beembergman.bsky.social
A writer once in a blue moon.*
Curious all the time — fashion, etc.
There’s kindness all around
*sorry for any grammatical errors, I’m a better writer when I have an editor on call
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Let’s hope she’s in it for the long haul b/c I think until her ‘Espresso’ cup runs dry… she’s got iconic surprises to share.
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Is the book good?
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Okay, now you have 20
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& how it’s reported — the studios don’t back stars the way they once did, but 360 deals are super common for artists — when they’re covered by media outlets: are actresses delegated to symbols until they overpreform & are artists designed to become icons b/c that’s where the money is?
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Absolutely! And I think you’re spot on in using the word ‘presentation’ to describe them, b/c there’s a gulf between who they are & who they (and their teams) intend to be.
I can’t help but also think about how & where their audiences (or who their teams believe their audiences to be) consume media
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But SC also has more outlets with a megaphone to do so, with personalizing her songwriting/tours, rather than just showing her personality & mettle through interviews/producing credits (end of day, they’re really different jobs, even if she was an actress first)
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I think you’re on to something… although SS is quite the producer in her own right — when it comes to roles/outfits, her image comes off as being created to appeal/ref a specific symbol(be it serious or amorous); while SC seems to always be letting u in on a joke with a little nod to satire/history
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How is this ‘who we are’ when there were many “we(s)” in this country (who weren’t always considered “we the people” — hello the 15th&19th Amd!) that fought against & won before. Perhaps it’s just semantics, while ‘this’ is who some people always are/were — it’s not in the spirit of the Constitution
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the “why” is where it’s at!
{we live in a world of attendant & precise tech (even in the age of encyclopedias, idk how old you are), anything that requires rote memorization should be just be left off the curriculum—it’s boring for us & must be boring for teachers too!}
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this is the way!!
(and if someone has a bad reaction to doritos, they should obviously just go to msg-free Chinese restaurants… of which there are still many)
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Were you reading my mind? Just finished this book yesterday (after meaning to for a decade). But (as an addendum)our work/edu ecosystem needs to give more positive time, agency & consideration to such questions & the inspired/enterprising people who come up with them — or we’ll just *run* in circles
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it wasn’t a revolutionary idea to acknowledge, but in the context of designing & signing a contract (or any written material for that matter): that knowledge made me think to ask questions about intentions in the jobs I’d apply for & how such intentions would be implemented (or not)
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internships & jobs-anything with a contract) ex. some people in gen. measure success by how they can screw over others; while many, many others value success as collabing w/ others to make a better world/overall product or to share humanity for its own sake — i look for the latter
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you sound like you have the most important quality an educator can have… kindness!
(in college i wanted to learn how think & while it was an uphill battle at both the registrar’s/asking potential prof. to take their class - an ent. contract law class i audited changed the way i looked at potential
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I think this is the center of so many industries & jobs right now — we’re collecting data we don’t need & don’t have the programs/jobs/money directed by people who would know how & when to use data proactively (such as the implementation of data sets becomes ideological instead of informative)
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Genuinely, do people think the government funded grants for “public-private partnerships to develop and deploy antiviral drugs against pathogens with pandemic potential” out of…charity? For funsies?
Or because Americans needed antivirals that weren’t profitable enough for industry to pursue solo?
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do you know if she’s bringing in her own stylists to the shoots or is Ayo just hitting home runs with the fashion yeams on (ALL! so many good looks! so much fun!) her shoots?
(and you’re always doing a stellar job cataloging all this SIL,MIL!!)
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Yup.
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as a very basic review (read it a few years ago) — it just seemed as if Rudder was more confident about selling the data/company that he helped create & the matching was more about chance than anything else
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i also read the aziz book (good history of international dating rituals/bizarre conclusions) when it came out* &the apps seem to have merely written out recipes for the melting pot of superficial & societal favorablequalities that were already there
*debated joining the apps, no comment on author
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i read the book by the OKQupid founder & he basically admitted they’re data mining apps
(TLDR;when they reversed their algorithm to see what would happen, a similar amount of people “matched” as to the proper one—so it’s more about being in the same room & getting along, than any metric they found)
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good luck! as long as you feel you’re doing what you can, you should know other people understand you’re doing the best you can in educating our future, under such perplexing *circumstances*
(and thank you for educating, it seems like you have the curiosity to care & that’s always above std!)
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Hope you & your family feel back to normal health pronto!
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After working through The Jungle*, what have you learned to look for positively, neg. & avoid at all costs?
*Also did anyone mention that Upton Sinclair book?
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That is a great dress!
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It’s going to be a movie!
If you liked Ogawa, you might like her other books (another translated last year), was thought provoking & David Copperfield(later years)-esque
While short, “Galatea”(Miller) is an epic of escape too
“Where’d You Go, Bernadette?” is funny joy
mubi.com/en/us/films/...
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Nordstrom used to do this too (not sure if still free)
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Historical or modern?
WWII deals with both spies & the people they helped www.rizzolibookstore.com/product/mada...
Fiction, but based on real people
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This changed the way I saw Vietnam (college grads 2 US factory work)
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I think you might be watching the wrong kind of genres(for your sensibilities).A lot of today’s films pay homage to the past&it’s kind of like a scavenger hunt 2 find them.Like modern ones,not every film is for every person-but if u like a movie, look at the director’s interview rec. & go from there
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To clarify, such mentality is an inane way to live
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It’s the “Move fast, Break things” mentality. They think it’s a sign of productivity if someone accidentally drives off of a cliff & a sign of weakness to wear a seatbelt or stop at a red light
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if they’re creating algorithmic literature to be read by algorithms — that might actually be ironically poetic
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pour one out for her publicist
(although this article might actually bring awareness now)
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This is definitely a top-down issue from admin/editorial staff having a bizarre definition of *productivity*
Think of how many publishers/publicists are mad they weren’t contacted & won’t reach out in the future!
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I didn’t realize this was a big FIL thing (as learned per this thread). Go CRDads!
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There’s actually a complicated history: at first American citizenship was based on birth, but between 1907-1922 women automatically lost American citizenship if they married a non-American (they became same as hubby). We’re basically trying to redo history now
www.archives.gov/publications....
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bsky.app/profile/risu... I’m not sure if they’re int’l but here’s a start
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I think there’s been a push to understand how our environment impacts health (ex. smoking, microplastics, etc.) & anyone following that science realizes personal choices only go so far. btw Congrats you’re still around to write & such!
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Genuinely, I hope you find the great one you’re looking for!
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history is rhyming (itself) faster than ever
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the perennial option
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“Assisted” via third-world-country gig jobs — basically offshoring their staff w/o announcing they’re outsourcing
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Btw how did your school decide to upgrade their air systems — was it parent involvement or did they just decide it on their own? And sadly, I have to ask, was it accepted or was there pushback (á la the anti-vax shenanigans)?
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This is the thinking! Every kid (and teacher, admin, etc.) should be breathing clean air all the time in a school & elsewhere — it should just be a standard building code b/c of all the data that shows better test scores & healthier immune systems from simple air filtration systems.
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I think the cost of living crisis pulls things out of perceptive — there’s a whole bunch of teachers who are paid above that, but aren’t making ends meet (est. 42% of Americans) www.unitedforalice.org/national-ove...
This is an informative WashPo profile on it www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...