Wait what I need to see this

Right — it might not be earth-shattering, and it involves politics and compromise (“it’s cosmology this year because quantum won the year before” or something), but I’ve not questioned whether the work represents a legitimate contribution to the science. That’s the damning part for me.

Most of the time, my gripes about the prizes are about the people who are overlooked and don’t get the credit for the discoveries. But in this case, the actual work itself lacks relevance. It’s got “Kissinger winning the Peace Prize” sketchiness to it.

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.

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Haven’t thought about that project in decades.

Bruford Levin Upper Extremities?

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