“67” is legitimately the dumbest Gen Alpha slang – it is almost always completely devoid of any meaning –, but don’t grown adults seem disproportionately angry about it?

There are many fun things about learning Hebrew, like gendered numbers and verbs that bear only passing resemblance to their infinitive, but saying “Tel Aviv meets with my approval” instead of “I like Tel Aviv” is the current winner.

Registering my 9-year-old for softball legit requires more proofs of residency than the DMV.

Speaking of Amazon and Kindles, you can download any ebooks you’ve purchased from Amazon, but only until February 27th. After that, you’re at the mercy of Amazon’s ability to revoke your access to the books you thought you owned.

Bought three books at a local bookshop and bought a not-Kindle to replace a broken Kindle. It’s a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of Amazon’s profit, but it’s something.

I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.

Teachers be like, “Have a good night” at 2:45pm.

Not surprising, but I’m seeing that the increasingly spineless @washingtonpost.com is also rolling back DEI initiatives. Apparently democracy dies in the hands of cowardly oligarchs.

I want to support the Target boycott and stop buying from Amazon. Since Walmart doesn’t pay workers a living wage and is also rolling back DEI initiatives, @lor662.bsky.social raises the valid question: where to buy the random things we need?

Just finished @robinsloan.com’s ‘Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore’. What a delight of a book, and a delightful throwback to when Twitter was Twitter and Google’s motto was still “Don’t Be Evil.”

What alternative platforms exist to challenge Facebook Groups as a space for communities to organize?

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

My new favorite epithet, “fetid moppet,” is surprisingly difficult to work into conversation.

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Learning about 18th-century authors pillorying each other in book indexes from Dennis Duncan’s “Index, a History of the.” This is a practice we must resurrect forthwith.

I mean, as headlines go, this one is a winner.

Not intended as a political position, but I wonder how this government, which only recognizes two sexes, will expect intersex individuals (e.g., people with ambiguous genitalia and people with chromosomal anomalies) to define themselves. The executive order does not address this.

In ‘The Dawn of Everything,’ the authors write, “A properly historical event has, perhaps, two qualities: it could not have been predicted beforehand, but it only happens once.” This feels like a momentous statement that I’m not sure I agree with.

43 years old here, still haven’t encountered any quicksand. My whole childhood was a lie.

#Teachersky beware! The whining and umbrage re: having to do work reaches heights unseen as vacation approaches!

🪐📚 Just beginning my Cosmere journey. I read the Mistborn trilogy (Era 1) and am part way through Elantris. I suspect this will be my reading project for the next 6 months (minimum).

Embarrassed David Attenborough Realizes He Spent 10 Minutes Describing Stillness Of Duck Decoy theonion.com/embarrassed-...

I am harboring a pet theory that the music of Taylor Swift contains a lot more melodic leaps than other pop artists (who stick more to scalar motion) and I’d really like someone to test this for me.

💙📚🪐 Who can explain the attraction of Anne Leckie’s “Ancillary Justice”? It seems like 400 pages of missed opportunities to meaningfully explore the themes of gender and what it means to be human, which is raises but fails to deal with. The ideas are good, but their development is mostly mechanical.

Does the Wheel of Time series belong among great works of epic fantasy. Yes, but it is insufferably longer than it needs to be. Robert Jordan’s first 3 installments, and Brandon Sanderson’s last 3 are pure gold.

After learning about his wife’s affair because her lover sent a text in the wrong thread, Mahler did the early 19th-century version of writing a Taylor Swift breakup song, which was, apparently, writing a symphony and being like “I’ma give these mf’ers ALL THE SHARPS” and then dying one movement in.

I read something about “Dancing Through Life” from the movie Wicked’s sound track, so I gave it a listen. The main organizing rhythm of the song is disappointingly completely gone. In the original it occurs 6 times (first at 1:16 in the trumpets) serving as a transition between verses and sections.

For all the good it does me these days, I turned my dissertation in 12 years ago today.

AI is the Dunning-Kruger effect embodied.

Yesss, Run Lola Run is returning to theaters for its 25th anniversary. A 4K digital restoration will start showing on June 7. I loved this movie — saw it in the theater when it came out but haven’t seen it in many years. [deadline.com]

I don't have anything new to say about the fact that Palestinians are human beings whose lives are sacred and Israelis are human beings whose lives are sacred and all people must be safe and free and hostages must come home and another world is possible. Will keep screaming & weeping myself hoarse.