Boy howdy, does this resonate.

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Gonna read up on AEI Artificial Emotional Intelligence

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“You Can Call Me AL” was Chevy Chase’s best work.

Republicans have quit the NFL more times than my Uncle Gordie quit smoking. #YouCanDoIt

"After 30 years as a researcher, science communicator and university science teacher, I’ve been unsettled by what appears to be a growing skepticism of science among some of my Generation Z students..." Some people mistakenly believe that skepticism *is* science.

"After 30 years as a researcher, science communicator and university science teacher, I’ve been unsettled by what appears to be a growing skepticism of science among some of my Generation Z students..." Some people mistakenly believe that skepticism *is* science.

Do I want mobile ID on my phone? What's the downside?

If your children act this way, you are failing as a parent.

Hear me out, what if we instead went with a Constitutional Ethos

This type of messaging, please. Not snark or vague “deep concern”.

In physics lab, I told the students we can effectively ignore friction for this experiment because the equipment is designed to be nearly frictionless. A young woman said "Nearly frictionless? How can you be nearly frictionless?" It was a spot-on impression of Emma Watson's "Hermione Granger"!

Yeah that live version of "Mississippi Goddamn" is so heated and chilling, I definitely endorse this entire take on Nina Simone. I'll be glad to have Sinnerman in my head the rest of today, thank you Matt.

I don’t know anybody who thinks that everybody who disagrees with them is a Nazi. Who is he talking about? Help me out.

Yesterday somebody drove an oversized load and actually made contact with multiple overpasses on I-81 in Virginia and I'm not yet clear on how this will impact my commute. Will a bridge collapse as I drive over it? Or perhaps as I drive under it?

with a small amount of research I was able to just turn off all AI features in Adobe Acrobat, rather than continuing to yell and curse at my computer every time I opened any pdf. A healthier but less exciting life stretches before me now.

What a photo. ( @staceywescott.bsky.social )

I just assume BlueSky has been deleting some real bangers from my account, whether I can remember them or not. (I cannot)

Evergreen

spending the morning checking Facebook to see how my cousins and my friends from high school are responding to Brian Kilmeade and it's just tumbleweeds, zero outrage about his callous, hateful, murderous comments.

Today's Google Doodle on the quadratic equation is cool and all, but it links to an AI description of quadratic equation. Where did you steal that content from, Google?

OK I guess I know what we're talking about in class today.

I guess they're under the impression that the ISS has no power for 45 minutes at a time.

Accidentally becoming an anti-AI hipster over here.

Taking that COVID + Flu A&B self test test like

I am fascinated by this guy who was a Higher Ed administrator and has now moved into teaching classes as a faculty member. He is documenting his whole journey on TikTok. Over the summer, he had so much excitement 🧵

Look I don't want to be impatient or anything but it's been NINE YEARS since we were promised a taco truck on EVERY CORNER and I see nothing of the sort. #TacoTuesday

I propose a new TV show called “Jump-the-Shark Tank” wherein we we take bids to determine what products or services are now passé.

Can always spot the chemistry lab classrooms.

Yes, honestly RFK jr is in the process of changing the historical legacy of the Kennedy name.

Shazam app is unable to identify Konica Minolta’s “bizhub 650i” despite what I consider an iconic earworm of a beat, smh.

My local Cracker Barrel hasn't had a sign or logo in years, it's been a speakeasy since 2020. You have to know the password to get into that mediocre mashed potatoes and mimosas.

Hey physics teachers, we do a pretty good hybrid meeting here in the Chesapeake Section! Consider joining us in a few weeks in Richmond, VA. We have (limited) funds to provide lodging support to high school teachers, up to $180/night at the event hotel - details in the link below! #iteachphysics

A heteronormative reason for me to have pronouns in bio: I interact regularly with people from other countries and cultures. They don't always know that my first name is associated with "he" and "him". It is not virtue signaling and it is not political, unlike being angry about pronouns in bio.

Oh hey this reminds me, I've finally gotten around to reading "The Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom and I'm honestly surprised to find how bad his arguments were. I might be willing to rail about it when I finish.

Headline: "Cheating Has Become Normal" Content: "Data so far is limited... Some research documented a spike in cheating... Another study... did not find an increase in cheating over time. Other studies done before 2020 suggest that cheating may have fallen since the 1990s or early 2000s."

Starting a punk band named Radioactive Shrimp.

If MLB were to realign to "a more geographically-aligned, eight-division setup", I am guessing it would lead to more games in your division getting blacked out. More of your divisional games are more local, this is bad for those of us who enjoy watching the broadcasts.

Watching my fall calendar get taken up in different bright colors by different factions like the beginning of the board game Risk. Every square eventually gets claimed by somebody. Obvious moments of conflict are forming as various career obligations encroach on the same weekend.

I need to find a way to tell Apple Maps that you can’t turn left where it told me to turn left

I am now unclear on whether or not I live in a state where it is legal to open carry a sandwich.

David Kirkpatrick "decided to attempt to tally up just how much Trump and his immediate family have pocketed off his time in the White House." A reasonable estimate, he thinks: $3.4 billion.

Neighbor 1: "IS MERCURY IN RETROGRADE?" Me: No, not anymore. Neighbor 2: He's the astrology professor, he ought to know! Me: (sigh)

I can't believe we're having to explain this to people how this works. They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks, Foreman says "These jobs are going, boys, and they ain't coming back, To your hometown"

We’ve flipped the Constitution: We now have direct election of Senators while state legislatures pick the House of Representatives.

So it turns out that's not great.

Gonna read up on AEI Artificial Emotional Intelligence

It's been in California since 1885, at least. I've seen the (historically accurate) movie.

I'm told there are no skunks outside of the Americas. If that's true, does that mean Pepé Le Pew is from Quebec? How else to explain that outrageous French accent?