They spend their time on 4, maybe 5 streets max. And none of those streets house (or unhouse) people they’ve fucked over.

Exactly. As though the 2016 primary cycle didn’t get ugly between Donny, Marco, and Ted before they kissed and made up.

While we’re at it.

Canvas & Blackboard are now both owned by Private Equity giants in the “data integration space,” meaning they harvest & monetize our identity & intellectual property…& our students’

We should be asking, what do these LMSs do that a $20/yr password-protected WordPress site can’t?

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A classic

Did Brad Pitt write this post?

I read this thread last night, and woke up today and (unrelatedly) read the Wilderness Act of 1964. Defines “wilderness area” under law as “has at least five thousand acres.” The US can’t seem to get over the euphoria and ideology of endless space that gripped the first Euro settlers, I guess.

A reminder that, if you liked what you saw at target in 2021 better, you can always 1. Just re-wear it; or 2. Check out your local thrift stores.
Make June 2025 a Low-Consumption Pride Month!

Not only does it teach to read fast, but to get it (whatever “it” is) on the first try. You become a failure if you gotta go back to understand or appreciate it, and doing so years later is out of the question.

Using an elaborated code anywhere to supplement or replace restricted code?

I think it’d be interesting to put that in conversation with Bernstein’s elaborated vs restricted code. For example, if the Bible has lost ground as restricted code (allusion) is that where we see a rise in elaborated code (evangelism, apologetics, debating atheists, etc)? And are literary writers

I get the same sense in Patton. He tells us the weevils won’t leave enough cotton to sell but doesn’t seem too down about that. Says “you won’t get half a bale,” not himself.

Notably missing “hacks” that disempowered communities actually do to survive: creating and maintaining non-market networks for exchanging goods and services.

We learned from Breonna Taylor’s murderers’ case that you cannot defend yourself.

Are the weevils antagonists to or analogous to Black Southerners in your readings of Leadbelly and ZNH?

That’s fascinating; I’m about to read ZNH for comps, I’ve never read her before.

That Leadbelly line makes me think of Patton’s boll weevil, who “ain’t got ticket fare” to go north. Poor creatures further impoverishing poor humans.