Happy Friday! Here's a site I've built because I've been thinking about it & want to see more of it in the world: a space for describing and sharing scholarly skills that I've picked up and nurtured over the years. Also this is a no AI zone in at least two ways: no talking about it and no using it.

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"It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stupidity is about to inundate us."

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In Sustenance for Body and Soul, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, 850 - 934 CE, was one of the first to recognise that mental illness can be due to psychological or physiological causes. He acknowledged the mutually constitutive nature of body and mind by using the word ishtibak (interweaving).

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I had the pleasure to reassembled one of these pieces for the OG boss @yannnovak.com

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“AI boosters may say that their hostility is just fear of change. But they’re wrong. The promotion of AI music-generation software as a way of making music is an insult to musicians. Musicians are right to react to it as such.” www.ft.com/content/2c21...

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