Hey, my favorite sax player (AKA The Spawn) is in the NYTimes coverage of the NYC Halloween parade. OK, probably only the second most important NYC news of the day, but still...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/nyregion/new-york-city-halloween-photos.html

UAlbany Graduate Student Conference 4/12/25: Pop Culture and Philosophy

In case you had any doubt left that the once-respected Washington Post had the slightest bit of integrity left: Pulitzer winner quits 'Washington Post' after a cartoon on Bezos is killed https://www.npr.org/2025/01/04/nx-s1-5248299/cartoonist-quits-wapo-over-bezos-trump-cartoon-washingtonpost

Meta/Instagram does the minimal (highly limited, constantly expiring) thing to make it seem like they're opposing bullying. https://mastodon.social/@verge/112529729185512667

Via a longtime favorite, Language Log (https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=63413): Dall-E is is asked to ""Create a diagram of Shannon and Weaver's model of communication." The results put new force to calling such mistakes "hallucinations". Incoherent, with a hint of R. Crumb.

UAlbany Philosophy Department Talk!
Value by Acquaintance
L.A. Paul (Yale)
4/5/2024 - 3:00-5:00 - Humanities 354
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be offered.
Department of Philosophy, University at Albany, SUNY

Standing up to inscrutable matrices!
https://venturebeat.com/ai/protesters-gather-outside-openai-office-opposing-military-ai-and-agi/

Went looking for a book in my various shelves. Didn't find it, but found a mystery: Why the hell do I own three copies of this?