It's interesting how often people who go "by the book" make up dozens of rules that aren't in the book to go by.

I haven't lost 3 days worth of work on Word for ten years. Ah, the nostalgia!

I thought this was going to be good. But this guy buried the lede. "Johnny Garcia [her Democratic primary opponent] is being paid to put Jews ... in concentration camps via Zionist trafficking networks." If there weren't runoffs in Texas primaries, she would be the candidate. I hate primaries.

Look how progressives come for our most precious institutions.

Anarchists switched from red to black when they noticed the movement was growing a bit of a paunch.

It's big, it's black, it's long, it's ugly. It's a Texas cyclone. youtu.be/W1I7YZhOvP0?...

I was going to say that podcasts reviewing D&D live play sessions was the only thing worse than watching D&D live play sessions. Then I listened to some people talk about a live play session, including how they usually don't like live play sessions but These Guys were an exception.

@meromerobam.bsky.social is someone I've been following on IG for a long time. Here's a DTYS of his character Strawberix.

Check out my lizard. It's pointing at you.

The spam filter for the college e-mail automatically decided to flag all e-mail from the faculty affairs office as spam. It seems to be working as intended.

Calculations without concepts are computation. Concepts without calculations are trivia.

For some reason I thought this was going to be about Thatcher. Instead, it's like Henry VIII - four hours of blabber ending with the birth of Elizabeth I. youtu.be/-Pn5yGnrbxk?...

We need an electric 5-in-1 griddle-grill thing, now? How did my parents get by with only four pots and a frying pan? Did they even know what food was?

"I know it's late in the semester [the final is in 12 hours], but I didn't do a third of the homework. Can I turn still turn it in next week?"

You haven't been to class all semester. You didn't do any homework. You didn't take any tests. Literally, I have no scores from you. But when I ask you to make a presentation about the motion of your favorite aquatic animal, you send me one on the flight of a baseball.

Okay, I've read the footnote on page 7 everyone references for this. It says nothing of the kind. Do I want to reread the entire book to make sure that there aren't actual examples of the claims, that maybe the footnote was obliquely foreshadowing?

4 of 20 presentations done on whale sharks so far. Just fifty more to go. Will there be 10 at the end? Less? More? Place your bets.

Despite the fact that this was as assignment, I don't think presenting a slide at the end of your talk going through the rubric to explain where each of the previous satisfies a criterion is really appropriate.

Logic like this reinforces my faith in democracy.

Important take away: "Spam is very good with ramen." www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4xz...

Don't use AI for e-mail. "Good evening professor...I was thrilled to hear that your office hours would be an acceptable time, yet upon checking when that was I realized that it was in direct conflict with my math class..."

What is fair: giving partial credit for setting up the problem well and having the wrong number at the end. What is unfair: not giving full credit because the problem is set up incorrectly but writing the correct number at the end.

The proportion of the working age population with a college degree has more than doubled over the past 50 years. You can see the result in the nuance of contemporary political debate.

Internal survey: "Do you use AI to..." "...improve personal skills like time management?" Dude, I walk the halls, I see what people are doing. Using AI is the opposite of managing your time.

I am always surprised by political scientists' ideas of what constitutes "data." I mean it might be true that the intellectual climate in the United States is worse than during the Red Scare, but I'm not sure if your opinion poll* actually constitutes "data."

"...[this] module fuses tabletop roleplaying with philosophical depth...Old John Stuart's Mill is more than a dungeon crawl. It’s a reckoning of morality, justice and consequence." Includes: Power Point Slides www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...

How much to I really believe all this stuff they're having me prepare, write and upload will influence whether I get a promotion? Versus, you know, who's on the committee.

Word: "Posttest" isn't a word. Try "Post test."

Still trying to figure out why the guy who schedules physics classes "wants all the classes to have at least 60 students."

Interesting understatement from a podcast. "The President is an unreliable narrator."

I Have Sinned by Caimh McDonnell As in all great Irish literature, this novel begins and ends with a fart.

I know you're having trouble fitting everything you want to say in three pages. I can understand using the 8 point font. With modern technology, you can expand it to read it on the computer. But omitting paragraph breaks is just barbaric. You may as well remove all the punctuation and spaces.

So, in order to log in to my account, I need to use an app. To activate the app, I need to log into my account. Thank you for confirming my faith in bureaucracy.

Well, I can't find the video that intimated that the ultrasonic bug repellers don't work on insects, but they do work on teenagers. "Can you hear that? If you can't you're probably over 25. Mosquito alarms emit a high-pitched frequency that only young people can hear, so they just go away."

Another AI hit!

Fucking dots.

"The fact that we're inept at teaching ethics seems to be fueling a sense that universities should be doing more to teach ethics." - David Schmidtz, Chair of Moral Science at WVU

No one is forcing you to wear a mask, anymore. So if you are wearing one in a coffee shop, you have no excuse for wearing it on your chin.

Excellent! From the allegory of the cave to AI paranoia (and more paranoid than most!) in less than five minutes (of a 45 minute HS lecture).

AI really tries.

1:11 Two months before the Star Wars premire. youtu.be/XKJbyK4NTek?...

"In the French dubs of the classic cartoons, Pepe Le Pew was given a stereotypical Italian accent (specifically a caricature of Yves Montand) rather than a French one."

There is something seriously wrong with my students. "I don't know what a gondola is, so I can't do this problem." "I don't know what a diving bell is, so I can't do this problem." First of all, you're 20 years old. I don't believe you don't know about Venetian gondolas,* diving bells, etc.

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