Catherine Kustanczy
@catekustanczy.bsky.social
Writer ~ Media Teacher. Artsy.
Manchmal auf Deutsch.
theoperaqueen.com
Manchmal auf Deutsch.
theoperaqueen.com
Not regretting my decision to post-secondary teaching for a second. I've been saying this for years, and it's been like screaming into a void.
please remember pro-AI colleagues are addicts or sell outs or both
> One might think this hypocrisy is anecdotal, but it’s institutional. Faculty who once panicked over AI plagiarism are now being “empowered” by universities like CSU, Columbia, and Ohio State to embrace the very “tools” they feared.
> One might think this hypocrisy is anecdotal, but it’s institutional. Faculty who once panicked over AI plagiarism are now being “empowered” by universities like CSU, Columbia, and Ohio State to embrace the very “tools” they feared.
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
December 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Not regretting my decision to post-secondary teaching for a second. I've been saying this for years, and it's been like screaming into a void.
Very much related to this. thelocal.to/investigatin...
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Very much related to this. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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Point here being: slop will continue slopping, and that slop is contingent on theft, nonconsensuality, and exploited labor.
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Point here being: slop will continue slopping, and that slop is contingent on theft, nonconsensuality, and exploited labor.
Discount veg: excellent for soups/chowders/pasta sauces.
Favourite:
Roughly chop peppers-eggplant-zucchini; place in roasting tin (w lid); add a bit of oil + salt + mix.
Roast in 375C oven 90-120 min, turning a few times.
Remove to stovetop.
Add veg stock/dairy/boiled water; mash / blend; add s-p.
Favourite:
Roughly chop peppers-eggplant-zucchini; place in roasting tin (w lid); add a bit of oil + salt + mix.
Roast in 375C oven 90-120 min, turning a few times.
Remove to stovetop.
Add veg stock/dairy/boiled water; mash / blend; add s-p.
IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING
do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
November 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Discount veg: excellent for soups/chowders/pasta sauces.
Favourite:
Roughly chop peppers-eggplant-zucchini; place in roasting tin (w lid); add a bit of oil + salt + mix.
Roast in 375C oven 90-120 min, turning a few times.
Remove to stovetop.
Add veg stock/dairy/boiled water; mash / blend; add s-p.
Favourite:
Roughly chop peppers-eggplant-zucchini; place in roasting tin (w lid); add a bit of oil + salt + mix.
Roast in 375C oven 90-120 min, turning a few times.
Remove to stovetop.
Add veg stock/dairy/boiled water; mash / blend; add s-p.
Yikes so much bot traffic today/this week... is it me? (Maybe it's me.)
a cartoon drawing of a robot with a surprised expression
ALT: a cartoon drawing of a robot with a surprised expression
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Yikes so much bot traffic today/this week... is it me? (Maybe it's me.)
The logical endpoint of decades-long focus on STEM & not humanities/arts/literature.
I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The logical endpoint of decades-long focus on STEM & not humanities/arts/literature.
This is brilliant
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is brilliant
Dear pro-AI students
“In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity. In Chile, precious aquifers are in danger of depletion. In South Africa, where blackouts have long been routine, data centers are further taxing the national grid.”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Dear pro-AI students
Opera, Ozzy (Osbourne), Susan Sontag, grunge – & how I marked the tenth anniversary of my mother's passing: www.theoperaqueen.com/2025/10/08/e...
October 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Opera, Ozzy (Osbourne), Susan Sontag, grunge – & how I marked the tenth anniversary of my mother's passing: www.theoperaqueen.com/2025/10/08/e...
This is excellent.
This is such a nuanced and big-hearted piece on the evolution of autism as a diagnosis, by an anthropologist of mental health who is also the dad of a now-grown daughter on the spectrum. Great reading (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is excellent.
September 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Dear post secondary-institutions:
Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week
September 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Dear post secondary-institutions:
On opera, singing, camaraderie, real connections, the big four human emotions, embracing your past, and... maybe Wotan just wants a coffee? #music
My conversation with bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee: www.theoperaqueen.com/2025/08/19/n...
My conversation with bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee: www.theoperaqueen.com/2025/08/19/n...
August 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
On opera, singing, camaraderie, real connections, the big four human emotions, embracing your past, and... maybe Wotan just wants a coffee? #music
My conversation with bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee: www.theoperaqueen.com/2025/08/19/n...
My conversation with bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee: www.theoperaqueen.com/2025/08/19/n...
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@golod.bsky.social Die Vernichtung des Zettelkatalogs der Berliner Staatsbibliothek droht: Nicht nur als Historiker bin ich überrascht und entsetzt wie man überhaupt auf eine solche Idee kommen kann. Das wäre eine kulturhistorisch nicht wiedergutmachende Zerstörung. (FAZ 19.8.25)
August 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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"A good score is [...] like a map. But sometimes the map changes, or the things you notice on the map change once you’ve been on the actual terrain..."
On Fauré, flexibility, drama, & working on Pénélope in Munich: my chat with conductor Susanna Mälkki www.theoperaqueen.com/2025/08/12/s... #music
On Fauré, flexibility, drama, & working on Pénélope in Munich: my chat with conductor Susanna Mälkki www.theoperaqueen.com/2025/08/12/s... #music
Susanna Mälkki: "Allowing The Ear And The Eye To Understand" - The Opera Queen
Conductor Susanna Mälkki shares her process in bringing Fauré's rarely-performed Pénélope to the stage at Bayerische Staatsoper last month.
www.theoperaqueen.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"A good score is [...] like a map. But sometimes the map changes, or the things you notice on the map change once you’ve been on the actual terrain..."
On Fauré, flexibility, drama, & working on Pénélope in Munich: my chat with conductor Susanna Mälkki www.theoperaqueen.com/2025/08/12/s... #music
On Fauré, flexibility, drama, & working on Pénélope in Munich: my chat with conductor Susanna Mälkki www.theoperaqueen.com/2025/08/12/s... #music
Speaking with bass-baritone Gerald Finley was a real pleasure: history (Joseph Rouleau); inspiration (German art song); Canadiana (mosquitoes) -- and he was so great in his Munich recital recently. My new feature for The Globe & Mail: www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article... #music
For all his success abroad, Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley’s heart remains at home
A leading dramatic interpreter within the operatic world, Finley’s work has long been noteworthy
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Speaking with bass-baritone Gerald Finley was a real pleasure: history (Joseph Rouleau); inspiration (German art song); Canadiana (mosquitoes) -- and he was so great in his Munich recital recently. My new feature for The Globe & Mail: www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article... #music
Seriously excellent conversations this week, with conductor Susanna Mälkki & bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee – about various mythologies, ideas on theatre & music, & so much more.
Coming soon to theoperaqueen.com.
Coming soon to theoperaqueen.com.
July 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Seriously excellent conversations this week, with conductor Susanna Mälkki & bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee – about various mythologies, ideas on theatre & music, & so much more.
Coming soon to theoperaqueen.com.
Coming soon to theoperaqueen.com.
Reposted by Catherine Kustanczy
Soo I’m talking about this a lot with people!!!
Because people don’t have tastes or arousals any more it seems , they have “positions” they think they win with
Because people don’t have tastes or arousals any more it seems , they have “positions” they think they win with
In today's world it is critical to develop taste, preference, and reasons for those preference. Media literacy is not enough, you must develop media taste, music taste, and a set of filters and tools to think about media beyond quality and into preference. It need not be the same taste as everyone.
June 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Soo I’m talking about this a lot with people!!!
Because people don’t have tastes or arousals any more it seems , they have “positions” they think they win with
Because people don’t have tastes or arousals any more it seems , they have “positions” they think they win with
NEW: Pay-for-play; demons, staging reality "as it is", remembering Pierre Audi, and much more. My latest: www.theoperaqueen.com/2025/06/21/r... #music
June 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
NEW: Pay-for-play; demons, staging reality "as it is", remembering Pierre Audi, and much more. My latest: www.theoperaqueen.com/2025/06/21/r... #music
"Du wirst alle Erfahrungen brauchen können, denn wenn es nur die Musik gibt, worin liegt dann der Sinn?"
www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news...
www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news...
Sir Simon Rattle im Gespräch: So hat Musik sein Leben verändert | BR-Klassik
Musik kann das Leben ändern. Davon ist Sir Simon Rattle überzeugt. Im Gespräch mit BR-KLASSIK reflektiert der Dirigent über Kunst und Moral, erzählt persönliche Anekdoten und spricht über Herausforder...
www.br-klassik.de
June 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"Du wirst alle Erfahrungen brauchen können, denn wenn es nur die Musik gibt, worin liegt dann der Sinn?"
www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news...
www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news...
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The correct role for AI in education is no role at all.
China shuts down AI tools during nationwide college exams
June 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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"... the inequities are baked in, and that's the point." jill.substack.com/p/the-proble...
The Problem With Men Who Date Much Younger Women
Leonardo DiCaprio gets older. His girlfriends are forever 21.
jill.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"... the inequities are baked in, and that's the point." jill.substack.com/p/the-proble...
Reposted by Catherine Kustanczy
Ich war,
wo ich von je gewesen,
wohin auf je ich geh':
im weiten Reich
der Weltennacht.
wo ich von je gewesen,
wohin auf je ich geh':
im weiten Reich
der Weltennacht.
What's a line from a song's lyrics that you love?
May 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Ich war,
wo ich von je gewesen,
wohin auf je ich geh':
im weiten Reich
der Weltennacht.
wo ich von je gewesen,
wohin auf je ich geh':
im weiten Reich
der Weltennacht.