all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Bugs Bunny disguised as a sexy lady could get Kash Patel to free every single person in federal custody

I feel like almost everyone who lives in a Waffle House state has woken up in a Waffle House and questioned how they got there.

Two people in a selfie at a baseball game. They are wearing the logos of competing teams.

Our first game of the season. The only matchup for which we do not wear the same gear. Happy baseball season.

A choir about to sing the national Anthem at a baseball game with one player talking to them

Vinnie Pasquantino chatting with the middle school choir before the Braves/Royals game. #royals #pasquatch

Kidd!!!!

The Hattie B’s at 10h and Howell Mill always has great music playing.

I think others have had the journal thought. Maybe with the right cohort it could happen.

It's a drawback of working between creative and technical fields that the creative work I'm most proud of exists in technical proceedings that creatives rarely visit and vice-versa.

I may eventually consider launching my own Journal.

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

Is it really opening day if there is one game on netflix? I want to watch all day on opening day. And this year both my childhood team and current city team do not play until Friday. But they do play each other...Happy (almost) opening day, to those who celebrate.

Have you? What’s the motivation? Now I am curious.

I largely just use it as file storage. It is where I out files for the students and where they submit stuff. That’s about it. I guess I could do that with Dropbox/onedrive/whatever. The assignment reminders for them have value I guess.

These Musical Instruments of the Future Sound Weird, Wacky—and Are Easy for Anyone to Play A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.

A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend. www.wired.com/story/georgi...

This. My university keeps wanting me to make a “syllabot,” an LLM-based chatbot my students can query about the syllabus. And all I can think about is all the resources being consumed so no one has to use Ctrl+F.

Freedom for the Stallion YouTube video by Allen Toussaint - Topic

youtu.be/p_sZFlRTGCw?...

Billions of years from now, humanoid robots meet alien civilizations and immediately start telling them that they're using Linux wrong.

Steve-O was on Joe Rogan's show trying to defend trans people and Rogan went off, he called trans people "fucking perverts" and "mass shooters" who have done the majority of school shootings.

Completely unhinged bigotry paid for by your Spotify subscriptions.

planning for Batture Contemporary Year 2 (Louisiana-focused new music festival) has commenced

pumped

Did Anthropic arrange for "War Games", the 1983 AI (but we didn't call it that then) classic, to be on Comet TV tonight?

Like the great New Orleans kale incident

A couple of republicans in Congress could end this any time they wanted by honoring their oath to uphold the constitution

In an effort to revitalize my work life, I have changed the highlight color in Outlook.

I dislike how much being a professor in the arts is having to constantly justify and defend everything you do, including and especially to people within your own institution

Eliane Radigue - IMA Portrait documentary YouTube video by straypixel

RIP Eliane Radigue.

A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

I’ve said it before but your grad school cohort matters, y’all will be each other’s moral support for decades to come

New Hampshire? Wow. Misread as NC

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

Tell Erin that Jeff & Alexandria say hey!