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Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules Ongoing struggles with AI model instruction-following show that true human-level AI still a ways off.

This is epic /s. Surely AGI is only a few months away at this rate: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/f...

zohran just declared the winner here, called by AP!

Holy batman, that's epic! Congrats Mar, you deserved it!

YouTube video by Venus Theory It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now

I'm thankful every day I'm no longer dependent on album sales for the bulk of my "living," but real bummed how hard it's become with all the spoofing, impersonation, AI slop, and shit platform hijinks that currently define the streaming and digital distribution space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=plle...

I've been calling it shittipy gippity recently, which would make the user forms shittiper or gippiter, or something like that?

it hasn't helped that there were a few hasty "stories" by so-called "psychiatrists" (unvetted, of course) that "suggested" that shittipy gippity was no worse than talking with a talk therapist... at some sort of unspecified task, of course.

Our newest book, Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies, was just reviewed in Tape Op! tapeop.com/reviews/gear...

UPenn to ban transgender athletes, ending civil rights case focused on swimmer Lia Thomas The University of Pennsylvania will bar transgender women from its women’s sports teams and restore records to cisgender athletes, resolving a federal Title IX case centered on swimmer Lia Thomas

Pathetic cowards. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

web.archive.org/web/20250613... is probably the best we can get right now. Some of the IU websites being down appears to be unrelated to the program cuts.

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.

users of academia.edu, there's a new scheme of AI generated spam emails asking for your whatsapp number. This one began with "Please allow me to introduce myself briefly. My name is Simmons. I am from Bologna, Italy. I currently live in the United States and work as a systems biology researcher..."

a chainsaw-wielding memcoin-pimping grifter meddling in the midterms? what could go wrong? 🤡

Ok people were asking "What IS a small farm anyway?"

so let's talk farm size, how it's measured in the US, and what that can tell us about how agriculture really works.

wot, so has Gitlab partnered with that blasted, narcissistic, snarky language app owl now?

They're writing about a life *so secret*, even you didn't know it was in the book! 👻

really odd, I don't see any of those on any servers I'm on (or moderate)—will keep an eye out though! thanks for the heads up

My understanding was that, despite the existence of DOMOAI, this has largely been a hoax or misinterpretation? Has that been found to be false?

I'm extremely curious what the cornucopia of bot-generated and often AI-generated tweets, let alone all the censorship-evading misspellings and such, does to the grok language model.

YouTube video by Man Carrying Thing writing a college paper then vs. now

This one's for everyone stuck in grading season right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=is4g...

Cover of the book 'Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies' by Eliot Bates and Samantha Bennett, featuring a close-up image of hands adjusting knobs on an audio mixing console.

In "Gear," leading music technology scholars @samanthabennett.bsky.social and Eliot Bates (@makam.bsky.social) trace the "life of gear" through an examination of the 21st-century fetishization of professional audio technologies and formation of gear cultures: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255185...

photo of eliot holding paperback copy of the GEAR book

New g̵e̵ar̵ book day
Available now at MIT Press: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255185...

On May 27, 4:30pm (EDT), we're celebrating our newest book Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies in an event organized by RILM. If you're in NYC come on down; out-of-town, it'll be livestreamed, register here: brookcenter.gc.cuny.edu/event/sites-... @samanthabennett.bsky.social

President Trump’s sweeping tariffs announced today stretched across the globe, including the remote Heard and McDonald Islands, which are populated by zero humans but lots of seals and penguins. nbcnews.to/3QXPQ31

Why is ChatGPT so bad at math? | TechCrunch You might've noticed that ChatGPT — and AI in general — isn't good at math. There's a reason, and it has to do with how modern AI is built.

It's not one of the LLMs that doesn't know how many Rs there are in strawberry, is it? Or the ones that just fabricate fake academic references? Or what about the ones that can't solve quadratic equations? techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/w...

Watch live: Sen. Booker continues marathon Senate speech to protest Trump Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., is speaking and planning to hold the Senate floor for as long as he can. "I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble. I rise with the intention of disruptin...

Cory Booker's 24 hours into his epic, record-breaking Senate speech! Currently talking about John Lewis. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...

Can confirm. Our local cd store had a small section for gregorian chant even. I think it was displaced by Putamayo records. But it's worse than that, some of us even got roped into singing it badly, in the ultimate form of monastic larping.

Every time someone my age says something about “a brainrot trend on TikTok…” I’m compelled to remind Gen X that we were obsessed with Gregorian chant for a year in the 90s. Like we *went to the mall* & *bought CDs of it*. We blasted it in our cars driving to our high schools. This was normal to us🥸

Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics, a group of Democratic Senators have decided to collaborate…

Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech.

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...

line go down, fender fall off, cock-rocket go poof

if yer too fashy for cato, yer really really really doing something wrong.