Amanda French 💙

TIL. I hate my ugly countertops anyway so I’m tempted to keep on in order to destroy them tho

Stood in line for coffee behind Sam Shepard at the brand-new Barnes & Noble in Charlottesville

Me! White vinegar and water, to be clear, most often, for stuff like my quartz kitchen counters. I don’t mess with ammonia or bleach or peroxide. Vinegar is great for getting rings off wood furniture, too. I use commercial products in the bathroom.

Every time I see someone mention AGI I think they’re talking about UBI at first.

I saw Mychal the Librarian on a live panel with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social at @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social’s Biscuits and Banjos a few months ago! How awesome!

I’ve had the Slow Horses season premiere on my calendar for weeks! Can’t wait

Picture of Dorian Gray | The Art Institute of Chicago Ivan Albright, 1943–44

Last night I watched the 1945 Picture of Dorian Gray with Angela Lansbury and Peter Lawford and this fabulous painting by Ivan Albright, which resides today in the Art Institute of Chicago. Fabulous movie visually: it won an Oscar for cinematography.

www.artic.edu/artworks/937...

I miss Pocket. I keep reading things and wanting to save them. Should probably just set up some new browser bookmarks folder, sigh.

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...

Just like 🧠🪱 at HHS, Musk makes a claim, orders his flunkies to find evidence for it, and refuses any contradictions. “Bobba said he knew these people weren’t actually receiving benefits and tried to tell Musk so, to no avail, according to SSA officials.” www.propublica.org/article/insi...

Anyone assuming that any data is perfect is revealing that they know nothing about data

I threw out a bottle of organic ketchup from my fridge door that expired in 2022, so yeah, I’m living my best life

How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Gotcha, thanks!

Does "private" in the graph title mean that this data is only for private industry? I'm hearing a lot about job losses and hiring freezes in the education sector, and of course much of that is "public" (govt-run)

SAME for AirPods

Hear me out, guys: what about a class action suit against the current U.S. president with 342 million or so people in the class. Let’s get our taxes back

I adore Shattered Glass. The DVD commentary is awesome, too, because it has the director talking with the real Chuck Lane.

Everything is wrapped in two spans and has inline CSS?? Bwahahaha

My cousin used to work at a Game Stop next to a Crumbl so he brought me some and I tasted one and had exactly that thought: How do you fuck up a COOKIE?

I’m actually thrilled to learn from this that other people hate Crumbl cookies too! I thought I was the only one. To me they just taste full of chemicals, way more so than even chemical-rich things like Skittles and Little Debbie cakes, both of which I think are delish

Brayed laughing out loud

10 Villanelles by Modern and Contemporary Poets - JSTOR Daily Read these recursive, nineteen-line poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Paisley Rekdal, William Logan, Agha Shahid Ali, and more.

Woohoo, an article of mine is cited in a recent article in JSTOR Daily! daily.jstor.org/10-villanell... cc @jstordaily.bsky.social

This is cool -- I think that #metadata creation is one of the best uses of #LLMs

The point he makes in that video that (US) index funds aren't nearly as diversified as they once were reminds me a bit of Warren pointing out in 2005 that mortgage defaults aren't nearly as rare as they once were

Thanks for sharing! I learned about index funds from Elizabeth Warren's personal finance book (2005, basically predicts the housing crash) and have put my money there ever since. In February, worried about US economy, I moved 2/3 of my money into international indexes and the rest into US mid-cap.

Ooh I think I read that edition

So amazing! I've long wanted university libraries to put the subscription costs of databases and journals on interim screens as you load them but sadly it's usually verboten by contracts to say how much they cost anyway

Environmental Studies: Documerica by Topic For the Documerica Project (1971-1977), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life ...

Documerica now! www.archives.gov/research/env...

I think too that “hiring people to do whatever” can easily coexist with UBI. Hire people to go take pictures for the National Archives or something fun and useful like that

No scruples, no standards, no service