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"It's not bedtime. No. It's Ed Time," said Ed.

"It's not bedtime. No. It's Ed Time," said Ed.

new paragraph in ye olde syllabus:Plagiarism furthermore includes the use of ChatGPT, Bing, Bard, and any other LLM text generator. They are...

new paragraph in ye olde syllabus:

Plagiarism furthermore includes the use of ChatGPT, Bing, Bard, and any other LLM text generator. They are not only prone to factual errors, but they spew joyless paragraphs bereft of real insight, poetry, motivation, or human investment. Your hard-earned insights, even when half-formed or deployed with bad grammar, are of more interest to me (and to you) than some AI's sterile junk.

For my birthday, I made Requiem Mash, an utterly bonkers DJ #mashup album, with eight decades of music and 80 songs shredded together....

For my birthday, I made Requiem Mash, an utterly bonkers DJ #mashup album, with eight decades of music and 80 songs shredded together.

It's free. Grab it. Blast it. Share it.

BC: https://alexreed.bandcamp.com/album/requiem-mash

MixCloud: https://mixcloud.com/alex-reed4/requiem-mash/

Patreon: https://patreon.com/posts/86557120

Threads is literally unusable. There's no way to see only the posts from your friends. It's like a terrible TV channel you can never...

Threads is literally unusable. There's no way to see only the posts from your friends. It's like a terrible TV channel you can never change.

Pretty sure that that upshot of the 2023 Social Media wars is that greedy jerks have killed the whole darn enterprise of connecting with people.

Every day, the encounter between me and the world feels like a bad first date, in which you know the chemistry is all wrong, but you wince...

Every day, the encounter between me and the world feels like a bad first date, in which you know the chemistry is all wrong, but you wince through in good faith because what other choice do you have?

Are there any high-paying thinktanks specializing in bafflement, melancholy, inconclusivity, chaos, irrationality, abnegation, and/or...

Are there any high-paying thinktanks specializing in bafflement, melancholy, inconclusivity, chaos, irrationality, abnegation, and/or conceptual rot?

Hit me up.

#Map and #data people! Help me—I want a tool where I can • enter a location (city name, coordinates, or postal code), and THEN...• get...

#Map and #data people! Help me—I want a tool where I can

• enter a location (city name, coordinates, or postal code), and THEN...

• get a number indicating the population within a radius of x kilometers of that location

Does such a thing exist?

I'm going to #Oslo for a few days. What (besides museums and the Vigelandsparken) should I see and do there?

I'm going to #Oslo for a few days. What (besides museums and the Vigelandsparken) should I see and do there?

I am developing an analysis of a-ha's "Take on Me" to make Baudrillard drool.

I am developing an analysis of a-ha's "Take on Me" to make Baudrillard drool.

Still trying to enjoy the jump to Mastadon. Tips?

Still trying to enjoy the jump to Mastadon. Tips?

I'm told about a missing glyphIn David's famous music riffBut you don't dig #oulipo writing, do ya?That symbol I avoid is...

I'm told about a missing glyph
In David's famous music riff
But you don't dig #oulipo writing, do ya?
That symbol I avoid is fifth
That common sound I must omit's
Compulsory—gosh darn!—in "Hall*lujah"

Where can I learn the history of present-tense historicizing?By this I mean gestures (by scholars, journalists, artists, victors, victims)...

Where can I learn the history of present-tense historicizing?

By this I mean gestures (by scholars, journalists, artists, victors, victims) toward the surrounding world that ask or answer, "How will capital-H History view this moment?"

When has that been more or less of a thing? Why? With what hope? With what results?

And the followup:

Am I correct in perceiving a modern feeling that we move too fast and dumb for History's paltry justice to be meaningful, now or in some eventual future?

there are two ways to end the existence of billionaires, and they're both fine

there are two ways to end the existence of billionaires, and they're both fine

What are your favorite Oblivionist-adjacent works/authors?e.g.Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse)Bonaventura (Ernst August...

What are your favorite Oblivionist-adjacent works/authors?

e.g.

Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Lucien Ducasse)
Bonaventura (Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann)
Bysshe Vanolis (James Thomson)
Philothée O'Neddy (Théophile Dondey)
Pétrus Borel d'Hauterive
Eric Stenbock
Max Beerbohm
Francis Thompson
David Park Barnitz
Thomas Tod Stoddart
Francis Saltus
Théophile Gautier
George Sterling
Ernest Dowson
Gérard de Nerval
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Giacomo Leopardi
Sadakichi Hartmann
Yone Noguchi
Owen Stirck

I just submitted proposals for Popcon and IASPM! Now I get to wait for months and months!

I just submitted proposals for Popcon and IASPM! Now I get to wait for months and months!

Mastodon.Why are you SO SLOW?Why do your pictures not load?Why is there not a "follow user" button available from any given...

Mastodon.

Why are you SO SLOW?

Why do your pictures not load?

Why is there not a "follow user" button available from any given posting?

I want to like you. But you're making it real hard.

#Introduction, y'all!I'm an academic, artist musician, and writer in #Ithaca, NY. I make music with the band name Seeming. I've...

#Introduction, y'all!

I'm an academic, artist musician, and writer in #Ithaca, NY. I make music with the band name Seeming. I've written 3 books:

• Assimilate (on industrial music)
• #TMBG 33 1/3
• new one on #LaurieAnderson

Interests:

#musictheory
#musicology
#musicjournalism
#timbre
#subculture
#goth & #gothic
#zines
#humanities
#postpunk
#synthpop
#industrialmusic
#leftist politics
#anarchism
#antifascism
#composition
#poetry
#aestheticism
#modernism, including
#futurism
#dada
#oulipo

Does a realtime collab tool like this exist?• many users log in & steer a point in X/Y space• online, the point follows the average...

Does a realtime collab tool like this exist?

• many users log in & steer a point in X/Y space
• online, the point follows the average position/vector of inputs
• like an ouija planchette, collectively held
• the point is mapped to draw lines (art) or send MIDI data (music)

Basically a huge Etch-a-Sketch with realtime voting controls.

You could tweak the algorithm to favor recency, give minimum rates of change, or have multiple points.

If it doesn't exist, does anyone want to help me code it?

A lonely flag in the sand.

A lonely flag in the sand.