I’m so happy to see @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social Professor Colin Calloway in the Ken Burns American Revolution series. Took a very memorable (and depressing) course in post-civil war Native American history from him as an undergrad. Incredible teacher.

📘Attention all! 📘We have a dug out from the archives a brand spanking new, mint condition, original, still-boxed, unopened copy of the out-of-print AND hard-to-find third edition of The Phish Companion!

Fake medicine (marketing terms: functional, integrative, naturopathic) and demonization of real medicine (vaccines) are inextricably linked.

So much awful stuff happening in the ACIP meeting today but this is particularly gross.

Drake Maye.

My high school scanned every yearbook from 1927 to the present, so now I can share former Supreme Court Justice David Souter's senior picture with Bluesky:

We should treat being an “influencer” with as much disdain as any other get rich quick scheme. At best you’re mining your life (and the life of your children) for maximum attention to flip as advertisement potential, and at worst you’re getting things like this. The model’s broken and corrosive.

Inspiring video and a great guitar solo for your Friday.

Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.

This is a great listen. There is something special and uniquely American about musical families like this.

The man has to go. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The only thing worse than Newsom being the 2028 nominee will be Bluesky if Newsom is the 2028 nominee.

This just makes me sick. Vaccines do not cause autism. It is one of the most-studied conspiracy theories and has been debunked every time (for example, the link below looked at >650k Danish children). Thousands of children will die of easily preventable diseases because of this.

32 years ago today, we first witnessed the wonder of the My Dinner with Andre video game. “Boy-Scoutz ‘n the Hood” premiered November 18, 1993.

This was the first album I bought on the day it came out.

Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

its friday

Bono is going to rewrite "Mothers of the Disappeared" for Sarah Kendzior like Elton John did "Candle in the Wind" for Princess Di.

Great and accurate rant.

Deposited a check at the ATM this morning and was informed by an on-screen message that the max deposit is $999,999. I have to say, if I was depositing that much I would probably go into the bank.

Happy 80th birthday to one of the best to ever do it, Neil Young!

In non-basketball news, the Dartmouth women's soccer team just stunned top-seeded Princeton 1-0 to win the Ivy League title and qualify for the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2005. @chris-awk.bsky.social

@chadfinn.bsky.social Any chance Pats-Bills on 12/14 gets flexed to Sunday Night or is it too late already?

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Is this anything?

This Spoon single from 2020 that never made an album is truly great. For some reason the chorus rattles around in my head all the time these days. "What we need now's an accident/no one to blame and no bullets spent"

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Please, please learn from this, New Hampshire Democratic Party.

As someone who lives in New Hampshire:

I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

Not going to guess at a motive from these three but please don’t try to blow up medical schools.

Happy Halloween! Did you know that Ward Sutton who made this incredible Phish poster also makes the amazing political cartoons for @theonion.com under the pseudonym Stan Kelly ( @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social ) ? Now you do!

This is quite long but very good.

Or a concert! “Yo La Tango”

I have been informed by @chopaganda.bsky.social on Mastodon that saying Cory Wong is in Vulfpeck might be stolen valor and that it would be more accurate to say he is in the Vulfpeck Cinematic Universe.

Cory Wong of Vulfpeck has a long form interview with Trey that seems like it could be pretty good. (I’ve only listened to a clip from Instagram so far) https://overcast.fm/+AAbN9YtCakU

Talk about an in-flight meal. For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn

Trey Anastasio.

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

JOHN FRUSCIANTE: So I can do like five minutes of melodic King Crimson stuff at the end? With a field recording? ANTHONY KIEDIS: Yeah man absolutely. Sounds incredible. The song is called “Sir Psycho Sexy” by the way.

I forgot I made this. Early COVID was a special time. #phish

If you get a flu shot, you can get a donut after. It's not free I just had two good ideas.

As a dad with two kids who got mailers from this place it always seemed a bit off: super long and flashy but emphasizing "life skills" instead of academics. I kind of assumed it was a Liberty University knockoff for dumber born-again Christians but apparently it is mainline protestant (Methodist).

I know he endorsed Janet Mills already but it might be nice if the 48-year-old Maine Beer Co. co-founder was still in the Maine senate primary.

Keeping this vague to avoid outright spoilers: I regret to inform you all that the DNA test in One Battle After Another is kinda bullshit, and what is described in that scene as evidence for something is not evidence of anything. Or was that maybe the point?

This, FWIW, is my current teaching policy on AI, always subject to revision. It is, I recognize, easier applied to creative writing, which draws students who *want* to take the course rather than have to.

ISABELLA STEWAHT GAHDNAH MUSEUM HEIST OF 1990 WAS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. LOUVRUH AIN'T SHIT COMPARED TO THAT.

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.