I shouldn't repost YIMBY urbanist bait like this but lmao

Let me get a few things off my chest about sexual harassment in classical music. annemidgette.com/blog/f/an-open… via Anne Midgette

turns out that designers are rebranding as experts of the imagination, since the problem-solving hustle didn't go that well

Wendell Berry in 1977.

NEW: Another group of musicians has put out a petition calling on New York Philharmonic to release both Cara Kizer from her alleged NDA and all other former and current employees that might have their own NDAs with the orchestra.

Imagine that the day you’re slotted to lecture on 4’33” there is a protest going on at your school that has gathered worldwide attention, and instead of taking the alley-oop for one of the most prescient lectures ever, you say “lecture canceled, it’s not quiet enough”

Fewer than half of all NYPD officers live in NYC and only 25% of LAPD officers live in LA. But keep talking about “outside agitators” coming onto campus to do violence.

Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

UPDATE: A group of Dutch kids have been protesting on ROBLOX against the disqualification of Joost at Eurovision. 😭😭#Eurovision2024 #JoostKlein

McGill’s injunction request to have the #GazaSolidarityEncampment was rejected. This is the second unsuccessful attempt to have the encampment removed through the courts. #McGill #Gaza #Montreal

Woke up to great news! Ghent University is cutting ALL ties with Israeli universities! 🎉 Important: All proven complicit after intense screening by the human rights committee! A human rights victory after months of protests, student occupation and an exam surveillance strike ♥️

Got to admire the hubris with which the AI pioneer John McCarthy, speaking in 1973, confesses to have coined the term "artificial intelligence" as a fund-raising gimmick.

we haven't had a single workshop sign-up in two days. that is a record low for us. please help us keep this project running. please help support palestinian families trying to survive by signing up for a workshop or sharing with a friend 💔💔

Quite impressive

I’m also sponsored by Parmesan cheese but the pictures they took of me with the cheese are humiliating

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Canada says Israel has the right to defend itself from its invasion of Lebanon

Are men maybe too emotional for positions of leadership?

Industrialist and financier JP Morgan loans £40,000,000 to Benito Mussolini’s Italy, and he says that Fascism is preferable to capitalism.