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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 8h

Souvenir from earlier this year while watching F1.

It might be sacrilegious to say anything but Spa, but I think Austin has a strong argument for being the best track in the world 🏎️

(Not pictured: catching up on a week’s worth of laundry spread all around me #dadlife)

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 1d

It certainly looks like this new era will challenge a lot of programs. For instance, this law being framed in revenue: I looked, and WMU and Miami (my alma mater) have $39 and $38 million in revenue, respectively…and existing expenses in the very high 30s too. They can’t even do what B1G schools can

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 1d

Oh exactly. Running the ads multiple times at halftime, just in case Tommy Tuberville had wandered away to refill his slop bucket - he’s bound to catch it at least once

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like a cutoff of $20 million in revenue for these requirements scoops up about 2/3 of Division 1 - all the FBS schools (privates missing from this data) and 30-40 of the bigger FCS schools (3/2)

sportsdata.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances

NCAA Finances: Revenue & Expenses by School - USA TODAY

Which are the most profitable college athletic programs in the country? See a ranked listed, including total revenue and expenses. Brought to you by USA TODAY.

sportsdata.usatoday.com

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 1d

Sponsored by the SEC itself, it shouts out the Power 4’s roster of Olympic and women’s athletes and calls for passing something called the Score Act. Seems to be aimed at the biggest chunk of D1 programs and guarantees certain benefits to athletes, and a minimum of 16 sports to be sponsored (2/2)

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 1d

Since I’m watching Bama-Tennessee (against my better judgment, since USC/ND is also on…) - there’s a rebuttal to that commercial we were discussing a few weeks ago, @garrt.bsky.social @jacquesdupuis.bsky.social and @keithkothman.bsky.social (1/2)

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 2d

Realizing this means my own introduction to Caroline Shaw thus involved explaining K-Pop Demon Hunters to her, which was either a professional highlight, or I made her think I’m crazy

K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 2d

On one hand, our local district’s schedule is a total mess: high holy days are important, but random days off for the fair, teacher inservices, and conferences are 🤯 for working families.

On the other hand, my daughters came to work with me today and got to meet Caroline Shaw, which was awesome!

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 2d

On one hand, our local district’s schedule is a total mess: high holy days are important, but random days off for the fair, teacher inservices, and conferences are 🤯 for working families.

On the other hand, my daughters came to work with me today and got to meet Caroline Shaw, which was awesome!

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 3d

Haha, I never even knew there was a second “u,” and I’ve lived in Frederick for more than five years!

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 3d

I haven't been careful enough about keeping every bill, and First Energy deletes them after a year, but the net effect is going from bills around $70 in 2021, to $90 in 2023 to $130-140 in 2025. But ChatGPT will do sexytimes soon, which is way better than curing cancer or funding my Roth IRA

K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 3d

People on the town reddit fighting over data centers and power costs again (we live just north of data center central, Loudon Co., Virginia, and it's constantly threatening to expand). The price really is crazy though: it's almost doubled in four years, from 6.3 cents to 10.9 on the most recent bill

simple line graph showing the price per kilowatt-hour going from 6.3 cents in early 2021, to 10.9 cents in September 2025, with a promised reduction coming that I doubt will even happen (last promised reduction this summer turned into an increase!)

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 3d

I was in high school when this came out and my buddy and I went absolutely nuts in the theater for this moment. Same with the sonic charges in the asteroid belt earlier in the movie: BWAAAAAANG. We lost our shit it was so cool

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 3d

(Yeah I know this is big "data visualization is my passion" energy here, but the point stands)

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 3d

People on the town reddit fighting over data centers and power costs again (we live just north of data center central, Loudon Co., Virginia, and it's constantly threatening to expand). The price really is crazy though: it's almost doubled in four years, from 6.3 cents to 10.9 on the most recent bill

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 3d

Until my computer can make me "Tea, Earl Grey, hot," I don't want to talk to it.

a woman says tea earl gray hot in front of a man in a red jacket

ALT: a woman says tea earl gray hot in front of a man in a red jacket

media.tenor.com

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 4d

We could have ended world hunger, solved domestic homelessness, and probably established universal healthcare for the amount that has been poured into AI companies (The Guardian estimates $717 billion), all so they can soon answer the question, "What are you wearing?"

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 4d

other duties as assigned

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 7d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 7d

"The chancellor approved it"

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah I have a PhD, but I also have no idea how much spaghetti to cook for a given number of people.

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, it is extraordinary to realize that it's not employing any concept at all of "these are sharps and these are flats, and I need x number of them over here, then x+1..." It really is just slopping out pixels all over in something resembling images it's been trained on, and hoping for the best

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 7d

bsky.app/profile/ohar...

K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · Aug 21

wake up babe, new key signatures just dropped.

[Adding an AI policy to my syllabus this semester, and wanted an illustration so I went to ChatGPT. Now I'm really considering just making the policy, "If you'd like me to give you grades based on stuff like this, knock yourself out"]

ChatGPT's diagram of the Circle of Fifths. Many wrong key names (including two Bs, and the enharmonic pair C-sharp, G-flat, and 100% incorrect key signatures, mostly mixing flats, sharps, and the occasional double sharp)

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 7d

That’s actually decent compared to circles of fifths I’ve seen it make before

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 8d

Got back from the neighborhood fall festival to find the grisly scene of our Roomba trying to eat an American Girl doll hair first, how’s your Saturday going?

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 10d

This is the energy we all need to bring to bring to discussions about AI

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 11d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 11d

I've spent the past few weeks getting back into Times New Roman, as an act of aesthetic rebellion (or perhaps anti-aesthetic rebellion).

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 12d

a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

ALT: a man with a beard and mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .

media.tenor.com

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K2S0'Hara, but pumpkin spice flavored @oharawe.bsky.social · 13d

Proposal: Faculty meetings, but somebody is running a sound effects board like an obnoxious drive-time radio show.

What sound effect or clip are you bringing to your faculty meetings? I'm wearing out the button on this one:

www.youtube.com/shorts/kQgI1...

'OH NO. DISASTER. WHAT A BAD IDEA' 🤣🍿 #cfb #usc #maryland #hornets #bigten

YouTube video by CFB ON FOX

www.youtube.com

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