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Note: for about 2.4 seconds yesterday it appeared that my current university had defeated the #7 team in the country in the first round of the NCAA tournament. A miracle bank shot from way beyond the three point line ended all that.

It's grading time and I'll just say that "AI" (which in the world of grading generally just means chatGPT or some other LLM) has created MORE WORK FOR ME. Rumors of technological utopia have been greatly exaggerated.

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

Way to go MLB. Really inspiring stuff here.

Having fun playing baseball! Imagine. Meanwhile, MLB is trying to come up with more ways to enshittify baseball and signing deals with Polymarket. Another baseball is possible folks. But MLB is definitely not leading the way.

My favorite at-bat from the WBC was the semi-finals (I think) in which Luis Arraez grounded out to the right side but knew he advanced the runner and did his job. And he was clapping and pumped. That's the kind of baseball I like to see.

So I'm coaching little league. One of the core ethics is that working hard and putting in time via practice pays off. For me this relates to things like reading, writing, and thinking. Do the work. I'm just thinking how far off this is from all the let-the-machines-do-your-work AI hype.

Venezuela did something that felt revolutionary in the WBC. They had fun playing baseball.

Posting a photo of Rod Carew every day until the federal government drops its war on Minneapolis (and St Paul). #Twins (1974 AL All-Star Team) #Minnesota

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Well would you look at that @lmesseri.bsky.social

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

Man, fuck these guys. Absolute babies. The US team was a stain on what was otherwise a sublime baseball tournament.

How to describe the experience of Venezuelan players at a fraught political time in VZ and the US? The Red Sox’ 5 Venezuelan players - Narváez, Abreu, Suarez, Contreras, Monasterio - offered insight into what Abreu called a “double life.” Story for Globe Magazine: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/17/m...

Ronald Acuña Jr. weeping while hugging Salvador Perez. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

I gotta say it’s been absolutely delightful WBC-posting with you all the World Series was one of the best times I’ve ever had on this app and I’m so glad to see that energy has continued bluesky: the official app of baseball, and I couldn’t be prouder

David Ortiz spells it out on the WBC broadcast. You know, some context.

Daniel Palencia! (Photo by Megan Briggs.)

Damn, Joe Davis, why was Venezuela "in such turmoil?" A perplexing enigma indeed

Posting a photo of Rod Carew every day until the federal government drops its war on Minneapolis (and St Paul). #Twins #Minnesota

the wbc is incredible

Ok, now go get 'em tomorrow night, Venezuela.

#JudithCurry was a key member of the "unlawful" working group tasked by the Trump administration with discrediting the science underlying the EPA endangerment finding (the legal basis for regulating carbon emissions)

I'm debating my least favorite DR strike 3 call. The Perdomo one was obviously the worst because it ended the game but the one on Juan Soto in some ways was more egregious. Does that ump REALLY think he knows the zone better than Juan freaking Soto?

Perdomo had such a great at bat too. What an absolute shame.

Anyone against the new ABS system needs to look at how the DR was screwed out of this tournament.

Surprise, the WBC was just a psyop to get everyone on board with the ABS system

fighting the institutional adoption of ai is slow and difficult. but as individuals, we can still largely opt out, at least from direct use. i sincerely believe that those who do so will find solidarity in creativity, imagination, and humanity. in intelligence.

Posting a photo of Rod Carew every day until the federal government drops its war on Minneapolis (and St Paul). #Twins #Minnesota

Make #Baseball fun again.

Venezuela for the win.

Get a load of the absolute chaos Wilyer Abreu unleashed on the Venezuela dugout after his go-ahead moonshot

I don’t mean “as a collection of super teams.” I mean with guttural joy and pride and pain exploding in vibrant colors with music and dancing and peacocking and everything old school sourpuss baseball tries to suffocate.

I don’t need the mlb season I just need this tournament to go 7 months

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Cancel the MLB season and give me six months of this. Team USA is only invited if it can remove the stick from its ass and remember the joy of this children’s game.

Announcer said that Italy has the 6-7 hitters coming up, and the middle schooler didn’t even notice. We’ve turned a corner.

This is so American it hurts.

Posting a photo of Rod Carew every day until the federal government drops its war on Minneapolis (and St Paul). #Twins #Minnesota

I used to serve these kinds of drinks in the early 2000s (along with basic coffee). I am pretty sure that oat milk chai lattes were not quite the main threat to society back then. Seems to me that things like the creation of rogue fed agencies and the Patriot Act were bigger issues. Hmm.

What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since

Pretty high odds this is how things went down. This 'your oat milk latte is destroying society' kind of politics is directly related to the 'you made me vote for the authoritarian fascist to save our country' variety.

In the 1980s, an offroad dirt-biking group bucked the rules in the California desert—and got away with it. Today's anti-environmentalists are following in their tracks, writes anthropologist @jsizek.bsky.social. zps.la/4aj4DOT

Heads up anthro folks: Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" gets a discussion and review by the folks at If Books Could Kill. #anthrosky #anthropology

Watching the 2014 documentary 'Atari: Game Over' as part of our 'tech and society' week for my anthro theory class. Definitely a good film for thinking through the social meanings of and attachment to technology. Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyKw... #anthrosky

One more time: "Stop spamming us about the new software and partnerships. Stop the endless workshops in the teaching and learning centers. Start talking about what learning is and when these products help or hurt this process." Yes x 1000 to all of this.

There is such an easy route that Uni's are failing to take. Lead with culture change. Stop spamming us about the new software and partnerships. Stop the endless workshops in the teaching and learning centers. Start talking about what learning is and when these products help or hurt this process.

Time once again to share the little lesson from my Local Media class (drawing on the work of myriad other scholars!) about how this happened — and why it doesn’t have to be like this. The post office could + should be a vital institution for public connection — from postal mail to internet access

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