Micah Muscolino

Little Simz review – hip-hop visionary radiates joy and Gallagher-level swagger Switching from full-arena singalongs to horn-blaring funk to sweaty Detroit techno club vibes, the rapper is at the very top of her game

Little Simz review – hip-hop visionary radiates joy and Gallagher-level swagger

My hometown

The 9.21.1999 earthquake in Taiwan was scarier, though. Especially the aftershocks.

I remember that day so clearly. It was surreal.

Hot 🔥 take:
To people who've studied the economic and social history of imperial China, Mokyr's writings are considerably less impressive.

I'd write a whole thread, but I have too much other stuff to do today.

Right?

Hot 🔥 take:
To people who've studied the economic and social history of imperial China, Mokyr's writings are considerably less impressive.

I'd write a whole thread, but I have too much other stuff to do today.

Now I am listening to D'Angelo while taking care of the tasks I already had planned for the day, and I am slightly worried I'm going to buy my mom an inordinately sexy birthday present.

Dr. Pepper - the pretentious advanced degree = Mr. Pibb.

Every time Harrison Butker misses a kick, a feminist gets her wings

I thought that super detailed assignment instructions and rubrics would be a deterrent and at least make it obvious that the low grades resulted from not following the directions. I was mistaken.

I battled AI all last year and gave lots of bad marks, resulting in the worst student eval scores I've gotten in a couple decades. This year it's all in-class exams.

That eyeliner ain't cheap!

Don't make me say it...

A history of laws against public urination would require a different title, of course.

I'm shocked.

I'm willing to bet that someone has already used that title

vintage Japanese color woodblock print in landscape orientation, illustration of an inking cuttlefish (light brown & light blue body, black ink), with seals and signatures on lower left

For #SquittleDay (squid and cuttlefish day!): 🦑
Bakufu Ohno (Japan, 1888-1976)
#Cuttlefish (Mongo-ika), 1940
From Familiar Fishes of Nippon (Dai Nihon gyorui hanga-in)
Oban, 40.3 x 28.4 cm
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#JapaneseArt #CephalopodWeek

Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene* Abstract. On 11 December 1967, a large earthquake devastated the village of Koynanagar in Maharashtra, western India. Many blamed the new Koyna hydroelectr

From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene”

by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

This is me not making a wisecrack about the Econ Department.

Opting out of this AI licensing agreement, which was auto sent on a weekly basis by a certain publisher, was far from simple.

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde

White text on maroon background reads: Urban History Dyos Prize 2024

We're delighted to announce that @williamcavert.bsky.social has been awarded the Dyos Prize for 2024!

The Dyos Prize is awarded to the best article submitted to #UrbanHistory in the previous calendar year.

Check out 'Industrial brewing in early modern London' here: doi.org/10.1017/S096...

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.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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LOLed from this one. (Maybe because I'm currently trying to sell a house.)

According to Wikipedia: "Rowan is a restaurateur who owns multiple eateries in The Hamptons." 😆 🤣 😂

YouTube video by 800 Pound Gorilla Media David Gborie | Gbirth Of A Nation (Full Comedy Special)

Another great one! m.youtube.com/watch?v=snLU...

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