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Music faculty at California State University, Northridge. Director of Music at Pasadena Presbyterian Church.
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@DiegoBeghin @lingthusiasm On the first read of this treatise many sentences feel tortured, full of words that must be morticed or proactively reordered. With the final revelation you'll think "OMG that's brilliant," and with little provocation read once more with great fulfillment.
(Sorry...the best I could do with reduced brain cells at bedtime.)
Read this short paper (3 pages) about how rhythm helps us divide speech into words. In an oral conversation there aren't neat spaces to indicate word breaks.
Then read the paper again once you reach the big reveal at the end :)
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Ever since I've focused on Mastodon over Twitter, the one major thing I've said over and over again that was missing (but I was sure was coming) was a Mastodon version of Nuzzel or Tweetshelf. A tool to find what news links your followers are sharing.
And... @decius has just built one! Just released today, so may be buggy, but already looks amazing and INCREDIBLY useful.
Books banned in Red states
can be read by ANY teen--
ebooks from Brooklyn.
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned
#Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
This is a FREE teen ebook library card service from the Brooklyn (NY) Public library available nationwide. It was launched to combat book banning.
In April 2022, Brooklyn Public Library joined those fighting for the rights of teens nationwide to read what they like, discover themselves, and form their own opinions. Inspired by the American Library Association's Freedom to Read Statement, Books Unbanned is a response to an increasingly coordinated and effective effort to remove books from library shelves.
Ordinary life:
Have a home.
Live safely.
Have a quality education.
Get a parking ticket.
Go to work.
Have a family (if one wants).
Leave something for your family.
Boring shit.
Systemic racism has interfered with all of that:
Redlining
Police violence & deliberate disinvestment
Cut off access to GI Bill + segregation
Racial profiling
Labor* discrimination
Black maternal mortality
Racial wealth gap
Without hundreds of years of that BS, we'd be fine. Ordinary.
Diego Beghin
Patrick Curry
Mark Dunk
Mike Masnick ✅
Madeleine Begun Kane
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