Hey same

Personally, I'd love to see

A) Nationwide redistricting
B) Valuing compactness and regularity of districts
C) For districts of equal population
D) Ignoring state lines
E) In an expanded house,
F) Where each rep represents 300,000 people.

But in the meantime, sure. Let's play this game.

BIRMINGHAM: Let me know if you find any rhubarb when you're out and about

They’ve been doing amazing things with Honeycrisp varietals. What I want to see is something with the bakeable texture of a Granny Smith, but the flavor of a Honeycrisp.

That’s a thousand dollar idea right there.

Kind of Dunkin to give me so many McTeague-themed donut holes (encrusted in teeth)

Immediately felt nostalgic for Twitter because everyone on Bluesky is calmly and civilly sharing a news article in which this image is featured and not compulsively making deranged memes out of it

who says modernity is defined by alienation

Why did my manager at Einstein Bros. Bagels in 2009's cat just try to friend me on Instagram

Screenshot featuring a portrait of MrBeast and text that reads "Explore Lowe's Creator Curations, Backyard Essentials, Make every day more fun with MrBeast's spring favorites. Shop Now"

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They should have collaborated

Can't believe I bought Bill Callahan tickets only to learn that NeNe Leakes is coming to my city on that same night

I think this to myself every time I turn on my television

my tv really wants me to watch “the miniature wife” but NO NEVER I will not ever watch a show called “the miniature wife”

Now draw a utopia out of text

Not going to write a book anymore because I learned that the current trend in academic monograph covers is text and not photographs

i think it was good for society when we had our printed newspapers in the morning that had an entire page or two of silly little jokes to give you a chuckle

Ooh I'm seeing Gillian Welch there soon and would like this please

Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

Holy shit, it’s perfect. Bitch, I SOBBED.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Lots of folks love to say Georgia isn’t New York when we fight for better policies, but our senators continue to vote better than most of their peers. Our potential is limitless.

My other one came from the engine of an electric vehicle

4: Creating AI-Free Learning Spaces - Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning - Oakland University

Fed up with AI boosterism on our campus, my colleague Tim Donahue and I wrote this Teaching Tip for our Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. www.oakland.edu/cetl/teachin...

Mine's from the basement of an abandoned house

4: Creating AI-Free Learning Spaces - Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning - Oakland University

"A starting point for us has been to cultivate analog classroom communities. Our classes have no screens: no phones, tablets, or laptops (notwithstanding, of course, appropriate accommodations for students who need them)."

Last year a committee I was on was tasked with drafting a financial exigency policy so we read a bunch of policies from peer institutions and they were all basically the same except one that actually afforded faculty power and it turned out that was because no one had updated it since the 1980s

I know it's complicated but part of me will never forgive the generations of academics above me who chose personal gain over shared governance