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I am at my mom's but hopefully it is DVRing at home for me!

Let me know when they get to FTP

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

See my comment elsewhere in this thread about randomly discovering Hanggai! They're terrific.

This is FANTASTIC.

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I randomly stumbled into Hanggai under an outdoor tent at a music festival, close to midnight with a thunderstorm rolling in & lightning flashing through the tent, and my musical world was changed.
youtu.be/UvW8JEuIo58?...

I love Mongolian folk metal!

Same!! I plan to put some college football on my tv, get horizontal on the couch, and sleep off today's Moderna. (Thank you CVS!) Even if it doesn't affect me much, it's a good excuse and I need a napping day.

Assuming CDC formally adopts ACIP's recommendations, CVS tells me it will provide Covid vaccines without a prescription in all 50 states and won't require even self-attestation of a qualifying condition — "it’s up to the individual patient."

No confirmation from Walgreens or Walmart yet.

They still sound good together!

At the end of the first set, President Trump was booed much louder than earlier when he appeared on the jumbotron. The camera lingered for much longer than it usually does on famous faces, too. The reception from the New Yorkers was markedly different when rock icon Bruce Springsteen - a local hero from New Jersey - appeared to euphoric cheers. Trump sat stony-faced as Springsteen, who has been a vocal critic of the president, grinned.

Sad. Don’t know what coverage is like in the US but here’s the BBC.

Dorian Johnson, witness to Michael Brown’s death, killed in Ferguson Dorian Johnson died due to injuries sustained during a shooting Sunday morning on Abaco Court, less than a mile away from where a police officer killed Michael Brown in 2014.

The friend who witnessed Michael Brown’s death was shot and killed Sunday morning less than a mile away from where a police officer killed Brown.

Progressive lenses are life-changing! Now get the special computer glasses with the blue-light filter for the full middle-aged experience. (Just saw my eye doc this week & I'm about 2 yrs out from cataract surgery.)

This is the drug that is a 100% effective treatment for HIV. this is the one you've been seeing in the news. I would LOVE to see an in-depth discussion of exactly what "clinical, financial, and regulatory factors" are keeping them from essentially carrying a cure to a deadly disease.

Dave. I'm eating dinner over here.

I have never been so unapologetically grateful not to be an eyeshadow wearing type of person. That's... vivid.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

The Bay Area Reporter front page, 13 August 1998. The headline ‘No obits’ is written in red above the lead story.

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

This is a fascinating, disturbing, but also moving story, about how AI is being used to monetize death and grief.

Maybe there could be some kind of a "certified human" stamp and you could just search for that and automatically factor out AI

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Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

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#Kona #webcam facing the ocean over Aliʻi Drive, just south of the pier, is here.
Tsunami will have some work to get over the seawall, and it will be 17 mins past sunset, but could still be interesting:
www.konaweb.com/cam/index.html
Screenshot below of conditions (flawless) right now.

Academic librarian friends - throw some words of encouragement her way!

THE SUMMER THE COLLIES died and were buried beneath fir trees, I had two kinds of apple: red and red-yellow. I had a three-legged aluminum ladder, a bucket, a wasp's nest the size of my fist. I fit between the branches, filled, first my hands and pockets and then the bucket. A wasp with the face of my oldest dog stung me twice. It takes a long time to leave. My father's green bulldozer will break down in the purple-headed thistles some August and then stay and stay there. A tractor outlasts a person. It's never worth it to haul it away. There are monuments, in the country, everywhere. If I talk too often about wasps it's because they're inescapable. They'll be under the hood in no time--here, no emptiness goes uninhabited. I always want to put Christ's heart back in his chest, like returning a jar of jam to the cupboard. I make the bruised apples into sauce, ladle it hot into jars. What is sown as perishable is raised imperishable--a joke I make to myself about the buzzing soul of the bulldozer, existing here on earth long after it's died, as something venomous and intelligent.

This beautiful summer poem by Rosalie Moffat.

I *so* hear that.

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.

tomlehrersongs.com

Frank O'Hara, who died #OTD in 1966.

“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”

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The Death of Partying in the U.S.A.—and Why It Matters Young Americans today spend 70 percent less time attending or hosting parties than they did at the beginning of the 21st century. Why?

“The typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged with her pet than she spends in face-to-face contact with friends of her own species.”

The pet lives in her house, DEREK.

Do you think that female pet owner has to text her cat, who is in her house, 15 times to make plans, DEREK

"I probably have 10-15 minutes before we get dumped on. Enough time to take trash & recycling to the curb and run down to McD's for the frozen Coke I've been craving all day."
The moment I rolled the window back up at the drive-thru... WHOOSH.
But hey, at least the trash is out.

For the past 10yrs or so I've tried to explain to students how keyword searching trains us to see looking at the world as seeking a known target. By contrast, being in a library, archive, gallery asks us to make a network of connections, questions, possibilities. Which one makes thinking more free?