If we don't master AI it will master us. That's right, us, whose lives are otherwise characterized by such exhilarating freedom and self-mastery. In fact there's even a possibility an AI could become your "boss," rubber stamp denials of healthcare in bulk, foreclose your home, or

anyway s/o to the savvy, who understand thats what truly at stake here is a cosmological battle of Man versus Machine, a Hegelian death struggle between impersonal AI and the irrepressible Human Spirit, and not IN ANY WAY a mystification of capital, a scheme to devalue labor &c

20hz

What’s black and white, and read all over? Thanks for the love Dallas Observer !!!! dallasobserver.com/music/denton-l…

Romanticizing academic precarity as "grindset" is really despicable. People lucky enough to have stable employment need to acknowledge the sheer contingency and arbitrariness of the job market that put them where they are. Telling someone that their hunger is good for them? GTFO

Ooh ooh, do my district next!

“I was incredibly uncomfortable throughout both videos, and was in shock that she would do something illegal like that,” the student wrote, adding parenthetically “I am pretty sure a teacher talking about systemic racism is illegal in South Carolina.” thestate.com/news/local/art…

New album of music by Nomi Epstein out this Friday!

Out now on Sawyer Editions! sawyereditions.bandcamp.com

New album out today on Sawyer Editions. Cubes by Nomi Epstein (w/@rkcrlsn) sawyereditions.bandcamp.com/album/cubes

Nomi Epstein - cubes [Sawyer Editions] (Sawyer Editions): sawyereditions.bandcamp.com/album/cubes

Nice review of “cubes” on Sawyer Editions

Awesome to see Nomi Epstein’s “cubes” (w/@rkcrlsn on Sawyer Editions) included by Marg P. in The Best Contemporary Classical on Bandcamp: July 2023 daily.bandcamp.com/best-contempor…

Some recent releases I’ve been listening to that I’ve found to be really excellent, Part III: Nomi Epstein performed by @rkcrlsn & Greg Stuart on Sawyer Editions (this one is particularly arresting) sawyereditions.bandcamp.com/album/cubes

Best New Music

I think we were all bracing for this news when the site was bought out, but it hurts all the same to see it happen. The staff at @bandcamp were advocates for the undersung, under-recognized and odd. They poured light onto dark corners. I fear for the future of this community.

Wonderful immersive musical experience last night at Columbia Museum of Art with Michael Pisaro-Liu's "Forests of Noise" performed by USC School of Music professor Greg Stuart and University of South Carolina students

The neoliberal university captured in a single photo. Individual empowerment discourse, pabulum about community ("our Texas"), and the coercive apparatus of the state.

SC’s capital city Columbia files lawsuit against 40+ companies, some famous, confronting one of the major environmental issues of our time — Industries polluted Columbia’s water with dangerous ‘forever chemicals,’ city’s lawsuit claims thestate.com/news/local/cri…

Monday morning in Columbia and the Congaree River is just inches shy of the 2015 flood record. Residents in low lying areas have been evacuated. Many in the region are still without power. Hurricane Helene continues to impact inland areas.