Jeanne Reames

Ha. I was thinking...cats, bookshelves...check. Ceci (the tuxedo) follows me everywhere but LOVES for me to go up to the library/office. It's her favorite spot in the whole house and she'll try to herd me there, even if I'm doing other things.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Meeser! (Looks kinda like my house. LOL)

Stay weird, Portland. I love that about y'all. Show those mean ICE pricks how ridiculous they are.

The same administration that posts website landing pages and out of office messages specifically blaming Democrats for the shutdown considers an employee’s display of a desk flag a year ago, before Trump took office, to be objectionably political.

YouTube video by Let's Talk Alexander the Great & Ancient Macedonia The (Heroic?) Death of Krateros

Discussion of 3 varying accounts of Krateros's demise (Arrian via Photius, Diodoros, Plutarch): how do our sources "tweak" narratives to their own purposes? As usual, Plutarch changes more. That man could've worked for Hollywood.... (A little preview of my monograph) #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky

UNC-Chapel Hill Employment Opportunities | George L. Paddison Professor of Latin
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Monitors saw “children w/diseases like leukemia [or] on the autism spectrum … suffering immensely from missing needed therapies and the harsh conditions.” The site is run by private prison profiteer CoreCivic, “which expects to make $180m annually in revenue from the property …” #AbuseofPowerWatch

So reasons exist in basic human nature for why the Right's message sells. How to make the Left's message sell? That's a lot harder. But not impossible.

Whoops, *you're* homeless now? Lost your job? Well, that's your fault for being lazy, obviously. Oh, your kid is dying of cancer? You just didn't pray hard enough for a miracle." ... There's always a quick explanation. Might not please the sufferer, but it pleases the crowd who aren't suffering...

Last, works don't sell. It's not sexy. "Get all the ice cream you want, forever, if you Just Believe! No hanging out at soup kitchens with smelly homeless people or building houses for the poor who don't deserve them anyway." Easy, free ice cream for nothing but words... sure, I'll take that...

while the Left tends to see that as gauche. "By their works you will know them." Not their words. But marketing is all about the words, cutsy images, and sloganeering. Furthermore, somebody has to pay for all that, and they tend to want recognized for it. 10 Jeff Bezos for every 1 MacKenzie Scott.

...money, which sits at the root of much of this. The wealthy want to keep their wealth and exclusivism. They fund the stories they want told. Left projects have devoted volunteers but lack big-buck donors and shiny merchandising. Also, the Right is highly evangelical, aggressively seeking converts

It shows. Charisma also matters. The left needs someone to explain well *and* inspire. Religious Left also has problems because the Christian Right has co-opted the name. People who hate Christians have little idea there even IS a Christian left, or what they believe. Marketing. Which takes...

...because it encourages less thought (= less work) + taps into quick excuses for failure (the grievance part). Complex messages (about complex problems) are tougher and people want those instant fixes. This is hardly a new observation. Also, Dems bring experts; Republicans bring marketing people.

Two key lessons the left wants to teach involve critical reasoning and inclusive approaches. And whatever Kirk said about critical reasoning, much of what the left teaches is lockstep messaging and politics of grievance. These are wildly different, and the latter is easier to motivate...

Guess I'm never going home again

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail."

Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

I've been telling people for years that there is a difference between *reducing cost* and *moving cost around* - and LLMs are only doing the latter.

Maybe now that there is a study, they will listen...oh, who am I kidding.

Jesus.

Bison peaking out from a field of fall colors.

Something to remind you
It's a world worth saving

Totally the wrong month. July 19th. Sorry!

I'd TOTALLY sign up for the Momaday class!!!!

This is, unfortunately, exactly the thinking. Apocalypse = end of time/planet, Final Judgement when those Elect who are saved enter Eternal Paradise and the mass of damned are doomed to an eternity in hell. The ultimate "exclusive" club, which is No Fun if just *anybody* were allowed in.

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
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Yes, the one in Egypt. 😊

He was buried in Alexandria, but over time, location of The Soma (his tomb) faded; it's somewhere under the old city or possibly even underwater in the harbor. Some have proposed the Mosque of Nebi Daniel, but with no luck. Stan Burstein wrote a good article for ARCHAEOLOGY a while back in the '90s.

That will REALLY hit universities. Tech, sure, but universities don't have the financial wiggle room at all. That on top of eliminating uni exemptions for H-1B VISA caps. Yet one more way this administration is going after universities.

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