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Found out the president at my alma mater took a pay cut after restructuring and the BOT approved a move toward financial exigency.

Morning fun. The fountain in the pool we've set up to entertain the local wildlife died. Replaced it yesterday and it's attracting more attention than the old one. This is a Cooper's Hawk.

That’s helpful—hopefully I can get it switched. Drinking it is a whole ordeal, it’s somehow the least pleasant sensation I’ve experienced without it being painful, if that makes sense.

This resin I have to take for the rest of my life SUCKS so much to drink but putting it in capsules takes forever and I just: gummy?

I am fully an adult and apparently have been for many years but hear me out: compounding pharmacy where as many drugs as possible are in gummy form.

More than 500 people have used the site to write obituaries so far, he said, but his mother wants nothing to do with it, arguing that the seniors she lives with will find it disheartening and dismissive to think “someone found a faster way to remember you and move on with their lives.”

What worries me the most about the AI-generated obituary is not that every single human gets something important from writing an obituary but that if we remove all the friction from everything, we're not going to have much left. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

It’s finally cool enough to put the heating pad on the section of my back I hurt sneezing a month ago.

Another reason it is tedious is that educational environment literally does not exist anymore. Billionaires killed it shortly after these people graduated 20 years ago.

It's kind of like a boomer advising going job hunting on foot and making sure you give a strong handshake with direct eye contact

the free press is completely unhinged. this is about the NYT initially omitting from its story about starvation in Gaza that one of the profiled children has a pre-existing medical condition. what is the "damage" what was done by that omission, exactly?

There are SO many people who had to unlearn that trash. You’re not alone.

Racing car taking a corner with trackside banners for Zoom all over the place

Good to see Formula 1 management employing subtitles at races 👍

A bunny catches fireflies in the night. There are a half-dozen fireflies surrounding him in a small clearing in a forest. The bunny has only a jar and a flashlight with him.

Daily bunny no.3035 is out catching fireflies

AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?

Have the consulting firms finally figured out that a LLM can in fact replace their core product offering: 22-year-olds with Ivy League degrees who don’t know anything other than how to make PowerPoints?

picturing Tom Lehrer hammering the piano and singing "Enshittify! Enshittify!"

Few people actually read and STUDY Black women intellectual's work or take it seriously. I believe if they did, their work would be much better.

The conversations about love, relationships, ABUNDANCE etc... are all theorized in Black feminist scholarship.

A photo of a woman, dressed in white, standing on a beach as a massive wave comes crashing into shore. The words above her read: Academics on August 1st.

I think about where millennial alt rock situates women. Fred Durst, Stabbing Westward, a good swatch of Nirvana’s catalog. It was all part of the air, to the point that a frankly minor subversion of this expectation (The Prodigy’s vid for Smack My Bitch Up) was seen as a huge controversy.

Read the interviews on Daphne Carr’s book on PRETTY HATE MACHINE. Millennial alt rock was the manosphere for men and boys 14-34 from like 98-05.

The New York Times commitment to Zionism begins with its own staff The New York Times has helped to enable and sustain Israel’s ongoing genocide. A new dossier reveals the close ties of 20 top editors, executives, and journalists at the Times who have covered Gaza…

The New York Times has helped to enable and sustain Israel’s ongoing genocide. A new dossier reveals the close ties of 20 top editors, executives, and journalists at the Times who have covered Gaza and their connection to Israel and Zionism.

i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"

This is a misuse of SpongeBob.

Things are awful so I will share a fun moment from this week: I hid under a colleague’s small umbrella in a downpour and had the best time making them laugh hard enough they had to fight a little to keep from being drenched before the next meeting.

Why would I look directly at the Sun during an eclipse? It’s not safe, the posts are glasses.

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Definitely feel that. I saw this go by while I was listening to you and June so here’s how this goes: there is so much happening. And, there are many tiny corners of the world your work makes more beautiful and clear. Held together, that can be bigger than dread.

Every cishet woman I know in a good relationship is with a supportive goofball who has their own lives and thinks she’s a person. Individually they might have different things they bring to the table, but regardless of access to social or actual capital, that’s what they have in common.

Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much

You absolutely cannot be good at the nerdy thing, you have to be an observer. It is, like Maria Bamford puts it, a factory that only makes red flags.

Anyway the reason why so many men are so lonely is because they’ve been taught that a wife is a status symbol, not a person, and it turns out that whether you succeed or fail at acquiring a status symbol, you’re still deeply alone.