Dr. McLeod

I don't care about the NY Times bestseller list. I wanna know what new books are getting checked out the most at the library.

Meta managed AI profile of a Black woman named Jade. Claims to be "your girl for all things hip-hop. Message me to talk tracks).

FB post by Meta managed AI profile, Jade. Features 4 pictures, one of recording studio equipment, the second of a couch and coffee table in the studio, the third a pic of a Black man rapping to a crowd, and the fourth the Black rapper sitting on the recording studio couch. All four pictures are AI generated. The post text says: "WAY UP i feel #Blessed 😮‍💨🔥🙌🏾 got tapped to drop a culture piece on NYC rising stars in the scene. if you had told me this a year back, i’d be calling cap, for real! #StayTuned for more updates! 👀 #ImaginedWithAI"

As of their 2022 diversity report, Meta is only 4.9% Black. A massive corporation profiting off of an "imagined" Black woman and Black culture is just digital blackface in another form

A Mug: THE FUTURE IS REDUCED FOR QUICK SALE [sticker] $2

this county has so many school shootings that the stats are as specific as baseball wapo.st/4cSik6H

in the server full of linguists there is a very cute phenomenon where suddenly like half a dozen linguists respond to your message by saying a bunch of different plural forms of a noun you just said. this is considered respectful play behavior and is good enrichment for linguists

A drawing of a goose made out of asparagus

Asparagoose

Slugs Eating Your Plants? Offer Them a Beer Instead Slugs and snails love beer, but they're no match for a slug beer trap. Learn how beer will lure them away from your vegetables, flowers, and special plants like hostas.

I've heard slug beer works!
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allyship is not a label you get to proclaim for yourself

a chart of berries that includes a lot of berries most people have probably not tried

There's so many berries that people sleep on!

‎Selected Shorts: Count Your Blessings on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Selected Shorts, Ep Count Your Blessings - 27 Jun 2024

I read Bradbury's HOMECOMING on the new Selected Shorts podcast!
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Nice! What's the other text you're using?
I'm not teaching research methods and statistics right now, but I hope to in the near future.

Have you looked into using learnstatswithjasp.com? It's free and comes with the data sets needed to complete the exercises.

This is the assessment of the two authors. For their own classes, they switched from SPSS to jamovi. The alternative they considered was JASP. #teaching #statistics

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This is good.

How it feels to use an em dash

NYT: The Young Black Conservative Who Grew Up With, and Rejects, D.E.I. Coleman Hughes wants a colorblind society. In his new book, he recounts how schools emphasized his racial identity — and other students’ white privilege. Coleman Hughes in Queens, N.Y., on Tuesday. Mr. Hughes has emerged as something of a rarity in the tense national conversation over how race should factor into public policy. - photo by José A. Alvarado Jr. for The New York Times

publishing this on the first day of Black History Month is so fucked up lol

Astonvilla 1/4 Violins Various Models Beginners Learning Course Tools Fiddle Students Children Teaching Instrument With Fitting

Noticed today that I've gotten my first citations. 😊

By the way, $637 is more than 80 hours of work (pre-tax) at minimum wage. So someone working minimum wage would have to work about 3 weeks to be able to afford just to be tested for strep. This is unconscionable.

Bill Sunday: total charges $637.51

$637 for a strep test. Absolute lunacy.

under the heading "will sinus inflammation go away?" the answer is "most of the time, a swollen penis will resolve itself"

i don't know why people have been saying google is broken. it's working completely fine actually

Progressive car insurance is nuts. Mine premium has increased 20% every six months for 3 consecutive terms with no accidents, tickets, or anything. Absolutely absurd.

Professor William Powell, SUNY ESF, who spent 30 years doing research to restore American chestnut to our forests. He is holding a potted chestnut and standing in a greenhous surrounded by young chestnuts.

The fruit of an American chestnut holding three nuts. Source: SUNY ESF

Chestnuts have long been associated with the holidays, and will soon return to our forests. Dr. William Powell engineered effective blight resistance into chestnut, and field tests have begun. Bill passed away this week, but we will be thanking him for generations as chestnuts return to the wild.

two posts from twitter. Top: (replying to the second post) "(music note) she waited her whole damn life to take Amtrack, and as the train derailed she thought 'well isn't this nice'(music note)". Bottom: (quote tweet, quoting their own earlier tweet) "Train derailed but it was fun while it lasted and I'm so glad I didn't die" Original tweet: "about to get on Amtrack, one of my dreams is almost fulfilled"

President Biden's decision to give Bibi Netanyahu a blank check to wage war on the people of Gaza puts him to the right of:

- Thomas Friedman
- The Pope
- The editorial board of the Financial Times
- 53% of Democratic voters
- 120 member nations of the UN

Me when I see your jack-o'-lanterns in my feed

Intensely bright red Japanese maple leaves in my backyard

The Japanese maple is fire this year

I picked the last of the flowers ahead of tonight’s frost