Zeb Larson

Yeah that pretty much is the playbook

“What if they’re colossal dipshits” is so far the best explanation with everything this admin does

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Boy, 7, dies of brain condition caused by world’s most contagious disease — years after he had it as a baby Even those who make a full recovery from the initial infection face a lurking threat: a deadly disease that remains latent until striking — and killing — years later.

California boy dies of SSPE (measles complication) after being infected at age 7 months, when he was too young to be vaccinated.

Can do! It's long but very readable: Richard White's Railroaded. I tend to agree with a lot of his analysis (in many places, we never needed railroads; the "growth" they brought was frequently wasteful or hugely speculative; they were enormously destructive environmentally).

Not to mention, a lot of them run like shit and lose money?

I have a piece coming out soon on the similarities between the data center boom and 19th century railroad booms, and honestly they’ve made it a little too easy and on the nose.

If anybody has any really helpful sources on *why* cultural transmission is a worthwhile political project…I’m comparing earlier examples with the Federal Writers Project and a bunch of New Deal agencies, but I’d love a bit more theory in there

I’m trying to work on a piece about this, and…hoo boy, we all need to say it aloud

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Americans demand to know who they have to bomb to lower gas prices

Apartheid draft dodger say what now

Same. I had somebody reach out to me a few months ago because they’d heard about me (they’re another humanities PhD) and I basically had to tell them “don’t make tech your Plan B right now, it’s not a good backup”

Oh 100%, all it took for a few people was going viral once or twice and then they positioned themselves to basically steal from people.

Honestly, the alt-ac community on Twitter made leaving that fucking place a lot easier.

I made the dubious decision of writing about my own career transition in 2020 and grew to regret it because for about a year it was the thing strangers would reach out to me to talk about. I don’t have special advice and never claimed to, but goddamn if I was a shit I could have grifted.

I spent my teenage years being taught to kill the earnest part of myself and have basically been digging myself out of that hole ever since, in no small part to try and make friends

Or the losers doing it on LinkedIn

At least I ignored people and didn’t go to law school after finishing my PhD

Or they have pretty considerable barriers to entry. That’s the real rub: skilled trades might be doing well, healthcare at least has demand for labor, but they’re not jobs you can easily transition into without a bunch of training.

Good god no, I think everything has high barriers to entry or is just constricting.

I’m an engineer and a history PhD, I get it. Sadly, the latter isn’t worth much outside the realm of personal enrichment (and maybe some of my freelance writing).

“Why was it written this way?”

“No fucking clue”

As days home go though, could be worse? He mostly just wants to sleep on me; I’ve had plenty where he’s miserable AND wants to play AND I am also sick.

All it takes is one little presidential sex-and-money scandal for OSU to hide “The” like it’s a goddamned murder weapon

Even with a victory in November, they can’t and shouldn’t count on “throw out the bums!” giving them any kind of lasting mandate or even presence.

AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

Wounded Knee. Tulsa. My Lai. Abu Ghraib

And now, Minab

We need to talk about the horror when 180 little schoolgirls, boys and teachers were obliterated by U.S. Tomahawk missiles last week. And tell Congress: Not one more dime for these war crimes

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I like your attitude.

Labour thinking they can capture the Reform vote. Lol

Starting Monday with a sick kid after a nice weekend is, ngl, kind of shitty.

Oh crap, hang in there