Not that vibes are everything, but something felt more off this past season with Liverpool, even with tragedy. Players looked visibly uncomfortable, with most regressing. That said, I feel a bit bad for Arne Slot. I’m not sure where it all went wrong. Maybe we’ll find out. #LFC

Liverpool love all the data crunching performance stats stuff, but they could really stand to hire a sociologist. I feel like they constantly bungle the social side of things, in nearly every way. I am willing to accept their offer if they‘d like me to join. 😊 #LFC We’re sociologists. Let us help.

We have ~100 cat toys in various rooms/toy boxes, some from this guy’s brothers he never met (RIP). And yet, he’s been occupied for 30 minutes with a hair tie of mine he stole 3 weeks ago and hid for safekeeping. His “prize.”

I loved all the old references when I was a kid, and it made the book an escape from modern travails. I could go inhabit that world. But also, do kids really respond well to “Hey, come over and watch this great TikTok I found?” Can’t you just text it to me? I gotta come over?

-- than saying "no, this isn't what I had in mind" and continuing with your own vision. Using AI to get started means allowing AI to define the container that the rest of your work now has to fit, and that container will always be the average of averages, indistinguishable from other AI work.

If you see a famous person you don’t like very much (because they’re a bad apple, say), the best thing you can do is fix your face and let your eyes wash past them, as though they don’t register with you as a person worth noticing. Alternately, you can stop them but just ask for directions.

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

I had to think a bit. My response reflects the gap between expectations and outcome, but I was most disappointed by Smashing Pumpkins, Lollapalooza 1994, at Pine Knob. The sound was poor, they were the last main stage act, and Billy was mean to an underwhelmed crowd.

well well well look at the bottom of this shizz: special guest on the Little Steven Underground Garage cruise. I'll be special guesting, sitting in with pals, prob do an acoustic set AND playing bass with @glenmatlock.bsky.social LETS GO!

Happy to see Harvey Elliott having a good time and enjoying the Villa celebration. #LFC #AVFC

Jeff Bezos is increasingly a cheeseball, and his current wife carries the mark of the honeypot.

Don't we already have a method for citing things you did not actually track down yourself? You could include "as cited in [ChatGPT]" if you don't want to be bothered with checking the source output.

We need to bring back shame. It wasn’t that many years ago that citing a paper one clearly hadn’t read would out a person as a hack. I mean, even a decade ago, I would be mortified to have cited something (an *actual* non-hallucinated article/book/report) incorrectly.

(Interior, marketing firm) “We need to get the word out about a World Cup people are already calling ‘cursed’ and ‘no thank you,’ how should we do it?” “I have an idea, boss, an ad mural!” “Will it spread the word and embody the spirit of this year’s World Cup?” “Boy will it ever!”

The administration is supposedly a bunch of tough guys, which is why I desperately want a heavily video-ed day of them all in work clothes riding the rides at Cedar Point. I wanna see the giant Florsheims fly off on the (mild!) Iron Dragon, watch goofy hairdos flip off scalps on the Corkscrew, etc.

"A girl boss is a boss first, girl second. And, bosses aren’t very popular right now."

In my more delusional times, I see some art and think, with effort and time, maybe I could successfully attempt such a work, not as adeptly, but maybe decent enough for display in a room of my home no one visits. However, I never, ever think this about Marcus’s power line drawings, which 🤯.

Current* conditions near Mackinaw City, MI:

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Maybe Obama regrets that he wasn’t the “Pants on the Ground” guy.

Petition to invite Barack Obama to actually sit in on some college seminars and classes across a variety of institutions: community colleges, regional universities, liberal arts colleges, big R1s. Man is out here like it’s the late 70s/80s, and everyone has a highlighted coursepack and typewriter.

C'mon man, my "Race in American Popular Music" class is not the problem (also, Democratic politicians across the country are working hard to eliminate the kind of college seminars Obama uses as a scapegoat here because they occur in humanities and liberal arts curricula commonly deemed expendable)

RFK, Jr. likely has never suffered even short-term depression or sadness as an adult, because he has no conscience. Nothing ever weighs on him.

“I’m not optimistic our political system is capable of dealing with this stuff, it will take leadership and unpopular decisions.” That is 💯 the problem.

Hoping today makes Ian McCulloch happy (and also me), but I will settle for us not being made sad. #LFC

Naturally, as soon as I submitted grades, looking forward to a wee break, a multitude of stressors emerged, so I am in a perpetual state of “clenched.” Abs, jaw, etc. Calgon, take me away

AI music and lyrics, or, as they were previously known, Diane Warren music and lyrics. 😴

¡Felicidades! Congratulations! Daniel E. Martínez for being promoted to Full Professor! Way to Represent! Well-deserved and earned! sociology.arizona.edu/person/danie...

Tomorrow! Ann Arbor. Be there!

Reuters: US APPEALS COURT TEMPORARILY BLOCKS MAIL-ORDER ACCESS TO ABORTION DRUG MIFEPRISTONE

Power Lines Drawing #128 (Ferndale, MI) Prints of this drawing are for sale at my store $40 marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

My rubrics have not met the moment. New idea: A: Authentic B: Bit boring tho, innit? C: Come on D: Dubious F: For the love of all that is holy

One of the student papers I reviewed this cycle had the world’s most preposterous, impossible typos sprinkled throughout, and it was so obvious that it was comical, albeit creative. So now, the one remaining, genuine reflection of the student in the paper will be eradicated via this tool.

Hope they keep up the ”ballroom, ballroom, ballroom” business, for all of us commoners. Not an “event space,” but a *ballroom*. The place they tried to keep Cinderella out of. A place for debutantes. A place the Jan. 6 folks might strip of its golden accoutrements. Very relatable, sir.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

CPC Director Karen Guzzo Featured in New Documentary About the Birth Control Pill’s Impact on Modern America. www.cpc.unc.edu/news/cpc-dir...

Not the biggest outrage from the event last night, I’ll grant you, but I would have really hated being at that main table and having to indulge that tiresome mentalist with his wee pieces of paper when I just wanted to people-watch.

I endorse them all talking nonstop about his ballroom, because most Americans hate it and will become even more bitter and resentful. Keep it up!

Dramatic video from Getty Images from behind the dais. They actually got Vance out before Trump. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/vice-president-jd-vance-is-escorted-out-by-secret-service-news-footage/2273151734?adppopup=true

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.

"'DJs purposely started to play these records at the wrong speed. And even producers started to record this way, because it was such an interesting sound.' … The sound in question was new beat, a hypnotic, slowed-down form of dance music that exploded across Belgium in the mid- to late 1980s."

So the AI store is that dril candles tweet.

Watching this with my beloved and she just said these are all oldies now and I hate that she’s not wrong.

Very large, EF3+ tornadoes will be possible in IA/IL/WI - dangerous day ahead…

None near me, with the most feasible (Evanston) sold out, but perhaps some GP dates are close to you!

At this point I really can't recommend that people buy crochet patterns on Etsy, because it's more AI slop than not. Here's the most recent rip-off of my pattern (mine in the first pic, ripoff in the rest). On "sale" for less than my pattern but who knows what you actually get 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧶

Gonna go out on a limb here and say we should probably stop electing narcissists.

Andy, Andy, Andy, I can’t let you go. 🎶 Gonna miss this guy. My favorite Liverpool player. #LFC