Keith Kothman

I was on a panel at CMS in 2000 where everyone else went absurdly over time but cut me off because even though I was on the panel and they invited me, they didn’t like what I was saying.

tell me five classes you took in college:

Postmodernism in Music
Sociology of Music
Graphic Notation
Extended String Techniques
Improvisation Ensemble

Watching higher ed just completely fucking melt and smell like a plastic toy in the microwave as part of this epoch is on the one hand totally predictable viz historical patterns of fascism etc

and on the other keeps surprising me anew in ways I didn't know I had in me

“OUR HUMANITY” is under assault by our own government.

It will be billions of dollars and who knows how many years before we discover the same about AI. And we will not change based on this info, because education is programmed to listen to the outside companies selling us stuff, not teachers

Important to note that you can’t legally defame a dead person, so Miller has no legal jeopardy spreading gross lies. He is, however, a moral degenerate and incredibly evil

A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

Let us also remember that DHS lies. They lie to the public. They lie to the press. They lie in court. Everything they say should come with this label: “DHS has repeatedly lied about its actions and the actions of people they arrest”

The way you pressure Republicans is to take stands, point out their hypocrisy, and offer an alternative. Dem leadership doesn't do that. Republicans are not afraid to do that. They do it in bad faith all the time (attacking Walz), and D leadership shrinks.

Tagging @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is nice, but he's scared of his own shadow. He's scared of anything consultants and Republicans tell him to be scared of

I wonder if this is enough information for @senslotkin.bsky.social to take action, or if she is just as cowardly as democratic leadership, thinking they will be called "anti-law enforcement."

Sadly, I'm sure the answer will be no

If you can’t distinguish between law enforcement and a lawless and racist group terrorizing citizens, you should step down. This moment is not for you. We require better leaders if we want to combat the destruction that is happening

I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.

These are the kind of clips that the Democratic Party fails to do anything meaningful with. This is so completely divorced from reality for 99% of the people, yet it just sails by an entire party apparatus

This thread is off the rails and I’m here for it

My man, it will be -10 here as well.

Mamdani also ran on specific and bold steps to take if elected. Schumer, Jeffries, and the Dem establishment just offer weak complaints and solutions that are just different degrees of the same thing. It will take bold and decisive action to fix so many things, and we are not seeing it from Schumer

🚨🚨Check this out👇👇A French judge states that Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Le Pen’s trial for embezzlement. She says he’s done this to other judges around the world. What do you think he’s doing to judges in the US. This is madness‼️

Mamdani was never a one-issue candidate. Yes, he focused on affordability, which both scared and captivated the white-establishment media and pundit class, but he never shied away from civil rights, protecting citizens, and standing up against the gov't-spons'd violence we see. Schumer is out of it

Americans Should Understand MLK, Jr.’s True Legacy The Voting Rights Act was King’s greatest achievement

contrarian.substack.com/p/americans-... When Republicans mouth platitudes about King and wrongly insist the 14th and 15th Amendments mandate colorblindness they are bastardizing history, ignoring the original meaning of the post-Civil War Amendments, and destroying King’s most important achievement.

"Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize, I no longer have an obligation to think purely of peace."

An actual quote from the sitting president of the United States, writing to the prime minister of a NATO ally.

This was also the case with Mike Pence as governor

It's been a while since I was involved in a Naxos project. Troy-New Albany was similar, and I think there is a $5k-$10k range just for the release, so I would factor the $10k. Other costs (recording, performers) are on you.

Except to her, "American people" only means republican people because everything is us against them

We didn’t have ICE for the first 200+ years in this country. Abolishing ICE isn’t the same as abolishing all law enforcement, and Slotkin’s conflation of ICE with all police is honestly just pretty stupid.

It wasn't just that they were wrong about trump, they mocked those that have proven time and again to be right.

Looking at you Jon Stewart, who even mocked people who were right when you finally admitted you were wrong. (not a journalist, but had a reputation for perceptiveness)

Crucial information. The other common cause of CM alarms is that they just up and die after about 4-5 years, even though they are plug-in devices.

We have the added benefit of our dog being terrified of beeping alarms, or beeps in general.

Background checks happening after employment starts is a feature, not a bug

When you are reading about the atrocity and tragedy in Minneapolis today, keep in mind that multiple judges have found that ICE has lied repeatedly, up to and including its director, about confrontations with the public. News orgs that put their statements in headlines are promoting their lies

I took a dish from the bottom rack of the dishwasher, turned to put it into a cabinet and completely wrecked my back. Ruptured a disc so badly I need surgery.