Dr. Kirsten Carithers
@kcarithers.bsky.social
Musicologist/historian exploring connections between music and labor, gaming, technology, economics, gender, sound. Associate prof at Uni of Louisville. Views my own.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
Attempted a Southern ™️ dish this year and am pleased to report that it was worth the effort
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Attempted a Southern ™️ dish this year and am pleased to report that it was worth the effort
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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CALL FOR PAPERS! The University of Louisville Law Review is hosting a symposium on Defense of Democratic Institutions and is seeking contributing scholars. Paper deadline is December 15. uofllawreview.org/symposium-1
University of Louisville Law Review
The University of Louisville Law Review holds an annual symposium that features the works of authors in a specific area of the law.
uofllawreview.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS! The University of Louisville Law Review is hosting a symposium on Defense of Democratic Institutions and is seeking contributing scholars. Paper deadline is December 15. uofllawreview.org/symposium-1
My dog was starting to yawn here but kind of looks like she has indulged in a substance
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
My dog was starting to yawn here but kind of looks like she has indulged in a substance
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901
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November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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the songs are all on SoundCloud too if that suits you better m.soundcloud.com/washington-p...
9 Thanksgiving songs we definitely didn't just make up
Listen to 9 Thanksgiving songs we definitely didn't just make up, a playlist curated by Washington Post on desktop and mobile.
m.soundcloud.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
the songs are all on SoundCloud too if that suits you better m.soundcloud.com/washington-p...
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Join us in congratulating Ideas on Fire author Beth Robinson on the publication of Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social!
dukeupress.edu/sweatshop-ca...
#IoFAuthors
dukeupress.edu/sweatshop-ca...
#IoFAuthors
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Join us in congratulating Ideas on Fire author Beth Robinson on the publication of Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social!
dukeupress.edu/sweatshop-ca...
#IoFAuthors
dukeupress.edu/sweatshop-ca...
#IoFAuthors
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Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
Ugh they're going to make me go Linux aren't they
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Ugh they're going to make me go Linux aren't they
oh dang, this book is doing a throwdown
the Church of Rome hath erred, not only in their living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters of Faith
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
oh dang, this book is doing a throwdown
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Armed to Farm training in Berea, Kentucky, introduces veterans to sustainable agriculture careers and gives them a place to connect and a support system to lean on.
@dailyyonder.bsky.social
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@dailyyonder.bsky.social
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Preparing veterans for success in agriculture, Armed to Farm gathers in Berea • Kentucky Lantern
Armed to Farm training in Kentucky introduces veterans to sustainable agriculture careers and gives them a place to connect and a support system to lean on.
kentuckylantern.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Armed to Farm training in Berea, Kentucky, introduces veterans to sustainable agriculture careers and gives them a place to connect and a support system to lean on.
@dailyyonder.bsky.social
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/17/p...
@dailyyonder.bsky.social
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What this reveals is that for most people in charge right now “AI” is less useful as a technology than as a piece of language to shift a conversation in whatever direction they need it to go. In one minute it will propel a new economy; in another it’s the reason for a recession.
November 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
What this reveals is that for most people in charge right now “AI” is less useful as a technology than as a piece of language to shift a conversation in whatever direction they need it to go. In one minute it will propel a new economy; in another it’s the reason for a recession.
Brown's "Toolmen" on framing so-called AI vis-a-vis labor, race, creativity 👍
"[I]f those in power cannot prove that a great many people are already inferior then they will bring that inferiority about by forcing them to use a tool that diminishes their intellectual and creative capacity."
"[I]f those in power cannot prove that a great many people are already inferior then they will bring that inferiority about by forcing them to use a tool that diminishes their intellectual and creative capacity."
Mandy Brown is very good on this aworkinglibrary.com/writing/tool...
Toolmen
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.
aworkinglibrary.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Brown's "Toolmen" on framing so-called AI vis-a-vis labor, race, creativity 👍
"[I]f those in power cannot prove that a great many people are already inferior then they will bring that inferiority about by forcing them to use a tool that diminishes their intellectual and creative capacity."
"[I]f those in power cannot prove that a great many people are already inferior then they will bring that inferiority about by forcing them to use a tool that diminishes their intellectual and creative capacity."
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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...
docs.google.com
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...
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
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in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co
AMS Accountability Archive
Grassroots membership response to a professional society in crisis
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November 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co
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WHAT DOES HENSELPUSHERS DO?
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
WHAT DOES HENSELPUSHERS DO?
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
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Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
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Last week, my colleagues & I at KyCIR laid out our data analysis showing an LMPD officer used an ICE term - ERO, an acronym for the unit managing deportations - in 100+ searches of Louisville's license plate reader database. In response to our findings, LMPD has opened an internal investigation.
LMPD officer used ICE keyword for license plate search. Now he’s under investigation
Louisville Metro Police is investigating an officer’s use of its license plate reader database after KyCIR revealed he listed an ICE-related keyword on over 100 searches.
www.lpm.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Last week, my colleagues & I at KyCIR laid out our data analysis showing an LMPD officer used an ICE term - ERO, an acronym for the unit managing deportations - in 100+ searches of Louisville's license plate reader database. In response to our findings, LMPD has opened an internal investigation.
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A yelp when the server says to scan the QR code to go to the menu. A sharp yelp of alarm edged with sorrow.
November 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A yelp when the server says to scan the QR code to go to the menu. A sharp yelp of alarm edged with sorrow.