Sturdy Knight, MLIS, PhD

As a learning scientist, we're also pretty shaky on how humans learn.

Hard agree, though I want to carve out an exception for "Trump is visibly senile and being weekend-at-Bernie's-ed around by his inner circle" since his basic physical and mental fitness are actually pertinent.

Posting this at the moment of planetary equinox. We will now enter the darkness together. Here's looking forward to the next six months.

Store brand coffee beans now cost as much per pound as mildly snobby locally roasted beans that I only bought on sale did last year.

From interactions with faculty in my university's engineering school and others in the wider online learning space, every undergraduate CS/CE program I'm familiar with still has solidly over 2/3 male enrollment every year.

The crossing guard at my daughter's school is a huge fan of the Bills and of James Cook specifically, and one of the highlights of my week this time of year is him yelling his thoughts about the game across the road to me while he directs traffic during morning drop off.

This is also mine. I have exactly one retail app, for Dominos (don't judge me) and I want every other transaction to be as anonymous as a GOP politician soliciting gay hookups in an airport lounge bathroom. More anonymous, actually.

And that suggests that all those conservatives who are still filled with adolescent rage at being contradicted by a queer vegan that one time in 2011 are just... not able to change. There's no working through it because the only thing that can content them is for Those People to be silenced.

But what DOES scare me is that if I was just somehow naturally capable of listening and changing my perspective even as an idiot teenager, that suggests it's more an innate personality trait than something that is taught.

Even there I'm privileged! I'm huge and hairy and look like I ate a Proud Boy to gain his warrior power. Never would have crossed my mind that an argument would escalate in a way that would make me personally unsafe. I could have gone nuclear with no concern for the fallout, but didn't.

And somehow my dumb 18-year-old ass was able to do that! Sometimes it was a little bit embarrassing to be called out, definitely, and not everyone doing it was right or arguing in good faith. But it turns out when I stopped talking I actually fucking learned!

Like, I grew up about as privileged as it's possible to be (white, male, straight, cis, upper class), got to college, and was told in no uncertain terms that at certain times/during certain conversations it was my role to shut the fuck up and listen.

SO MANY conservative Millennials seem to have taken the experience of being told to shut the fuck up on Tumblr or to check their privilege in a freshman college seminar and turned that brief moment of anger and embarrassment into their entire personality 15-20 years later.

Kimmel: The kid who grew up in gun-worshiping far right MAGA culture and then shot a guy is an obvious product of gun-worshiping far right MAGA culture.

Trump Admin: Oh yeah, well WE'RE FUCKING MATT DAMON!!!

God, remember when cyberpunk was a scathing critique of corporate capitalism?

No nazis in Valhalla!

And didn't really take off until 2008-2009 when a lot of un/underemployed millennials started doing them as a hobby or side hustle.

"Don't shoot people for talking" and "don't fire people for talking" are different degrees of the same principle. And no, it's not a principle that Kirk or his allies ever meaningfully defended.

Part of the problem is that universities, even the ones moving on esports programs and game dev degrees, have absolutely no offerings in game studies outside of a tech/business perspective, so the only game culture commentators out there are largely self-taught, and there aren't enough to go around.

Palpatine is the real power behind the trade federation and all the other prongs of the rising fascist movement prior to the events of Phantom Menace. Like, that's what the title means. So yeah, fascism creates itself through economic policy among other things.

What the fuck is this map even meant to show? What kind of data mangling do you have to do to get the rural counties of MA/VT/CT to show up deep blue on a political heatmap? Because, um, no.

Random generation table for movie titles in the format [Musical Genre] [Mythical Creature] [Profession], a la K-Pop Demon Hunters 1st Column: 1. K-Pop, 2. Hip-Hop, 3. Pop Punk, 4. Grunge Rock, 5. EDM, 6. Eurovision, 7. Orchestral Jazz, 8. Country Western, 9. Power Metal, 10. ASMR 2nd Column: 1. Demon, 2. Dragon, 3. Vampire, 4. Werebadger, 5. Zombie, 6. Robot, 7. Gnome, 8. Sillurian, 9. Yeti, 10. Swamp Witch 3rd Column: 1. Hunters, 2. Assassins, 3. Police, 4. Rangers, 5. Inspectors, 6. Paladins, 7. Therapists, 8. Technicians, 9. Coroners, 10. Patissiers

LEAKED: Netflix executive algorithm for greenlighting a sequel to KPop Demon Hunters. Grab some d10s or draw a card.

Oh so that's what the new bookmark button is for.

A random generation table for movie titles in the format [Music Genre] [Mythical Creature] [Profession], a la K-Pop Demon Hunters. 1st Column: K-Pop, J-Pop, Hip-Hop, Grunge Rock, Eurovision, Orchestral Jazz, Country Western, Power Metal 2nd Column: Demon, Dragon, Vampire, Werebadger, Zombie, Gnome, Sillurian, Swamp Witch 3rd Column: Hunters, Assassins, Police, Rangers, Mechanics, Inspectors, Therapists, Patissiers

Roll 3d8

What's crazy to me is that EVERY parent saw this up close and personal during the spring of 2020. We are barely five years out from a genuine mass enlightenment that wow, teaching is really fucking hard and requires a ton of expertise to do well. And yet here we are now.

Criminally underrated movie and character.

Slightly diminish a book

A Spring Equinox Night's Dream

U.S. Agents Raid Upstate N.Y. Plant and Detain Dozens of Migrants

Fuck this shit. Disappearing 70+ people who were engaged in making highly dangerous granola bars. Abolish ICE.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/n...

Yesterday I took my daughter to the playground and read one of @tkingfisher.com's eleventeen new books on a park bench while she ran around with her friends, and it was a pretty awesome afternoon, but yeah I couldn't remember the last time I saw another man obviously reading a novel in public.