Jeff Albert
@jeffalbert.com
Musician, improviser, technologist, college professor...also baseball. Formerly in New Orleans, currently Atlanta. https://linktr.ee/jeffalbert
Found this while looking for stuff for class today. David Wessel talking about instrument design that privileges improvisation. youtu.be/uGASpqTXz4g?...
David Wessel - Designing musical instruments that privilege improvisation
YouTube video by CIRMMT
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November 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Found this while looking for stuff for class today. David Wessel talking about instrument design that privileges improvisation. youtu.be/uGASpqTXz4g?...
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Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
This. Really. It isn't that hard to use a different service.
For the love of god start YOUR OWN email list. Stop letting Substack grift off of you
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This. Really. It isn't that hard to use a different service.
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These heroes go to work every day, never knowing if today will be the day they'll smell onions and mustard up close.
November 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
These heroes go to work every day, never knowing if today will be the day they'll smell onions and mustard up close.
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i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
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Sound check at La Periscope in Lyon.
October 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sound check at La Periscope in Lyon.
Sound check at Pannonica in Nantes FR last night
October 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Sound check at Pannonica in Nantes FR last night
I wonder if Craig Counsell believes in karma?
October 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I wonder if Craig Counsell believes in karma?
In which Sam Altman sounds like a used car salesman..."no, really, it gets 35mpg, you just misunderstood the math." www.wired.com/story/sam-al...
Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All Wrong
OpenAI's CEO explains that its large language model has been misunderstood—and that he's changed his attitude to AGI.
www.wired.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
In which Sam Altman sounds like a used car salesman..."no, really, it gets 35mpg, you just misunderstood the math." www.wired.com/story/sam-al...
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every day is national coffee day if you’re doing it right
September 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
every day is national coffee day if you’re doing it right
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Seeing commercials for bathroom fixtures during a documentary about Marcel Duchamp.
September 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Seeing commercials for bathroom fixtures during a documentary about Marcel Duchamp.
Mingus enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon.
September 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Mingus enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Interesting. Does this imply that if the training data were better, the fake art would be better?
The mechanics of genAI art/music/writing, which recombines known elements, follows directly from (because it’s trained on) online amateur creative activity of the last 20 years: fanfic with precisely-catalogued tropes, “my favorite IP in a different style” art, postmodern jukebox covers.
September 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Interesting. Does this imply that if the training data were better, the fake art would be better?
I hope the list includes every user manual to a 9 year old computer they have to use
New NC law requires teachers to publicly list all the books in their classrooms
New NC law requires teachers to publicly list all the books in their classrooms
In Wake County alone, the school district is in the process of cataloging the books in 10,000 classrooms.
www.heraldsun.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I hope the list includes every user manual to a 9 year old computer they have to use
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RFK Jr's opening statement at the Senate Finance Committee this morning:
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
September 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
RFK Jr's opening statement at the Senate Finance Committee this morning:
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
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Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
I prefer to think of today as the 19th anniversary of that one time I got to back up Stevie Wonder. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
Wonder, Marsalis, others prepare Katrina benefit jam
Ticket sales have been far from spectacular, but Ivan Neville says performing at the same Hurricane Katrina anniversary concert tonight as Stevie Wonder is going to be incredible no matter how many people are there.
www.latimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I prefer to think of today as the 19th anniversary of that one time I got to back up Stevie Wonder. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
(watching Braves game)
her: why do they keep talking about this cheesesteak eating contest?
me: babe they are losing by 10 what do you want them to talk about?
her: they are losing by 12
her: why do they keep talking about this cheesesteak eating contest?
me: babe they are losing by 10 what do you want them to talk about?
her: they are losing by 12
August 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
(watching Braves game)
her: why do they keep talking about this cheesesteak eating contest?
me: babe they are losing by 10 what do you want them to talk about?
her: they are losing by 12
her: why do they keep talking about this cheesesteak eating contest?
me: babe they are losing by 10 what do you want them to talk about?
her: they are losing by 12
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Military occupation of areas loyal to the political opposition is what you see in a civil war, kids.
August 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Military occupation of areas loyal to the political opposition is what you see in a civil war, kids.
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Wanting to confiscate or destroy all of the personal property of unhoused folks is treated as a policy position
Wanting to confiscate or destroy all of the personal property of anyone with more than $200B in assets is treated as a specific attack
Wanting to confiscate or destroy all of the personal property of anyone with more than $200B in assets is treated as a specific attack
August 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Wanting to confiscate or destroy all of the personal property of unhoused folks is treated as a policy position
Wanting to confiscate or destroy all of the personal property of anyone with more than $200B in assets is treated as a specific attack
Wanting to confiscate or destroy all of the personal property of anyone with more than $200B in assets is treated as a specific attack
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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
August 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
Mingus likes the stereo
August 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Mingus likes the stereo