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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
• The Pogues
• De La Soul
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Melvins & Boris
• Tibet Freedom Concert (at RFK when that person got struck by lightning)
• The Pogues
• De La Soul
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Melvins & Boris
• Tibet Freedom Concert (at RFK when that person got struck by lightning)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen?
- Peter Gabriel (WOMAD Tour in Turkey, 1993)
- The Prodigy (Moscow, 1997)
- Depeche Mode (not really a concert, but one of their Ultra parties in London in 1997)
- Duran Duran (NY, 1999)
- Queens of the Stone Age (at the Cosmopolitan, in Vegas, 2011)
- Peter Gabriel (WOMAD Tour in Turkey, 1993)
- The Prodigy (Moscow, 1997)
- Depeche Mode (not really a concert, but one of their Ultra parties in London in 1997)
- Duran Duran (NY, 1999)
- Queens of the Stone Age (at the Cosmopolitan, in Vegas, 2011)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen?
- Peter Gabriel (US tour kickoff in Rochester, NY)
- Queensryche (Operation Mindcrime in full)
- Sinead O'Connor (shortly before the idiots of the world turned on her)
- The Cranberries (in a small bar, just before breaking big)
- Sarah McLachlan (4x)
- Peter Gabriel (US tour kickoff in Rochester, NY)
- Queensryche (Operation Mindcrime in full)
- Sinead O'Connor (shortly before the idiots of the world turned on her)
- The Cranberries (in a small bar, just before breaking big)
- Sarah McLachlan (4x)
November 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
• The Pogues
• De La Soul
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Melvins & Boris
• Tibet Freedom Concert (at RFK when that person got struck by lightning)
• The Pogues
• De La Soul
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Melvins & Boris
• Tibet Freedom Concert (at RFK when that person got struck by lightning)
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Post something random & have an awesome December
November 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Post something random & have an awesome December
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THREAD: Christmas gifts I made for family last year.
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
THREAD: Christmas gifts I made for family last year.
Post something random & have an awesome December
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Post something random & have an awesome December
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Depeche Mode should do a holiday tour called Christmas à la Mode
I think Depeche Mode should release a Christmas album called It's the Mode Wonderful Time of the Year.
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Depeche Mode should do a holiday tour called Christmas à la Mode
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Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".
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Who did this?!
November 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Who did this?!
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To put this in context, I was offered a teaching track job in 2023 that had a salary of $55,000.
It's impossible to overstate how horrendous this feels to most academics in the US, esp those working at state unis. Higher ed is busy slashing humanities programs allegedly b/c of a lack of popularity (tho they tend to make $$) while paying football coaches US$53 million not to work there
LSU terminates Brian Kelly without cause, clearing way for full buyout
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
To put this in context, I was offered a teaching track job in 2023 that had a salary of $55,000.
Sudoku 2’05”
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Sudoku 2’05”
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Oblique Strategy of the Day… #BrianEno #PeterSchmidt
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Oblique Strategy of the Day… #BrianEno #PeterSchmidt
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WKRP Turkey Drop
YouTube video by Brian Henigin
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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"Fuck your family"
-Happy Holidays, from Walmart
-Happy Holidays, from Walmart
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Fuck your family"
-Happy Holidays, from Walmart
-Happy Holidays, from Walmart
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As CEO of Mott’s Applesauce I really have to question your mental state if Applesauce isn’t on your plate, in your toilet, in the bedroom, really everywhere that Applesauce could help
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As CEO of Mott’s Applesauce I really have to question your mental state if Applesauce isn’t on your plate, in your toilet, in the bedroom, really everywhere that Applesauce could help
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Without farmworkers we wouldn’t be able to celebrate Thanksgiving. Be thankful for their hard work this holiday season!
Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!
#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!
#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Without farmworkers we wouldn’t be able to celebrate Thanksgiving. Be thankful for their hard work this holiday season!
Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!
#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!
#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
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Mad thesis: societies where people have time for their kids, community, society are better societies.
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Mad thesis: societies where people have time for their kids, community, society are better societies.
HARD agree. From someone who’s done both.
Ed tech rarely seems to be about accessibility. It seems to be about using up school district budgets on the latest shiny & new promise of a panacea that doesn’t work & gets replaced every few years at the expense of what staff & students actually need.
Ed tech rarely seems to be about accessibility. It seems to be about using up school district budgets on the latest shiny & new promise of a panacea that doesn’t work & gets replaced every few years at the expense of what staff & students actually need.
My wife teaches special ed.
I used to work in assistive technology two decades ago.
There are technologies that genuinely help those with disabilities—screen readers, accessible PDFs of textbooks, high contrast settings, voice-to-text, etc. They are purpose-built.
EdTech usually isn't doing that.
I used to work in assistive technology two decades ago.
There are technologies that genuinely help those with disabilities—screen readers, accessible PDFs of textbooks, high contrast settings, voice-to-text, etc. They are purpose-built.
EdTech usually isn't doing that.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
HARD agree. From someone who’s done both.
Ed tech rarely seems to be about accessibility. It seems to be about using up school district budgets on the latest shiny & new promise of a panacea that doesn’t work & gets replaced every few years at the expense of what staff & students actually need.
Ed tech rarely seems to be about accessibility. It seems to be about using up school district budgets on the latest shiny & new promise of a panacea that doesn’t work & gets replaced every few years at the expense of what staff & students actually need.
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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thankful for all the little people who live in my phone
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
thankful for all the little people who live in my phone
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I do think social science people thinking their research papers on AI are uniquely exciting because they're *about AI* need to get a grip a bit. I help edit a social science journal on education and technology, and the endless submissions about AI - let alone produced by it - are mostly very tedious
And we will make exceptions for empirical social science research about AI in society – e.g., a study on how AI use affects workers in an organization – on a case-by-case basis. If your paper on an AI topic is rejected and you would like to appeal, email us a short note of explanation. Sorry!
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November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I do think social science people thinking their research papers on AI are uniquely exciting because they're *about AI* need to get a grip a bit. I help edit a social science journal on education and technology, and the endless submissions about AI - let alone produced by it - are mostly very tedious
The economy is about priorities —opportunity costs. What are a society’s priorities? That is where we spend our resources.
We spend ours on making sure rich people can hoard resources because of the belief that they somehow contribute more to society than the garbage collector or the nurse.
We spend ours on making sure rich people can hoard resources because of the belief that they somehow contribute more to society than the garbage collector or the nurse.
As an economist, I've been on about this my entire career. Mind boggling whenever someone thinks markets "just" work. Naturally occurring, not naturally social welfare maximizing.
More broadly, markets are creatures of the state. Law, regulation and custom define their contours and functions. Without the state, markets exist in the sense that exchange will still take place but absent contract law and property rights, is largely limited to barter.
November 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The economy is about priorities —opportunity costs. What are a society’s priorities? That is where we spend our resources.
We spend ours on making sure rich people can hoard resources because of the belief that they somehow contribute more to society than the garbage collector or the nurse.
We spend ours on making sure rich people can hoard resources because of the belief that they somehow contribute more to society than the garbage collector or the nurse.
“That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries — rather, you find ways to combine your personal & professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict & inflexible with your time.”
It actually does mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries. Let’s start there.
It actually does mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries. Let’s start there.
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries — rather, you find ways to combine your personal & professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict & inflexible with your time.”
It actually does mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries. Let’s start there.
It actually does mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries. Let’s start there.
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Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Music. I think a lot about what it must have been like for the first person who ever sang.
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Music. I think a lot about what it must have been like for the first person who ever sang.
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving