Chuck Pearson (he/him/etc.)

Seriously. I’m considering a pre-order. TTPD made me full-on Swiftie.

can’t wait for the new Taylor Swift album “500 Internal Service Error”

This is some SPECTACULAR AI trash.

What in the world is Augusta National Glub?

IT MAKES ME WANT TO PULL MY HAIR OUT.

I know you want to do your own weird thing, creative and fancy institution! It COMPLETELY ties my hands! I want to help these students graduate! Help me help them!

Even as GOB chemistry goes, it makes my job trying to make sure the student can get transfer credit for the thing and not have to reinvent the wheel with the courses they take.

And telling the student there's no way I can make the course transfer as a proper GenChem is tears-inducing.

This sucks.

General purpose rant so I can get on with my work day.

What's the point behind a 3-credit-hour chemistry course (2 credits lecture, 1 credit lab)?

Transferability for such a thing is a TRAIN WRECK.

Sending sympathies, in addition to cussing and swearing.

This just significantly increased the chances that I put money into ESPN's DTC service.

(The chances would go to 100% if they'd just fire Pat McAfee.)

This ignores that part of the artist's work is to make intentional choices about composition and what to include and exclude to convey a message/theme/narrative. It's not just "ooooo pretty let's have moar." I do not want to explore the world around Nighthawks because Hopper intentionally omitted it

YouTube video by Mae - Topic Brink Of Disaster

Today's mood.

I still stand with @bomani-jones.bsky.social. "You can get all your cholesterol right fast, right cheap."

Josh Linehan, managing editor of the Brookings Register in South Dakota, wrote in a letter to readers, “It’s no secret that it’s tough times out there for all print media, and we’re no exception.”

He added, “But make no mistake — we’re closed for now as a result of poor corporate management.”

Thanks for sharing this, Paulette. It needs more amplification.

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

Great news for the organization, but I can't help but wonder how much of this angst could have been avoided had we skipped the events of this year and listened to all the *incredibly smart people* who said that cutting NWS front-line staff was an awful idea in the first place?

🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮

@eaton.fyi, can you confirm?

That got the fool in question an insta-block.

We had a community on SBNation once. It was killed by people who didn't know the difference between Nick Saban and Haim Saban.

This advocacy has made me put "Dirty Harry" on my playlist just for old times' sake.

Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement “Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

The Trump administration effectively created a de facto bathroom ban at Brown University and none of the major media is covering it, and if they do, they character it as about sports. This is how the trans visa ban was enacted and characterized.

www.advocate.com/news/transge...

The roof?

For the aspiring Christian rockers in the midst:

Pilate Error.

This specific joke has been around for approaching 40 years in various circles.

I want to spotlight the clarity and beauty of the language Kelsey uses: the dead have a right to stay dead.

They do. We're going to need to develop standardized, universal, opt-out-only legal means to allow them to.

To allow /us/ to, for we will all be citizens in the kingdom of the dead in time.

You're good to even think of this.

The challenge is to make this kind of cruelty recognizably beyond the pale for the people in our communities. Too many people believe the ends justify the means.

Getting blocked. I saw that one time and no further consideration was given.

For Years, I Let This App Control My Life. Then It Became Another Victim of Big Tech’s Insanity. Why does it feel as if Trello hates its own customers?

I run my entire life on Trello.

Trello recently got an update that has the Trello community (a real thing lol) in a state of open warfare with the platform's parent company, Atlassian.

I wrote about it as a special tech story @slate.com: slate.com/technology/2...

DEAN DAD BACK

Now that I’m an assistant dean myself, I am even more deeply into his universe of wise and worldly readers…

I promise you they’re all doing it. Perplexity was sloppy enough to get caught.