Virogenes
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I've been crying all morning. It's just gone
March 26, 2024 at 12:48 PM
I've been crying all morning. It's just gone
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if you want to survive on here you have to establish yourself. you gotta look around, find the biggest, wokest account you can, walk right up to them and scold them for insufficient intersectionality
February 6, 2024 at 6:16 PM
if you want to survive on here you have to establish yourself. you gotta look around, find the biggest, wokest account you can, walk right up to them and scold them for insufficient intersectionality
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Kate Elliott, and Ann Aguirre - @bluejo.bsky.social walks us through her reads and reviews from this January:
reactormag.com/jo-waltons-r...
reactormag.com/jo-waltons-r...
Jo Walton's Reading List: January 2024 - Reactor
Only eight books this month, but all of them were good.
reactormag.com
February 5, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Lois McMaster Bujold, Kate Elliott, and Ann Aguirre - @bluejo.bsky.social walks us through her reads and reviews from this January:
reactormag.com/jo-waltons-r...
reactormag.com/jo-waltons-r...
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Dartmouth is reinstating the SAT. They analyzed their data and found 2 key things:
1) Test scores were a better predictor of success than high school grades/essays/recommendations
2) The test-optional policy was harming low-income kids who would have been accepted
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/b...
1) Test scores were a better predictor of success than high school grades/essays/recommendations
2) The test-optional policy was harming low-income kids who would have been accepted
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/b...
A Top College Reinstates the SAT
Why other schools may follow Dartmouth’s lead.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Dartmouth is reinstating the SAT. They analyzed their data and found 2 key things:
1) Test scores were a better predictor of success than high school grades/essays/recommendations
2) The test-optional policy was harming low-income kids who would have been accepted
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/b...
1) Test scores were a better predictor of success than high school grades/essays/recommendations
2) The test-optional policy was harming low-income kids who would have been accepted
www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/b...
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
February 4,1954
February 4,1954
February 4, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
February 4,1954
February 4,1954
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If you work (or play) in or near cryptography, it's very likely you owe a debt to the work of David Kahn, who passed away this week. wapo.st/47Weerz (gift link)
David Kahn, historian who cracked the code of cryptology, dies at 93
His bestselling 1967 book “The Codebreakers” established him as a preeminent scholar of signals intelligence.
wapo.st
February 3, 2024 at 4:21 AM
If you work (or play) in or near cryptography, it's very likely you owe a debt to the work of David Kahn, who passed away this week. wapo.st/47Weerz (gift link)
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Who wants to read every Technotronic 'Pump Up The Jam' Chart Show fact I submitted one afternoon for Cunk On Earth?
I think we probably used... two of these. And there are exactly one million (estimated).
open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
I think we probably used... two of these. And there are exactly one million (estimated).
open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
Pump Up The Jam
Technotronic, Philomena Cunk and the joy of excess...
open.substack.com
February 2, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Who wants to read every Technotronic 'Pump Up The Jam' Chart Show fact I submitted one afternoon for Cunk On Earth?
I think we probably used... two of these. And there are exactly one million (estimated).
open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
I think we probably used... two of these. And there are exactly one million (estimated).
open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
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new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2024/02/beet... you reading my skeets
February 2, 2024 at 3:48 PM
new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2024/02/beet... you reading my skeets
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RIP to my parents' dog Postie, who I loved inordinately. The world was not good enough for him. Tell someone you love them today in his honour.
February 1, 2024 at 1:50 PM
RIP to my parents' dog Postie, who I loved inordinately. The world was not good enough for him. Tell someone you love them today in his honour.
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A throwback to the days of delightful, functional little websites: input any train station in europe, and get a map of every station you can reach from there without transfers. direkt.bahn.guru
January 28, 2024 at 5:40 AM
A throwback to the days of delightful, functional little websites: input any train station in europe, and get a map of every station you can reach from there without transfers. direkt.bahn.guru
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I've been an early riser for many years now. Used to get quite stressed by it. But now accept that's just how I am. It does have its moments too.. 🌄
January 20, 2024 at 8:41 AM
I've been an early riser for many years now. Used to get quite stressed by it. But now accept that's just how I am. It does have its moments too.. 🌄
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Microsoft has been hacked by the same Russian agency that got Solarwinds. They "access[ed] a very small percentage [🙄] of Microsoft corporate email accounts, including members of our senior leadership team and employees in our cybersecurity [and] legal functions." msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2024/01...
Microsoft Actions Following Attack by Nation State Actor Midnight Blizzard | MSRC ...
Microsoft Actions Following Attack by Nation State Actor Midnight Blizzard
msrc.microsoft.com
January 20, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Microsoft has been hacked by the same Russian agency that got Solarwinds. They "access[ed] a very small percentage [🙄] of Microsoft corporate email accounts, including members of our senior leadership team and employees in our cybersecurity [and] legal functions." msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2024/01...
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I made a playlist of Beck’s best tracks since Sea Change, if you want to hear what he’s been up to for the last 22 years
POSTMODERN BECK
POSTMODERN BECK · Playlist · 17 songs · 4 likes
open.spotify.com
January 4, 2024 at 1:17 PM
I made a playlist of Beck’s best tracks since Sea Change, if you want to hear what he’s been up to for the last 22 years
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Sweet Jesus. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/b...
Ever Had a Horrible Boss? ‘The Fund’ Is the Perfect Rage-Read.
In Rob Copeland’s “The Fund,” we learn about the notorious hedge-fund giant Ray Dalio — and the manipulative professional hellscape over which he has presided.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2023 at 5:28 AM
Sweet Jesus. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/b...
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Excellent choice by Chait to use "Rubicon-crossing" to describe the act of trying to hold someone accountable for insurrection, rather than the act of marching against the capital to seize power
December 27, 2023 at 12:10 AM
Excellent choice by Chait to use "Rubicon-crossing" to describe the act of trying to hold someone accountable for insurrection, rather than the act of marching against the capital to seize power
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a note from me & @lollardfish.bsky.social about Substack and Modern Medieval
free to read
modernmedieval.substack.com/p/happy-holi...
free to read
modernmedieval.substack.com/p/happy-holi...
Happy Holidays and Site Migration Plans
Stay tuned but we're not gonna support Substack anymore
modernmedieval.substack.com
December 23, 2023 at 7:55 PM
a note from me & @lollardfish.bsky.social about Substack and Modern Medieval
free to read
modernmedieval.substack.com/p/happy-holi...
free to read
modernmedieval.substack.com/p/happy-holi...
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the weirdest part of the disqualification debate is how many people seem to take it as a given that letting a man who just tried to stage a coup run for president is definitively more democratic than not letting him run
one of the strangest things about this piece if you read it is that it takes for granted the idea that trump’s election somehow represented the public will. it also rests on the idea that trump did not try to overturn the results of the previous election through illegal & extra-constitutional means
This country has to be allowed to save itself; therefore the action it just took to save itself must be blocked.
December 22, 2023 at 10:24 PM
the weirdest part of the disqualification debate is how many people seem to take it as a given that letting a man who just tried to stage a coup run for president is definitively more democratic than not letting him run
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Reluctantly crouched
At the starting line
Parsley
Sage
Rosemary and thyme
At the starting line
Parsley
Sage
Rosemary and thyme
December 22, 2023 at 5:29 PM
Reluctantly crouched
At the starting line
Parsley
Sage
Rosemary and thyme
At the starting line
Parsley
Sage
Rosemary and thyme