Dr. Matilda Ertz
@matildaertz.bsky.social
My things are musicology, piano, harpsichord, music+dance...and fighting the good fight.
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I urge all of you, friends & colleagues, to please consider signing this petition to restore transparent governance and accountability in the AMS -- with this action, we can make our voices heard & remind everyone of our mission as a member-led society docs.google.com/document/d/1...
AMS Petition 2025
Petition to Restore Transparent Governance and Accountability in the American Musicological Society To add your signature to the petition, please fill out the following form: https://bit.ly/Sign_AMS_2...
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November 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I urge all of you, friends & colleagues, to please consider signing this petition to restore transparent governance and accountability in the AMS -- with this action, we can make our voices heard & remind everyone of our mission as a member-led society docs.google.com/document/d/1...
How does this not enrage … EVERYONE?
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
How does this not enrage … EVERYONE?
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a story of both how petty Trump is and how impactful local journalism is
New: a KY Democrat "strongly considering" a run for US Senate says he got his security clearance revoked for political reasons.
"Having Tulsi Gabbard revoke your security clearance is like having a serial drunk driver revoke your driver’s license."
www.kentucky.com/news/politic...
"Having Tulsi Gabbard revoke your security clearance is like having a serial drunk driver revoke your driver’s license."
www.kentucky.com/news/politic...
Kentuckian considering Democratic Senate run gets security clearance revoked
“Having Tulsi Gabbard revoke your security clearance is like having a serial drunk driver revoke your driver’s license,” he wrote.
www.kentucky.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
a story of both how petty Trump is and how impactful local journalism is
Presented on ballet in the risorgimento at DSA in DC—what a great conference! Amidst everything else going on, community is essential. Not sure if Dance Studies is on Bluesky but much gratitude!
June 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Presented on ballet in the risorgimento at DSA in DC—what a great conference! Amidst everything else going on, community is essential. Not sure if Dance Studies is on Bluesky but much gratitude!
Putting this in my slideshow for today’s talk!
Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
June 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Putting this in my slideshow for today’s talk!
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Personally, I could never make this person's method work because I fundamentally cannot make myself care about the responses of something that does not think, feel, or communicate with intention. I can't respect its responses so I'm not interested in them.
June 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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This article is so “rosy.” Like there’s not a single prof who’s ethically against? What about students who prefer to actually do all the work themselves without feeding the climate-destroying, built-on-theft, plagiarism machines? Blech.
www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...
www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...
Ohio State announces every student will use AI in class
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Starting this fall, every Ohio State student will be asked to use artificial intelligence. “Through AI Fluency, Ohio State students will be ‘bilingual’ — fluent …
www.nbc4i.com
June 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This article is so “rosy.” Like there’s not a single prof who’s ethically against? What about students who prefer to actually do all the work themselves without feeding the climate-destroying, built-on-theft, plagiarism machines? Blech.
www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...
www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...
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'A home for trees and birds, and also humans': How high-rise forests can transform city life – and make us happier l BBC News www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
'A home for trees and birds, and also humans': How high-rise forests can transform city life – and make us happier
It's been 10 years since the creation of the first vertical forest, Milan's Bosco Verticale. How has it inspired other buildings – and affected their residents' happiness and health?
www.bbc.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
'A home for trees and birds, and also humans': How high-rise forests can transform city life – and make us happier l BBC News www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Well, at least I am assured that I am not the only one screaming into the void.
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Well, at least I am assured that I am not the only one screaming into the void.
…As anyone teaching college level writing/research projects over the last few years either already knows well…or needs to take note, the AI slop is real and it is everywhere because some folks don’t believe that doing the work and supporting it with real research and data is valuable. Sad.
NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links
w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
w/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
…As anyone teaching college level writing/research projects over the last few years either already knows well…or needs to take note, the AI slop is real and it is everywhere because some folks don’t believe that doing the work and supporting it with real research and data is valuable. Sad.
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Awareness is our purpose—curiosity and art and discovery. That's the everything. I don't think we should let anyone tell us any different.
We should reject the doomed submerged life they demand we live, and embrace the radical act of surfacing to life.
www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...
We should reject the doomed submerged life they demand we live, and embrace the radical act of surfacing to life.
www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...
The Everything & The Submarine
Fighting our present fascist nightmare by leaving the submerged life, and pondering the idle and foolish question of what the meaning of life is, anyway.
www.the-reframe.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Awareness is our purpose—curiosity and art and discovery. That's the everything. I don't think we should let anyone tell us any different.
We should reject the doomed submerged life they demand we live, and embrace the radical act of surfacing to life.
www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...
We should reject the doomed submerged life they demand we live, and embrace the radical act of surfacing to life.
www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...
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"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas.
'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”
'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”
Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes
Yaqeen Hammad offered tips for surviving life under bombardment and is just one of dozens of minors who have died
www.theguardian.com
May 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas.
'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”
'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”
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Property rights would kill the industry. Does that tell you what the industry is, finally??
The latest in a long line of terrible humans seeing if they can destroy people lives before asking if they should. If only sociopaths were seen as bad instead of rewarded.
May 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Property rights would kill the industry. Does that tell you what the industry is, finally??
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Upstate New York has strong abolitionist roots….“fugitives who arrived in Rochester and other cities and towns in upstate New York were welcomed by organized vigilance committees, clothed, fed and found employment or, if they wished, sent on to Canada.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
How a School in a Tiny, New York Town Beat ICE
Sackets Harbor demanded that Tom Homan return three children and their mother. Why did he cave?
www.bloomberg.com
May 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Upstate New York has strong abolitionist roots….“fugitives who arrived in Rochester and other cities and towns in upstate New York were welcomed by organized vigilance committees, clothed, fed and found employment or, if they wished, sent on to Canada.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
I think the solution is simple. Find a different place for the mega-tennis-pickle-plex. Preferably someplace already paved, and needing the TLC. NOT JOE CREASON. There are many such suitable places in Louisville.
700+ people at the first meeting.
May 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I think the solution is simple. Find a different place for the mega-tennis-pickle-plex. Preferably someplace already paved, and needing the TLC. NOT JOE CREASON. There are many such suitable places in Louisville.
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Line to get in to the 1st meeting @savejoecreason.bsky.social #natureovernets
May 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Line to get in to the 1st meeting @savejoecreason.bsky.social #natureovernets
Almost made it through Derby weekend without hate-posting about “My Old Kentucky Home” but not quite… see my repost of @carrietipton.bsky.social whose article is now added to an EXTENSIVE bibliography… 1/3
May 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Almost made it through Derby weekend without hate-posting about “My Old Kentucky Home” but not quite… see my repost of @carrietipton.bsky.social whose article is now added to an EXTENSIVE bibliography… 1/3
Happy (near) anniversary of this horse biting Matt Bevin. IYKYK.
May 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Happy (near) anniversary of this horse biting Matt Bevin. IYKYK.
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There's a reason they didn't release the names of the people who authored the report, they literally aren't even doctors with medical experience. An MIT philosophy professor is one of the authors.
If you open the anti-trans HHS report’s appendix in NotePad, you’ll see that it was compiled by Alex Byrne.
The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews.
Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.
The appendix is a rigorous, scientific overview of systematic reviews.
Alex Byrne is an MIT philosophy professor with no apparent background in science, let alone expertise in it.
May 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
There's a reason they didn't release the names of the people who authored the report, they literally aren't even doctors with medical experience. An MIT philosophy professor is one of the authors.
Come on, Almae Matre, make me proud (👀 UO, UIUC)
“If a pact is formed, the universities shall “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund”. The fund will be in turn used to provide “immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement.”
#defendhighered
#defendhighered
US universities’ faculty unite to defend academic freedom after Trump’s attacks
Indiana University leads the push for a pact among 18 institutions as Donald Trump targets diversity
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Come on, Almae Matre, make me proud (👀 UO, UIUC)
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“If a pact is formed, the universities shall “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund”. The fund will be in turn used to provide “immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement.”
#defendhighered
#defendhighered
US universities’ faculty unite to defend academic freedom after Trump’s attacks
Indiana University leads the push for a pact among 18 institutions as Donald Trump targets diversity
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
“If a pact is formed, the universities shall “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund”. The fund will be in turn used to provide “immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement.”
#defendhighered
#defendhighered
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Hey Portland, I'm coming your way April 8. Excited to be talking at Powell's with Omar El Akkad, who also has a great new book out!
Event info here: www.powells.com/book/the-las...
Event info here: www.powells.com/book/the-las...
April 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Hey Portland, I'm coming your way April 8. Excited to be talking at Powell's with Omar El Akkad, who also has a great new book out!
Event info here: www.powells.com/book/the-las...
Event info here: www.powells.com/book/the-las...
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“Meanwhile, she said a Gofundme account she started to help support Jonah is doing well, with more than $13,000 raised in just a few week. He already has used some of the proceeds to buy clothes and other necessities, she said.”
www.gofundme.com/f/help-jonah...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-jonah...
Donate to Help Jonah Bevin Rebuild His Future, organized by Dawn Post
Jonah is facing one of the toughest challenges of his life. Following his removal from A… Dawn Post needs your support for Help Jonah Bevin Rebuild His Future
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April 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“Meanwhile, she said a Gofundme account she started to help support Jonah is doing well, with more than $13,000 raised in just a few week. He already has used some of the proceeds to buy clothes and other necessities, she said.”
www.gofundme.com/f/help-jonah...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-jonah...