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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · Aug 17

Homer, to Mulder and Scully: "WELL, THE EVENING BEGAN
AT THE GENTLEMAN'S CLUB
WHERE WE WERE DISCUSSING
WITTGENSTEIN OVER A GAME
OF BACKGAMMON."

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The Jurph from the Black Lagoon @jurph.bsky.social · 4h

The advisor from SimCity hollers at the player, "YOU CAN'T LET A FROG DANCE EROTICALLY AT YOUR SWAT TEAM! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!" The typeface is Chicago but the city is Portland.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 4h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 11h

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 12h

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 1d

I can't stop thinking about this. We're pursuing zero fire risk in multifam, while tolerating much more in single-fam. People respond by building and living in single-fam, where they're exposed to not only one of the highest fire death risks in the developed world, but also TONS more car crash risk

Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 1d

Love this new report on buildings' relative fire safety from @alexhrwtz.bsky.social and Pew colleagues.

www.pew.org/en/research-...

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 1d

My daughter has paper trails (big stack of children's books with Dolly's face on the inside sleeve)

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

To add to this thread, with the annual National Economic Accounts update released recently we got our 1st estimates of real data center construction

It's tripled since 2022, reaching $25B/yr. Keep in mind this doesn't include investment in computers within, which have risen by $100B

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with Mark ✊

Far-right harassment of academics has long been a problem across countries. Many legacy media ignore, minimize, or even facilitate it. #NoPaseran

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 1d

City manager, city council, city mayor

the coach of the KC Chiefs, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. From left to right they are wearing (1) a very normal grey suit with red tie, (2) a newsboy cap in brown with a shirt that looks like a bad motel wallpaper, and (3) a barbie-esque italian table cloth vest

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 1d

Another confirmation of the "everyone is twelve now" theory.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer:
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

"I'm strong and want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve. "I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 1d

That's a ton of "both" or "I don't know" for those issues near the top, which is not surprising because the Democrats' agenda, as the party not in power, is naturally less visible to the public, especially in a non-election year. Tough to draw conclusions from the red-blue differential alone.

Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 2d

Especially the Seattle/Milwaukee Pilots connection

Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 2d

The Capital Purchase Program already did this for 51 banks in 2008.

Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 2d

Antifa supersoldier

Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 2d

Turning a big dial that says "buy order" and looking back at the rolling ticker for approval.

Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 2d

Professors have been vibe coding (RA's) forever

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 2d

You know what else moved from city to city?

Independence Day: President Whitmore in front of a US map showing cities the aliens are destroying.

Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 2d

I guess Season 9 of the United States of America is where we jumped the shark.

Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 2d

For the X post, ofc

King George III portrait with speech bubble

Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 2d

Parents of young children.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 2d

The Nobel Prize for medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi.

Interestingly, none of them seem to be part of the huge network of Nobel Prize winners.

At least none of their PhD supervisors seem to have won the Nobel.

The 2025 NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

A screenshot of a chart published in Nature that shows that 702 out of 736 Nobel Prize winners are part of the same academic network. Only 32 researchers out of this network have won the Nobel Prize in science and economics.

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 3d

I grew up without cable. If it was on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network, I knew OF it but I too never saw more than 4 or 5 full episodes of anything originating there.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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Assistant Marshallian Spillover Spookinator 👻 @stevenlandgraf.com · 3d

Nonetheless, since you're mentioning the third thing as if it sidesteps this issue: The escrow idea is also unworkable for the exact same reason. The IRS doesn't care if the state sets up an escrow for you to pay in. You don't pay the IRS.

Everyone take a chill pill, Jesus.