Ahhh, yeah, that's an effective book -- been years now but I think the movie would be especially interesting after reading it.

What's maybe most demoralizing is that it's only four school districts. Although I also think there's some opportunistic enforcement happening here

Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a buzzer there with the rest,

"all four districts “had policies that were likely to prevent schools from notifying parents of their child’s so-called ‘gender transition,’ even if the parent requested their child’s records,” which violates FERPA."

Just realized I did the day on Battle of Algiers without mentioning that it makes a cameo in OBAA

What’s the most abject contemporary genre? I’m going with short-form video, with special shoutout to explainers filmed in cars

My kids, especially 12yo, *loved* princess bride

Man, scratch a liberal am I right

Can I use this for the poster the next time I teach games & history?

live action redwall movie looking great

frictionmaxxing cannot be a real word people use

Put him in your zoom background so he learns how far off he was in describing hell.

Ooooo

IF YOU HAVE MANY DESIRES YOUR LIFE WILL BE INTERESTING

At least we can see Al's hands

A bookend made of metal painted red with Dante's face looking directly out of it

Straightening things up and trying to decide if having this guy looking over my shoulder as I work is going to make me uncomfortable. I guess we will see.

That picture

"In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas"

Anyone have a good ethnography/history of private equity (or family offices or similar) intra-organizational dynamics as distinct from the big banks? Obviously love Liquidated for the latter. Have Applebaum & Batt for the former but want more.

“The upheaval that took place in Kansas in the summer and fall of 1890, can hardly be diagnosed as a political campaign. It was a religious revival, a crusade, a pentecost of politics in which a tongue of flame sat upon every man, and each spake as the spirit gave him utterance.”

fantastic, thank you

Ah, thank you -- that chapter in the Stromquist volume looks very much like the sort of thing i'm after.

Noble! Of course that makes sense -- thank you, that's a book I've been meaning to sit down with for a long time.

didn't know of either of these folks, thank you!

this indeed is very useful, thank you!

this is interesting, thank you!

Exactly. Here we must be precise and careful in our language.

I do not have well developed ideas about this --

There are scenes that made me think, is it really legal to write these things?

The seventh function of language did this in I thought a fun or at least outrageous way