Dr. Kurtis Hanlon

Jokes on you; I *am* a college professor.

Oh, it seems that since SCOTUS agreed to hear the case, the tariffs remain in place until they rule.

All Robert's court rulings since the "we have a king" ruling should be considered wrongly decided once a sane court is put back in control, imho.

Didn't a judge order all the "emergency" tariffs to be struck down on the 14th? Why are people acting like any gum flapping about new tariffs will have any weight? I get that news media is broken, but did I miss that order getting overturned or something?

Screenshot of David Simon interview SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

I know it happened because of social media since they mentioned in the email a social media post of mine looking for a pdf of an article about their disgracing, which means they were self-name searching in the wee hours of the morning. I was cackling when I read the email and explained it to Lizzy.

As a PhD candidate teaching a class of 50 undergrads, I got a rude, huffy email from a disgraced scholar at what appeared to be 4:30 am local time for them, trying to berate me into assigning my students their new book that explained "their side" of the conspiratorial "hit job" they suffered.

This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly

Dammit. I was looking forward to this movie. But it is super important to send messages with our wallets, so now I'm gonna have to skip it. Way to screw it up, Disney.

He could get a little pumpkin, as a treat. Sliders should be fine with that in their diet. I didn't even think of that possibility. Lizzy will love to feed him thin slices of it.

A yellow bellied slider turtle floats at the top of the water in his tank with his limbs splayed out. He is looking through the glass at a miniature pumpkin being held by the photographer, and he is giving it a quizzical look as if deciphering if he can eat it.

Kame-chan's favorite color is orange, and Lizzy found him a tiny pumpkin at the store. Immediately after this photo was taken, he tried to bite at it.

I mean, I get that they're targeting low-level speakers who can recognize and string these words together to create a positive emotional response that gets them in the door. But c'mon, AEON, I gave you two years of my life and I know your higher level students are judging you for this.

RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.

This unlocked a core memory for me. This game and Fury³.

Stay strong and don't give in. Trust that voters are smart enough to place blame for the shutdown where it belongs: with the gop ghouls who want to make health insurance cost as much as rent.

Time and again I hear from people who don't mask that they choose not to because they don't want to be the "weird" one, or the outcast.

The more of us who do it the easier it becomes for others to do it.

There is no downside.

This should also be how universities reply to the AI thing btw

Illustration of a shark wearing a pumpkin costume once October 1st strikes. Spooky season is now 👻🎃

Spooky season has arrived 🎃👻🦈
#art #halloween #sharks

Rowling and Emma Watson's argument is painful to watch😢

Good-hearted transgender people never intend to hurt anyone else.
They just want to love who they want to love and live according to their soul's direction.
Chiitan stands by the hearts of good-hearted transgender people.
I love everyone

Sliced onions sit in a cast iron skillet on the stove. They are still white, but are soft and pliable.

Sliced onions sit in a cast iron skillet on the stove. They have browned considerably, but still have some white in them.

Lovely brown caramelized onions sit in a small serving bowl. There are crunchy bits among them.

I made caramelized onions to go on our pork chops last night. Today I'm going to surprise Lizzy with some gruyere and onion grilled cheese using the leftovers.

Yeah, everyone on the panel thought it was rejection proof. But I guess the record number of applicants really means something more than just a fancy number. I think they said 2100 applications? One co-panelist joked that reviewer 3 must have been a dog person.

Ahhhhh, bullocks. Our AAS panel on cats in Japanese literature didn't make the cut. That's a shame, but I'll still be finding my way to Vancouver just to catch up with people and visit my old digs. Probably good that that paper is off my plate. I'll have... other things to keep me occupied, heehee.

I have now

Check this out! JapanLab at UT Austin to "re-imagine Japanese Studies for the 21st century" And they have games!!!
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Gotta admit, I've had moments of wondering, "Magats are so easy to scam; could I make some easy money off them to help me pay rent?" But I just wouldn't be able to live with myself if I defrauded people like that. Right wing grifters are missing a piece of their soul.

A man in a purple shirt laying face down on the floor while a yellow bellied slider turtle sits on his shoulder blades.

A man in a purple shirt laying face down on the floor while a yellow bellied slider turtle stares down over the edge of his shoulder at the carpeted floor below.

A man in a purple shirt laying face down on the floor while a yellow bellied slider turtle sits on his shoulder blades, teetering close to the edge while staring at the camera.

A yellow bellied slider turtle flailing on the carpet, upside down after he fell off the man's shoulder blades.

The tragedy of Icarus in four images.

#turtle

Went down to Baltimore this week to visit my sister. It's a decently nice city. The national aquarium has a very pleasing ratio of exhibits with turtles in them, but I couldn't spot the Kemp's Ridley turtle they had in their big tank!

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Thirty-two years ago today, Myst was released.
Happy Birthday, little guy!
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A promotional slide for the Science and Technology in Asia Fall 2025 online seminar series at Harvard University. It announces Aya H. Kimura’s talk, “Tsukemono and the Anthropocene in Your Gut: Emplacement, Awai, and the Apertures of Micropolitical Analysis,” scheduled for Tuesday, September 30, 10:30–11:45 ET. The slide includes the Harvard Department of the History of Science and Asia Center logos, with text noting the seminar convenor Victor Seow and a registration link (https://seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia).

How might Japanese pickles help us critically reflect on modern antibiotic relations?

Please join the Harvard S&T in Asia online seminar series for this talk by Aya Kimura!

📅 Tue, Sep 30
🕥 10:30–11:45 am EST

Registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

#histstm #sts #histsci #envhum 🧪

A small, one-inch button sits on a tablecloth. It features a yellow background and a black and grey painting of Sussie, the six-eyed magpie from KPop Demon Hunters. Their face is in profile and shows three of their signature half-lidded eyes.

Made a fun little button for spooky season with watercolors.

#kpopDemonHunters #sussie