Aaron Mencher

The catastrophic impact to local health where the air is poisoned, as well as to our global ecosystem as they literally set the planet on fire and fill the atmosphere with pollutants

in college i messed up my taxes and owed the state of missouri $13 but didnt realize it until the irs was Big Mad about it

at the same time my parents didnt tell me i had a jury summons in georgia which i missed and was being held in contempt until i filed some paperwork

i was once wanted by the law in two states

good news: i finished the last piece of music to write for my dissertation

bad news: i hate it and it is the worst thing i have written in years

good news: i hate it so much it made me realize how much i like other older pieces i write that i used to think were bad

*taps mic*

Dearest Techbro. Working artist here. You know what would actually make my life easier, and "improve my workflow?"

The money you just burned in the furnace of AI.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

1 in 10 Cal State students face homelessness. This emergency housing program helps California spent $31 million last year helping students facing homelessness with emergency housing and other services through Rapid Rehousing. The program operates at most public universities and abou...

The answer to homelessness is housing part 3,546

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lessons i spend hours preparing: epic flop, no engagement, minimal learning

lessons i improvise because im getting over a cold and overwhelmed by my dissertation: amazing, everyone is hype, people asking good questions, learning

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I can't afford steak. But at least now I know that they are defunding diversity programs at companies and schools that I have never heard of.

Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.

www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

wait really???? i don’t remember that????

I do think that there’s an argument to be made that people are drawn to AI because they have a burning desire to create but arts education has been so decimated that they have no idea where to even start

"But if we just give them better training"

i recently purchased a roland rd88 ex about a month ago and am super satisfied with it

excellent feel, nice sound, lots of flexibility, plus it was on sale

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

anyone telling u outright not to learn music theory is secretly an evil robot trying to keep u from making cool shit

This is a really big, terrifying deal 🧪

i feel like i am the target demographic for Geese and i just do not understand the appeal

its so crazy how your body accilmates to it over time. the first time i did a “long run” i slept for like 4 hours afterwards. and now its just a like a regular sunday activity

new worst student email just dropped: missing class for a uscis appointment

i hate it here

Al Jazeera reporting that Israel has killed 31 Palestinians in Gaza *today*

Think about Alex Pretti being killed 30 more times in one day

with enough reps, you can sum it up pretty well (sorry wrong riemann)

Concentration camps.

a screenshot of karen lefrak’s website promoting an upcoming recording of various latin american inspired pieces of classical music

her newest music… is inspired by latin american culture????? and before you ask, yes it is that bad

FOUCAULT: I wrote "Panopticism" to show how people are enculturated to think of themselves as subjects and agents of surveillance
CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: at last we have invented the Panopticon from Foucault's famous essay "Panopticism"!
FOUCAULT: Jeremy Bentham invented the panopticon in the 1790s

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

This is what police have been doing to black Americans since forever. Enough of the "this isn't who we are." You're now noticing because it's white people.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

all i am asking is for two days of productive composing in a row. yesterday i felt like the second coming beethoven and today i am not sure i have ever written music in my life