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Crotchety old sax player. Bad case of l'esprit de l'escalier (mostly what I shouldn't've said).

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“He swings so hard you won’t even hear the track change!”

[Mark Stryker @Mark_Stryker]

You really haven't heard Dexter Gordon until you've heard him on 8-Track.

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“Straw-manning is a useful rhetorical device” is my new favorite complete misunderstanding of the entirety of rhetoric; it is also a perfectly idiotic defense of the whole AI project

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@LewistheLight1 I was gonna give you shit about this but anyone giving Pepper some space these days is my hero

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faster-than-light starships and controlled nuclear fusion

[Hayashi Heikichi @lianda_edu]

Professors always think their own research is incredibly important. "Come look at my paper—I’ve discovered a profound truth!"Yet technologies that truly advance humanity, like faster-than-light starships and controlled nuclear fusion, won’t progress even one iota because of this paper. Most papers are read only by the editor and the two reviewers—three people in total—and top journals are no exception.

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I am tickled pink at the idea of exercising one’s infinitesimal fraction strategically

I remember voting for Perot so Clinton wouldn’t have a mandate, but I was young and stupid then

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The same way I often marvel at the way trump/miller always manages to choose the worst action possible I am continually astonished at how thebulwark accretes the worst voices

wonder how long til we see a Thiessen or Frum byline? Stephens? Douthat? Yoo?

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

Some Neocon Kremlinology: Here's how I learned that Matthew Continetti, the son-in-law of Bill Kristol, left his columnist gig at the Free Press after maybe six months. Reportedly a lot of established names took jobs with Bari last year and quickly backed out.

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@LewistheLight1 @funkentechno The difference between bibliophile and bibliomane is that they both come home with stacks but the bibliomane already has the same books; I suspect it’s the same with discophile/discomane

better reason to buy the discs, tho

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@ritmoysonido @danielleamir With a bit of Tolkien thrown in for kicks

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Been there, done that

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

I know we offered you the job already, but now we need you to apply for it.

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The very definition of leadership

[James Cullen @AccidentalCajun]

I spend a preponderance of my time solving other people’s problems…

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lol

[Daniel Mendelsohn @DAMendelsohnNYC]

Hello?? Grace Kelly.
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@LewistheLight1 I find so much vicarious pleasure in those of you who have the means to practice record collecting the way I wish I could

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@LewistheLight1 Not that I am advocating the purchase for the personal risk you might incur…

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@LewistheLight1 Sell the other and keep this one! I might kill for a Pepper autograph

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@melnickjeffrey1 au contraire—many of us (though I’ll speak for myself only) love your Sunday gospel posts and I use them to support my continual admonishment to my students to consider how instrumental gospel is to everything they love, even if the influence is camouflaged by its own ubiquity

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@LewistheLight1 Knew that—just doing my reply-guy thing (bit of a sore subject due to all of the JC worship around the soprano voice)

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@LewistheLight1 Well, yeah, but so was Bechet

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@arvofart I would disagree in degree rather than in kind but I did read this poem at the ‘grand’ opening of my bookstore—

Marginalia by Billy Collins @all_poetry https://t.co/rwnCgSN6Lf

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Not sure whether to laugh or puke at the idea that denying an LLM its fodder results in a more objective result

[Eric Sammons @EricRSammons]

What does AI think of Magnifica Humanitas? Not much, apparently.

This analysis by Claude is brutal. And because it was run very soon after publication, it’s not a compilation of other critiques, but an analysis far more objective than most you’ll read. https://t.co/097HBupCBj

[Seashell Threat @bjer_johnson]

My fave bluegrass joke—

Q: How do you know which bluegrass tune you’re listening to?

A: The title

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Bluegrass is the best thing that ever came out the South.

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Pretty sure that’s an undercount…

[Pigeons & Planes @PigsAndPlans]

Sonny Rollins has passed away at the age of 95. He was widely recognized as a legendary jazz tenor saxophonist and recorded on over 60 albums during his lifetime.⁠
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RIP Sonny Rollins 🕊️