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drewbaird.bsky.social
Sociologist at Christopher Newport University. Adopted Virginian, recovering Floridian, runner, concert-goer, unapologetic wife guy. Opinions are my own, but I strive to not make them a headache for my chair.
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this is still one of my favorite real articles during the 2024 cycle

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ecological catastrophe in florida but no worries they are focusing on the real threats: fluoridated water project.tampabay.com/investigatio...

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"I'm friend or foe depending on the content in your keynote And not above the lobbing of a rotten tomatillo" www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR32...

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Good lord.

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PUT STEVEN ADAMS IN THE HALL OF FAME RIGHT NOW

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Coach Pop was the best to ever do it. That is all.

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Also by god, still one of the funniest Obama-era headlines.

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Busta Rhymes we once again should have heeded your wisdom

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just the other day I was talking about how a lot of white Americans can't tell the difference between Māori and Latin American folks anyway

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Me trying to engage in intra-university politics.

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Very useful interactive spreadsheet of the college/univ prez who have signed this declaration of academic independence. Up to 480 signers now, up from 180 three days ago. Thanks to @ejgoldstick.bsky.social for putting it together. For reference, his doc is here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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I’ve only watched Death of Stalin once, but supremely respect this answer.

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"It's time to meet, the monsters around you. It's time to meet, the monsters inside you." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPJs...

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Praise it and blaze it

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This is the funniest Good Place meme anyone has ever produced.

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winning the Cold War did some interesting things to the American psyche

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>reading the David Brooks Op Ed about mass strikes and seeing him quote the communist manifesto at the end

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The agenda this current week, in which I present at two conferences, teach six class periods for three sections, and have a journal review due.

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Nothing like the lukewarm Diet Dr. Pepper from the Newport News International Airport terminal vending machine.

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I've done almost this exact combination, and it's lazy weeknight perfection.

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A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.

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mood

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2002 was when StarTrak records put 757 on my map. From that point forward, the siren sang its song and the inevitable was set in motion.

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I teach a statistics class in the university's "Trading Room" normally used by the college of business. It has screens everywhere with live stock, commodity, and forex prices. It's indeed distracting and disconcerting for students to have a live market crash happening right behind their instructor.

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What 2025 feels like

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I know there's renewed calls for AAUP membership. I hope this bears fruit. But, I will say that the AAUP meetings I've been in prior in my career involved way too much complaining about Trump and national politics and way too little discussion of collective bargaining. Please stay focused, everyone.

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Age yourself with a movie you saw in theaters

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If I ever in earnest refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America," I grant whomever I do it in front of permission to kick me anywhere they'd like on my body.

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Someday, someone will write about how the conflation of university speech with “censorship” was used to mobilize actual government censorship.

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Napoleon's retreat from Moscow was not as total a defeat as Drake has suffered

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Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

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“Big man Blastoise…..”

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