Colin Danby

People are giving it to children.

Sounds like a job for AI.

I was delighted the first time I could vote. Part of adulthood.

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Social Security benefits and many contracts are set up to pay in "real" terms. If prices rise X%, the money paid rises X% too. For that you need a measure of inflation you can write into a contract. CPI is the most common measure used.

www.bls.gov/cpi/

In 1st half of 2025 (2025H1), economic growth decelerated to about half its 2024H2 speed

The magnitude of BLS revisions to monthly estimates of change in jobs tends to rise in recessions (shaded, other than mild 2001)

Could contribute to magnitudes' rise from 0.02% of jobs to .03%
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Yes. Students are sometimes surprised I actually read their papers, and I get a steady trickle of years-later recollections of specific comments.

Comments are a moment to engage, to encourage good students to up their game further, to move past mere grading.

The Strip Is Now Completely Unionized Thanks to a New Agreement at Fontainebleau Las Vegas For the first time in its 90-year history, every casino resort on the Strip is unionized

One of the most unionized cities in the US.

Environmentally, the whole thing is nuts. But it's a more interesting city than snobs will allow. My partner taught at UNLV a few years so I spent some time there.

Such a great dog, and it sounds like he's been a good guest.

Had a plastic rotary press as a kid (mid 60s). You set type using embossing tape that you stuck to the drum.

And yeah, latino is cultural/historical, middle eastern is regional, but they're politically salient in the U.S. right now so they get racialized.

Among indigenous groups they single out the most prominent victims of 19th century white expansion.

Wow. Global whiteness was invented in the late 19th century, against Asia, against Blackness, and to a lesser extent against particular indigenous groups, and you can see that history in the way this poll carves up the world. 1/2 world pop shoved into one caregory. No "African."

Face of Marty the dog, nose first.

Great news! Marty has had a small murmur since he was a pup, and seems fine.

Hideous worm mouth.

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The Making of Mamdani A close reading of a new book by New York politician Zohran Mamdani’s father reveals a generational yearning for community and inclusion.

My essay. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/04/z...

I have proposed this to get out of committee assignments. All our meetings are on Zoom, so record me, make a model, and put that on the committee.

Entire task forces, cross campus working groups, faculty senates could be made of nothing but avatars. No more trouble finding times to meet.

Lovely name though.

Yep. I like old buildings too. But the "striking architecture" claimed by this pseud Woody LaBounty? This is the most minimal design possible.

Oatmeal for the clout.

Two napping dogs. Max, like a cat, often prefers high places. Marty stretches and glowers.

Max and Marty

Really not inclined to wag the finger in this case.

With you through "training" -- like everyone who teaches I'm dealing with students handing off work to LLMs and not learning.

But the OP is right. Most people don't write a lot and are intimidated by genre expectations and formality. Obits are solemn, sometimes-fraught things.

Are we sure? Versions of this story have popped up over the last few years from time to eime.

Here's a question. These days, conservative Anglicans turn into Roman Catholics all the time. Yet Newman's conversion was a really big deal. I realize you can never underestimate the depth of 19th century anti-Catholicism, but I've never fully understood the level of shock and dismay.

And you see how he turned out.

I would be delighted to have a car that drove itself safely. Such cars being unavailable, I take the bus when I can.

"a collaborative partner"

This is Marty the dog five years ago, shortly after his adoption and before he got a proper haircut. Small fluffy white dog in a loose blue harness.

Marty chewed on a few, but they're still perfectly readable.

Hardly the worst part of this, but are people still doing "cradle of our civilisation in Athens"?

Bot that comments "what does this mean?" randomly on 10% of the sentences in an essay. Might work!

Special place in hell for stock/flow conflaters.