Jillian Foley

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I have bad news for you about money

TIL there is no longer a bus between Annapolis/Severna Park and New Carrollton?? Also baffled by the lack of transit to UMD/College Park. Transit mappers say to go through downtown Baltimore or downtown DC (a 3+ hour trip for a 45 minute drive)

There's nothing like trying to plan a trip in the DMV to be reminded how functionally useless American transit is for inter-city or suburban travel, even within a 50-mile radius

PSA: it’s spider month, don’t walk under trees while looking at your phone

well

Whoops I left my sourdough out all day when I meant to bake it this morning. Let’s see what happens!

incredible, thank you for this

tried to sign my five-year-old up for park district gymnastics and within four minutes of enrollment opening the waitlist for ten spots was up to SIXTY-TWO

*taps sign*
If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.

A hand holding open a book to a two-page spread. The left side is black with a white headline “PLAYING WITH MATCHES” and subhed “How we break the stable marriage algorithm.” The right page is a greyscale drawing of figures lined up in two rows, one on a conveyor belt, with a network graph superimposed above them connecting the figures together across the rows.

Came home from a two-week trip to my Kernel magazine article in print! Buy your copy here to read about what sororities and economists and the doctor cartel have in common shop.kernelmag.io/products/ker...

Every non-major class I took was still related to math or history (my two majors) except language classes. I had almost enough credits for an art history major but triple majoring felt excessive

I was about to say a freshman seminar I took in the astronomy department but I just realized it was actually a history of science class which … was my PhD. Turns out I’ve been pretty consistent.

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

I really have no words. I'm in WaPo, reviewed by Charlie Jane!

yes this review! books can be good and still be too Great-Man-centric

“what emerges is a sort of great man theory of history that gives Musk more credit than he deserves...the authors unintentionally buy into Musk’s own narrative that he is a once-in-a-lifetime technological and business mind.”

@ktai.bsky.social

she had enough summer jobs hustle she could've been a millennial

Today I am realizing that in this interview she describes like four different jobs as her first job

The Flight From Hell From the Heart with Rachel Brathen · Episode

if you could use some humor-solidarity, this immediately made me think of a podcast ep I listened to years ago: open.spotify.com/episode/4zMN...

Reading an academic book with mostly straightforward prose but just came across the phrase “it did not fail to sharpen over time”. So…. it sharpened?

and the trash is always full of the weirdest shit that you have zero memories of either creating or deleting. a delightful sample.

I just deleted a dozen things in a row and did I remember by the last one? No, I did not.

one of these days I will remember that the delete function in Scrivener is called "Move to Trash" and not spend five seconds looking for it every time I need to delete something

I'm in this! buy it and read about what sororities, economists, and the doctor cartel have in common! or invite me to your party and I'll read it aloud

SIGCIS 2025 CFP: Power Surge The Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) welcomes submissions to their 16th Annual Conference SIGCIS 2025: power surge ⚡🔌🔋💥 September 25-27 2025 | Online via Zoom K...

Deadline EXTENDED to Mon, 7/14! SIGCIS 2025: Power Surge with keynote speaker Lily Geismer. Find more details and full CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The hardest thing about writing for me, a fundamentally impatient person, is how very slow it is.

Can I ask a logistical question? What do you do with her bike during the school day?

oh no

Selfishly I want some non-historian science studies or STS people to sign up for this because I want to read this!!!

mary poppins was on to something