Patricia Doherty

Also an argument for keeping stacks open rather than buried in underground vaults that you need a call request form and a 45 minute wait—plus a formal record of everything you’ve requested

No university class should have 300 students—even with TAs. This structure does not permit student to student engagement and a direct relationship with the instructor.

Local and NJ politicos of all persuasions, quite a few adjacents and government agencies are still on X and don’t have a presence here. Perplexing and maddening…

There was a remain bricks/mortar store in Houston in the 80s where one could still get safari type clothing/gear and the like. Much of the Alley Theatre’s production of Cary Churchill’s “Cloud Nine was outfitted from there.

Thank you again!

Thank you so much! Which is the appropriate agency? NJDOT
Passaic County or City of Clifton?

Snow covered unshoveled Rte 3 ramp bus stop at Passaic Ave Clifton NJ 1/28/26

Google aerial view of Rte 3 ramp NJ bus stop at Passaic Ave. Pin shows the actual bus stop on the edge of the highway through lane

7:30 pm Weds evening 1/28/26
2 1/2 days after the storm, the Rte 3/Passaic Av NJ Transit hwy ramp bus stop is still dangerously unshoveled, no place to stand, no pedestrian xwalks, no 💡, bollards or shelter.
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Welcome to the new trifecta! Let’s get to work 💪

Every time I get sworn-in it’s a group occasion, but I have a small leather US Constitution in my pocket and a picture of my family.

1/ In this anniversary year of 2026, I salute:

The coming together of communities that enabled 13 colonies to win a war vs. tremendous odds.

The rage vs. a king’s tyranny that fueled that coming together.

And the fundamental belief that their fight mattered “in the course of human events.”

My New Year’s resolution is to read more books, eat more scones, and use more Oxford commas.

Still running CS5.5 on an ancient MacBook for exactly this reason of not needing an internet connection, not wanting to to pay for a subscription when I already own it, and refusing to to have my IP scraped for AI training.

Does anyone else spend this time of year having no bloody clue what day of the week it is?

Another good moment to ask "what problem are we solving" when we add an AI summary to articles that already include an abstract but you don't know it's an AI summary until you read to the bottom of it and also it shows up as the default?

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I didn’t anticipate how undignified living through history would be

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

Ethan Frome (and just found out recently that her early French SS and later full French version are not translations.)

Moby Dick

Ulysses

Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books Unread books are as powerful as the ones we read. An antilibrary is a private collection of unread books capturing the vastness of the unknown.

The concept of the anti-library—as championed by Umberto Ecco—gives me great peace and permission to read whatever I please.

nesslabs.com/antilibrary

The day you realize that you will never—NEVER—read everything there is to read, or even everything you want to read, is, for some, profoundly sad and, for some, a great relief.

I was team great relief.

Plus it frees you up to happily read the same things repeatedly.

"I guess I have a very different view of the dangers and real-world consequences of your position than what you explored with Justice Kavanaugh. My understanding was that independent agencies exist because Congress has decided that some issues, some matters, some areas should be handled in this way by nonpartisan experts—that Congress is saying that expertise matters with respect to aspects of the economy and transportation and the various independent agencies that we have. "So having a president come in and fire all the scientists and the doctors and the economists and the PhDs and replacing them with loyalists and people who don't know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States."

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

Anyone who was born an American and therefore feels superior to someone who had to work to become an American doesn’t know the first thing about being an American.

one of my most oddball views as an engineer prof is that it's okay to think that the way people build or use a technology is bad, even if the details of the tech are pretty cool, and it's also okay (good, even!) to opt out of using or contributing to harmful tech

weirdly contentious view 🤷‍♂️

What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

we have to go back. to warn them.

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

MST3K is one of the great artistic achievements of the twentieth century.

And of course episode 505 is its peak achievement.

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