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Word-wrangler. U.S. history, philosophy teacher. Literacy tutor with delusions of efficacy. Friend.
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I know this picture! Deutsche Grammophon used it for "The Flowering of Renaissance Choral Music." www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...
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I don't get this. Has he had an aneurysm? Is he a cartoon animal who, when booped in the snoot, reverses moral alignment? Or has he listened to one of those DNC consultants who say the path to electoral victory is to become Trump Lite?
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Even though Charles Homer Haskins's "The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century" is nearly 100 years old (published in 1927), it made an immediate dent in the notion that people stayed up late on December 31, 1349, to watch a novel Renaissance come in with the new year.
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During Trump 1.0, some of us wrote postcards to Federal workers, indicating that we cared about how they were doing and that we understood the severity of the situation. Would this be of any help in this context, or would we be "Job's comforters" for trying?
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My brother had a stroke a couple of years ago and it left opposing muscles in his neck and back spastic. He found relief with medically prescribed Botox. It calms those muscles, and he only has to worry about them every three months when the effects wear off. I hope this helps.
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President. You have to be President and rebuild our country. DoT is small beer.
I took public transportation to high school, which included a bus and three trains. 2.5 hours each way. Nothing happened. I saw some weird stuff, but I didn't come to harm.
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People are creating right now. About two weeks ago, I went to a show of West African drumming/dance. I'd never seen any before, but here were a bunch of community college students and an impassioned teacher giving it their all. I thought, "Amazing! Art still happens!"
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Thank you! This is very useful.
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We were there for four days, and the aunt wouldn't take my parents' money. We shook their hands and we said goodbye. Canadians are the greatest, and it makes me so angry that because of American's shitty taste in in presidents, the good will is gone, squandered. I apologize.
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The Games were intense; we didn't have money, so we saw only a couple of events. But on our way out of Montréal, our car broke down. It was a hose that had to be ordered and it would take three days. The garage owner's aunt had a couple of guest rooms.
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Re Canada: My folks took me and my brother to Canada for the 1976 Olympics in our tiny econobox Plymouth Horizon Canadians were profoundly nice to us. They could tell we were American because we had glass soda bottles; we shared our food and they shared theirs.
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In college, back in the late eighties, we had coed bathrooms and showers. It was fine. Nothing bad ever happened. There was no perceptible nudity. No one bothered anyone else. Why is this coming to a head now?
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Thank you. I have tried to be engaging and friendly. If you have time, look at my timeline. When I am wrong, I admit it. When I have something interesting (perhaps only to me), I post it. I don't *think* I am out of line or entitled, but maybe I am. I appreciate your perspective.
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I come from Facebook. Making friends here is hard; it's like breaking into publishing, pardon the metaphor. Occasionally, I get a like, but it's hard to correspond because most people have turned chat off. This compares to the friends I now follow on Facebook, which is engineered for friends.
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This is 100% what is happening and will happen: "AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data." Shumalov et al., Nature. 2024 Jul;631(8022):755-759. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07566-y. Epub 2024 Jul 24.
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AI will become your trusted adviser, who will naturally be able to influence you because you've already given it hundreds of times more information than it needs to profile you at high resolution. You won't take a step without asking it what you should do.
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So he remarketed the music as "Chill to the Chant," and it was a dismal failure, precisely because it commanded any listener's attention, as opposed to "the soundtrack of your life," which goes on in the background. The words are beautiful, and are set beautifully, but they are not "chill."
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There's a great and inexpensive set of Hildegard by Sequentia - www.sequentia.org/projects/hil... They were with it in the '90s until some record company idiot thought he could go toe to toe with Manfred Eicher's ECM in marketing to "New Age" devotées.
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Thank you! I was worried it didn't exist, but there it is. All we have to do now is induce the right people to take it.
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harvard.edu URL pointing to the class, or it never happened. Extra points for which Harvard entity is offering the class.
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The women were our electronics HR. When there were vacancies, they found new people, often family members. They liked me because I got a big electric shock every time I opened the assembly room door, and I did it anyway; they laughed. They were usually so intent, so it was a good break for them. /2
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I worked at a physical security company. All our electronics were put together by Vietnamese women from Garden Grove. This had nothing to do with bodies. They were paid generously for a job that didn't require many language skills, they were loyal, and they did great work. /1
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Hi, @sjventurino.bsky.social! CIG to Literary Theory and Criticism?
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"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this, and every country but his own." Born in 1900, died of Spanish flu in 1918, and Bob's your uncle.
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Unfortunately, to give a decent answer, I would need to look at an old copy of Debrett's Peerage, and my public library is one of the places least likely to have it.
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I've got a couple of cold cans of San Pellegrino Aranciata Rossa and a straw. I'll just go ahead. By the way, you'll have to get your own can and your own straw.
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This is not the same problem, but there was a famous British rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of England from 1991 to 2013. He received a life peerage, so he was Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Which should come first, though: the Rabbi or the Lord?
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I bought two copies, one Kindle and one ePub, because I couldn't remember the site having the sale. More royalties for the author!
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"Free or reduced price lunch." If kids have to borrow money to pay for lunch, don't they go into the "free" category? Alternatively, what are they supposed to do? Give their little red wagon as collateral?
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Sorry. The Cossacks, the Soviets, and the Germans pruned my grandfather's family tree. He was the only family member who made it past 1945.
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If you live in San Francisco, I can give you a recommendation of a therapist I deeply trust; her practice centers on LGBTQ patients. She is not "woo-woo."
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Cacoethes is right up there with "incontinence" -- the weakness of will variety, not the Depends variety. "Lord, make me continent and chaste, only not just yet." —Augustine
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Der Tod ist mein Schlaf worden.
— Martin Luther
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Oy! I remember that scream, "the scream heard round the world." Now I think Dean's a Big Medicine lobbyist who famously threw FUD at Sanders's single-payer push. He did have a great phrase: "I'm from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party." I am still looking for that wing.
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I've seen this happen at numerous public universities -- a "classical" framework/entity intended to breed little Straussian institutionalists. But "classical" education does not escape current problems. Sexuality in Ancient Greece isn't something the funders want to hear about, and yet it's key.
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That's not why Plato "banished the artists," in the words of Iris Murdoch. Her fantastic book on the subject, The Fire and The Sun, is out of print but on Internet Archive: archive.org/details/fire...
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So, for Noem, immigration status is literally arbitrary and capricious. Like Satan tempting Jesus, she is effectively saying "for glory and authority have been given over to me, and I give them to whomsoever I wish." (Luke 4:6)
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I sang at Bart's memorial service (along with the rest of the Yale Glee Club.) The athletes/agents wore sharp and stylish suits. The male academics, hewing to stereotype, wore ill-fitting houndstooth-check jackets and unpressed khaki trousers. (The female academics wore normal dressy outfits.)
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The page works! It's concise and informative.
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This is Supreme Court fantasy land, a dream of legally literate unhoused people who have read the 9th Circuit appellate decision and cite it as a magic spell to ward off police. And, no, it isn't really in San Francisco's amicus brief. /2