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Illustration of Big Bird from Sesame Street in the style of a Utah Raptor

Super effective timing on this because @ashrowan.design just posted this illustration on IG which is now my new favorite dinosaur: it’s going be perfect for that pocket!

This is why the church is truer in Las Vegas than anywhere else

There is no budget "deal" to be made President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

Scientists Expose How Housing and Commutes Steal Sleep City living’s hidden cost: long commutes and small homes are quietly stealing your sleep.

The longer your commute, the more likely you are to have insomnia.

Question the history and question the misogyny and question the doctrine but stay for the funeral potatoes 😜

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools It can take years to collect evidence that shows effective uses of new technologies in schools. Unfortunately, early guesses sometimes go seriously wrong.

What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools, according to a professor who studies the history and future of education technology:

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I thought that song also had late 90s Built to Spill vibes or maybe even a little Weezer Blue album to it

(It was, unsurprisingly, my favorite song on the album)

Utah loves Trump. It didn’t stop him from taking a chainsaw to one of its largest employers. What happened when Elon & Co. started slashing?

“I saw several co-workers who were walked out, crying, saying, ‘How could he do this? I voted for him!’” --What happened when DOGE came for one of this Trump-loving area's largest employers--the IRS. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A diagram of a structure built out many multi sized blocks. The structure is described “a decades old theory.” At the base of the structure, is a block that holds up nearly the entire structure that, if removed, would cause the collapse of the structure. This heroic block is labeled “background assumption no-one is aware of”

…It’s a lot like this favorite diagram of mine only instead of “decades old theory” it’s “technical information” and instead of “background assumption no one is aware of” it’s “basic information expert has forgotten that not everyone already knows”

…The challenge then is that experts often become unaware of the smaller individual discrete knowledge in their chunks and therefore do not break their bigger chunks down into smaller byte sized parts for the non-experts…

Cognitive chunking: The more technical knowledge and expertise you have, the more you tend to bind smaller discrete technical information into bigger chunks. The whole rather than parts becomes easier to remember for the expert… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunkin...

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.

Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

(This is all to say that I think you’re on to something that truly charismatic leaders willing to depart from a status quo and do tend to go sideways from the institutional church at some point and that institutional leaders are selected based on their willingness to perpetuate the status quo)

…we studied Nauvoo era Mormonism for a week and I wrote my course paper on JSmith’s development of the concept of Mormon Zion and the takeaway question I had (and still gave) from that class was: is Mormonism’s ‘Zion’ truly utopian? And, do LDS folks still even believe in the 10th article of faith?

In Arch school, I took a history class on utopian communities. We differentiated utopias from other visionary communities based on whether or not the community differed from the status quo in some way. (Utopias changed some aspect of the status quo while visionary comma extended the status quo)…

Fair, but now I’m envisioning a future policy change announcement with the conclusion “and the fit for this revelation is…”

And even then, Dan’s work isn’t focused much on the sort of the traditional prophetic things dealing with societal actions as it is more focused on the specific issue of scriptural interpretation (this is a good thing). Maybe Mr. Roger would be an even better example of today’s charismatic prophet?

^Certainly none have leaned on their charisma to prophecy or to prophetically advocate a call to action on some issue

In racking my brains to recall institutional leaders approximating something close to “prophecy” the only thing that kept coming to mind was GBH’s counsel to avoid financial debt, and that was almost 30 years ago

(I take this back a little: the Silver Fox did use his charisma relatively recently to advocate for treating refugees more humanely in the face of how the broader American political movement was treating them)

…The closest example to a charismatic prophet for today’s age would be someone like Dan McClellan, I think, but he’s not operating in the church anymore

I think that a few recent leaders have/had charisma at times appropriate for their era but it has waned recently, but none truly fit the “prophetic” definition I don’t think. Certainly none have used their charisma to prophecy or to prophetically advocate a

🏆 The BRICK AWARD 26 shortlist is out, showcasing 50 of "the world’s most inspiring brick buildings" across five categories. Winners will be announced June 11, 2026. More photos and the full shortlist on Archinect at archinect.com/news/b...

Why journalists are reluctant to call Trump an authoritarian – and why that matters for democracy Media framing shapes people’s understanding of the world. A political communication scholar says that journalistic outlets’ failure to call Donald Trump an authoritarian is a problem for democracy.

Much of what President Trump has done fits classic signs of authoritarianism.

Journalists hesitate to use the word, but a communications scholar argues the U.S. is “well past that point.”

The only LLM I trust

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I’m not in this one anywhere because of my long hair and beard