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@scorefollower.bsky.social shared one of my pieces! It's for trumpet, trombone, percussion, and MIDI keyboard w/ Max/MSP, and it's got microtonal brass, glitchy noise, and cheesy DX7 sounds www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_gx... #ContemporaryClassical #Synths #MaxMSP #ExperimentalMusic

“These re-interviews are consequential,” a leaked email seen by 404 Media reads.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

I don’t think banning (traditional) frats will magically “fix” anything overnight—and there’s a lot it doesn’t address. But when so much SA is centered around one specific area of campus life, it’s worth taking about #cornell

I wondered if Autechre titles would give anything funny and some of them work surprisingly well (/terrible): Reniform Puls in My Pants Eidetic Casein in My Pants Outpt in My Pants Stud in My Pants Drane2 in My Pants

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

If you want to be a successful experimental music composer, you need to have a funny catchphrase like “It’s gonna rain!” or “I’m sitting in a room!” or “She was a visitor!” that you can yell out when you walk into a party or when someone asks you a tricky question you don’t know the answer to.

Felt the need to add an AI Policy page to my website. It should be obvious but I am firmly against the use of LLMs and want to make it clear that training them on my site's content is something I don't want. https://lexfeathers.ca/pages/ai-policy/

Who am I to diss a vow?

I am a type 1 diabetic, and last night Dexcom forced me to agree to a new terms of use in order to continuing using the app and view my blood glucose data. Glad I had the foresight to "view agreements" and then copy the entire document. Because there appears to be NO WAY TO VIEW IT AGAIN. And...

I spend 90% of my week reading financials, analyst notes, earnings and all sorts of serious stuff, so this is the only kind of video I can watch on the weekend

It's hard to choose, but here are some of my favorite albums: www.my9albums.com/s/hUY3ypNdS2

I would probably get a private airplane — something 2-seater and propeller driven so I could putter around the sky, and maybe bring a friend or my partner I've been watching Xyla Foxlin build a classic Pietenpol; it could also be cool to get the supplies and tools needed to build instead of buy

We applaud our colleagues’ brave decision to form the @inlocalnewsguild.bsky.social guild, and we call on their management to reverse course and swiftly recognize their union.

I’ve been biting my tongue on this one. But I’m just going to come out and say it: The Sexual Citizenship approach is the next era of symbolic compliance for campus sexual violence. It’s trying to solve sexual violence by putting more chairs in dorm rooms. Literally.

This is a good point! Fraternities ARE student housing and so the decision by Hirsch and Khan to exempt them from scrutiny is especially absurd.

It is wild to me to watch Hirsch and Khan dance around fraternities in the interview I quoted. It is a tell that they’re advocating for rebuilding schools from the ground up—with the exception of frat row.

By the way, a bill has been repeatedly proposed to allow students taking a leave of absence after sexual assault to defer making student loan payments. It can’t pass the Senate.

Student debt is at the heart of why campus sexual violence derails victims’ lives too. The primary reason victims drop out of college is because they are encouraged to take temporary leaves of absence—and then they can’t return until they are current on student loan payments.

> [The bill] would repeal the Homeland Security Act [which] created DHS and led to the establishment of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). truthout.org/articles/rep...

The final missing piece: Beads, the gorgeous "texture synthesizing" granular processor and oscillator and sequel to Beads, is now open source (MIT/CC). And it's code from a time when code was written by humans for other humans to read. Ahem.

*me, frustrated with roff files, but determined to add some manpages to one of my personal projects* 🎵 mister I'll make a `man` out of you 🎵

NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...

It’s time to call The Boston Globe’s viral lesbian bar story what it is: a thinly-veiled far-right smear campaign. Read my commentary for free, only on The Backbone News.

Tom Cruise youtube.com/watch?v=wW9b...

I spoke to @kattenbarge.bsky.social about the media coverage of “inconsistencies” in Jane Doe’s case, as well as my own experience with USA Today misusing my words in a story smearing her. As always, Kat understands the way victims are punished from coming forward. This article is a must-read.

An excellent review from the Financial Times!!!🥳 The UK edition of MADAME COMPOSER comes out Oct. 29 lnk.to/MadameComposer

Corruption and inaction are the norm in campus policing--even beyond what you think you already know about other police agencies. There is good reason that people are calling for the abolition of campus police departments specifically right now. They maintain an elite lawlessness on campus.

There are unique dynamics in campus police departments that present very specific problems. Including: - Their conflict of interest as university employees hugely guides their judgement. - University police departments often hire the police that other police departments let go.

Kate Manne wrote another brilliant essay about the Cornell case. This time, it's about her own experiences interacting with Cornell's police department.

Which brings me to the other big variable: mandatory reporting policies. If a school has an expansive mandatory reporting policy, then they have more reports made about survivors than by survivors—including multiple reports about the same incident.

One of the biggest ones is trust in the Title IX system. A school with a really low reporting rate isn’t necessarily a place where violence doesn’t occur, but rather a place where students know they will be mistreated if they come forward.

There are some news articles going around about sexual violence reporting rates at different universities. Let’s talk about why some schools have higher reporting rates than others:

Wow. I hadn't actually read the NYT story yet when I wrote this. But what actually happened to Jane Doe is the exact kind of thing that I'm talking about in this thread.

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

not fall for Republican plays to pit us against each other. Grrr.

The guest's suggestion was that Dems should support trans rights, but "quietly" -- don't make a big deal out of it. Really? What a low bar. Why not call on Dems to create messaging of solidarity and inclusion, to show that we can and should care about EVERYONE, and >>

Third, there's a horrible citizens initiative on the ballot in WA state this year that will blow up all of girl's sports in the name of keeping trans girls out. Every single girl will have to prove girlhood through invasive exams or expensive blood tests ... just to play sports. >>

Thrilled to see my article on unison openings in (digital) print! mtosmt.org/issues/mto.2... I started keeping this list back in my composer days (circa 2018?), and once you know it's there, there's a lot of contemporary music to find these sorts of openings in.

"Cuneiform": having the shape of New York City's public university system

There seems to be a coordinated talking point among the EA folks that the "standard" approach to "AI" on "the Left" is "AI is just stochastic parrots so no need to worry about it". (Sorry for all the scare quotes, but y'know) >>

... and much, much more from MANY voices. When the EA claim "no one has been warning you about this stuff" they are doing a double erasure: 1) Of the people doing the warning 2) Of the actual harms they are warning about bsky.app/profile/emil... >>