@drhettie2017Advice to young historians:
https://memoriousblog.com/2024/01/30/reading-advice-for-young-historians/
I work in higher education.
https://www.canisius.edu/coli
Mark
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@mathewi In an old trolley/tram industry publication I saw a reference to a (bad) automobile driver as "the nut attached to the steering wheel."
@hotdogsladies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Tatham-Warter
"...or just Digby..."
Merlin MannI would never say it publicly, but one benefit of a good Poetry class is not that you develop the ability to plausibly pass as a pretentious snob.
It's (at least partly) about getting permission to notice how much lively, crackling, and unforgettable language is all around you every day.
Eugen RochkoIt’s hard not to say “AI” when everybody else does too, but technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing. There is no intelligence there, and it’s not going to become sentient. It’s just statistics, and the danger they pose is primarily through the false sense of skill or fitness for purpose that people ascribe to them.
@mttaggart I overhear someone saying they "went to Bruma" and I wrack my middle-aged brain to remember if that's character in Kings Quest 4: the Perils of Rosella, a dungeon in Ultima 6: the False Prophet, a city in Loom, a town in Oblivion: Elder Scrolls, a planet in the Mass Effect or Star Wars universes, a suburb of the ruins of Washington D.C. in Fallout, or a real suburb of real Philadelphia.
@blueteamgoon That's the one.
With budget cuts, though, we had to sell off "Under" and now it's just "The Dome." The capital T wound up costing slightly more than all the money back from the sold word and lowercase letter. #highered #visionaryleadership #rightsizing #sustainability
@blueteamgoon we've been entertained by a weird issue in WordPress. It beats what my job has increasingly become: writing accreditation reports.
Jeff JarvisPOLLS ARE BULLSHIT. Pollsters are bullshitters. Reporters who report polls report bullshit. The only polls that matter are the ones that come on election day. Anything else preempts democracy.
