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Community college instructor in Los Angeles | sociologist | Goffmanian | Go Kings Go | Let’s Go Dodgers

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I’m a 40-year old, white, community college instructor who lives in the suburbs of course I’m excited about the new Atmosphere album!

19.09.2025 23:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Chapter 7: “Ayn Rand in a Capuchin Suit”

Chapter 7: “Ayn Rand in a Capuchin Suit”

ChatGPT hallucinated this chapter, but if it was real, it’s something I would love to read!

12.07.2025 01:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A young boy in a Mookie Betts jersey doing the Ohtani celebration.

A young boy in a Mookie Betts jersey doing the Ohtani celebration.

When you’re at your first MLB game and Ohtani hits a home run.

25.06.2025 16:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A picture of an ocean landscape: In the foreground is a beer sitting on a bar rail. Behind the rail is a grass and dirt field that descends towards the Pacific Ocean. In the background is a view of La Jolla.

A picture of an ocean landscape: In the foreground is a beer sitting on a bar rail. Behind the rail is a grass and dirt field that descends towards the Pacific Ocean. In the background is a view of La Jolla.

Friday afternoon in La Jolla.

04.04.2025 22:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

12. Received the Sheriff award from John Eastman in 2023. Eastman is facing disbarment in CA for his role in the Stop the Steal insurrection. Eastman is also an architect of the attack on birthright citizenship.

20.02.2025 01:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Once my dog inhaled a foxtail and it got stuck up in his nose. We took him in to the vet to get it removed. Afterwards the vet told me, “he didn’t learn a thing from this. Keep him away from foxtails”. Seems like a relevant story for Jan. 6.

07.01.2025 04:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Book cover: Overload and Boredom - Essays on the Quality of Life in the Information Society by Orrin E. Klapp.

Book cover: Overload and Boredom - Essays on the Quality of Life in the Information Society by Orrin E. Klapp.

For Orrin E. Klapp life is a voyage where we sail back-and-forth between ritual and innovation, all while fighting a strong wind that blows us towards boredom and noise.

09.12.2024 01:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So it turns out, I saved my brain by being bad at youth hockey.

05.12.2024 02:03 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Resonance is seen in the phenomenon of two separate things vibrating together according to the same frequency. In physics it is conceived as a vibration of large amplitude resulting from an application of a forced vibration to a system, when the period of the force equals that of a natural vibration of the system. The notion is sometimes used to distinguish warm social relationships from those that are impersonal, plastic, alienating; being signified by colloquial expressions such as: "good vibes," "warmed up to," "sympathize with," "turned on." "heart-to-heart." "swinging" "engrossed," "en rapport," "we-feeling." I would define social resonance as mutual responsiveness of a warm sort among two or more persons, induced by signals, whether from an outside source or as feedback from the relationship, which actuates recall of valued parts of the memory and identity of each that can be shared - that is, good redundancy. For example, two persons might resonate from listening to a tune or from their own responses to one another. The main idea is that the goal of human communication is not merely transfer of information but responsiveness - resonance - reached through attunement and kept by good redundancy in feedback loops.

Resonance is seen in the phenomenon of two separate things vibrating together according to the same frequency. In physics it is conceived as a vibration of large amplitude resulting from an application of a forced vibration to a system, when the period of the force equals that of a natural vibration of the system. The notion is sometimes used to distinguish warm social relationships from those that are impersonal, plastic, alienating; being signified by colloquial expressions such as: "good vibes," "warmed up to," "sympathize with," "turned on." "heart-to-heart." "swinging" "engrossed," "en rapport," "we-feeling." I would define social resonance as mutual responsiveness of a warm sort among two or more persons, induced by signals, whether from an outside source or as feedback from the relationship, which actuates recall of valued parts of the memory and identity of each that can be shared - that is, good redundancy. For example, two persons might resonate from listening to a tune or from their own responses to one another. The main idea is that the goal of human communication is not merely transfer of information but responsiveness - resonance - reached through attunement and kept by good redundancy in feedback loops.

Orrin E. Klapp in Opening and Closing (1978), describing resonance as a response to the dizzying effects of modernity over three decades before Hartmut Rosa’s Resonance.

03.12.2024 00:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is going to be an Alice In Chains tribute account with a smattering of progressive politics and maybe some sociology.

23.11.2024 03:17 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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