ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.

With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier

"Go Owls, hootie-hooooooo" Unrivaled is doing great IMO

The ringworm episode of Abbott is a perfect episode of television

Going to Mars is a very beautiful documentary that I highly recommend. 💔

People have told us that they don't mind if an answer is misleading, so long as it's fast. To our minds, this is a *wild* perspective to have.

It's born of an attitude that views history primarily as entertainment, that it's about learning fun "facts" rather than actually understanding the past.

people who have never experienced open racism — or open bigotry of any sort — do not appreciate the way it can be psychologically destabilizing. and on the main, it actually isn’t healthy to be so resilient and thick-skinned that you don’t react to slurs and dehumanization

Two of our students have gotten hit in hit and runs around campus this month. What is going on.

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