Ben Leeds Carson

Composer. Professor of Music: | Director of UCSC’s Creative Technologies program—

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@Mishi_2210 On my stomach, I slip inside the snow-fort formed as my hideaway. On my back, my body is one with the ice. Death is never near, I think I thought. —Kimiko Hahn

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3 PM TODAY @UCSC's Music Center (free)—Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi's unique concert includes my own work Respiration, Memory, Addiction & music by 5 other composers—Samuel Adams, my doctoral student Ben Dorfan, Karen Tanaka, ‘Latin Grammy’-nominee Sam Reider, and Atsushi Yamanaka.

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NET FREEDOM PIONEERS is on the forefront of struggles against Iranian state-violence. Their "Toosheh" initiative connects reporters, academics, scientists, and they need your funds.

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NFP won a 2023 National Endowment for Democracy Trailblazer Award.

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Spock has been behaving strangely.

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Hey Hollywood. Stop cutting away to the dog’s implausibly concerned face when humans are about to do ill-advised things. Stop it. Bad director. Bad.

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A lot is happening in the world but I find myself asking if millions will line the streets for Catherine O’Hara’s funeral procession. One more test of a just society.

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If you cover up the author's name, it's impossible tell whether this tweet is from a conservative with a narcissistic persecution complex, or from an anti-ICE grandma smiling ear to ear.

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I have reckoned upon a medium that a child just born will weigh 12 pounds, and in a solar year, if tolerably nursed, increase to 28 pounds.

—Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal (1729)

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… a boy or girl [of beggar parents] before twelve years old, is no sale-able commodity, and even when they come to this age, they will not yield above three pounds, or three pounds and a half a crown at most, on the exchange;

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A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.

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“Emelyan…seemed to have an inkling of the rage I was in. When a man is guilty…he scents trouble far off, like birds of the air before a storm” Astafy in Dostoyevsky’s “An Honest Theif” whose kindness Emelyan exploits—or so Astafy tells the narrator, exploiting his kindness.

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” -James Baldwin (interview with Jane Howard in 1963)

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To say David Cope (d. 4 May 2025) was ahead of his time doesn’t capture how elegantly he understood, far ahead of the world around him, the vital potential in links between computation and the arts. Peace Profound to Dave and his family.

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@MONKP1776 @ElijahSchaffer Police are not supposed to be an activist group, Dumpling. We are not negotiating with them. They have jobs; they work for us. If you start defining "policing" as "taking care of police and their frustrations", then you have met the definition of a police state.

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C’mon neolibs & neocons. Ya said “shut up left, with your your crazy worries about fascism”. You’re at bat. Swing you cowards.