Matt Schoendorff

Sure would be nice if literally anyone in the federal judiciary or legislature would fulfill their constitutional oath to check and balance the executive branch at some point.
Just sayin’…

Is AI ruining music? What makes music “real” — is it the instruments, the voice, the creator’s intention or something else entirely? Dustin Ballard, the creative force behind the viral channel “There I Ruined It,” explore...

AI is here, in our music, whether we like it or not. Here’s the guy behind ‘There I Ruined It’ giving a TED talk about it, with probably the healthiest take on the issue I have yet seen.

www.ted.com/talks/dustin...

Composers and new-music folks!

I host a nationally-distributed contemporary classical radio show, and for this December I’m looking for music about:

- snow, ice, cold
- stillness, stars, night
- holiday-adjacent
- renewal

Bonus points if it’s a commercial release, but not a requirement!

I’ve been worried about this eventuality for awhile now. Teaching is so much more than just the presentation and repetition of material, and I fear that’s all AI will be trained to do.

Ok, but how morbid is it that salmon is a shade of pink, not silver-gray?

I’m finally getting around to watching Sinners.
It’s a fantastic movie, even if it does pour salt into some very open wounds.

I love this plan! I’m excited to be a part of it!
Let’s do it!

This is priceless, as priceless as Lehrer himself.

Make Conspiracy Theories Fringe Again

Doctors Pepper is correct.
But this is one of those situations where doing the right thing probably will make you the weird pariah, so 🤷‍♂️

Pro tip:
Before you decide that everything is THE WORST EVER, first ask yourself these three questions:
1) When did you last eat/sleep?
2) When did you last move your body?
3) When did you last shower?

Yeah, there are definitely a bunch of exceptions. But the trend seems undeniable.

What in the actual fk are we even doing??! We’re…capsizing and violently arresting (checks notes)…Canadian fishermen?

Perfect 10/10
No notes

I just logged into Bluesky for the first time all week. Thank you for leaving this gem for me to find.

2025 in a nutshell: Everybody cool and good just died. Everybody who sucks is left alive to be even worse.

Kid: Dad, how are drone shows made?

Dad: Well, when a drum corps and a fireworks display love each other very much…

YouTube video by Jonathan Coulton - Topic Baby Got Back

Baby Got Back, but it’s in a Zach Braff movie from, let’s say, 2006

youtube.com/watch?v=He5T...

The English horn being neither English nor a horn is my personal favorite example in this format. It gleefully breaks undergrad brains every year. 😊

The hermit crab is neither a hermit nor a crab.
Discuss.

I don’t think there’s any rule that they can’t. But it was definitely confusing to read, based on my assumption.

Honestly thought for a second that the “RULES” were performance notes at the beginning of an avant-garde performance art music score from, say, 1973. Probably.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about the world, everything is wetter (and stickier) than I expect it to be.

Surprise! Prince is BACK!!

World History Maps & Timelines | GeaCron World History Atlas since 3000 BC by year, since 3000 BC. Universal History datasets. Relevant Universal History vector information.

I found this fun website that's an interactable world map that you can scroll through by year to see how different countries and populations have formed/dissolved/changed and learn more about their histories.

geacron.com/home-en/

This is one of the many dangers of logging off and “touching grass”

And it’s usually the ones who rant about “woke” being the problem who then end their rants with “wake up”

I just… 🤷‍♂️

Please stop confusing AI generators for things they are not.
Thank you for coming to my PSA.

At best, you commissioned those images with your prompts, even carefully designing the prompts to get you results closer and closer to your intended outcome. But you did not make those images.

Related: Feeding prompts into Midjourney to generate images is not the same as making those images.