Rob Mickey

@robmickey
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Political Science, University of Michigan

Miles Davis Opens for Neil Young and "That Sorry-Ass Cat" Steve Miller at The Fillmore East (1970)

https://www.openculture.com/2015/05/miles-davis-opens-for-neil-young-and-the-steve-miller-band-1970.html

Miles Davis Opens for Neil Young and “That Sorry-Ass Cat” Steve Miller at The Fillmore East (1970)

The story, the many stories, of Miles Davis as an opening act for several rock bands in the 1970s make for fascinating reading.

Open Culture

French pension reform:

"Don't worry Killian, you can keep playing until you turn 70."

Musk blamed a Twitter account for an alleged stalker. Police see no link.

The incident last week underscored how Elon Musk’s personal concerns can influence his governance of a social media platform used by hundreds of millions of people.

The Washington Post

Today’s reminder of the abject moral poverty of the “NATO expansion caused Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine” argument

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/16/world/europe/russia-putin-war-failures-ukraine.html

How Putin’s War in Ukraine Became a Catastrophe for Russia

Secret battle plans, intercepted communications and Russian soldiers explain how a “walk in the park” became a catastrophe for Russia.

The New York Times

In case people don't know about this yet: AI text detector.

https://huggingface.co/openai-detector/

GPT-2 Output Detector

My impression of the NYT getting suspended:

“While Mr. Musk’s somewhat capricious use of suspensions raises eyebrows, both sides have been guilty of—- OH F—- US??? REALLY? THAT SON OF A——“.

If we're going to restrict free speech, couldn't we just make it good for me and force all soccer journalists onto mastodon?
Wow, https://www.movetodon.org/ really is amazing. I think I just instantly followed another 210 of you jokers! Very cool.
Movetodon: Finds your Twitter Friends on Mastodon

Republicans are against being "woke"

But what does "woke" mean?

Ryan Newman, Ron DeSantis’ General Counsel, defined it in court last week.

Woke is "the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them," Newman says.

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now that's a tweet

RT @[email protected]

The Royal Family loves watching people shoot against Celtics

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/1598123721025523712

Aaron 🇺🇸 on Twitter

“The Royal Family loves watching people shoot against Celtics”

Twitter