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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 11h

Instagram seems to think I'm interested in $12,000 watches.

I mean, I am... I just don't have $12,000 to spend on a watch...

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 13h

Oh dear.

"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 13h

lmao

Torok was a filmmaker before he became a photographer. In 2012, he cast the music video for the song "Same Love" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.[3] The next year, he directed a documentary film titled The Otherside about the Seattle hip-hop scene.[2]

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 1d

Serious redneck ish tonight: big 3500 diesel pickup truck flying the American flag on a big LED light pole cuz you can’t fly the flag in the dark 🙄

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 1d

“Integrity” is a word that sounds like what it means.

I will not be taking questions at this time.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2d

People's workload rises as they're inundated with AI slop.

bsky.app/profile/benp...

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

We're experiencing an unbelievable deluge of submissions. At our journal we got ~200 per year in 2020. Last year it was 600. This year it's 800 with several months to go. So that's why we're slower to get stuff out for review.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2d

People have to work longer hours to offset the increases in energy costs that AI causes.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2d

AI is clearly anti-productivity given the extent that its externalities create more work for society.

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2d

www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...

Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press

People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

www.techpolicy.press

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 2d

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Viking Orchestra (Score & Sound)

YouTube video by Orchestra & Band Music

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 2d

We're doing a piece called "Viking" by Soon Hee Newbold with my 7th grade orchestra and how they love this piece.

I'm sitting here looking at it and it's all half notes and quarter notes, open strings, parallel fifths--there's like nothing to it.

(No disrespect, in fact quite the opposite!)

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 3d

I owe Mozart an apology for how I played the Sinfonia Concertante today 😥

Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 4d

Just saw a TikTok that posed the following question: “If composers could hear you playing their work, who would you most like to apologize to?”

Amazing.

I need to think on this. What would your answer be?

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 3d

That piece is a lot harder than it needs to be...

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 4d

Just saw a TikTok that posed the following question: “If composers could hear you playing their work, who would you most like to apologize to?”

Amazing.

I need to think on this. What would your answer be?

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 4d

😆

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 4d

Mozart was pretty high on my list!

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 4d

Bach and Mozart were pretty high on my list too!

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 4d

As I’m thinking about it, Mendelssohn might be my answer to both questions. I owe him an apology, but in fairness his bass parts are horrible

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 4d

Just saw a TikTok that posed the following question: “If composers could hear you playing their work, who would you most like to apologize to?”

Amazing.

I need to think on this. What would your answer be?

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 5d

Pleased to say I have two former UW students in the orchestra with me and several current HS students coming to see it on Sunday. 😇

Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 8d

Playing the US premiere of Ruth Gipps’ concerto for violin, viola, and orchestra this weekend (paired with the Mozart, not surprisingly). Fun program!

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 5d

I had to submit a breakdown of my schedule by the *minute* for some federal program compliance thing today. I'm at three schools and I teach in two different program areas... that was a job itself.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 5d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 5d

I often think about my fourth grade teacher who used to just sit with his feet up on the desk and read the newspaper in between smoke breaks in the staff room.

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 5d

Today I was That Teacher. I gave all of my classes study hall/individual or small group practice day because I had too damn much to do.

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 6d

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 9d

Here is the link to register to attend The Alchemy Lecture online. Sound—at the Interregnum.

Join us!

www.eventcombo.com/ms/ev/76982/...

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 7d

I’m honored! I already use a bunch of your stuff in my class (this is my first year teaching MLLs) and will look at this tonight.

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