When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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I was reffing a game and a kid gave up and said "I have accepted my fate" bc his team was down 0-7 and I told him "never accept your fate." But what I meant is that you must both accept your fate and continue to rebel against it, like in the work of Albert Camus. Wish I could have that one back.

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This essay by Jordan Sand on how LLM chatbots—including the officially licensed “expert” campus version—produced entirely false versions of a primary source should be required reading for every history student #skystorians 🗃️

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don't see "the expanse". list is invalid

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I cannot recommend Richard White's "Railroaded" highly enough. At this particular moment in time it is a stunning read. Nothing is new, this is just 1869 running on better hardware.

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