Tim Morris
@dropo59.bsky.social
Texan with interests in art, music, language, and literature. Author of personal essays, and book reviews: https://tmorris.utasites.cloud/lection/index.html
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I guess I assumed Dennis Miller built a bunker after 9/11, but I had no idea he uses it for bunker painting!
July 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I guess I assumed Dennis Miller built a bunker after 9/11, but I had no idea he uses it for bunker painting!
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Heads up. Today at 1:00 pm.
The Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee broadcast features an archival 1975 performance of Rossini’s The Siege of Corinth, with Beverly Sills (in her Met debut), Shirley Verrett, Harry Theyard and Justino Díaz.
Rossini, sung by Sills & Verrett--not bad!
The Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee broadcast features an archival 1975 performance of Rossini’s The Siege of Corinth, with Beverly Sills (in her Met debut), Shirley Verrett, Harry Theyard and Justino Díaz.
Rossini, sung by Sills & Verrett--not bad!
April 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Heads up. Today at 1:00 pm.
The Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee broadcast features an archival 1975 performance of Rossini’s The Siege of Corinth, with Beverly Sills (in her Met debut), Shirley Verrett, Harry Theyard and Justino Díaz.
Rossini, sung by Sills & Verrett--not bad!
The Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee broadcast features an archival 1975 performance of Rossini’s The Siege of Corinth, with Beverly Sills (in her Met debut), Shirley Verrett, Harry Theyard and Justino Díaz.
Rossini, sung by Sills & Verrett--not bad!
In Luxembourg, "an extraordinary cache of coins, made up of 141 Roman pieces dating from the second half of the fourth century CE, has come to light." infos.rtl.lu/actu/luxembo...
"Découverte majeure": Des pièces romaines datant du 4e siècle retrouvées près de Hosingen
Suite aux prospections effectuées au lieu-dit Um Rank à Holzthum (Parc Hosingen), des fouilles d’archéologie ont été effectuées de 2020 à 2024 sous l’égide de l’Institut national de recherches archéol...
infos.rtl.lu
December 3, 2024 at 1:50 AM
In Luxembourg, "an extraordinary cache of coins, made up of 141 Roman pieces dating from the second half of the fourth century CE, has come to light." infos.rtl.lu/actu/luxembo...
"The fact remains that, according to various polls, most Czechs do not support the adoption of the euro." english.radio.cz/czechia-and-...
Czechia and the euro: a never-ending debate
Despite being an EU member country for more the two decades, Czechia is still wary of the euro.
english.radio.cz
December 1, 2024 at 12:54 AM
"The fact remains that, according to various polls, most Czechs do not support the adoption of the euro." english.radio.cz/czechia-and-...
Christopher J. Bae suggests that "Homo juluensis lived approximately 300,000 years ago in eastern Asia, hunted wild horses in small groups, and made stone tools." phys.org/news/2024-11...
phys.org
November 30, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Christopher J. Bae suggests that "Homo juluensis lived approximately 300,000 years ago in eastern Asia, hunted wild horses in small groups, and made stone tools." phys.org/news/2024-11...
"People were 60% accurate in determining which art was AI and which was human, which is only slightly better than chance." theness.com/neurologicab...
Update on AI Art
It's been a while since I discussed artificial intelligence (AI) generated art here. What I have said in the past is that AI art appears a bit soulless and there are details it has difficulty creating...
theness.com
November 30, 2024 at 12:38 AM
"People were 60% accurate in determining which art was AI and which was human, which is only slightly better than chance." theness.com/neurologicab...
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I don't believe in "good reading" & "bad reading". Comic books, graphic novels, manga, picture books, joke books, sports reports, all kinds of poetry & prose: it's all reading, and it's all good! Let kids read for pleasure - and they'll be readers FOREVER! #reading #literacy
(Art: Bill Watterson)
(Art: Bill Watterson)
November 29, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Restore higher standards.
November 29, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Restore higher standards.
‘In no linguistically meaningful way is Seke deficient, however, nor is any “low-resource language.”’ The problems of thinking that LLMs can simply revive endangered languages. www.thedial.world/articles/new... via @hyperallergic.com
AI Won’t Protect Endangered Languages — The Dial
Combinations of characters on a screen mean nothing without agency and intention.
www.thedial.world
November 29, 2024 at 2:30 PM
‘In no linguistically meaningful way is Seke deficient, however, nor is any “low-resource language.”’ The problems of thinking that LLMs can simply revive endangered languages. www.thedial.world/articles/new... via @hyperallergic.com
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Come for Daniel Lelchuk’s Puccini tribute and recommendations, stay for the link to the short excerpt from Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp.
www.thebulwark.com/p/you-need-m...
www.thebulwark.com/p/you-need-m...
You Need More Puccini in Your Life. Here’s Why.
Exactly 100 years after his death, the giant of Italian opera still thrills and chills.
www.thebulwark.com
November 29, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Come for Daniel Lelchuk’s Puccini tribute and recommendations, stay for the link to the short excerpt from Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp.
www.thebulwark.com/p/you-need-m...
www.thebulwark.com/p/you-need-m...
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Woof. Banning Vonnegut was out of fashion 50 years ago. www.nytimes.com/1973/11/16/a...
November 27, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Woof. Banning Vonnegut was out of fashion 50 years ago. www.nytimes.com/1973/11/16/a...
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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I still did all that but online
November 26, 2024 at 7:34 PM
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I still did all that but online
“For every five people who read this book four will go insane.” publicdomainreview.org/essay/charle...
Strange Gods: Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned (1919)
Rains of blood and frogs, mysterious disappearances, baffling objects in the sky: these were the anomalies that fascinated Charles Fort in his Book of the Damned. “For every five people who read this ...
publicdomainreview.org
November 27, 2024 at 2:28 AM
“For every five people who read this book four will go insane.” publicdomainreview.org/essay/charle...
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A small step, but every such step is hopeful right now. www.themarshallproject.org/2024/11/21/c...
Cuyahoga County Will Now Connect People Leaving Jail to Basic Needs
Reentry changes come in response to The Marshall Project - Cleveland investigation that showed people leaving jail got little help to avoid returning.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 26, 2024 at 6:36 PM
A small step, but every such step is hopeful right now. www.themarshallproject.org/2024/11/21/c...
"A U.K. team recently became the first to quantify an uptick in heat tolerance among adult corals selectively bred for the trait." e360.yale.edu/features/sel...
As Ocean Waters Warm, a Race to Breed Heat-Resistant Coral
Around the world, researchers are working on a range of projects that aim to enhance corals’ resistance to marine heat waves. In a promising sign, a U.K. team recently became the first to quantify an ...
e360.yale.edu
November 26, 2024 at 1:37 AM
"A U.K. team recently became the first to quantify an uptick in heat tolerance among adult corals selectively bred for the trait." e360.yale.edu/features/sel...
"One interviewee told me: ‘I like being in a cemetery a lot’, while another described a cemetery as ‘the best place on Earth’." eng.lsm.lv/article/feat...
The time of the dead: anthropological research in a Latvian cemetery
The tradition of cemetery care is part of the Latvian cultural canon and plays an important role in Latvian society. Although attitudes towards death and dying have attracted considerable attention fr...
eng.lsm.lv
November 25, 2024 at 4:39 PM
"One interviewee told me: ‘I like being in a cemetery a lot’, while another described a cemetery as ‘the best place on Earth’." eng.lsm.lv/article/feat...
“TikTok users are flocking to their local art and stationery supply stores in the hopes of getting their hands on another too-good-to-be-true item — a leopard print highlighter from the brand Stabilo that simply does not exist.” hyperallergic.com/968697/every...
Everyone Wants This Leopard Print Highlighter
There’s just one problem: It doesn’t exist.
hyperallergic.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:54 AM
“TikTok users are flocking to their local art and stationery supply stores in the hopes of getting their hands on another too-good-to-be-true item — a leopard print highlighter from the brand Stabilo that simply does not exist.” hyperallergic.com/968697/every...
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Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.
November 24, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.
Maybe some hope generating at the intersection of AI and environmental concerns: www.dw.com/de/kanada-mi...
Kanada: Mit KI gegen das Insektensterben – DW – 24.11.2024
Unzählige Insektenarten sind vom Aussterben bedroht. Kanadische Forschende setzen jetzt künstliche Intelligenz ein, um das größte Artensterben seit den Dinosauriern zu beobachten - und es vielleicht z...
www.dw.com
November 24, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Maybe some hope generating at the intersection of AI and environmental concerns: www.dw.com/de/kanada-mi...