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Mike Ethen

@realmikeethen.bsky.social

Peace on Earth. Ceasefire now! Golden Rule near-absolutist. Minneapolis. Musicology PhD. Navy veteran…ask me about the time I was involved in the largest maritime cocaine seizure in history.

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I'll have to let you know later.

04.12.2025 19:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ok, so the Argerich / Barenboim is a fantastic live performance to be sure.
Is it my new favorite record? No.
Does it improve on some of the piece's sleepier moments? No.
But does it (for SOME reason) really capture and accentuate the piece's more frenetic and chaotic qualities? Yes, absolutely!

04.12.2025 18:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

4

04.12.2025 17:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

now, to re-establish your own aptonym, lay a sick insult on the guy...

04.12.2025 15:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

that's totally insaney

03.12.2025 21:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

positive self-talk is the way

03.12.2025 21:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a man and woman are reading a book together . ALT: a man and woman are reading a book together .
03.12.2025 20:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

took a second, but...lol

03.12.2025 20:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
03.12.2025 18:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OMG, there's a Argerich / Barenboim version! Will seek that out.
Got introduced to the 2-pno version in a Strav. seminar (maybe it was the Naxos recording we studied?).

03.12.2025 17:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This $1b number needs a fact check. If you add up the Feeding our Future numbers and other scandals, it is a significant number. But I am not sure how it totals over $1b. The NYT also threw out this number and now it's being repeated, usually with no mention of ring leader Aimee Bock.

03.12.2025 17:00 — 👍 277    🔁 48    💬 9    📌 0

at least paywall that thing

03.12.2025 17:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Whoa! It’s over.

03.12.2025 03:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Think of the micro-royalties he’s racking up tonight!

03.12.2025 03:28 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Impressive breath control

03.12.2025 03:21 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Reminds me of the 93X stunt back in ‘94. It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)

03.12.2025 03:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

law school graduate, apparently

02.12.2025 16:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

they always want to have it both ways

02.12.2025 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this is what good gerrymandering looks like

02.12.2025 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I remember that step being almost more difficult than writing the whole paper. There's def an art to it, but each conference is going to have different character/word limits so it's hard to generalize a strategy.

01.12.2025 19:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An adventure you get to choose for yourself.

26.11.2025 05:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I put that on pancakes last weekend...yum

25.11.2025 21:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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25.11.2025 21:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

toothless, unenforceable, besides the point...unserious.

21.11.2025 18:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gesture a 9” x 13” rectangle?

21.11.2025 04:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🤯

21.11.2025 04:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

tell me you let machines edit your publications without saying that you let machines edit your publications

20.11.2025 19:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey Minneapolis, let’s boycott the hell out of Waymo and it make it known they’re not welcome here.

If you really need a car ride, call a cab or order an Uber/Lyft so the money goes to the driver and not some tech company.

And let’s pressure the MN Legislature to ban driverless taxis at minimum.

20.11.2025 14:31 — 👍 24    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely not. The solution to safer streets and healthier neighborhoods is *fewer* cars, not more.

We have a lot of evidence about what works (e.g., more accessible, affordable public transit) -- let's invest in that.

20.11.2025 15:05 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

they keep you regular

20.11.2025 16:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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