drbrianish.bsky.social
Ph.D., WWI/modernist Brit lit and modern fantasy lit. I also really like board games and baseball, so expect to see a lot about them. He/him.
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(To be clear, this was a joke about the LAPD being on the right side for once, not an earnest plea for ICE to reform).
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Phew, glad that's over.
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Imagine releasing a battle royale in the year of our lord 2025.
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Now, be fair.
The game also looks terrible.
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(This is about 60% a joke I'm making while I think of a real answer).
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The entirety of The Boy and the Heron.
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I haven't updated my copy since the DVD era so this will be a huge step forward.
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I'm teaching it next semester so I grabbed the 4k but have yet to watch it. Very pleased to hear they nailed it.
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When the internet's good, it's pretty good.
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I think your take is more likely, I'm mostly just thinking out loud.
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I don't think it was; I'm just wondering if they were being tongue-in-cheek with the names.
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Or even Irish/Italian, given the Boston/New York split and Knights of Columbus (which yes, I know was founded by a child of Irish immigrants).
Some variation on this would probably be my guess.
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Actually, the mismatched score and misspelling of "Red Sox" makes me wonder: is it possible that they organized their own games with the names of the hometown teams, and this is *their* score? It almost seems like a more plausible thing to carve than a random MLB score.
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I looked for a few years after, just in case the tunnel remained in use for a while, and the closest I found was the reverse - a 4-7 loss - in 1919. My bet would be the June 25th '18 game, but exhibitions and such remain a possibility.
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There's a 6-4 on April 21st 1917, but that's not even three weeks after the US declaration, and it was in Boston, so the order would be reversed.
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I'm not seeing any matching scores during the American deployment. The closest is 7-3 on June 25th 1918. That one was in NY, so the arrangement would be correct. But there's an outside chance of spring training or an exhibition game.
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This is a rupture, there will be a before and an after. There is no reason to believe the after will resemble the before, at all. This is a demarcation in the lives of thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of educators.
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“Oh I will just take a break until this blows over.”
THIS is all there is unless and until people make something different.
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The goal is not _just_ to leave a dwindling number of roles for thought workers, although it’s partly that. It’s also to get people to see such an outcome as an advance — to get us to _embrace_ the idea that our own capacity for thought is obsolescent.
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Read it again.