Edward Swaine

Screen shot debates b/w Twitter and Bluesky are like that sitcom trope in which someone schedules dates with two people at the same time and, rather than cancel, the character tries to do both simultaneously, running back and forth and winding up saying the wrong names and wearing the wrong clothes.

I mean just that it was a rhetorical question, and that he knew the interviewer knew it. Either way, not a pleasant thing to say.

He's not pretending not to know who he is. He is pulling rank, but stating it as a question, as though that is better than being directly dismissive.

What do you mean by "tell"? Could indicate: (1) what profs actually tell them in classes or otherwise; (2) what they see exhibited when they look at submissions; (3) what they see when they look at previously-published volumes. #2 and esp #3 are harder to describe in that way, but more significant.

Not defending the remarks. It's just that clips are often paraphrased when that's not always clear, and sometimes the meaning is accidentally changed.

wrote *about* bin Laden, he says, quite different

Storm Duck injury posts are hot RN, might be a mallard reaction

these are not the letters you are looking for

first Will Reichard's FG attempt seems to hit a cable, then this camera prevents an INT, games coming down to the wire

if he is injured, I'd hate to see his bill

sorry to report that Miami Dolphins' Storm Duck is inactive today

can a shocking failure to poll still be called "apolling"

You pay for the "fine dining experience"; no carry-out for carrion

There's a world, perhaps not the one we presently occupy, in which the Texas Board of Regents agrees enthusiastically with the policy's drift but objects to the idea that the feds get to regulate tuition and admissions.

I was actually attempting to express that thought through my dancing, but it leaves a lot up to the observer

Great read. I'd add something not being discussed much: the compact insists on extraordinary supervision of universities by fed'l gov't rather than states, even as to public universities. And it does so through DOJ, not DOE, which is likely to enhance the body blow against federalism in higher ed.

Much better than the names I gave my cats, Alexa and Siri

who says you can't call your cat a piece of software, I will fight them without ever understanding why

The Proposed "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" and the First Amendment [1.] There's a lot going on in the Trump Administration's proposed "Compact," and there's a lot that we might want…

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i think that would infringe on the Florida A&M ones

rooting for Cal, but "59" is a little like South Dakota football bragging about Mt. Rushmore

not sure but I thought they wanted to bring manufacturing back

NYT headline from today

NYT comes out in favor of crippling tariffs

if it's any comfort, I thought she did what used to be forensics, or speech, activities as opposed to debate per se

Welcome to the 2028 Summer Olympics, everyone!

talk about hard to handle

Yes. Unfortunately, the deck of institutions is pretty stacked.

surely someone out there can use Sora 2 and these to re-animate "are we the baddies"

Impressively oblique

"Yeah, little different for me. I woke up in a dirty metal dome . . ."