Herastrophe
@herasalander.bsky.social
MHA (the degree). She/they. Writer/reviewer, researcher, and metalhead. I sometimes talk about the books I read.
@ninecirclesblog.bsky.social and other bylines.
Se habla castellano/español. Nazis a la horca. #metalbandcampgiftclub #metalmusicstudies
@ninecirclesblog.bsky.social and other bylines.
Se habla castellano/español. Nazis a la horca. #metalbandcampgiftclub #metalmusicstudies
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@herasalander.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Album Review: Omnium Gatherum - "May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way"
https://ninecircles.co/2025/11/07/album-review-omnium-gatherum-may-the-bridges-we-burn-light-the-way/
https://ninecircles.co/2025/11/07/album-review-omnium-gatherum-may-the-bridges-we-burn-light-the-way/
Hello again! I wrote another review, this time for my boys, Omnium Gatherum!
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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@terzijdehorde.bsky.social brought the fury tonight! What a great show, supported by Teardrinker and broeder Dielmann! I appreciate that they kept the stage banter tweetalig!
December 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
@terzijdehorde.bsky.social brought the fury tonight! What a great show, supported by Teardrinker and broeder Dielmann! I appreciate that they kept the stage banter tweetalig!
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Dat was weer een heerlijke avond @terzijdehorde.bsky.social. Pure emotie 🤘
Geniale backdrop ook
Geniale backdrop ook
December 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Dat was weer een heerlijke avond @terzijdehorde.bsky.social. Pure emotie 🤘
Geniale backdrop ook
Geniale backdrop ook
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I fear for the usage of AI becoming more commonplace, especially in the higher education system.
I fear that, at least for healthcare, it will become easier to avoid learning the complex aspects of health administration. Quality assurance courses are going to get the world's biggest overhaul.
I fear that, at least for healthcare, it will become easier to avoid learning the complex aspects of health administration. Quality assurance courses are going to get the world's biggest overhaul.
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I fear for the usage of AI becoming more commonplace, especially in the higher education system.
I fear that, at least for healthcare, it will become easier to avoid learning the complex aspects of health administration. Quality assurance courses are going to get the world's biggest overhaul.
I fear that, at least for healthcare, it will become easier to avoid learning the complex aspects of health administration. Quality assurance courses are going to get the world's biggest overhaul.
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The CSU system is paying OpenAI $15 million for ChatGPT access for people on its campuses. What a colossal waste of taxpayer money. laist.com/news/educati...
Inside Cal State's big $17 million bet on ChatGPT for all
Critics say the cash-strapped system misspent millions of dollars getting upgraded accounts for all students. CSU leaders insist they're needed to meet a changing economy.
laist.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The CSU system is paying OpenAI $15 million for ChatGPT access for people on its campuses. What a colossal waste of taxpayer money. laist.com/news/educati...
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I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more
You can take Pretty Hate Machine off my cold, dead hands
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
You can take Pretty Hate Machine off my cold, dead hands
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if you use AI to make your album cover you should just stop making music indefinitely until you fix your brain
December 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
if you use AI to make your album cover you should just stop making music indefinitely until you fix your brain
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Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the
case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v.
Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020)
(per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days
after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was
“just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is
eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which
Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care-
fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to
switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the
court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein-
stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145.
Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from
the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every-
one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it
will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest
county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly
concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig-
nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of
us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres-
sional election is not well underway.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreifzzrhpyftoam4b4eqcpdcegf2hksn4ula6rwbtv6fqwviqfgikte@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
My brain all day:
mawizakvlt.bandcamp.com/track/ngulutu
mawizakvlt.bandcamp.com/track/ngulutu
Ngulutu, by Mawiza
from the album ÜL
mawizakvlt.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
My brain all day:
mawizakvlt.bandcamp.com/track/ngulutu
mawizakvlt.bandcamp.com/track/ngulutu
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For example: If you have the means to not use streaming services and support artists directly, then that is great. You should exploit that privilege to stop supporting streaming services.
You should not, however, demand everybody else match your privilege. This is antithetical to class solidarity.
You should not, however, demand everybody else match your privilege. This is antithetical to class solidarity.
December 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
For example: If you have the means to not use streaming services and support artists directly, then that is great. You should exploit that privilege to stop supporting streaming services.
You should not, however, demand everybody else match your privilege. This is antithetical to class solidarity.
You should not, however, demand everybody else match your privilege. This is antithetical to class solidarity.
Went through the Spotify Wrapped thing, and let me tell you, I make a lot of jokes to my friends regarding my mental age.
This is hilarious to me and only to me.
This is hilarious to me and only to me.
December 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Went through the Spotify Wrapped thing, and let me tell you, I make a lot of jokes to my friends regarding my mental age.
This is hilarious to me and only to me.
This is hilarious to me and only to me.
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Do everything you to....
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Do everything you to....
This album is going to haunt me the same way The Old Dead Tree's album did, huh?
hangmanschair.bandcamp.com/album/saddic...
hangmanschair.bandcamp.com/album/saddic...
Saddiction, by HANGMAN'S CHAIR
9 track album
hangmanschair.bandcamp.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This album is going to haunt me the same way The Old Dead Tree's album did, huh?
hangmanschair.bandcamp.com/album/saddic...
hangmanschair.bandcamp.com/album/saddic...
Hello, music friends. Question: is Qobuz good? I don't want to stream music as much I want to own it, and I want to know if it's good or not.
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Hello, music friends. Question: is Qobuz good? I don't want to stream music as much I want to own it, and I want to know if it's good or not.
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How the fuck does anyone use this terrible exploitative shit service let alone pay for it, shame
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 AM
How the fuck does anyone use this terrible exploitative shit service let alone pay for it, shame
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If your name is [insert your name here], we just overheard your indie bookshop saying how grateful they are for your support, especially during the holidays.
December 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
If your name is [insert your name here], we just overheard your indie bookshop saying how grateful they are for your support, especially during the holidays.
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For my very smart friends (and their very smart friends) who are still wringing their hands about whether we should be hearing RFK out on anything: a useful rule of thumb is that it is generally bad if you are on the other side of an issue from ACT UP. Hope this helps 💡
ACT UP NY announces HEALTHGATE, “a campaign released on the heels of World AIDS Day…that condemns Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s deadly pseudoscience-led healthcare death circus while calling for the implementation of the New York Health Act & sustained funding for public & global health”
December 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
For my very smart friends (and their very smart friends) who are still wringing their hands about whether we should be hearing RFK out on anything: a useful rule of thumb is that it is generally bad if you are on the other side of an issue from ACT UP. Hope this helps 💡
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I call it Luigi's Mansion
Real ones will know this 6th Avenue W 54st tourist attraction. 💚
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I call it Luigi's Mansion
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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all millennials are elder now
December 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
all millennials are elder now
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oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
November 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
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MBA degrees are a for profit DEI program for straight white men
November 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
MBA degrees are a for profit DEI program for straight white men