Wendy

I love it when someone acknowledges that this great tv show existed.

He was so good. I am rooting for him.

Is it about validating? I sort of think everyone just wants to watch to see this golden retriever do cute things. He's serotonin in human form.

I need more people to talk about how good this show is. Thank you!

They're annoying the crap out of me.

Halfway through the decade! What are your favorite films each year so far?

2020 Promising Young Woman
2021 Mitchells vs. the Machines
2022 Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
2023 American Fiction
2024 Perfect Days
2025 Sinners

Cover of the album Mermaid Avenue, by Billy Bragg and Wilco. The cover is a photo of a 2-floor apartment building with steps up to the first floor on Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn . The building is very similar to the one Woody Guthrie grew up in.

Barry Manilow
Suzanne Vega
Majosha (a band with some guy named Ben Folds)
Bruce Springsteen
Andrew Bird

Interesting. Why do they *not* want to use AI? I had a student who expressed strong opinions in class about the environmental issues with using AI. It's hard for me to imagine "making" students use it, though I do allow for its use, but in limited ways that are too complicated to explain in a skeet.

There is a supplement PDF that explains some of the methodology - all of it stats mumbo-jumbo that is not my bailiwick. 😀It seems to be a solid finding of correlation. They may need to look at whether SM time is replacing study time; they mention that possibility at the end of the article.

@mmasnick.bsky.social Did you ever get a copy of the study, mentioned on the October 16 Control-Alt-Speech podcast, about social media's effect on the cognitive skills of children? I got a copy of it and I'm wondering if you did and what you think of it.

Ugh. :(

Well, she's great when compared to the alternative who was self-suggested.

Thank you! What a mess that was. I had high hopes for Bargatze, but he stumbled his way through the whole thing.

I agree. I see this happen too often with students who were successful in HS. He also seems to have been the oldest child, so maybe a lot of pressure on him to be a role model to the younger kids.

Fabulous choices this year. Appreciate the Harrison Ford Deggy. He is really the heart of Shrinking.

Yes! She needs to take an American Government course!

Someone is holding the newly arrived "One Billion Users," a social media card game. A cat enjoying the sun is sitting in the background.

Look what arrived today! Can't wait to try it out! I'm hoping to figure out how to play it with my New Media class this semester (can 18 people play at once?). @mmasnick.bsky.social

Yes, saw your further posts after I hit send. Overall, I just want to call out the tendency of people like DeBoer to always accuse anyone on the left of virtue-signaling instead of actually believing in what they do.

He’s poisoning the well, trying to make people (students? parents? people who might question whether higher education is a valuable pursuit?) believe that college is not worth it. (3/3)

It focuses on the professor as “performing” these ideas instead of really believing them. He’s accusing professors of virtue-signaling, and the response shouldn’t be denying that some people are trying to change how they teaching but instead rejecting the absolute cynicism on display here. (2/3)

Source: I am a professor. And I have to push back on this a little. DeBoer's piece is overly simplifying and mean-spirited, but there are professors who are somewhat like this. The problem with this piece is the same problem that characterizes a lot of attacks on anything remotely to the left. (1/3)

I really enjoyed it, and I am an old school "Christopher Reeve is the real Superman" girl.

Up (2009): A childless monster refuses to die and give his house to the heroes, the real estate developers. This criminal steals the house, kidnaps the valiant Boy Scout who was trying to stop him, and brings him to the socialist hellhole of Venezuela where they save some dogs and baby birds.

A former GOP regular on my show was incensed at Biden’s use of the term “MAGA Republican” and said it was the most divisive thing he ever heard a president say.

Now might be a good time to invade Texas.

Way to go @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social!

Sounds like the prostate cancer my father had, and he lived 4+ years after diagnosis. While on dialysis most of that time.

Poker Face season 2 launches TODAY on Peacock! It’s a case-of-the-week episodic show, an ode to stuff like Columbo, Rockford… fun guest stars each week, truly episodic so you can pretty much drop into any episode. No heavy lifting, just a good time every time. Share & enjoy!

"the Rise of Skywalker"
You're not missing anything.

I'm pretty sure I haven't seen Revenge of the Sith either. I fell asleep during Phantom Menace and never bothered to watch the other 2, but later after watching some of the Clone Wars series, I decided to try Attack of the Clones. Meh.