This is hard to argue with. Because I wouldn’t know where to start.
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This is hard to argue with. Because I wouldn’t know where to start.
St. Augustine grass has invaded the bermudagrass I’m trying to kill and while nicer and I will neglect it just as much, it seems harder to eradicate.
Oh no. I would be much more critical of environmental destruction. They seem very excited about new stores. I like trees.
Not The Onion.
Coincidentally I heard part of this last night! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Uhhh. Yeah that is hard to argue with.
People talk often about how wonderful a place is, but then slowly, or not so slowly, destroy everything it has looked like in recent history to turn it into a collage of replicas of things in other places.
Can educators roll them back?
Quiet your stupid engine it’s migration season.
Oh this is the thing I meant to listen to. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Can we try being people to each other first?
AI is just ‘big data’ with a more annoying and slightly longer half-life.
What if instead we actually did the exact opposite?
But when your flight is cancelled due to ‘weather’ who know what it will actually cost you. Right @americanair.bsky.social?
What ever happened to ‘big data’?
It was a Nashville warbler.
Well this is not building confidence. The uncommon Common Yellowthroat.
Happy Extra-Day-To-Mow-Your-Lawn! Apparently.
I couldn’t finish this one. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Or scare your neighbors even more by letting your lawn go wild.
Chaser: journalrecord.com/2025/08/29/o...
Shot: www.kgou.org/politics-and...
This was both expected and surprising.
Dear @microsoft.com, I requested exactly one code.
I read that as pillows and thought, ‘well they are oblong and squishy’.
It would have gone better if they were actually out of stock. These are terrible.
I ate cereal last night for dinner for there first time in years and I didn’t even see this post until morning.
“Why does the gate handle feel squishy?” Hint: Imagine a snake climbing it and you accidentally grabbed the snake.
But usually business are open and it’s mostly government operations that seem affected. There are baseball games, hardware stores, grocery stores, …
Watching Our Oceans with Britt and every time there is a fact about eating Britt screams out in disbelief. “The arctic char fast for 10 months.” Britt, interrupts, disgusted: “TEN months!?!”
The only acceptable use of two-factor authentication is preventing unintended outgoing calls or reducing unwanted reply-all emails.
Call Again? No thanks, I didn’t mean to call the first two times.
The Microsoft Copilot ‘business meeting with Dan’ commercial doesn’t make me think Copilot is great, it makes me think that jobs are bad.
I bought these and it is like wearing tights. www.gap.com/browse/produ...
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While I understand the need for security, it’s annoying that this happened because I was trying to check email in the parking lot and lost campus WiFi. I need my face to use my phone, so if someone else has my face, I don’t care what they do with my email.
A rather important, concerning, email from Bandcamp.
At least 25 countries are stopping package deliveries to US. Is this going to affect shipment of scientific specimens (including returns of loans)? Are herbaria, museum collections, etc. taking steps to prepare? 🧪
Universities should be really careful forcing this into use by students, staff, and faculty. As should everyone else.
Mel Gibson playing Abe Simpson, in a life action Simpsons remake.
Many of us are angered about *his* ‘contract extension’ as well.
Is this a concept you’d like to support? I hope not.
How bizarre.
August sweater weather?!
Look how fun it is. I like how the box flashes like I am at a party or being followed by paparazzi.
Why is it only Tuesday yet it feels like some day of the week that has yet to be discovered?
eyes emoji
And this is why some people think that they hate math.
I know the White House is full of gold now, but does any of the gold surround a mirror?
This is a weird way to count to eleven.
Will international volunteers come vaccinate us? 😭
I don’t know, maybe it’s because you embed AI tools everywhere and normalize their presence where we don’t need them?
Has anyone ranked the rankings?
Coffee morning: - Lid broke months ago, cup works fine. Replacement didn’t fit. - Britt hits pothole, Sean spills coffee. - Britt hits second pothole, faster this time, Sean spills more coffee. - Sean takes back out of trunk while holding coffee, spills coffee on books. - Rain replaces some volume.
This is something I’ve basically dreamed of for years. Click the little print button and watch. pretextbook.org/examples/sho...
Treasure hunt: you chase the X under a palm tree on the map you found in a bottle at the beach. Bonus points for pirate costume.
Asking for a friend. What do you do if a student is wearing a lot of perfume/cologne and it interferes with your/others ability to stay in proximity? Comment, email, mask, nothing, …?
jamf took a perfectly good computer and made it absolutely maddening to interact with.
[COMMENTARY] A new op-ed argues that the case for deep-sea mining is weak and also that the facts used by its proponents don’t add up, but rather cloud their judgment. ** The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of Mongabay.
Very appreciative of this: Thanks #PreTeXtGang (workshoppers, especially developers, and especially especially @oscarlevin.com)! github.com/PreTeXtBook/...
Are microcredentials just the academic/industrial response to TikTok-brain attention spans?
That first scene was so good I forgot that there were other animals in the ocean. It’s about more than whales.
Wait, you’re telling me I can listen to Barack Obama talk about whales for five hours?!?!
She’s totally fine, but after five years of wondering when this would happen, it happened.
Moments after this, the graceful chicken in front flew across our little pond. Her pathetic sister, behind her, then tried, but consistently lost altitude and landed in the lily pads in the deep end. She scrambled her way out before I got to her.
This is all of the things Facebook did to everyone but worse, faster, and probably with a bigger environmental impact, although, maybe, who knows about that last part.
Or, more broadly, people can uncritically learn lies.
Definitely automated. For class, everything that goes into LMS gets a score and limited feedback.
In latest math accessibility news, quarto is pretty cool and using Typst within makes pdfs that look nice, but they perform much worse according to accessibility checkers than do PDFs made with some of the latest LaTeX changes. Because sometimes you just can’t avoid PDFs.
I’ve had an alarm called “chickens” go off at 2:10pm for the last few weeks at least, and I can’t remember why I set it.
You know what sucks about Bloom’s Taxonomy? Suppose you were to say “Write a mathematical model from a real-world situation.” which is a challenging task. You would be criticized because “Write” is too simple of a Bloom word, but you switch that to “Create” and everyone (but you) is happy.
Planning to work through some amount of this with a student this semester. Anybody have advice for related resources? press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
What is happening.
If John Boehner has a sou,l do you think he has regrets about his role in the Obama years?
Would you like to save 10% on that replacement monitor? I can get you ten percent off, I just need your email, but then you have to click the link in the email in your junk folder when we send it.
Yeah, I learned about it being ‘required’ now (?) but ‘Required’ next semester. I’m not yet sure what we’re allowed to do, supposed to do, have to do, how to report it. But that’s a good, mutually low-impact suggestion. Thanks!
The Carolina wren at my window agrees.
I only ever did for one class that is essentially a lab that is hard to replicate outside of class time, and the first word was in the title was ‘Professional’. I thought ‘showing up’ was an important first step. I still do, and attendance remains pretty good.
Thoughtful people taught me during the pandemic to drop my attendance policy, of course attendance is good, but sometimes it isn’t possible. I encourage it, I don’t want to require it when it puts people under bad pressure.
Do you do this? Are you required? How do you do it? Where do you put it?
Today I learned I have to take college-class attendance every day.
One of my classes used to ask to do word games to start class. I didn’t do many word games this summer. But yesterday I did because Britt said ‘you should try it, it’s fun.’
Oh my god
People keep telling me the humanities are a waste of time and money but rarely have I seen a entire field so dedicated as AI is to burning vast fields of money (while carefully siphoning off some wealth for themselves).
🥳
Solid chip choice.
Attempting to read this makes me want to print it out just so I can spill something and use this to wipe it off of the floor.
Who is Rocky Kanaka and why are his emails unstoppable?
What’s keeping college faculty up at night…
Expert no, but I found some helpful things here. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
Maybe instead of Copilot they should call it Gravedigger.
I don’t know if capitalism needs to be there, but after seeing the Trolley Problem on Instagram and in a podcast this morning, I present.
All the news that’s … fit to read online.
Burned-out staff? Have you tried treating them better? Paying them more? Hiring more help? No? You’d rather buy wasteful software?
