Can confirm. Last night an Olympic figure skater’s music prompted a conversation about Ravel’s Boléro and a woman who made an art piece inspired by the music, and how they both ended up with neurological disorders, which turned into a convo about synesthesia. We never finished watching the skating.

They are really good prepared sweet, though! They make a delicious milkshake, are nice in puddings, etc.

It’s also wild to me how many of those suburban white people literally will not enter the city limits. You want to be near a cool city that you simply will not visit? Ok, weirdos.

Not to mention a complete bullshit AI slop Winter Olympics flashback during the opening ceremony. 👎🏼👎🏼

The alt text on the original image mentions that was intentional!

When I began teaching, student IDs were still SSNs. We were to keep final exams for a few years in case of contested grades. I boxed them up, moved several times, and last year finally went through 20+ years of docs and shredded. I could have stolen students’ identity so many ways. 😳

we are learning the hard way that consciousness, skill, communication, understanding are miracles

To paraphrase Orwell, "if you want to imagine the future, picture AI-slop videos of everyone you love or respect being ritually humiliated--forever."