brothercadfile.bsky.social
“for our part in this ungodly spectacle, what shall be our recompense?"
"my son, you get to use the nearby mcdonalds bathroom for free"
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yes because it lets us get thru fussy uncomfortable medical & paw maintenance stuff “relatively” un-maimed
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“Italian women have noodles for arms, making them uniquely suited to the work of a pastaria, several sources with knowledge of how pasta is made told the New York Times.”
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goes with the flaming brillat-savarin flaming skull & MFK fisher on a harley made of bones, throwing The Shocker
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heres another one, a bad bicep ink idea: the Dead Diner’s Setting: Places & Plates
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i also told them there’s zero reason the visual alert should be less impressive than the light show you get on your average vape. thermostats permanently set to “dweeb” i guess
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in casual conversation, we can talk about accuracy. but when engineers are around, we need to be more precise because they don't listen, don't understand, and then weaponize their misunderstanding. you end up with chatbots that humans only do 4x better at accuracy, then 2x, then parity with humans.
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seems silly on the face of it but google stepped that way with ngram viewer and trends; the casual popularity of word clouds
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metaphorically speaking. but also literally
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i would probably print a deck of cards with idk all the VCs that would have been described as “empire” or “colonial” bitd and start aggressively playing solitaire for the cameras every time some Ass Hole wont shut up about polish crime plumbers
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and then a culminating conflict of mythic proportions that tolerates a straight-faced historical presentation of global, multicultural, multiracial, unrelenting resistance to nazi fascism & japanese imperialism, etc etc
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the grima wormtongue institute must be very proud of its alumni these days
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but i’m not optimistic.
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i think whatever is on the other side of this is not going to be recognizable to me; if its rapidly changing habits of literacy like, dorks who thought epic poetry was the be-all and end-all of human expression QQing about the mass market novel. well. thats fine. thats my problem
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whats interesting for me is not the student deficiency angle as much as the crit fail of the dept’s (actually the field’s!) supposed outcome assessments. because yknow. those institutions are accredited.
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from a post-secondary instructor perspective one would hope that for upper div concentrators who dont do vickylit as area focus, the automatic response when dealing with unfamiliar would be exactly what you & @queenjolene.bsky.social were discussing: fall back to resources and learned methods
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yeah it starts from most lit depts are going to say something like, “[our dept] works to sustain a deep level of critical and creative thinking about literature and the world and to encourage habits of mind that serve as the foundation for a variety of future careers” (KSU statement of core values)
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i assumed everyone was talking about this:
They Don’t Read Very Well: A Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Midwestern Universities
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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i think the hook is the participant cohort was english-lit or english-ed concentrators, ~2/3 of whom were upper div, the balance weighted toward 2nd years, 1st years making up the loose change
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maybe could say w/ unofficial ceasefires, truces, etc. where you and your putative opponent would rather not be in conflict but your bosses are hell bent on slugging it out, its uneasy but the source of discomfort is your superiors finding out and putting a stop to it
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i’d wager for the participants in the 1914 christmas truce, the truce was chill & gemütlich while it was the coming dawn which was uneasy
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otoh consider: great lakes and northeast periglacial cool-climate white wines are widely appreciated as superb bottles for affordable prices, notwithstanding that Oz and NZ export to USA in shipping container-sized tetrapaks
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cal fire IC gone rogue, standard thriller trope
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anyway “i’ll make the wiki” would have been a transparently far superior spend for many hundreds of billions of dollars, not even considering how “AI assistants” “know” how ants fuck, how the krebs cycle works, or what time the fucking nandos closes
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decades of arguments, wrangling for consensus, outright hostile power struggle, idiosyncratic passion, etc etc
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otoh i look forward to the possibility of being extremely wrong
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it has been really hard to escape the idea that in the seamless garment, material and structural injustices would be the stains of little concern, but the hems of individual, specifically female and queer sexual morality would damn well be bloody-knuckle scrubbed until the laity learned obedience
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gone to gautemala and el salvador to risk life doing ministry of deeds; sponsored a GSA on the grounds of *none of our students should be having sex anyway*. and oh boy none of that was popular with the parents’ association or the diocesan leadership
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as a younger person what burned was we had a brief glimpse of the moral courage and radical nature of what it meant to mend and make a seamless garment of life: we had faculty & religious in our diocese who dared to be hauled away in cuffs from the school of the americas etc.
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while flying a boat
in places remote
complex is the matrix
of risks most dynamic
the weather for one
plays tricks just for fun
while gone spinning
is the compass magnetic
when landing at sea
which builder builds best
perhaps matters less,
in avoiding obituary by NTSB
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if the bus is in the air, its less of a scare
canuckhavilland dash, less likely to crash
boarding ilyushin, text next of kin