For some reason, I saw a bump in traffic to a page that linked to a “make-your-own-Trump-executive order” page

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How I Learned What I Learned (featuring Wali Jamal)

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Visiting the #scienceofpixar exhibit @kaminsciencecenter

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Quick visit to see my mother and siblings.

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Things Past #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 8) Odo confronts his reputation as a hero of the resistance

Rewatching ST:DS9 Sisko, Dax, Odo and Garak return from a conference on the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, where Garak got flak for his pro-Cardassian bias, and Odo is uncomfortable with his own reputation as a hero.  They’re in a runabout, so it’s no surprise that a plot contrivance particle field hits them before the opening…

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The daughter missed her graduation ceremony because she was performing in Kinetic Theatre’s A Sherlock Carol.

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This was a rough term. Still have a winter term course to publish before midnight but time for a break.

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Couples in successful relationships always use these 6 phrases: ‘You’ll grow stronger both individually and as a unit,’ therapist says

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Students are trusting software like this to do their work.

  The technology will continue to improve so that that simulated gymnastics videos will look less and less bizarre, but people who can use AI to create flawless gymnastics videos aren’t actually learning gymnastics. No human being will become a better gymnast thanks to a better AI simulation of a gymnastics routine. More convincing AI-generated…

My brother drove my mother in to see Carolyn in tonight’s opening night Kinetic Theatre production of A Sherlock Carol.

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A former student working in SEO shared this. I miss Google classic.

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‘People are rooting for the whale’: the strange American tradition of Moby-Dick reading marathons

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It’s something to do.

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Though I have marking and prep and committee work and paperwork to do, I took an hour before bed to touch up this segment of the #medievalyork city wall because research. #blender3d

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