WhatsThat

I passed a cybertruck in our neighborhood yesterday with a lit Lyft sign on the dashboard, so…

This week, we commemorate the work of Harold Innis, who was born on 5 November 1895 and died on 8 November 1952.
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Large red leaf held up to the morning sun so that the sun gleams through a pinhole in the leaf. Bargained is an out of focus orange and yellow fall forest

Read this & immediately thought of @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
“There are silences that can be heard, even from the dead & the severely oppressed…Sensitive & faithful historians can learn much of what has been lost, and much therefore that can be continued.”
—James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games

“Psychology’s emphasis on personal responsibility, resilience, and self-help frequently aligns more closely with conservative ideals than with progressive ones.”

Preordered!!!

I HAVE THOSE LUCY & YAK OVERALLS! (just sayin’…)

For us post doom scroll preppers…do you know the sites they trust? If I bail from Bluesky, I was thinking the guardian and Al Jazeera…?

Appropriate signage for both The Strand NYC and Asheville NC’s Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar

I’m absolutely fine being a country bumpkin with print books

Now I’m recalling the eerie wail of the nuclear alarms that were repurposed into tornado alarms when I was a kid in North Carolina. And tested monthly

Ok but also please buy your librarian a vodka martini after the cataloging is done🤨

With all due respect to wet dogs, there’s nothing friendlier than a man who just ate a tin of sardines 🙊

Really hope students understand why this is not a matter of not polluting, not using slave labour — say there could be AI models that are more or less not doing that, even though it's impossible — but of actually the whole of human self-expression at stake, so pointless to come to class otherwise.

All life is selves nested within selves…all the way up and all the way down

Having your fob buried (irretrievably) in the bottom of your purse is the best preventative for this situation

It’s how she rolls 😜

Not surprised exactly because Sort of remembering hearing that France had some ministry whose job it was (is?) to keep the French language pure by fining uses of English terminology…? (Too lazy to look it up)

Cup of foamy cappuccino with the image of a Scottish cow emblazoned in cocoa

The Isle of Lewis has this covered

This is a good visualization of when people say that AI saves them time.

Mutant gazpacho or 7 Eleven bloody mary?

When your dog tries to show interest in your hobbies

I had my fill of bosses who got their Project Management cert then continued to run projects with zero PM sensibilities or tools. I literally begged one of them to use a Gantt chart once so she’d stop driving one of our web design folks crazy. Never seen a blanker stare

No no no just to be eaten by the crew of the Carpathia?

a woman says okay who has a lighter in yellow letters ALT: a woman says okay who has a lighter in yellow letters

Me instantly:

Isn’t that called a “goat”?

Masters in business administration?