Tom Stearns @tomstearns@octodon.social
I do stuff sometimes. Teaching, research, data analysis, sometimes write a song or write a thing. I keep busy. What do you do? Why?
Given what just happened in France--all of it--I'm thinking it wsn't so much that "America had a grassroots revolution" last November as it was "America's entire election/political system got pwned."
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My (US) congressman says and does unnecessarily hard-right things, agreeing with Trump almost desperately, sometimes almost saying the dog-whistle GOP positions out loud. He is also low on the GOP totem pole.
Naturally.
Low-status members of social groups infer unwritten group norms, then bang their drum longer, harder, and faster than anyone else. They one-up each other in hyper-conformity. High-status members don't need to do this.
He looks like an ideologue but he's really just a climber.
Just watched Tropic Thunder. I'm kind of shocked to say that I really liked it. In the genre of "movies about the absurdity and psychopathic cruelty of Hollywood," it's near the top of my list.
"You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
- E.L. Doctorow
What if I made a bot that just posted the title of any bill supported by a majority of US GOP House reps and added comments like "This will harm millions!" or "Wealth transfer to the wealthy!" or "Income inequality will become even worse!" or "This will marginalize minorities and women even more!" without reading the text of the bill at all.
Then I let that run for a few years.
How often would the comments be factually wrong?
(Note: I can't make bots. If you do this, just gimme a shout out)
Me: I'm convinced that "ignore the trolls" doesn't work when you have an organized army of ideologically-motivated trolls intent on insulting, shaming, threatening, or just shouting down everyone on the internet they disagree with.
Wife: Yeah, I miss the days of "Scully is fat."
Fellow academics:
A colleague is being pressured (by her dean and chair) to support this list of items as mandatory criteria in a "collegiality" requirement for tenure & promotion.
It's a dumpster fire naked monkey nightmare of a policy, tailored to encourage abusive administration and hostile work environments.
I highlighted some of the most ridiculous parts. Imagining the way some colleagues or admins would interpret all the undocumentable judgment-call elements... ::shudder::
Because terrorists would never think to create social media accounts without terrorist content. Oh yeah they already do that.
The true purpose of this is intimidation of law-abiding citizens from other nations for #securityTheater
Can we stop with the silliness? The silliness that makes the world a worse place to live in?
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Joe Versus The Volcano Day!
Angelica (Meg Ryan #2 of 3): Do you wanna hear my poem?
Joe: Sure.
Angelica: [recites poem]
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Angelica: Do you wanna hear it again?
Joe Versus The Volcano Day
"No one knows anything. We'll take this leap... and we'll see."
Joe Versus The Volcano Day!
"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you"
Joe Versus the Volcano day!
"Clothes make the man. I believe that. You say to me you want to go shopping, you want to buy clothes, but you don't know what kind. You leave that hanging in the air, like I'm going to fill in the blank, that to me is like asking me who you are, and I don't know who you are, I don't want to know. It's taken me my whole life to find out who I am, and I'm tired now, you hear what I'm saying?"
Joe Versus The Volcano day! (según yo)
"Did I come at a bad time?"
"Yes, um, no. Uh, I don't know how to answer that question."
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Maybe spoilers in the YouTube link. it's a scene from a movie, so...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMARnSUCoYY
Note (1) zigzag on the wall and (2) duck motif
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OKAY I'm posting about Joe Versus The Volcano (1990) because it is one of the best movies ever. I AM SERIOUS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytS4yFM4Oxw
Let's start at the beginning. Note (1) the facade of the factory and (2) the zigzag path to it. The motifs will recur.
Note (3) the fully righteous cover of Sixteen Tons. Yesss.
Note (4) Dan Hedaya's amazingly pointless phone conversation. Epic.
@amarilegusta started this. I take no responsibility.
WHAT. How did I not know about ggforce before now? Why must I have a job that requires me to do inferior things for HOURS before I can go play with this?
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggforce/vignettes/Visual_Guide.html
Sí, por favor, continúe explicándome los modismos Mexicanos.
O puede leer definiciones del diccionario... o lo que quiera.
