AI data centers exemplify the inefficiency of Capitalism

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Hunting dogs are something else. I thought my boxer was high energy until we adopted him

Brittanys are ridiculous dogs. Mine (finally) caught a gecko, and was so proud to bring it to me 🐶

It would have made more sense to put this in Fort Worth, where Texas' largest "stock exchange" was

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Book Announcement:

I just published an OER textbook for Introduction to Popular Culture classes (or any other class that addresses popular culture) called "Keepin' Up with Popular Culture"

It is free, open-access. Please let me know what you think!

uta.pressbooks.pub/keepinupwith...

"The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics."

-Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment

Proud of this challah, it was off the chain

So many great insights, just in the preface!

"What we set out to do was nothing less than to explain why humanity instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism"
- Horkheimer and Adorno 1947

Just put on new running shoes that make my feet feel better than barefoot

Giving myself a crash course on the American dream literature

Folks in this area come up with some great titles!

😰

My son is listening to "Bye, bye, Bye" on repeat. This is day 3 of it. I may need help

I just said no to something

Bought a 1918 cylinder Edison Phonograph and records for $140!

Woke up to the shear joy of my son learning about the new Mario releases

I needed that

Why didn't I know about Archive.today until last week? Get the Archive Page extension and be done with paywalls!

Book files submitted!!!

🤞it is on schedule to publish in February 2026
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Anyone 35-55 should know!

How old are your colleagues?

Today was 103, the hottest day of a mild summer in Arlington, Texas. But when it's hot in September, it feels brutal. I'm guessing it has to do with the position of the sun. But it is really awful

Been reading 18th Brumaire