Andrew J. Chung
@profajchung.bsky.social
Assoc. prof of music theory. Coloniality, race, & sonics in the Anthropocene, sound/music philosophy. Book in progress __ Music's Long Anthropocene: The Climate of Empire and the Sound of Ecological Disaster
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read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
February 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
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As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
![That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women.
Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreidpuxbx764xh7vobavcnvs3v2lo5fnfi6dukfrmk3ygxmseznkyxi@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 4:05 PM
As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
5 classes I took college:
-Experimental Music
-Paleoanthropology
-Russian Memoirs and Autobiography
-Social Psychology
-Film Analysis
-Experimental Music
-Paleoanthropology
-Russian Memoirs and Autobiography
-Social Psychology
-Film Analysis
Five classes I took in college:
- Physics of Music
- Seminar on Leadership (taught by then former Senator / future Ohio governor Mike DeWine…)
- Deaf Culture in America
- Viticulture & Enology (aka wine tasting 😎)
- Music Theory 1-4
- Physics of Music
- Seminar on Leadership (taught by then former Senator / future Ohio governor Mike DeWine…)
- Deaf Culture in America
- Viticulture & Enology (aka wine tasting 😎)
- Music Theory 1-4
Five classes I took in college:
History of the English Language
Racquetball
Jazz Fusion Ensemble
Age of Classicism
College Algebra
History of the English Language
Racquetball
Jazz Fusion Ensemble
Age of Classicism
College Algebra
February 1, 2026 at 12:07 AM
5 classes I took college:
-Experimental Music
-Paleoanthropology
-Russian Memoirs and Autobiography
-Social Psychology
-Film Analysis
-Experimental Music
-Paleoanthropology
-Russian Memoirs and Autobiography
-Social Psychology
-Film Analysis
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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
Seriously considering getting a ticket to see the Melania documentary so I can eat the surprisingly good cheeseburger of the nearby dine-in movie theater in peace with nobody around to bug me about talking during the movie or being on my phone
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Seriously considering getting a ticket to see the Melania documentary so I can eat the surprisingly good cheeseburger of the nearby dine-in movie theater in peace with nobody around to bug me about talking during the movie or being on my phone
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we are living in the golden age for assholes, there has never been a better time to be an unredeemable asshole than the one we are currently living in
January 28, 2026 at 2:13 PM
we are living in the golden age for assholes, there has never been a better time to be an unredeemable asshole than the one we are currently living in
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A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all.
Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
January 27, 2026 at 7:57 PM
A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all.
Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
this tweet must have tested well in focus groups
January 26, 2026 at 9:06 PM
this tweet must have tested well in focus groups
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Polymarket had the odds of U.S. civil war by the end of the year at 17% when I looked there a few minutes ago
January 25, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Polymarket had the odds of U.S. civil war by the end of the year at 17% when I looked there a few minutes ago
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Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine
against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:31 AM
PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine
against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
In the grim present, I decided to get back into hobbies I enjoy. I built this model of the Lotus Type 88 Formula 1 car, a design so clever the other racing teams got it banned in 1981!
January 14, 2026 at 4:37 AM
In the grim present, I decided to get back into hobbies I enjoy. I built this model of the Lotus Type 88 Formula 1 car, a design so clever the other racing teams got it banned in 1981!
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"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior."
latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social
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latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social
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Empire of Vice
In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.
www.bostonreview.net
January 8, 2026 at 4:15 PM
"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior."
latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social
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latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social
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Geez, leave it to your boomer mother to besmirch you even in death. But I digress. May these goons meet a brutal punishment
January 7, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Geez, leave it to your boomer mother to besmirch you even in death. But I digress. May these goons meet a brutal punishment
Just like you, I too used to think that the shrimp of the sea was... shrimp
January 6, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Just like you, I too used to think that the shrimp of the sea was... shrimp
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Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.
January 3, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.
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Me, a professor: *orders a course pack*
Campus bookstore: give us two months to make sure these 18 copies you requested you don’t violate any publisher’s copyright
Me, an AI company: *violates every publisher’s copyright*
Campus bookstore: we will pay you to offer your services to all students
Campus bookstore: give us two months to make sure these 18 copies you requested you don’t violate any publisher’s copyright
Me, an AI company: *violates every publisher’s copyright*
Campus bookstore: we will pay you to offer your services to all students
December 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Me, a professor: *orders a course pack*
Campus bookstore: give us two months to make sure these 18 copies you requested you don’t violate any publisher’s copyright
Me, an AI company: *violates every publisher’s copyright*
Campus bookstore: we will pay you to offer your services to all students
Campus bookstore: give us two months to make sure these 18 copies you requested you don’t violate any publisher’s copyright
Me, an AI company: *violates every publisher’s copyright*
Campus bookstore: we will pay you to offer your services to all students
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Oh god. Guys they didn't finish 2026 in time. There's no new year. We're fucked
December 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Oh god. Guys they didn't finish 2026 in time. There's no new year. We're fucked
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tfw you are too racist for *this* guy
December 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
tfw you are too racist for *this* guy