Is there solid research comparing learning loss I. states where schools were closed longest had greater loss than those closed shortest?
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Is there solid research comparing learning loss I. states where schools were closed longest had greater loss than those closed shortest?
“Ok, so I can’t make jewelry, but I’m great at disarming an alarm system and smashing glass cases”
Pixies “Wave of Mutilation UK Surf Edition”
95% of people in the Bay dress really blandly and then occasionally you see someone who looks like an R Crumb drawing of The Future.
If you’d asked me six months ago if people were ready to burn their credibility by propping up Wine Bar Ron DeSantis I’d have been skeptical. But here we are
No one is allowed to vote scold in defense of Gavin Newsom unless they can show proof they donated to Zohran Mamdani, Kat Abughazaleh, Graham Platner, or some other progressive candidate ACTUALLY CURRENTLY RUNNING.
My experience is that there’s a lot of cognitive dissonance around this, as in people (students included) don’t like or trust LLMs but also feel like they have no choice but to use them because they perceive (rightly or wrongly) that everyone else is using them
I really hope Newsom can find time between throwing trans people under the bus and doing photo ops at homeless sweeps to secure COVID vaccines for Californians
I hope DC does this and I also hope they put a little more effort into production. The second volume is shot through with black pages and spreads that sink deep into the binding
I got an NYT push alert about Taylor Swift getting engaged, but not about the United States spying on Greenland
I guess if Bechdel can use Paying For It these folks can have Fun Home
Added benefit is that he’ll be surrounded by younger, smarter people, thereby being reminded of his pale male mediocrity at every moment of his working day
Habermas probably deserves some blame but not for the reason your average centrist would think
I made an Amish version of a monster truck rally but it’s just me riding a horse over a bunch of dead horses
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * irregardless * supposably * I hope this email finds you well * adulting * cringe * utilize
At the risk of piling on, “woke” language is understandable, sends a clear message about the person using it. It’s not that people are confused by terms like LatinX or pronouns in bios, they just don’t like the people who favor them
To be fair, it ended with a negotiation followed by the incineration of two cities. Maybe this is what JD has in mind
Johnny Depp
refusing to accept this isn’t just about “purity” or whatever, it’s about effective politics. someone who thinks it’s practical to cave on trans rights misunderstands how politics works, they don’t recognize that public opinion is forged by perseverance
What’s great about science is that it’s just facts, and what’s great about scientists is that they’re impervious to politics
The beatings will stop when morale improves (the author appears to work for Microsoft) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I think it’s a silly question. I can assess what’s in front of me now such that when there are some actual candidates in an actual race I can make a decision
Why would you ask this?
Are you asking me to tell you who I want to vote for in the 2024 primary?
So in answer to your question a candidate who isn’t bargaining away a constituency is a necessary condition for me to support them in a primary
It works to select a leader but it they select the guy who says “ok, you can have the pinky toe of every boy named Jeff,” then boys named Jeff and their friends likely won’t vote for the guy, which might explain a loss or fatal lack of support going forward
No, you’re bargaining about which nails to pull out and how many
Masculinity just got a little less toxic
Can anyone tell me why my Fall of Rome Scented Candle doesn't smell like anything?
Adding this here in case it gets lost, but the NG isn’t necessarily armed during domestic deployments. Obviously the point of this is for them to be armed, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the senior officers were resistant to Kent State Part 2
This NPR article is pretty clear that the decision hadn’t been made about arming them at time of writing www.npr.org/2025/08/17/g...
And this confirms that they weren’t already carrying www.npr.org/2025/08/17/g...
This part of the article made it seem like they weren’t already armed
In the article it says they were weighing options about arming the guard with rifles vs. pistols, (don’t know not arming them less-lethal weapons was considered) so I guess that’s the news
I wasn’t too worried about microplastics but then I heard a podcast where Emily Oster said not to worry about it and now I’m scared shitless
Say what you will about the Sophists but they could make the worse seem the better. This guy is at once full of shit and unconvincing
RCTs are especially of limited utility when it comes to testing societal transformations like an actual UBI program, because there can be no control group for a program that is literally universal.
Yeah, that’s a pretty good album
She describes herself as “professionally useful,” which is at once incredibly accurate and also entirely unselfconscious
There’s a whole middle that gets left out of this convo… you can get a pretty healthy premade meal with a can of chili and some cheese. Peanut butter, canned fish, lots of premade frozen stuff. To say nothing of minute rice and canned legumes. It doesn’t have to be Whole Foods vs. the dollar menu
That show The Bear thinks it understands my family's neuroses, but, crucially, when we improvise at length we're actually funny.
The heart wants what the heart wants
Given the success of the movies I’d say today’s general superhero literacy probably makes Watchmen a better first read now than it was before
I did a very down and dirty thematic analysis of the imagined futures in the most cited pro-AI research (the stuff everyone cites breathlessly). The most commonly imagined future? Your boss will now expect your slide deck to take one hour instead of three days. That’s THEIR imagination, not mine.
A lot of that marketing came from coding bootcamps and VCs tho, and they made it a central plank of the “college is worthless “ message, so I’m not sure “don’t go to college job train” is the lesson here
When I buy tampons for my daughter I bring a periscope so that I can look around the corner of aisle to make sure it’s clear
Turns out Warner Bros. put tape over the hole of their VHS copy of Casablanca to tape Air Bud off HBO so you won't be able to see Casablanca anymore
Email attachments. It means maintaining serious folder discipline but it gets the job done
4/ At this point, any account of the Epstein thing that isn’t framed as a beef between different flavors of misogynistic rape apologists and enablers is a waste of energy
3/ Hence Trump’s defense that he fell out with Epstein when he took one of his employees
2/ If anything, the focus on Epstein by mainstream GOP is evidence that the real fear is a nefarious cabal of people stealing “our girls”
1/ To believe that the Epstein thing will bring Trump down requires the belief that the mainstream GOP is against sexually exploiting the girls and women in their immediate orbit, and I just don’t think that’s their position
It’s me
I think we should be honest that the *Greatest Generation* people [who were white] fought fascism ABROAD while they overwhelmingly supported fascism AT HOME. And frankly, those chickens have come home to roost now.
If this is all they got from her they got played
The ultimate test is Catherine or Jeffrey
I initially read this as evolutionary parapsychologist, which would be a cursed profession. Measuring crystal skulls, dating advice for werewolves, etc.
A lot of people asking for advice, and this is the case across topics, are really asking for cheat codes. That puts honest brokers at a profound disadvantage
If short guys never got laid there’d be no short guys
Seems like people tend to date people roughly on their level when it comes to looks. Seems like there are always guys who want to level up and can’t, or who overestimate their own looks (or personality or whatever) and then blame others for their rejection
How is this different from saying that we will eventually get a left that understands how to seize the means of production?
Maybe, but Jane’s Addiction did that last summer and it was sad-funny
www.tracingthestream.com/tracing-the-...
Speaking and writing are fundamentally different mediums, not only for delivering thought but also for generating and ordering it. The artifacts of thinking and arranging in writing will come through no matter how hard you try to backfill artifacts of extemporaneous speech
Sadly, I believe he is unable to screw
I’m listening
i'm going to need someone to draw me a diagram of where and how all the trans panic loops back around to don jr getting implants
When I was young we just called them goths
Trump’s newest “Epstein stole my girl” might seem incriminating but his constituency is pretty consistent in its belief that it’s only sex abuse when other people do it
To be fair, he sometimes lumps progressives into his efforts to explain away why his cohort consistently allied with the Republican Party instead of the Democrats
85% of what this guy said in the interview would collapse if you forced him to stop conflating the left with democrats
Ross Douthat [cautioning those nosy kids and their dog]: If you dislike the mysterious old ghost haunting the mansion, wait until you meet the old guy in disguise as that mysterious old ghost, trying to drive down property values so he can buy it all up himself.
Every writer who tells us we closed down too much during last pandemic is creating a permission structure for throwing us into the wood chipper during the next one
They’re creating a permission structure to ignore the next pandemic
There’s a color glut today, inasmuch as too many books are colored beyond the point of readability
Sounds like the doctor should have been paying you
The standard account of Me Too’s failure and backlash is that the status quo ante was restored: the temporarily embarrassed men were reemployed; the conditions of heterosexuality were unchallenged. But much of the supressed dismay and anger of that moment has been sublimated elsewhere.
See above… Wendy Pini
I refuse to believe this, unless by lots of cartoonists you mean Wendy Pini
I was impressed by how many of the young people I spoke with in a China had come to grips with the dire state of delivery drivers with a shrug of the shoulders. Reminded me of home
In Shanghai they drive on the sidewalk for one thing
“You see, I have my thing. And I can’t give up my thing on the mere technicality that it isn’t really a thing.”
His Warren work is what makes his rep I think… he had a great eye for artists
By all accounts Archie Goodwin was both a great editor and a great person
One like = one toe I cut off
In related news, Richard Hanania is a more racist, less talented reincarnation of HP Lovecraft
I’ve been on this for literal years! TCW blocked me for it
His dissertation advisor (maybe)
Jellys Fish
Kind of rude to take a picture of a person while they’re evacuating
I want to hear more about this!
Why not both?
I meant to say, I support the project as it is, but we saw a lot of people get hurt along the way because of decades of willful inaction that makes this feel like something more complicated than just a YIMBY win
This is where we agree. I just can’t sever the new good development from the callous mismanagement that preceded it. My empathy is for the people who’ve been treated as collateral damage in these arguments
100%
The history of peoples park is a history of mismanagement by of the largest landowner in the city so I’m skeptical that this was the best they could do. Better than what it was doing? Absolutely. That said, I’m a supporter of the UC’s efforts to build and I’m seeing the benefits for my students
Yes. The famously simple question of housing policy in Berkeley. Look, I basically agree but the total refusal of empathy on display here is breathtaking
You’d think I was opposed to the park. I’m just asking for a little nuance here.
