Mark Oehlert

Data driven approach. I like it. Have you seen how Oregon got rid of a beached whale? 🤓

"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN

Has anyone picked Winged Victory yet? Also, can’t believe someone leaked the plot to Ocean’s 14.

What a great cover. 😳🤓

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

Reposted with alt text. Also, from a cursory look, this appears to basically be true, which is pretty funny. Philosophers... debate.

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2025 - Reactor As someone who works in a school in Southern California, August and September are chaotic months with too much to do competing with weeks of baking heat and an overwhelming desire to be back on summer...

Everything is awful except fiction.
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I hope you all read this from me.

"By all these lovely tokens September days are here,
With summer's best of weather
And autumn's best of cheer."

Helen Hunt Jackson

#photography #photographyOnBlueSky #nature #naturephotography #fall #autumn #ponds #photo

Please circulate - we are hiring in Early Modern European history!

The Diné Weaver Who Turns Microchips Into Art Marilou Schultz, a math teacher and fourth-generation weaver, pushes the boundaries of the art form by combining technological aesthetics and Diné techniques.

STUNNING

"Traditionally, wearing blankets was functional, but I thought, If fashion evolves, why can’t Native wearable art evolve too? So I used metallic thread to make the blanket shimmer, adapting an old form to a contemporary aesthetic."

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My old blog has been dead for a while but this still feels like the passage of tech time.

There’s only one shirt to wear when you’re going in for a cortisone shot in your back.

that summit could've been an email

I’m not to disagree w Sam J.

Oooh. When is the book coming? 🤓

You hit on a distinction….theres a difference between play and games that gets overlooked almost always. I also can’t remember who said it (Koster?) but the opposite of play isn’t work, it’s boredom. Also I love Gadamer’s use of spielraum to refer to play as mental wiggle room (paraphrase) 🤓

Who else in GenX basically got a polisci degree from Doonesbury?

Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.

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After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM Developer solves mystery of hidden JPEG from the beige G3 era.

The discovery represents one of the last undocumented Easter eggs from the pre-Steve Jobs return era at Apple.

Joe Biden pays respect to Hortmans as they lie in state at Minnesota Capitol President Biden is visiting St. Paul to pay his respects to the fallen DFL leader.

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Don't forget people. Tonight is the premier of the PBS docuumentary about Hannah Arendt. 9 pm ET

Not bad. Good alliteration but I think the actual thing is less sardonic than a smirk. This is tough.

What’s a good name for that half-smile that you give to someone you pass in the office hallway? Like you’re acknowledging you see them but you don’t know them…

Just got around to reading Sam Altman's latest missive, "The Gentle Singularity."

I am astounded by his sheer amount of denial and self-delusion about the current state of the actually-existing world.

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You asked ;-) we don’t look at the structures we operate inside. Employees are costs. They’re not assets. Ask the CFO. No matter how much we want to believe the opposite, we operate in a structure that is genetically built to minimize our cost impact. We can change that but first we have to see it

Selfie of Dan. He has a White Jesus look. Ooh, isn’t he handsome! He’s wearing a black and white trucker hat with his son’s handprints in red on the top and “DAD” on the brim.

Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.

Our work on Great Zimbabwe used surface hydrology, ethnographic survey and geoarc to show that dhaka pits, previously interpreted as clay pits, were likely intended to collect and store water.

These smart local adaptations to water scarcity are so interesting

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