I’m bothered about it. Even if we ignore the destructive impacts of modern AI, applying physics to non-physics problems is not advancing physics research. Otherwise, the econ Nobel for derivatives pricing (which was an application of the heat PDEs) would also count as a physics prize.

The show Alan and I used to do back in the day: bsky.app/profile/tech...

This led to us receiving fan mail via the radio station, which was really cool, until at least of the writers started dropping racial slurs and expressing his hatred of other races. (The letter writer had no idea that I was Black, presumably.)

Context: in the early 00s, a friend and I did a metal show on Saturday nights at the college station. We would regularly get requests from inmates at the county jail, via collect call requests (e.g., “You have a collect call from — Slayer, ‘Seasons in the Abyss’”) and we’d fulfill them.

😍

For a while, I was getting fan mail from inmates at the county jail.

Haven’t thought about that project in decades.

Bruford Levin Upper Extremities?

When you reach for what you think is a chocolate chip cookie, but it’s oatmeal raisin

Right! And I love music that tries all kinds of things, sonically bouncing off the walls, but still is, at its heart, pop.