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tomnovak.bsky.social
Denit Trust Professor, The George Washington University School of Business. Live in Leucadia, California aka "Funky Leucadia". I study people's relationships with smart things. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IK6_rNQAAAAJ&hl=e
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LOL. Good luck with that!

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The Bluesky followers count is inaccurate. Wildly so. Bluesky says I have 370 followers. I counted them manually and there are only 270. But - the free IOS Bluesky Unfollowers Tracker shows the correct number. Seriously - why isn't this fixable by Bluesky? www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc...

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“A government attorney told Chutkan he had not been able to confirm mass government layoffs took place on Friday.” Wow. Acting like it isn’t happening? www.reuters.com/legal/judge-...

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Here is Perplexity’s analysis of the impact of the forced NSF staff cuts. We shouldn’t need AI to state the obvious. But here we are.

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Our local trash company picked up our trash and recycling this morning. I'm very happy to see that my trash company shares my belief that Presidents Day should not be observed this year!

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There are 813 billionaires in the US with a combined wealth of $6.72 trillion. So... AOC 2028 + a 100% tax on wealth over $1 billion. Job done? inequality.org/article/2024...

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OMG I didn’t know this existed until now! open.spotify.com/album/0wMkc2...

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More lamps should be rabbit based.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The next pandemic is going to eat this country for lunch. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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I've tried apps like Calm and Headspace but find them overly gamified, too engagement focused, and confusingly organized. I wind up anything but calm. Instead, I prefer building my own playlists from the UCSD Center for Mindfulness SoundCloud tracks. Plus it's free. soundcloud.com/ucsdmindfuln...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Plan of action to get me through the rough times: 1) Play Zero Dawn on PS5 (done) 2) Play Forbidden West on PS5 (almost done) 3) Play Zero Dawn Remastered on PS5 4) Buy PS5 Pro 5) Play Zero Dawn Remastered on PS5 Pro 6) Play Forbidden West on PS5 Pro 7) Play Horizon 3

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Today I learned that my health care plan is not a PPO plan, but is a POS plan (Point of Service). Of course, we all know what comes to mind when you hear something is a POS. This is Marketing 101. How did this health care acronym happen? Are we teaching our students nothing?

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Et tu, Apple? Now I need to go back to my old paper maps. They also look a lot better.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Sign me up! I’ll take my chances with the Danes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The only useful function I’ve found for AI phone support is to get it to find me a person to talk to.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

AI can't even accurately summarize the news. Yet Musk wants to decimate the federal government workforce and replace it with AI. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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After a walk on Moonlight Beach, a visit to Dave's Rock Garden is just a block away.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Ok, I've switched to Apple Maps (left) and stopped using Google Maps (right).

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I do know that today is the Super Bowl. But I have no idea who is playing. I feel that I am in the minority about this. But these days, I feel like I am in the minority about pretty much everything going on in this country.

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Since eggs are so hard to get and expensive these days, it is starting to make sense to take 32 minutes to cook them to get the perfect egg! Where can I buy a machine that will automatically cook eggs this way? www.npr.org/2025/02/08/g...

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Bluesky is looking exponential, better buckle up!

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Why is it so difficult to manufacture a tissue box where only one tissue comes out each and every time? Is it really an unsolvable engineering challenge, or is it intentional waste by design?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

In a month we've gone from extremist red-state zealots banning books to the NSF banning words including "women," "privileged white" and "disability." Full list is below + some r/Professors discussion. www.reddit.com/r/Professors... & www.reddit.com/r/Professors... Any predictions for next month?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

A local muralist magically painted windows and shutters on two blank walls our shed. It’s ready for Hansel and Gretel to move in!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a California tradition to stand and watch the sun as it sets.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This German bread slicer has jumped to the top of the list of my favorite kitchen items!

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Some back of the envelope calculations on cognitive load. Assume Elon Musk's IQ is 200 (I'm being extremely generous). Assume Musk is only involved in running Tesla, X, SpaceX, and now DOGE (conservative assumption). That's 50 IQ points for each. Explains a lot.

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