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They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em. Rage against the machine - Bulls on parade There's been a lot of discourse on my remaining social media this week about certain AI companies purchasing what used to be called 'long...
Sunday, August 2, 2026 - 11:00 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project No real summary on this one as it isn't directly relevant to the project. Major category: LHMPTags: LHMP LHMP #574 Steidele 2023 Traveling in the Caucasus About LHMP Full...
We are all subject to illusions, whether we are aware of them or not. In fact, the more convincing the illusion, the less aware we probably are. Our perception of competence in others is often deceiving and misleading. It can be very...
Happy August folks. Louisiana is celebrating the approach of Fall by gradually increasing the temperatures to roughly that of the surface of the sun. Last night we saw the new Spider-Man, which was really good, although not as fantastic...
No, I am not doing a link blog here, so don't expect this everyday, but here are some links for your morning commute / lunchtime / bedtime reading. :-) We Don't Shame Smart Glasses Wearers Enough, by ...hi, this is ava. MkLinux and The...
In this post I mentioned two series which I denoted t(n) and c(n). The former is the number of unlabeled rooted trees with n nodes. The latter is the cumulative sum of the former, i.e. The sequence c(n) is also the number of constrains...
This afternoon, husband disappeared off into the graveyard to check the gutters at the back of the house. As he pushed past a nearby holly tree, he almost went head-first into a pigeon’s nest situated unusually low. Luckily, mummy pigeon...
The ugly Writing this amid gloomy news — a huge wildfire is burning Ψαθα (Psatha), the seaside area an hour west of here where I went swimming a couple of weeks ago, and where I spent my last birthday weekend. The area is (was) notable...
This week, for the third time ever, I didn’t finish reading a book. The previous two times were both Ulyssess (or however you spell it) by James Jocye. I’ve never gotten past page 50 of it, and while I always felt kind of bad sending it...
My Blaugust inspo and goals. In June I did Junited and last month I decided to give JulyReply a shot (or three). So for August, I wanted to take a break from these monthly challenges. But! Robert started a new challenge, then I read...
Another visit to the midlands to see family. I'm done with the M40 for a while now.272 words · 5 images
Notes MRM. We’re in this liminal space between the date Margot Rose was born – July 23rd – and the date she died – August 13th. July 23rd we arrived at the lake. Carissa brought mini cupcakes and we had cupcakes and sang happy birthday...
Donald Lateiner, review of James H. Dee, Epitheta hominum apud Homerum = The epithetic phrases for the Homeric heroes: a repertory of descriptive expressions for the human characters of the Iliad and the Odyssey (Hildesheim:...
After just over two years here in this old town in Northern Germany we are on the eve of another move, hopefully this is the last one. We aren’t getting any younger and I have less energy each time. This will be the twenty forth time I...
Hard to believe that I began this blog in 2009. I have enjoyed writing about school reform and classroom practice because both have anticipated and unanticipated consequences for children, teachers, parents, citizens, and society. I also...