@franklehman
Assoc. Prof of Music, Tufts University | Music Theory, Film Music, John Williams | Author, Hollywood Harmony (OUP 2018) | Ed. Film Music Analysis (Routledge 2024) | Articles in NYT, WaPo | Currently Wrting The Skywalker Symphonies (OUP forthcoming)
It has always been true that only a fraction of the readership reads long pieces. Or reads past the jump, as they used to say in the newspaper biz.
The ones who read it all are called "readers." And they are more likely to subscribe to the publication and/or become lifelong fans of the writer.
Short Stay in Hell is one of the very few horror novels (if that's the right word) that actually scared, and continues, to scare me.
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue
TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend
“in america, you deserve to be murdered by the state if you have gender pronouns in bio”
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy.
She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
To ICE: get the fuck out of America.
If you've been following this story, your blood should and will be absolutely boiling.
And that's it for Silksong! A phenomenal final boss for a phenomenal game, well-worth doing 100%. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Kd...
A thread by an A&M professor describing how the new rules will impact faculty. Syllabi must be fed into AI to be checked for content not aligned with approved syllabi; students will be encouraged to report faculty for inaccurate content; and young people are now being told they get to decide what a professor should teach.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
Shameful
I may have used the phrases "intellectual cancer" and "death knell of the thousands-year project of human progress" in mine.
Is every university's AI "taskforce" in reality a naked boosterism committee like mine. Rarely felt so demoralized by the mismatch of what I thought Higher Ed stood for and what I see endorsed and accepted (and, far worse, ommitted!) in these reports, surveys, guidelines, etc. Pathetic.
We're clear-eyed: Every AI company and investor has massive incentive to hype the most glorious AI case. So the technology might never live up to its promise. But this would require every CEO of America's seven biggest companies to be collectively delusional about where they're spending trillions in combined capital.
wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something?
www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...
The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
Mamdani elected and GZDoom has already been forked with texture filtering off by default. Promises kept.
Let’s hope it means the same for the company as those commercials for Pets.com I remember back before the .com bubble burst.
From his mad ravings to the generals meeting yesterday (transcribed in @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletter this morning). This kind of shit is what they're trying to hide:
please clap
Excusable:
This game has it out for Elden Ring players.
The hell it’s not!
Last Judge down!
I actually enjoyed the grueling runback! Or maybe that's Stockholm Syndrome?... youtu.be/DVhHJjvonD8
getting fired from your job because some dipshit student who missed their calling in the Stasi filmed you talking about gender in a class about gender
Take that, Sister Splinter!
(I love this game)
The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified
I know, right? They're so chatty!
The fight and area with the relevant cues: youtu.be/lNM3aR3_xqc?...
