Super interesting to note the contrast between the way Brown University and Columbia University have handled these protests. Brown agreed to a governance vote about divestment, the encampment there dissolved.

Opinion | College students are telling you exactly how they feel about the Israel-Hamas war. Listen. - USA TODAY apple.news/AjC8Jv5OUT7m54…

My listening for this evening

The tech billionaires are the first generation of wealth in history that don’t even pretend to care about refinement, sophistication, and culture. It used to be you had to prove your moral superiority by sleeping through the opera on Sunday afternoons.

Here in Wisconsin, we basically raise our kids at the brewery.

This is like during the middle ages when there were two popes.

Some people say you shouldn’t wear band shirts after age 30. This is strange because you should actually exclusively wear band shirts after 30.

One difference between Jurassic Park the book and Jurassic Park the movie is that in the opening chapters of the book some small dinosaurs escape off the island to mainland Costa Rica and eat a baby. Maybe this is where Cormac McCarthy found inspiration for The Road.

The two books I am reading right now, a bit different in tone, sorta similar thematically.

Wife and I rewatched this movie last night. It didn't pack quite the same punch as the first time I saw it, going into it blind, having no idea what it would be about. But man there are some astonishing scenes.

Can we...just accept that we suck at this?

I want to tell you a story that has made me kinda hopeless about Twitter's ability to affect positive things happening, and it starts with this tweet from Hillary Clinton.

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This tweet is like splitting the uranium atom, but for attracting bots.

In Masters of the air (book) there is a scene where a guy has to bail out of his bomber over Nazi Germany, and on his way down realizes that he will be listed missing in action, which means his things will be sent to his parents, and his trunk is filled with porn and condoms.

Post a favorite record that you sorta hid from your kids.

Will Rogers was famous for saying he never met a man he didn’t like. Can you imagine Will Rogers on Twitter?

'Much as you shouldn’t be a surgeon if you faint at the sight of blood, you shouldn’t be a police officer if you cannot control your temper in front of the people you are paid to keep safe.' bostonglobe.com/2024/04/26/opi…

I always thought Acab was shrill, but I think people would like cops more if they would show this kind of aggression to school shooters in Uvalde rather than middle aged economics professors.

Guns don’t kill puppies, Governors kill puppies

People hate AOC bc her enormous popularity validates the idea that participating in electoral politics can grow the socialist movement. She also reveals the compromises winning power entails. Some people wanna go back to being a tiny club that’s right all the time. They’re wrong.

Mose Allison is so cool. This song was famously covered by the Who.

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