virginia is for lovers, until you have to drive on I-81.

This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.

Happy Tday, y'all. Stay away from the turducken.

Subscribe now magazine.trollbreath.com to get the full issue on Dec. 1st! @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social @kkoopman.bsky.social @prioryruins.bsky.social @jonathanhelland.bsky.social @brandoncase101.bsky.social @kergankergan.bsky.social @wallet55.bsky.social Alex Atkins Matthew Sanborn Smith Phil Emery

And its counterpoint: person who communicates feelings exclusively through speculative media would rather have brutally long conversations about Daniel Jackson than own problems

I think I missed this when it was first posted, but it's absolutely worth reading! I think there are two lenses that help me make sense of the Puppies mess when it comes to discussions of prose that I don't see in here, though. I absolutely agree that the politics of realism plays into it, but (1/7)

Getting an early start on what promises to be a wild and self-indulgent Thanksgiving break* * watching a YouTube documentary about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

LOOKING FOR BOOKS: golden and silver age sci-fi focused on space exploration

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

I love when a 90s/00s sf show is like "welcome to our advanced alien planet" and it's a concrete plaza in Vancouver, Canada.

🚨Deadloch heads: S2 of the Aussie crime satire/drama (it's good!) arrives on Amazon Prime March 20. Many chaotic Aussie weirdos return/debut. But HEADS UP they have added a Hemsworth (Luke)! This is not a drill! Kudos to the hair & costume team for this whole deal. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen

Pork butt, ideally bone-in (esp if you snag it for like $2/lb). Entire head of garlic; peel and mash with 1T salt. 1 cup orange juice, 1 cup lime juice. Black pepper, oregano, and cumin to taste (usually about a teaspoon each for me). Marinate as long as food safety allows; slow cook.

This Halloween, Ester found the spookiest thing of all: an emergency vet visit

If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years

Years ago when I played Red Dead Redemption, and lyrics began to weave into the score, I thought it might be one of the most memorable aesthetic choices in a game. Then along comes Scylla in Hades II belting out "I am going to CLAAAAAAAAAAW out your EYEEEEES and DROWN. YOU. TO DEATH."

What To Know About Data Centers https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-data-centers/

As a Libro.fm acolyte, it is my duty to inform you that audio that's purchased from your favorite indie bookseller sounds better and is also more emotionally fulfilling than the same audio purchased from a megacorp that's assisting the authoritarian federal regime.

The Leverage cast seeing the Louvre heist and collectively posting, "Not it," is the whimsy we deserve.

Amazon is saying that things are significantly improving, but I'm noticing that services that were working earlier during the outage are no longer working. So that's fun.

Is this a sign of a Leverage: Redemption s4 renewal

a reminder that GHOSTBUSTERS starts with Columbia U *firing* Peter, Ray, and Egon for their cutting-edge research, making it, incidentally, an amazing low-key defense of academic freedom and possibly the best alt-ac revenge fantasy committed to screen

Phenomenology, feminist standpoint epistemology, & situated knowledges, via James Tiptree Jr & Carl Brandon. Next week closes out epistemology w/ @kkoopman.bsky.social's The Scientist Does Not Look Back (via @escapepod.org) & @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social's "WtYAIE" (via @levarburton.bsky.social).

i think they should make the giant halloween yard skeletons taller. i don't think they're tall enough yet. they should make them taller & taller & taller, until they reach the moon & i can climb up on one & get the hell off this accurséd place

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

🚀 We’re hiring a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellow in history of science/STS to join my team at the American Institute of Physics! If you're looking for a fellowship opportunity in the history of the physical sciences post-1850, please see our ad for more details: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Accidentally showed up for my dental cleaning half an hour early, how is this Friday treating everyone else?

Strongly recommend this thread from a friend of mine for explanations and nuance. Tl;dr, Dismissed does NOT mean not guilty, it means the case was filed in the wrong jurisdiction.

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

That's me in the corner That's me in the park, I'm Several thousand pigeons Trying to keep up with you And I don't know if I can do it Oh no I've coo'd too much I haven't coo'd enough

Year after year, the average temperature in Appalachian Virginia keeps rising, bringing greater risks of heat illness. Meanwhile, residents are struggling with escalating energy costs. Story by @klburke.bsky.social & Melba Newsome for WVTF RADIO IQ & @climatecentral.org. bit.ly/46u4t6I

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.

We may not deserve it, but we definitely need it.

Support queer art and help us get the rest of the way there! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

WE'RE OVER 50% FUNDED?! By the time it took our co-founders to remember to breathe and stop screaming, it's closer to over 60% funded—but then we'd have to try to remember to make another graphic and at this rate who knows!! SERIOUSLY cannot thank you all enough for this outpouring of support!!

My dearest Alice: I write to you from a city under siege. The horrors have become inescapable. We are surrounded on all sides by an enemy who has left no corner of this place untouched by its poison. I speak, of course, of our old foe: gratuitous punctuation in business names

The downside of using Hades II as a reward for completing grading is you find yourself coming very, very close to signing off emails to students with "Death to Chronos, Professor Koopman."

Look what we have here then.

It’s time to wake up — if you aren’t using ChatGPT to optimize your work (and your life!) you’re getting left behind. Watch this for 5 simple, lesser-known ChatGPT prompts that geniuses use! youtu.be/IS65dBNlng8

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this is awesome!

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

the right wing writes more coffee-based fanfiction than the AU section on AO3 does