Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
@brashtech
Born to love πͺ, forced to live on π. Professor of physics, knitter of things, drawer of earnest pictures, planetary astronomer. Goal: Spiral back into control. My opinions are my own, and not my employer's.
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
My eyes refuse to parse his name whenever I see it.
How many email accounts do you think I want to have?
Keegan Michael Key as the Substitute Teacher. A black man with a mustache in a short-sleeved white shirt and a tan tie scrutinizes a clipboard. Notes from a biology class are written on the chalkboard behind him. The Comedy Central logo appears on a pink bar to the left.
mar-KWAN-ee?
I am in awe. Truly.
Damnit.
Film, journalism, broadcasting, digital storytelling. Media Studies at Beloit College lets students explore media from every angle.
Create it. Critique it. Understand how it shapes the world.
π¬: https://ow.ly/NSai50YpHcf
you cant make art with ai prompts because art is subversive and ai is a product and you cant subvert a product by consuming it
"African or European?"
I have to do Career Day at my kids' school, what's a good way to teach them about science? I was thinking of giving them a fun activity and then making them fill out a lot of paperwork before abruptly canceling it
Injustice makes the rules and courage breaks them.
Teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork % of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who say they do all or most of their schoolwork with the help of AI chatbots U.S. teens β 10 Household income <$30,000 β 20 $30Kβ$74,999 β 15 $75,000+ β 7 Note: Those who did not answer or gave other responses are not shown. Source: Survey conducted Sept. 25βOct. 9, 2025. βHow Teens Use and View AIβ PEW RESEARCH CENTER
According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.
Follow-up comment on how bad it is on the ground at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. π
Eisenhower
We canceled research training for undergraduates because America needed the money for this instead.
More of this, please!!!
Them: Fight Ice with Dice
Me: Go on.
I dunno, I think theyβre just lazy AF. Prove theyβre not.
This is Kessler Syndrome accelerationism and not valid praxis.
Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.
This means that people DO NOT TRUST THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO PAY ITS DEBTS.
Such as shame that he doesn't know and has no experts to consult who could tell him the answer.
Graphic promoting the Gamicon gaming convention, March 6-8, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Coralville, Iowa.
Come game away, come game away, come game away with me! I'm excited that Gamicon 2026 is a week away.
Join us at tabletop.events/conventions/....
I'm planning to facilitate indie ttrpgs through our Corridor Games on Demand group (www.facebook.com/CorridorGoD) with old and new friends.
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Misplaced my 30-year-old tea filter at work, and got Big Mad at myself. Searched for a week, but no tea is Not An Option, so it had to be replaced.
The new one is easier to use and clean and works as well if not better.
I am assuming henceforth that I'm wrong about all the things I think I love.
Describe your favorite games poorly
- People with godlike superpowers argue over making appointments if they want to talk to each other.
- Fly a perfectly normal aircraft in a straight line at constant speed.
- Make this planet more like the planet you left but before your ruined it.
Donate to a worthy cause if you're able.
Work behind the scenes if you're able.
Take action in the streets if you're able.
Show the world your antlers and claws if youβre able.
Unleash your true monstrous form and wreak havoc if you're able.
His name was Nurul Amin Shah Alam.
I swear, some undergraduates do have a weird mentality that the work we ask them to do is somehow not for THEIR benefit, that the professor is an adversary forcing students do stuff for some unknown reason and they win the struggle by getting out of doing the work.
Depends. What's his neutron-absorption cross-section?