Or if you're seeking relief from the anxiety of Stoppard's Darkside.

I am a writer and I love writing even though it's sometimes hard and frustrating (because it's also a process of thinking that leads to epiphanies and insights and it's also about making patterns and endeavoring to make something beautifully true whenever possible).

"[We] should reassert the true value of a liberal arts education: learning for learning’s sake."

I want to apply this as a measure of "student success."

Why, Master Mayor, why stand you in a doubt?

We've lost one of the greats.

I like his description of a straw-man fallacy:

"To the Editors:

In his article on A.E. Housman and my play The Invention of Love [NYR, August 10], Daniel Mendelsohn clamps a hat of his own devising on my head and then imperiously chides me for wearing it. "

"But these missives do reveal the evil banality of the world’s most rich and famous, whose vast pursuit of money or teenaged blondes or whatever knew no bounds, or, at long last, any sense of decency."

Get the audiobook, folks. Fugelsang is a Franken-level narrator!

ID: A post on Twitter by @NickyFrank30 reading: My grandfather used to say "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her strudel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion of 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.

"Magda Goebbels made a great strudel"

"The Home of Milky Way Confections"
Yuck. (Snickers)

"a floating crown" or the Devil's Horns?

That's the American Dream, right there! Enjoy the ride! Happy Birthday!

#JaneGoodall

Congratulations!! I hope the happy days are easier to come by. Enjoy!

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair"
@shakespeare.lol was famously a big baseball fan.

Thanks for the Niedermeyer interview! It's hugely revealing.

Young San Franciscans aren’t going to bars. They’re hanging at the library Is it any surprise that young people like me are forgoing moody bars for free books when a glass of wine can set you back $20?

Young San Franciscans aren’t going to bars. They’re hanging at the library www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emil...

It's a beautiful space to explore. Public libraries in the Bay Area are treasures. And with Link+ we can get books from many of them delivered to our local branch. Community wealth!

Dude!

The end game is Trump declaring martial law. You all aren't paying attention.

Superintendent Alberto Carvalho reacts to federal agents coming to two LAUSD elementary schools YouTube video by KCAL News

If you want to understand why LA residents feel under attack, undercover DHS agents lying about their identity and authorizations to try to kidnap LA children seems a good start.

People just do not understand the attacks LA is under by Trumpists right now.

Why isn't the follow-up question ever "if you're that ignorant about the major news of executive $$$ corruption, why should I trust you on the US budget?"
These guys (maggots to neolibs) are (and have been) waging a soft civil war--and the non-confrontational MSM is complicit.

It's a bit of a shame everyone decided to turn against the Enlightenment just when it's most needed, isn't it....

Molly Jong-Fast: “I'm going to respectfully push back on this. This is thought policing 101. This is not okay. They are using anti-antisemitism as a cloak. This is about targeting speech. It has nothing to do with anti-antisemitism and everything to do with authoritarianism.”

#HarvardUniversity

These People Did Meaningful Work That Made Our Lives Better - Michael Lewis On Fired Federal Workers YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

I read and was amazed by The Fifth Risk and my local bookstore is ordering more copies of Who is Government? Listening to Lewis makes me feel hopeful AND desperate! How many Republicans (Lindsey Graham, et al.) is Putin extorting?
youtu.be/T30BF32qPgg?...

Just waiting for the "now's the time to buy" crowd...

Dutch Public Broadcaster Sketch YouTube video by fairmount1935

youtu.be/M7ewtkcENsY?...

I didn't think Naomi Klein's disaster capitalism model would be an inside job in the U.S. I was expecting external forces, like natural disasters and food shortages. How naïve!

Self-learning by reading books, slowly reflecting on ideas and oneself, yes. But AI presents a general summary of the materials and presents a non-nuanced interpretation. And if the net has taught us anything, it's that efficiency does not equal critical thinking: it promotes cognitive atrophy.

I keep thinking about the wise man in Emily's mind (Stoppard's Darkside) saying "This is not a drill."