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This century so far has been an ever-increasing series of precarious bets made by the powerful. How far out can economies be pushed into vapor? How corrupt and ineffective can governments be made to foster mistrust and instability? How much damage can societies and the planet take?

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Whenever I explain to people not in academia that a tenure track job is essentially a six-year job interview that results in you either getting promoted or fired, their brains explode.

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the only advantage major news organizations will carry into the next era will be "this is a masthead under which i can presume correct information, verified by professionals, is being printed" but they only keep that if they want to.

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Dog barks to get let out at precisely 6 am every morning, jolting me out of sleep. Same dog snoozes and snores loudly behind me for the prime part of my workday. I think I need a lawyer.

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🚨NEW: VoteVets slams decision to strip Harvey Milk’s name from Navy ship. “This isn’t just offensive—it’s a calculated act of disrespect.” It's not about tradition. It’s about forcing out those who don’t fit Hegseth’s 1980s action figure fantasy of service. FULL STATEMENT ⬇️

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Great piece on how social media and online "authenticity" killed celebrity coolness. The Cool Athlete Is No Longer In Production - defector.com/the-cool-ath...

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I wrote about Bond and the upcoming auction at @heritageauction.bsky.social intelligentcollector.com/from-heritag... It was fun reminiscing about my love of Roger Moore's 007 and the amazing memorabilia in the auction. #Bond #007 #movies #rogermoore #nostalgia #shakennotstirred #props #costumes

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Post a banger that's not in English youtu.be/hco3epImZUA?...

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On Sunday, my friend, Jonathan Joss was murdered and it took me a minute to find the words... Like so many of our lives, Jonathan's existed at the powerful intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, visibility, and vulnerability. He was fierce, funny, flawed, and real in every way that mattered.

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What state has the most Republicans? California. What state has the second most Democrats? Texas. The Red State/Blue State dichotomy does a lot more to "other" than it does to inform.

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Every streaming service should have two categories for documentaries, “Documentaries” and “Okay, But, Like, Actual Documentaries”.

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This is good for Dallas

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Horrible for every person in the United States.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVxH... NEW VIDEO! The Floppy Archival Project Working on backing up hundreds of floppy disks to @archive.org, but not only that, showing how to do the hardware/software setup so anyone can do the same going forward into the future.

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If you want to astound a younger American today, tell them that thirty years ago there was actually a years-long investigation into a president's personal business dealings and, even better, it centered on a real estate venture where he lost money.

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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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At the Soft Cell, Modern English, and Simple Minds concert, and proud of my fellow Gen Xers for rocking our ankle socks, our lasting fashion middle finger to the yoof.

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headline construction masterclass

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Just putting it out there that if a show ran 26 years, took a 16-year break, and then ran for another 20 years, it’d be OK for it to take another break.

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Fun set of obscure 70s psych, prog, and cosmic disco from LA’s Forager Records. Great for the last afternoon or night of May. www.nts.live/shows/forage...

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I love how genAI, one of the most expensive and misguided technological endeavours humanity has ever embarked upon, has -- within less than 5 years -- devolved into crude carnival tricks we watch purely to see it fail spectacularly. And it's getting worse as it gets "smarter".

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“Tenure is a crucial element of academic freedom, & to delay a tenure vote in this large-scale humanities & social sciences-targeting way is harmful to faculty, students, & members of the UNC community. The lack of transparency is also galling.” – Belle Boggs, NC AAUP Conference President

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37 years of video game development and we have still not come up with a better narrative throughline smdh

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We need Natasha Lyonne ( Poker Face ) to be present every time Karoline Leavitt has a press conference to fact check in real-time and respond appropriately: ‘BULLSHIT’

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Whelp, June 10th fast approaches—when the majority of NEH staff will officially be let go, following our time on admin leave. If you see an NEH staffer wandering around in a daze, hire them immediately. You won't regret it. They were the best, most committed, sharpest bunch I've ever worked with.

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If you see reactionary centrist takes that universities did this to themselves by being too woke, or not being friendly enough to conservatives, remember there are always people willing to make the arguments of the authoritarian respectable

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i hope she's wearing sunscreen

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"How crisis comms teams and PR people get sympathetic stories about clients (and negative stories about enemies) placed in major outlets" would be a great piece of investigative journalism someone should do

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Once again, it's not "doxxing" to report the name of a government employee.

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In a shocking act of Gen X betrayal, I am hoping that, as we speak, the returning New Gen players are systematically and ruthlessly obliterating the OGers* in Survivor 50. * Except for Cirie, of course. And maybe Christian. They can stick around through the merge.

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Their name is not "The Doctor," it's "Doctor Who."

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My favorite bookstores are the ones where you suspect the books are load-bearing.

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Not surprised to see Buckner and Northwest Hwy dominate this list, though there are many other corridors that have perpetual unsafe driving (e.g. Royal Ln, and anywhere on the Tollway).

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Nice-looking guide to an important crossover cul-de-sac in media history.

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