Morgan Robertson

Since avant la lettre.

idk, i've managed to not use chatgpt or whatever a single time and still am somehow getting things done and doing well at my job bc i use things like:

having conversations with other people!
reading!
my own brain to think of things!

Unless you’re telling me that all systems (including this one) regularly insert an em-space after a period that ends a sentence (as opposed to other lists of period-based punctuation marks), I will have to disagree. And since an em-space is two standard spaces, my point stands.

Except that they *are* necessary to communicate the meaning of the punctuation mark, and this is not a misconception on my part. Merely pedantry, as suggested.

Rein/reign/rain.

Less/Fewer.

We appear to have lost both of these battles even in major news outlets and academic publications.

Two spaces after a period. They are an integral part of the punctuation mark, necessary to communicate the fullness of the full stop.

Two spaces after a period. They are an integral part of the punctuation mark, communication the fullness of the full stop.

Hell I’ve reffed roller derby bouts in 17 of them.

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Geographers! New book out today on the demise of Geography at Harvard (and tf Geography's 20th cen. troubles in general and the Ivies in particular).

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How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

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Tools of an old school cartographer.

Hey @prancingponypod.bsky.social ⬆️

I grew up on these maps and love them wholeheartedly — a large part of the reason I became a geographer.

The wildest part of the story here is that her atlas convinced Christopher Tolkien that there might be an audience for The History of Middle Earth! So e have a geographer to thank for that.

These are the hand-drawn proofs — she was geography faculty at UW’s Oshkosh campus, and her son Mark Fonstad is a geographer at Oregon. He is donating the materials to the UW Milwaukee map library after this exhibit.

Hey all Tolkien folks, the beautiful Robinson Map Library in the Department of Geography at the Univ. of Wisconsin is having an exhibit of the materials behind Karen Wynn Fonstad’s Atlas of Middle Earth! Hurry on down!

POWERFUL QUAKE RATTLES MIDWEST (Published 1987)

Was actually in Australia for Northridge and back in Iowa for Loma Prieta — got lucky! For all my time in LA, the biggest earthquake I ever felt was in Iowa. www.nytimes.com/1987/06/11/u...

Watch the seismic waves from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia sweep beneath seismic stations in North America.

By the time the waves reached North America, they are far too small to be felt by people, but can still be detected by seismic instruments. 🧪

I remember the same in LA in the 80s, mainly in the context of my friends winding me up b/c I was from Iowa. Much like Australians and their drop bears.

There’s a lot of competition for the worst kind of environmental misinformation, but this is a strong contender. And we get to blame Aristotle.

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I described it to a friend as "dubble-bubble flavored orange crush", but that friend then invented a cocktail called the "Irn Brexit" by adding Malört and fenugreek-cardamom bitters, so I regret everything.

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I asked ChatGPT what will I be?
Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?
Here's what it said to me:

Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
STICK YOUR HAND IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL

Wolf uses the term only in his title, "Ownership and Political Ecology". It does not occur in the body of the text -- a text which is clearly cultural ecology if it is anything, citing Bob Netting and Derwent Whittlesey.

Whatever Dick Walker was reading, it led him to the enduring formulation! 3/3

Walker is referring to it as if "the political ecology literature" is something that already exists, but it clearly didn't. WoS only records 12 occurrences prior to 1974 in all of their texts, and none of them match Walker's or today's sense of the term. Certainly not the oft-cited Wolf (1972) 2/3

I do get a kick out of the fact that the very first use of the term "political ecology" in today's sense came in 1974 when a 24-year-old Dick Walker was arguing with the Odum boys about wetlands value in the now-defunct Coastal Zone Management Journal! 1/3