Keith Kothman

I might make a paint by numbers of the department faculty to match each point

"Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions." This is my unfortunate workplace

This is very triggering

Gross

In a way, AA is like Austin-a huge major uni in a smaller-to-midsize town that is generally attractive and keeps a percentage of young professional graduates around. Austin had more emerging tech in the 80s but the uni drives growth

Add in to the equation when a university is growing too fast for the smaller town it is located in. This was/is the situation in Bozeman MT where the explosion of growth happening at Montana State outpaced both housing on campus and housing in the community

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

It's not a shock that a genre with so much sexism and misogyny would lead to working environments with sexism and misogyny, but having had furniture thrown at you as a woman director is still jarring

It's always fun playing the game, "Does it suck because my campus IT sucks, or is it AWS that is sucking?"

You rarely lose betting the campus is the problem, but this time I searched and find out that Brightspace D2L uses AWS.

So much fun on the day midterm grades are due

I know that my alma mater, Texas, bas the reason that that the Big 12-PAC 10 merger didn’t go through before Texas went to the SEC. Texas had their own ESPN channel and wouldn’t give it up. The PAC 10 schools said no way. US Soccer is suggesting no regional conferences for soccer and pro/rel

Interesting. I need to look more of this up. I recently read about the Big 10 having huge problems with financing travel know that their conference stretches the entire country

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

None of us are sure what Navarro is doing anywhere that serious conversation is taking place

Need to dive in, but this should be a warning sign

I’m seeing posts and discussions by “cradle Catholics” - those born into it distinguishing themselves from the converts who chose it for the vague comforts of antiquity, sexism, and extreme hierarchy

As a former Texan who has played a fair number of polkas in my musical, count me among the celebrants! For my own students I like to pair polkas with Mexican Norteño music - the similarities are striking

Amen!

It's hard to recognize Sliwa without the beret

Dr. Oz, a government official, just uttered the phrase “under-babied”

I liked him so much better when he was peddling supplements with false claims, and I didn’t like him at all back then

Very cool. We used to have a system and a few games handed down. Toe Jam and Earl was a hit with my kids

At this point, whenever someone in MAGA-world (Gov't, news, other) says someone is "Antifa" just remember to substitute the word "boogeyman"

because that is all it is, a made up word to scare people

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SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Related, a colleague gave a synopsis of The Miraculous Mandarin by saying “it’s all a little Epstein-y”

Rising — EAR TAXI FESTIVAL The members of Rising are realizing a dream of performing in an all-female quartet and presenting a sampling of wide-ranging styles of music by women, from the complex harmonies mixed with music deriv...

Hey, Chicagoland friends, Mary @marykothman.bsky.social has a string quartet that is playing a concert in Chicago on 10/21. It's part of the Ear Taxi Accent concert series. Featuring music of Price, Caroline Shaw, Augusta Read Thomas, and Elizabeth Start. www.eartaxifestival.com/full-schedul...

TNC with “was silence not an option?” To be used whenever someone goes off the rails

I went to a music accreditation conference where AI was both a keynote topic and the subject of multiple presentations. There was also a copyright presentation. Yet the two topics never overlapped or interacted with each other

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy!
Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster.
Competence matters.

Wait. AI musicologists?!?

NPR especially has a real problem with historical context in general, and arts and culture especially. I'm thinking of theirthat story about how DAWs were killing the key change, when a look at stats proved it false. But a look at Black pop music would have shown even more