lives matter on it ALT: a transgender flag with the words trans lives matter on it

There is NO LGB without the T.

There is the 80s, the 90s, before 2020 and after 2020. That's all I got, folks.

Hey @asciipip.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy - you have my # and email, right? Drop me a msg however you're most comfy - not sure if my email for you is still the most current!

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

Yes please!

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Don't cut NPR and PBS funding!  Millions of Americans rely on public media  for their news and educational programming. In many rural areas in our country, public broadcasting is their main avenue for receiving news, emer...

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For universityes, do you knowe what faculty bring to the table? The table. Wythout them, nothinge.

And ye maye aske yowerself, 'How do Ich werke thys?'
And ye maye aske yowerself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And ye maye tell yowerself, 'Thys nys nat my fayre castel!'
And ye maye tell yowerself, 'Thys nys nat my swift goshawk!'

I want people to stop posting vague advice like “build community”

A lot of people don’t know how to start. Post practical things like “here’s a list of mutual aid groups to connect with” or something

By the way, my take on this is that if you don’t know where to start, seek out local DSA, NAACP, and Black Lives Matter chapters. They might not be the right home for you, but they give you an opportunity to meet people and start figuring things out.

Thrilled to say that this wonderful new collection is almost out! #videogamemusic #gamesound #gametech #ludomusicology