Sometimes (often) I regret not paying more attention while I'm getting carried away with my hacking. And I definitely need time to digest...
BUT. I will have nothing to do with any community that is happy to have a transphobe in any kind of leadership role. Neither should you, and I will judge you for it, and so will history.
“The Republicans’ fear comes from the fact that the open looting of the government in Trump’s second term appears to have revealed to a majority of the American people that the policies the Republican Party has enacted since 1981 benefit only a few. Once again, it seems, Americans are coming together, ready to follow the pattern of the past and rebuild a government that works not just for the wealthy, but for everyone.”
“At key moments in American history, the majority of voters have woken to the reality that a small group of men has rigged the system to funnel the wealth produced by ordinary people into their own pockets. With that wealth, they have bought power and undermined democracy in favor of themselves.”
Only the Path Remains (2020), by Ketty Nez, for piano, violin, and cello (h/t @fullyabstract) https://www.albanyrecords.com/catalog/troy2032/ #music #NewMusic #WomenComposers
VOTE. ✅
Do NOT listen to the polls.
Do NOT listen to the news.
Remember, as long as you're in line to vote, you can still vote, even if the polls supposedly closed while you were in line.
Do NOT leave that line until you have voted.
Do NOT believe it is over until you have voted. ✅
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/117538576586001804
The playlist for today's (11/2/26) episode of Not Brahms and Liszt can be found at
https://alleystoughton.us/not-brahms-and-liszt/#show541
And a Samply link (good for 2 weeks only, downloads not allowed) to the high-quality audio file for the show can be found at:
https://samply.app/p/MeZ1LtM0bfCOhIfyFIHW?token=ARtZmf3aL2Pml9XHj3jw&si=4DWmn1Bf0vWsstUezexL8rIABDr1
You can listen via this link in your web browser, without needing an account. There is also an iOS app.
#Cambridge #Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical #ChamberMusic
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/117538576586001804
Ninety minutes of modern chamber music this (11/2/26) afternoon beginning at 4pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org
#Cambridge #Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical #ChamberMusic
Chamber music by Christopher Cerrone, inti figgis-vizueta, Guillermo Lago & Kelly-Marie Murphy - featuring Colere Quartet, Hub New Music, Leah Plave / India Gailey & Rothko String Quartet / Andrew Yee - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (11/2/26) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org
#Cambridge #Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical #ChamberMusic
Has anyone else who uses #GarageBand on a mac upgraded to #macOS27 aka #GoldenGate?
I found after doing so that if I was recording vocals and was checking the audio with bluetooth headphones, that the vocals were severely distorted.
Here is someone else who noticed the same thing:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256382779?sortBy=rank&answerId=262188059022
If anyone finds a workaround, I'd love to hear about it.
Our Fall/Winter programming season is up and running, and you can check out our program guide for detailed information about our diverse programming lineup:
The Anthropic ETH algorithm apparently needs more than 10^(10^8) variables in order to be better than brute force search.
That means, being an Ultrafinitist pays off again, I simply do not believe this number is real, so it cannot hurt me.
The Epstein files are a US midterms sledgehammer | Katie Phang | The Guardian
Voters have a chance to break America’s two-tiered system of justice and hold powerful people accountable — Read on https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/26/epstein-files-midterms-sledgehammer
@fullyabstract "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."
- Paul McCartney
Remarkable how casually some people accept cruelty to animals...
"Hutchins buys about 300 pounds of foie gras a year from two suppliers in New York. He said he’s seen one of the suppliers force-feed the ducks by hand. It lasts for about 1½ seconds and happens three times a day for the final three weeks of their lives, he said."
If you're trans, maybe you have an awkward ID situation. Maybe you're nervous around cis strangers.
But this is a matter of exercising your right as an equal US citizen. Avoiding voting for fear of transphobia would mean transphobia is suppressing your vote.
So you can do this. I know you can.
Some students are still taking the opportunity to learn. I help students who are stuck, if they ask me. This used to be how learning worked. I’m glad I’m basically retired.
I’m setting EasyCrypt (a proof assistant) problems in a class I’m co-teaching. The problems have short solutions. I can often tell the AI-generated submissions because they tend to be much longer than necessary, with multiple lemmas that aren’t needed. When I ask students about them, they admit they don’t understand the proofs they’ve submitted. This is the future, it seems.
I LOL’d.
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/117497361832131019
The playlist for today's (10/26/26) episode of Not Brahms and Liszt can be found at
https://alleystoughton.us/not-brahms-and-liszt/#show540
And a Samply link (good for 2 weeks only, downloads not allowed) to the high-quality audio file for the show can be found at:
https://samply.app/p/MrZkhyeRaGHOnDC1rP7S?token=JhMOKELQoJj4FISJCK2q&si=4DWmn1Bf0vWsstUezexL8rIABDr1
You can listen via this link in your web browser, without needing an account. There is also an iOS app.
#Cambridge #Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical