Sherman Dorn

Dog is salivation 💦

Late middle-aged dad: hold my beer

Web page for Kristi Noem Bobblehead figure

Thinking of buying one of these and putting it in my front yard because.... before today I never thought of having a garden Noem. 🤣🤪

Same with gluten-free fads as a benefit to my late wife as one of the relatively few Americans with celiac disease. Thank you, gluten-free influencers!!

The second would be reverse causality, I think, but could also be combined with the first (subclinical distress -> cannabis use -> cannabis use made things worse). These possibilities require follow-up before one can really claim causality.

2) The opposite could also be the case: subclinical experiences of psychosis and bipolar might predispose some adolescents to seek out some way of addressing their distress.

I'm thinking about what might be happening here, and I can think of at least two possibilities:

1) Some cannabis use might tip adolescents who are subclinical over into clinical expressions of psychosis and/or bipolar.

Strong research design, but correlational rather than causal analysis. Also, from the JAMA article: "There was a significant departure from the proportional hazards assumption for depressive and anxiety disorders, indicating that the AHRs declined with age." The strongest finding is about psychosis.

Selling tote bags would be simpler, but yeah, I understand this

I’m so sorry for her, to see her husband go on an antisemitic podcast.

Do you need a nemesis for this?

Mayor Lil' Putin was ... mmm... a learning experience. I learned he should never be trusted.

If he can figure out how to castigate moral laxity in the West, and it's rainy, he'll get to the level of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was the 1978 Class Day speaker.

If you look at the video, the weather was a perfect backdrop to his jeremiad.

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Hi, associate editor of a review journal in education. What about collaborative scholarship, where no one author reads every one of hundreds of studies… but where there’s a process of coding and analyzing?

(FWIW, thus far in my almost 4 years in this role, no AI in my manuscripts.)

You might’ve spent 2 hours learning how to use an LLM to do the mail merge with no certainty it would happen accurately.

Thus far Word’s mail merge works just as it did over the decades…

Are you accusing Chotiner of necrohipposadism?

NOT TODAY, SATAN!

NARRATOR: It's been the structure for many voucher programs in Florida since the 1990s.

... my distant guess isn't too shabby.

So the question is: what to argue, and what to suggest as a policy solution. I'm not sure how I feel about UT and my being so close, except that if their values-squishy butts think that's the way to get ED to agree to state-level flexibility even while rolling their collective eyes in DC, ...

As I wrote here before the regs were released, blowing up the regs would not have been prudent for most commenters who opposed the effectively-narrow definition of "professional degree," because without the regs, extra funding doesn't flow, and I think EVERYONE is at lower bound without that.

I ended up landing close to UT in suggesting state-level flexibility based on demonstrable needs, though I phrased it as states where approved programs met the 3-prong test, and UT referred to workforce needs.

I also contributed a comment, focusing on the professional-degree question.

My university's comment focused on part-time students and how the proration in the draft would affect working-class graduate students.

Lawmakers and Universities Push Back on Loan Caps Politicians from both sides of the aisle sharply criticized the Education Department’s narrow interpretation of the legislation, which limits the number of students with access to large federal loans.

Useful discussion of comments on draft Direct Student Loan regs (linked below). The definition of "professional degree" was a focus of comments, but not the only one!

The draft statutory initiative sponsored by @sosarizona.org @arizonaea.bsky.social addresses that. Four major hurdles before that can become law.

Ah, if only someone could look at it as technology, like other technologies, with ties to culture and power and humans using and abusing it ;-)

Sigh. There is such a thing as empathy and observation.

No, I don’t need to camp out in Second Life myself, thank you.

… we hope in the sense of arbitration, not “arbitrary and capricious”