profclbrown.bsky.social
Aspiring badass. Books, Detroit, judgment/decision research, social change, history, comparative religion, POTTERY, football/basketball, music/theatre/opera, historic clothing. Mostly-retired UM professor. Your mom, if your mom swears like a sailor.
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You do NOT want people to be open-minded??
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Any implications, you think?
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What? You didn’t really write this. This is impossible, factually incorrect, craven.
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Liberty Street for the irony eh
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But if I get skinnier I am STILL gonna be invisible. This is the gift of being almost 67.
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It’s grief. But grief need not make us complacent.
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I do not get this result somehow
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The idea that there is a single human with 25+ years’ AI experience is itself perhaps an AU hallucination. 25 years ago we didnt even have smartphones.
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And that little “huh” shrug that followed it 💋
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Best updo at the awards, and a special award for best scampering onto the stage
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There was a time when they had racks of 8-tracks, too!
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Oh hey big fella, if you want to know if any of us here are exposed to a diversity of thought you cannot just look in one corner of the world.
There’s a big world out there books newspapers other websites. Others human beings, even.
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I bought my first record album, More of the Monkees, at the checkout counter of the A&P. I believe it cost $2.64.
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It’s one thing for them to be bigots and another to be bigots who are self-sabotaging I suppose
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Yesterday at a clinic appt there were posters everywhere reminding people they were not allowed to object to the race sex orientation etc of a caregiver and wow I felt for the people who have to treat people who dismiss them out of hand
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Well as the grandchild of Depression-era farmers, I’d have to say you’d eat blackberry pies, chicken and noodles, buttered biscuits, homemade applesauce. It would be bland but it would make you cry with delight.
But YES. Without immigrants we are not whole.
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Dead and also very very hungry eh
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Now he is the very unpopular unemployed guy, having just lost the Florida job
www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
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Just today I would call him transparent. He’s got a big Oakland County mansion how’s he gonna pay that mortgage.
Haha
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The best news in a long time!
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I notice the aanews is now reporting police confirmation however; my reticence is withdrawn
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That is much appreciated; thank you
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I appreciate the acknowledgement but you could also…hear me out…delete or don’t post stuff before you can confirm it
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I have seen a photo that suggests this but no other confirmation. Can this be confirmed
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I was just listening to “Christmas in Prison” which has this exact trajectory
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This amount of destruction seems to require some dedicated combination of planning personnel equipment and privacy. I can’t understand it and am devestated
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This breaks my heart; so glad you got a chance
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If I could change one thing about US culture, it would be this unshakeable and absolutely backward belief that life must be earned, and generating profit is how you earn it.
Life is a human right. Profit must be earned, and those who want to earn it must respect human rights in order to do so.
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There is a shit ton of distance between your premise “carrots wont work” and your conclusion “sticks will.”
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Stupid sonofabitch tries to take the only industry that the US COMPLETELY DOMINATES and grind it to powder.
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Yes and “Rehab.”
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New Lanark is mindblowing.
Add to “Textile Museums Ai Have Dragged My Daughter To:” Lace Museum in Burano. Italy
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Well…I no longer worry about maintaining my credibility on the Internet. Consider me ruined