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Posting and reading on various and sundry topics including tech, art, music, books, food, and language learning.
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"We understand the world better if we tremble with it. Because the world trembles every which way. It trembles organically and geologically...with the climate—that we know. But the world also trembles through the relations that we have with each other. "
- Édouard Glissant, One World in Relation
Altadena man finds bear living in crawl space underneath his home: 'He's been in and out all week'

The bear's been seen roaming around the neighborhood for 6 months.

The fires must have destroyed his home.

youtu.be/jEDJ-9Hy1R4?...
Man finds 500-pound bear living in narrow crawl space underneath home
YouTube video by ABC7
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December 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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"The Race of Sound
Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music" by Nina Sun Eidsheim

#OpenAccess

Another link to download or read the PDF online

library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Cover art: Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2017. © Nick Cave. Photo by James Prinz Photography.
June 19, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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"The Race of Sound" traces how the voice and its qualities are socially produced. It illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre—the color or tone of a voice. It looks at singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott:
#OpenAccess
The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music
This book traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through sound a...
books.openmonographs.org
June 19, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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She was an anti-Black racist who supported US segregation policies
On the 50th anniversary of #HannahArendt’s death, we revisit this essay on one of her incisive, and quietly radical, challenges to modern life. In a world obsessed with authenticity and the search for a supposedly fixed truth, Arendt offered something far more demanding and liberating: ‘the will’
What Hannah Arendt proposed as an alternative to authenticity | Aeon Essays
In her final unfinished work, Hannah Arendt mounted an incisive critique of the idea that we are in search of our true selves
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December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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In "Rethinking Error," historian Johan Fredrikzon goes to the very heart of a large language model's incapacity to "know": a problem the industry likes to call hallucinations, but which Fredrikzon calls "epistemological indifference."

Link: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Rethinking Error: “Hallucinations” and Epistemological Indifference | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Wow, the typeface and black cover remembles the exquisite "BlackSound" by @drmadmo.bsky.social
Reading Ronald Radano’s new, magisterial Marxist history of Black music and sound. @dukepress.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Gratitude to Baldwin & Co. bookstore for sharing the second part of our collaboration where Corey J. Miles and I converse about #StayBlackandDie (@dukepress.bsky.social) while in New Orleans. As well, thanks to those who attended this event, both friends and enemies.

What?! 👀

youtu.be/3kRPwrcbG0Q
Growing Up in Melancholy: A Black Intellectual Story by I. Augustus Durham.
YouTube video by Baldwin & Co.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Also, buy the book!

www.dukeupress.edu/stay-black-a...

Here’s to collaborating with Corey and Baldwin & Co. again.

More soon . . .
Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius
www.dukeupress.edu
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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In "Art as Sanctuary," the late Michael D. Harris considers how literal and metaphorical uses of sanctuary in African American art & music reveal the richness of the black interior. Read the intro by editors Dianne M. Stewart and Theophus H. Smith for free now:
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December 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Huge congratulations to Donna Haraway, author of "Staying with the Trouble," who has won the 2025 Erasmus Prize, given by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation!
Erasmusprijswinnaars - Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the Erasmus Prize 2025 to the American philosopher and historian of science Donna Haraway. The theme of this year’s prize is “the pursuit of what binds…
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December 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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There is a huge community of people who keep pigeons on roofs in NYC. One famous example was Mike Tyson.

But also, Donna Haraway writes about pigeons fitted
with sensors to help humans measure urban air quality in her book "Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene". Partnership.💜
Pigeons equipped with air quality sensor backpacks take to London’s skies
Pigeon Air Patrol hopes to combat London's air pollution crisis.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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"It matters what stories tell stories.. what thoughts think thoughts.. what worlds world worlds. We need to take seriously the acquisition of that kind of skill (emotional, intellectual, material) to destabilize our own stories, to retell them with other stories." - Donna J. Haraway
May 3, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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"It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with.. what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions..
It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories."
- Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations
read.dukeupress.edu
October 23, 2024 at 3:06 AM
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Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.
A Practice of Speculative Imaginings: On Sam Cooke and the Art of Utopia
Sometimes in a moment of overwhelming emotion you hear a song. You finally hear it. You don’t just get the meaning of the lyrics, or feel the beats and the rhythm, but you hear the unutterable in t…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Save 30% on "The City of Our Dreaming," which collects the third #AlchemyLectures with contributions from @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, @biidaasamose.bsky.social,
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, & Gabriela Leandro Pereira.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Looking for writers, librarians, technologists, & futurists interested in the fate of libraries in a world of digital consciousness. Want to join a panel inspired by my new novel, The People’s Library? Let’s talk AI ethics, libraries, & the future. Reach out! www.veronicahenry.net
December 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Mohammed Ali's widow, Mrs. Lonni Ali, spoke at Harvard's Black Student Health Association.

How lovely and vibrant she is.
#BlackSky #Blackademics 🌱👑
Lonnie Ali discussed compassion, health, and the humanitarian legacy of her late husband, boxer Muhammad Ali, at a recent event sponsored by Harvard Chan School’s Black Student Health Organization. She spoke alongside Sue Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health.
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The inaugural Muhammad Ali Index, released in January, looked at 12 American cities over a six-month period. “We wanted to see how compassion was utilized and engaged with in communities,” Ali said.

Learn more:
Muhammad Ali Index seeks to measure compassion, inspire action | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Lonnie Ali discussed compassion and health, and the humanitarian legacy of her late husband, boxer Muhammad Ali, at a Harvard Chan School event.
hsph.harvard.edu
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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He valued being of service to others and treated people from all walks of life with compassion, said Ali. To carry on his legacy, the Muhammad Ali Center, which the couple co-founded in 2005, has launched an effort to track compassion in America and promote change.
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Lonnie Ali discussed compassion, health, and the humanitarian legacy of her late husband, boxer Muhammad Ali, at a recent event sponsored by Harvard Chan School’s Black Student Health Organization. She spoke alongside Sue Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health.
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Promoting psychological safety in the workplace is essential to employee wellbeing and retention, especially during times of crisis—when, ironically, psychological safety is likeliest to dwindle, according to a study co-authored by Harvard Chan School’s Michaela Kerrissey. @harvardhpm.bsky.social
Psychological safety at work is essential--especially amid crisis | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Promoting psychological safety in the workplace is essential to employee wellbeing and retention, especially during times of crisis--when, ironically, psychological safety is likeliest to dwindle, according to a study co-authored by Harvard Chan School'...
hsph.harvard.edu
December 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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“Just as the trauma shaped your experience or perhaps changed you, you still have the opportunity to address it. It’s never too late,” says Harvard Chan School’s Karestan Koenen, who recently spoke on a podcast about trauma recovery and personal reinvention.
Body-based therapies can be effective for trauma survivors | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Karestan Koenen recently spoke on a podcast about trauma recovery and personal reinvention.
hsph.harvard.edu
December 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I'm not proud to say that I have been a heavy Spotify user for over a decade, but I *AM* proud to say that I'm finally ditching them (not because of the AI audiobooks, though that's another good reason.)

Qobuz is a very good alternative for music, and they pay their artists!
Spotify uses AI to create audiobooks of authors' work without their permission. This is wild to me. It's worse because it can cannibalize book and ebook sales. Blatant theft, on top of messing over musicians.

Free link: archive.ph/2023.12.13-1...
Opinion | Remember What Spotify Did to the Music Industry? Books Are Next.
Why Spotify’s new audiobook offering is bad news for the future of publishing.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It's unbelievable that they just took off. She had to crawl 30 min home.

"There have been a lot of bicyclists who've moved in .. and have enjoyed our trails. But not every trail is meant for a bicyclist to zoom around corners. Horses have the right of way no matter where they are."

Her poor horse.
Woman severely hurt, horse dies after she says bike rider scared them on Massachusetts trail. "It was terrifying."
A woman is recovering from severe injuries after she says a bicyclist spooked her horse during a trail ride in Ipswich.
www.cbsnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Highly recommend her latest book of poetry, Nomenclature. Also The Blue Clerk and Ossuaries are phenomenal.
The beautiful innocence of those

who live at the centre of empire, their

wonderful smiles, their sweet delight and

and their singular creation of the

word hope when I am actually dying.

- Dionne Brand, "Nomenclature for the Time Being"
September 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM