Writing is rewriting and more rewriting until you get it close to right. You can't skip steps with this shit.
Friedlind Riedel
@friedlind.bsky.social
music & sound studies, media philosophy | painfully split between German academia and anglophone-mainstream academia | Wrote a book about Burmese opera/pyazat https://friedlindriedel.de/
The German comment would be: Promt daneben.
Ben Phillips@benphillips76.bsky.social · last wk.This politician in Canada used ChatGPT to write his speech and then just directly read out loud the AI prompt without realising it, announcing to legislators “Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points." Glorious!
Die wichtigste ö. Forschungsstelle für Rechtsextremismus muss sich von der FPÖ nicht als „pseudowissenschaftlich“ diffamieren lassen, weil es dafür keinerlei Tatsachengrundlage gibt, hat der Oberste Gerichtshof entschieden: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Höchstgericht: FPÖ darf DÖW nicht pseudowissenschaftlich nennen
Das Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstands bekam vor dem Obersten Gerichtshof (OGH) Recht. Urteile früherer Instanzen hatten für viel Kritik gesorgt
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Welcome to our conference! Check out our programme here docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
MPSG26 Schedule overview.xlsx
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I am a member of an international editorial board of a regionally oriented journal, the flagship journal for the region. We had a board meeting and the journal editor shared the latest numbers: 70% desk rejects due to #AI at a submission rate of over 1000 articles p.a. Countless hours of extra work.
Appreciate Robert’s willingness to call this garbage out, the absolute last thing our field needs to welcome in this uncritical way
Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · 2mo agoAt this year's music Pedagogy into Practice conference at UBC, I attended a keynote address on the subject of integrating AI into music education, from José Antonio Bowen. It was the most disappointed I have ever been during a keynote talk. At times, it was stomach-churning. Thread:
I think the thing crushing my spirit at the moment (it rotates, but there's always something!) is just the utter selfishness that the AI debate is bringing out in so many people. But I guess that's why it's the big Silicon Valley/GOP play. They know we love being selfish.
"It’s no surprise that 76% of teachers are using #AI tools . . . [also] for marking even creative subjects" Unclear where this number is from but: creativity is not the (only) boundary of AI. It's the ability for critique. It's the ability to be bored, inspiered, to joke.
Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 3mo agoStudents rebel against AI Students at Barton School oppose AI as it risks replacing human teachers, especially in creative subjects, ethics and wellbeing | Oscar Dunning @sussexbylines.co.uk
Best practice! Also for University: My students are also banned from submitting assignments that rely on #AI. But they don't fail the assignment either, because assignments no longer count in terms of grades but in terms of what students want to get out of them. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Oscars bans AI actors and writing from awards
The academy that controls the Oscars on Friday issued new award eligibility requirements around the use of artificial intelligence in film.
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Our book of abstracts is online! And if you haven't registered yet, early bird closes tomorrow evening. musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/events/mpsg-...
MPSG 2026 - Music & Philosophy
The Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group aims to provide a long-term forum for those with an interest in music and philosophy.
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Even musical instruments are adopting to the political climate these days...
Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6mo agoI just want everyone to know that the creator of one of our favorite whistles (the micro bitonal) is a very nice man in Italy who has been messaging me asking if there are things he can tweak in the next version he is designing mostly to help us mass produce these more efficiently to fight ICE.
_On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone_ is now available open access. Here's a link: www.acls.org/path-to-open...
ACLS Research in Path to Open
In January 2026, the first 100 e-books in the Path to Open collection at JSTOR flipped to open access as part of a multiyear pilot supported by ACLS. Among these books are five titles that result dire...
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Even musical instruments are adopting to the political climate these days...
Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6mo agoI just want everyone to know that the creator of one of our favorite whistles (the micro bitonal) is a very nice man in Italy who has been messaging me asking if there are things he can tweak in the next version he is designing mostly to help us mass produce these more efficiently to fight ICE.
a country where innocent people are deprived of music “It’s non-punitive… I don’t understand why they can’t have music” “Organizers have a playlist they play on speakers during the vigil. New songs are added every week based on what the detainees have requested.” lataco.com/captive-loti...
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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I had no idea it’s German until they said it’s German. I am so glad Americans are finally discovering that you can clear the air by simply opening the windows. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...
House burping: should we all adopt this German habit?
It’s a simple way to keep homes fresh and mould-free, and has caught on in the US. But there are a few potential downsides ...
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Exciting news: an expanded English translation of my bestseller "AI and the New Fascism" is coming out with Pluto Press later this year. Grateful to Pluto Press for making this happen. More on the book: rainermuehlhoff.de/en/KI-und-de... @plutopress.bsky.social
New Book “AI and the New Fascism” (Reclam Verlag)
Available now (in German language). Order from the publisher for 8,00 EUR (print) Ebook available on all known plarforms.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
I've written this blogpost on ICE protest chants & songs, w/ a large section of transcriptions of singing at protests by faith leaders and the Singing Resistance. It also includes songs about ICE agents' perceived masculinity issues and new songs protesting ICE. medium.com/@norikomanab...
ICE protest songs and chants, Minnesota general strike (January 23) and beyond
Transcriptions of singing at ICE protests by faith leaders and protesters. Songs about ICE’s masculinity issues. Other songs about the ICE…
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Only when you use AI for research you will be able to know that it hallucinates all the time. Everyone who has first hand knowledge of AI hallucinations must have used it extensively.
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6mo agostop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.
Open tenure track position in musicology focus on political music at Mozarteum Salzburg www.moz.ac.at/de/ueber-uns...
Jobausschreibungen: Wissenschaftlich / künstlerisches Universitätspersonal - Universität Mozarteum
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I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
"Music and sound are to the 2020’s social media ecosystem what hashtags were to the 2010s — clickable portals into the swirl of what’s happening now." That's the takeaway, I think. (Thanks to the Globe folks for getting me to put it in writing!)
Paula Harper@pch9857.bsky.social · 7mo agoHad an Idea about music in meme politics www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/21/o...
AI optimists please help me understand this: If Claude is good at python coding because it devoured Substack, and Substack is now disappearing because of Claude.. how does Claude get good at the next programming language when Substack no longer exists?
We are excited to announce our 3 keynote speakers for #MPSG26 Prof Salomé Voegelin Professor of Sound @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social Dr Nicole Grimes @nicoleegrimes.bsky.social Ass Professor of Music @tcddublin.bsky.social Prof Simone Mahrenholz Professor of Philosophy @umanitoba.bsky.social
the smell of a playing cassette tape
AGF 🎧 poemproducer@poemproducer.bsky.social · 9mo agothe sound of changing c-cassette tape
"What is ‘musical thought’? Can music be considered a form of thinking? How to think in, with or through music?" Send a paper proposal to @cdysers.bsky.social and Malte Koble to join the conversation on "Liminal Musicking"! musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/2025/09/25/c...
CFP Themed Session 3 - Liminal Musicking - Music & Philosophy
The Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group aims to provide a long-term forum for those with an interest in music and philosophy.
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