If the Barry be White, then that's alright

Someone help with the math, are the kids who did Warrior Cat name quizzes in middle school eligible to run for president yet?l

It blows my mind that Peter S. Beagle was 22 when he wrote this. The older I get, the more it resonates in so many ways. Probably the best novel ever written about regret, except maybe The Remains of the Day.

gonna ask you to look back for Spenwood Books 2027 “a people’s history of Throwing Muses” listeners please send stories, memories, tattoos, dreams, conversations, images, etc. to [email protected] the book’s editor will answer all emails thank you!

Swing music and D&D? Check and check.

I'm generally of the opinion that we should be careful not to champion too enthusiastically entrenched and retrogressive institutions of power on those rare occasions they temporarily and sometimes accidentally inhabit a progressive position.

Gah! And of course I notice RIGHT after posting a 7-post thread that I accidentally used the Amazon link instead of the publisher's link ☠️💀☠️: cup.columbia.edu/book/the-boo...

I'd really love to read a folklore paper comparing "prompt engineering" and household arguments on how to load a dishwasher.

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

I’m sorry but if you aren’t sure of a citation, whether what it means or that it exists… why are you citing it. why are you referring to something you haven’t read or don’t understand? that defeats the entire bloody point

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

Surveys show that 98% of the population uses the navy once per year or less. Additionally, the customers who do make use of the navy live in areas that are disproportionately expensive to serve. Discontinuing service outside the continental US could reduce the navy's budget by 40% or more.

The Trump White House freaked out so much at the political disaster they created for themselves with Minnesota and other viral images of their roving, trigger happy crackdowns that they were forced to make their secret police force more secretive, but they’re still committing lawless abuses and…

Social Media in 2035

in 10 years, college could be where you go to be smarter than AI, but no school is brave enough to trailblaze here.

FWIW, I’ve got an archive of self-created, self-hosted, open-source, non-extractive, non-surveillant class websites going back 22 years! wordsinspace.net/classes/

Don’t run universities like a business run it as a public good

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

sometimes i remember that my community is made up of traumatised ferals who never expected to live long enough to have to deal with the world on its own terms. and then I'm like, "oh yeah. that's why we're all like this".

The news have finally found someone in his orbit actually asking him to act presidential---and it's over the YMCA dance.

Not to tread on anyone's sillies regarding the auction of that printing of the Constitution, but I see overreactions on the scale of the Jodorowsky's Dune cryptobros who thought they'd bought the film rights. It's a historically significant print, but it's still only a print.

it’s very easy to find out what i really believe you just have to ask. if finding out someone’s beliefs is harder than that then maybe you should just assume they’re a shady little opportunist with no principles

“One person is an autocratic president of the university for decades” certainly wasn’t a flawless system but it’s clear that “admins hop from job to job scaling the career ladder by filling their CV with ‘accomplishments’ that are expensive burdens to the schools they leave behind” is even worse.

Maybe I don't know very much but it certainly seems to me like a state suspending a major election is really bad and the sort of thing brave truth-telling journalists ought to be covering in extreme detail

As a teacher, I was often annoyed at the cutesy demonstrations on the admin's latest buzz. It was always about to change everything yet never managed to last a full semester. "We're professionals. Just give us the paper," I'd say with a heart full of preemptive paranoid readings.

Technical infrastructure does not just persist. It needs maintenance and, crucially, people to perform that maintenance. Servers need to be updated, SSL certificates need to be renewed, domains need to be paid for.

We must understand the racist political rhetoric, the erasure and attacks on Black history, the reinstalling of Confederate names and monuments, all go hand-in-hand as the Court and Congress legitimize the taking of political rights and the end of multiracial democracy itself.

Early voting is open now, and Election Day is May 5. Transgender and nonbinary Hoosiers deserve clear information before heading to the polls. Read Mirror Indy’s guide on what to know before voting in Indiana: https://mirrorindy.org/indiana-gender-markers-id-voting/

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Everyone should have at least one hobby that frustrates them (knitting, mini painting, birdwatching) and one hobby that doesn’t (knitting, mini painting, birdwatching)

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Using historical and social linguistics inquiry lessons as a frame to teach grammar in context in secondary school.

It's not the second or even fifth worst aspect of the wizard boy media legacy, but I'm increasingly convinced that in an ideal world Ralph Fiennes would have played the Ninth Doctor.

Attention May grads: A new best answer for the “five-year plan” interview question has arrived.

I've reached the stage in this paper (that is ostensibly about library trends post-GPT3.5) where I'm adding a book from 1991 to my essential reading queue.

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

‘Ope

not so quietly

43-years into the word processor's life cycle seems like a weird time to change how arrow keys and shift/select works.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

my husband just sent me this

I'm listening to a table ponder new PCs, and thinking non-revolutionary thoughts about how GM world-building is all set design. How sets are nonfunctional---you can't live in a sitcom house, you can't pilot the Enterprise---but skilled actors bring it to life.

Being a powerful, wealthy person "unwilling" to speak the truth publicly and going further to actively lie is pretty much the definition of "not a good person."

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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