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Published today! 5/6/25! www.getty.edu/publications...

i really hope a lot of people are reading Shaun on this right now. He knows of what he speaks.

"Only a person whose advancement is very great can sort of work amidst total rejection, and still be very at home. But that is the ultimate teaching, to be just working whether you get gratified or not." Happy Birthday Julius Eastman born October 27, 1940

Choreography by Uwazi Zamani, Gregory Dolbashian and Laurel Keen-- Find the linked preview in the Minneapolis edition of Picture this Post- #TUDance #SouthernTheater #MinneapolisDance #PictureThisPostDance #UwaziZamani #GregoryDolbashian #LaurelKeen

In honor of the good news from Brazil, two photos of Helio Oiticica's parangolés - brightly colored, wearable & danceable sculptural garments made by one of most influential figures in postwar Brazilian art. The one on the right reads "I Embody Revolt" in Portuguese

youtu.be/Wro3bqi4Eb8?...

Better yet, unscrew the doors from the jambs

Would like to place a small wager that the Microsoft voluntary buyouts will ask people to “train their AI replacements” before leaving. It’s NAFTA for knowledge workers.

If a text is dated to the “late first millennium BCE,” is it closer to year 0 or 1000 BCE?

There is blatant voter suppression happening right now in Brazil: flights cancelled and buses suspended to Northeastern capitals where Lula holds the majority, polling stations changed to thousands of kms away last-minute, voters in London told they need to go to Edinburgh… This is criminal.

A good thing that is still happening:

🧊✈️ AFRICA 🌍⛓️ 😲 An Eastern 767 (tail: N703KW) takes off from the ICE hub in Alexandria, Louisiana on Thursday evening, trafficking over 150 humans in chains to African countries most of them have never seen 👀

Gilgamesh is the “oldest story in the world” and the big problem the people of Uruk are trying to solve at the beginning is…rape culture.

Thomas Gray's Elegy shows what some of these books did to a poem: its lines were recited, set to music, accused of plagiarism, misquoted, and chopped into specimens of meter. A 1906 grammar book even treated the poem as a scrapyard of adjectives! ✂️

So proud of this new work with @wouterhaverals.bsky.social @suttonkoeser.bsky.social and @laurejt.bsky.social at @princetoncdh.bsky.social !!

I was recently asked to contribute to a chapbook of limericks, which should be out next year. Here’s my offering, with apologies to Wendy Cope.

"I have always tried to remember the first time, when my mother first gave me a horn. And that's what's important to me. That's what music is really about - the infant happiness, the infant happiness, beautiful!" Don Cherry November 18, 1936 - October 19, 1995

Lesson Plan—Unit Overview By the end of this unit, SWBAT laugh spontaneously at 3 out of every 5 jokes in Laurent Binet’s The Seventh Function of Language

@uminnpress.bsky.social : add to second edition of “piano decompositions”? manifold.umn.edu/projects/har...

For those who may be astonished, I now have an online video (actually, recording with Powerpoint) of my lecture on Walter Benjamin and Lyn Hejinian: *A Poetics of Refunctioning*. The print version of the essay is also in the works. Until then-- savoirs.ens.fr/expose.php?i...

Newsom is a slimeball, but I do wish my new home state of Minnesota could even dream of a governor and leadership of the state U system that would put together a state-level NIH in response to stupid cuts at the federal level. Instead it’s permanent austerity for edu www.latimes.com/california/s...

These men — god bless their talents — are basically any halfway decent short schoolteacher.

Since the kids moved out I have two desks, and yes, one has the sewing machine on it. There's a senior scholar in my field, though, who has a whole huge house full of desks, each dedicated to a specific (work) project: "This is where I work on Leibniz." Life goals!

REM&Ms

So how are you all making Halloween decorations that say “Vote!” ?

Looking forward to learning more about U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew J. Sharbaugh, who approved thd search warrant on Rep Omar’s residence in DC. He must be shocked, shocked that HSI violated the restrictions he placed on executing the warrant www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Concert program entitled AACM: La musique a bout de bras, circa 1968. Gift of Larayne Black to the Chicago History Museum

Ok who knows where there’s any real news on what’s going on with HSI and Rep. Omar (home searched and now phone seized!) and also her family members who got subpoenaed? Strib has nothing at all rn, PP and Sahan have the AP story from earlier today. Does any one know what judge signed the warrant?

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KOALA: So your son's still living at home? KANGAROO: Yea, he's a total pouch potato RS

today's first song of the day is "jump into the new world" by shonen knife www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifsO...