Your favorite albums I'm too lazy to write up rigorously, including Bruno Mars, JayJayy, Kehlani, Tierra Whack out of alphabetical order somehow, Six Sex, Wendy Eisenberg, and jaaaazz: bradluen.substack.com/p/the-bullpe...

The Bullpen 013

Love all across the transcendent universe, except the Ivy League

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Prestige TV drama episode: here are six minutes of plot, filled out with 40 minutes of TALKING and CINEMATOGRAPHY to keep you interested Network TV drama episode:

This is a great time to jump in and learn or remind yourself just how much great music there was in 1996, including big beat and riot grrrl and deep house and ultraminimal and (coming later) a ton of R&B and even Britpop sometimes. Join now and you won't even have to learn what a "Kula Shaker" is!

Peoples Pop Polls: The World Cup Of 1996@peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 6d ago

#PPP96 It's ROUND 2 of THE WORLD CUP OF 1996 All your 1996 faves in action - Spice Girls! Orbital! REM! Tori Amos! Urusei Yatsura! Choose your votes wisely and don't forget the bonus... docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is pretty clear if you're pretty sure you did learn some algebraic geometry once but don't even remember what

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Jacobian Conjecture for Baby #HackerNews https://muchmirul.github.io/jacobian-conjecture/

Copy of my 45 additional #TheN0ughtie5 HMs for handicapping purposes. Tried to choose songs with some hope in hell, which ended up making things pretty American…

I was posting cheese takes to no engagement before it was cool

bradluen@bradluen.bsky.social · 2y ago

4:45 AM CHEESE UPDATE: Rogue River Blue lives up to the hype, easily the most complex American cheese I've ever had, and among the best I've tasted from anywhere

Finally heard the Katseye/Illit/Sserafim thing. Honestly great call from the early haters

Celebrating Sidny's golazo, solving the Great Gen Z Melody Shortage by rationing or by being a billionaire's kid, plus a steamy Arabic duet, an R&B corrido, DBZ rap but British, Bobby Brown synth hits, and not describing maskandi well except that it's definitely not amapiano in this month's singles:

Video & Audio: Blue Shark bandwagonesque

plus: the economics of the Great Gen Z Melody Shortage

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1986 pro wrestling thread Ric Flair vs. Barry Windham 2/14/86 A Flair masterclass, but young Windham's v good at using his size and sells well enough. The natural transitions help the time fly by until the underwhelming finish; everyone in Florida wants to run it back. Better worker: Flair (4¼*)

5* Ric Flair vs Barry Windham 1986 02 14 NWA Title

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#TheN0ughtie5 Day 50 Britney Spears: "Lucky" USA 2000 She tried to tell us! She gave us all the clues! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vvB... (thx Arron, HMs coming Tuesdayish)

Britney Spears - Lucky (Official HD Video)

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bradluen@bradluen.bsky.social · 2w ago

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 49 Eminem: "The Real Slim Shady" USA 2000 11 POINTS Sick, and also a technical tour de force at the rhyme and storytelling levels. The neoclassical individualist -> beefing with Christina Aguilera -> societal structure should be taught in schools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbR-...

Me at Kroger staring with four math degrees for several minutes at the "Reg. Price 4.49LB; 2/4.49 LB with Card" sign trying to work out what it means

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 49 Eminem: "The Real Slim Shady" USA 2000 11 POINTS Sick, and also a technical tour de force at the rhyme and storytelling levels. The neoclassical individualist -> beefing with Christina Aguilera -> societal structure should be taught in schools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbR-...

Eminem - The Real Slim Shady [Official Video] (Uncensored)

YouTube video by Susanna S.

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bradluen@bradluen.bsky.social · 2w ago

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 48 OutKast: "B.O.B" USA 2000 INSLUMPIRATIONAL www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVeh...

Me: The great thing about shonen manga is that you don't have to learn decades of continuity before diving in. At most, you can just read the first volume and the most recent one, and you'll know enough to get the gist Yoshihiro Togashi:

Dylan Orosz🩵@finalboyo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hunter x Hunter Succession War arc Character Chart @ Chapter 414

Midyear Jazzpoll results! As always the results are very American and somewhat "here's who sent me promos"; equally as always there's great music up top, including Adam O'Farrill (my number 1) and JB Lewis's Omni (which I got to after the deadline but woulda been close) artsfuse.org/331959/the-a...

The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll at Mid-Year: Consensus in Retreat - The Arts Fuse

Tyshawn Sorey tops the Frances Davis Jazz Poll at mid-year, spurring a reflection on signal vs. noise in a crowded jazz landscape.

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#TheN0ughtie5 Day 48 OutKast: "B.O.B" USA 2000 INSLUMPIRATIONAL www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVeh...

Outkast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) (Official HD Video)

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bradluen@bradluen.bsky.social · 2w ago

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 47 M.O.P.: "Ante Up" USA 2000 11 POINTS Fool-yapping, Sam & Dave sampling rap unsurpassed in hardness this century; your drill fave is a mere psychopath in comparison. As Christgau said: "Pleasure is nothing to feel guilty about. This may be." www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bHJ...

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 47 M.O.P.: "Ante Up" USA 2000 11 POINTS Fool-yapping, Sam & Dave sampling rap unsurpassed in hardness this century; your drill fave is a mere psychopath in comparison. As Christgau said: "Pleasure is nothing to feel guilty about. This may be." www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bHJ...

Ante Up - Bert and Ernie M.O.P - Hip Hop

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bradluen@bradluen.bsky.social · 2w ago

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 46 OutKast: "Ms. Jackson" USA 2000 I'll get to the Other One soon enough but this was always my fave: Dre's contender for most heartfelt verse ever sandwiched by a technically amazing Big Boi performance (the "infidelity" bit's still breathtaking) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYxA...

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 46 OutKast: "Ms. Jackson" USA 2000 I'll get to the Other One soon enough but this was always my fave: Dre's contender for most heartfelt verse ever sandwiched by a technically amazing Big Boi performance (the "infidelity" bit's still breathtaking) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYxA...

Outkast - Ms. Jackson (Official HD Video)

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bradluen@bradluen.bsky.social · 2w ago

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 45 Eminem: "Stan" USA 2000 To me the main precedent is Stephen King's Misery—except more realistically, the artist can choose to be insulated from the worst of (lowercase) stan behavior; they can say "damn" and go reheat their tea in the microwave www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqUp...

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 45 Eminem: "Stan" USA 2000 To me the main precedent is Stephen King's Misery—except more realistically, the artist can choose to be insulated from the worst of (lowercase) stan behavior; they can say "damn" and go reheat their tea in the microwave www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqUp...

Eminem - Stan ft. Dido (Official Video - Dirty Version)

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bradluen@bradluen.bsky.social · 2w ago

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 44 Missy Elliott: "Get Ur Freak On" USA 2001 Have I told you lately that DJ Kawest's "Konpa Paradise 2" has the best intro of recent years? I have? Well I'm telling you again www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPoK...

Favorite African albums of the Seventies, a thread: Africa Dances (1973) This JS Roberts comp was one of the first exposures of Americans to Afropop. It begins with all-timer "African Jazz Mokili Mobimba" (miscredited to OK Jazz) then goes places that remain mysterious today. Who was Miss Smodern?

Various Artists - Africa Dances (1973)

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Emperor X goes into dialectics about liberal capitalism, Adam O'Farrill (aided by Ryuichi Sakamoto) tugs the heartstrings, Aespa treat hyperpop bleeps & nursery rhymes equally unseriously, plus Nordijazz, Oz rock, Dominican rap, and I still don't know who Mara Calder is in this month's Semipop Life:

Semipop Life: Asylum seekers

J Noa, Zutomayo, Courtney Barnett, Aespa, and more!

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#TheN0ughtie5 Day 44 Missy Elliott: "Get Ur Freak On" USA 2001 Have I told you lately that DJ Kawest's "Konpa Paradise 2" has the best intro of recent years? I have? Well I'm telling you again www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPoK...

Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On [Official Music Video]

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bradluen@bradluen.bsky.social · 3w ago

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 43 Jay-Z: "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" USA 2001 Jay-Z's fourth appearance on my list (two leads, two features), making him my singles artist of the decade, esp. since I think Missy made better albums. Props to whoever the producer is too—clever guy, I bet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRKm...

Paredes congratulating the Spanish players. #SPAARG #ESPARG

Man we're not even going to get a comedy shootout ending to this all-time dud

Might not be the last red!

Oceania Confederation erasure yet again

best meaningless French farce since Feydeau

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 43 Jay-Z: "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" USA 2001 Jay-Z's fourth appearance on my list (two leads, two features), making him my singles artist of the decade, esp. since I think Missy made better albums. Props to whoever the producer is too—clever guy, I bet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRKm...

JAŸ-Z - Izzo (H.O.V.A.)

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bradluen@bradluen.bsky.social · 3w ago

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 42 Pink: "Don't Let Me Get Me" USA 2002 I confess I forgot Pink co-wrote the foundational text of (explicitly) confessional teenpop with… Dallas Austin. Remember, you never have to hand it to Linda Perry (except for "Get the Party Started") www.youtube.com/watch?v=asaC...

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 42 Pink: "Don't Let Me Get Me" USA 2002 I confess I forgot Pink co-wrote the foundational text of (explicitly) confessional teenpop with… Dallas Austin. Remember, you never have to hand it to Linda Perry (except for "Get the Party Started") www.youtube.com/watch?v=asaC...

P!NK - Don't Let Me Get Me (Official Video)

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bradluen@bradluen.bsky.social · 3w ago

#TheN0ughtie5 Day 41 Johnny Cash: "The Man Comes Around" USA 2002 If you need a new album of the '00s after your old fave turned out unjust and/or filthy, American IV has "Hurt" plus this paean to divine justice, which even as a non-Xian sounds appealing these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiMX...

This is about one of the major unproven conjectures in stat theory (generally presumed true.) It took GPT-5.6 90 minutes to find a counterexample showing* it's (very slightly) wrong. Not sure what to say except that once again I'm glad I'm not a theorist *not yet peer-reviewed but very likely legit

The Benjamini--Hochberg Procedure Can Fail to Control the FDR for Correlated Two-Sided Gaussian Tests

We show that the Benjamini--Hochberg procedure can fail to control the false discovery rate (FDR) at its nominal level for correlated two-sided Gaussian $p$-values. We construct a factor model for whi...

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