Katy

Gil Scott-Heron, "Whitey On The Moon."

[Katy @KatyGerman]

Listening again to "I Am Spock," narrated, of course, by @TheRealNimoy . Such a treat.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Quote: "This is how USAID spent your tax dollars"

I think people have lost the will to try fact-check this guy due to the volume of lies he spreads.

Also it's actually pretty difficult with this image and quite time consuming.

It just happens I had nothing better to do. /1

[Katy @KatyGerman]

@DrewTumaABC7 Did not here in Pacifica

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

two stabbings triggered a federal investigation but the quarter million Georgians who lost health insurance this year didn’t, bc “safety” has always meant the false promise of protection from the scary stranger, not wages you can live on, water you can drink, a doctor you can see

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"It’s unfortunate that almost none of the people behind these accounts know very much about the ancient world." Unfortunately, ignorance is not the only thing wrong with them.

@BretDevereaux on Elon Musk's X and the fascist statue accounts:

https://t.co/c4XquHEWMV

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

Worth revisiting this Hobsbawm interview: we too should not concern ourselves with 'radiant tomorrows' but with there being any world at all.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Given how much Trump’s attack on Iran is rapidly escalating and the stakes involved, it seems now would be a good time for No Kings and Indivisible to marshal their tremendous resources and hold an actual antiwar march with clear demands, not more partisan pep rallies.

[Gregory Crane @PhilologistGRC]

Here is a report of some exploratory work transforming a traditional Greek textbook (Crosby and Schaeffer) into something truly digital. https://t.co/R0NrHgq0rY

[Katy @KatyGerman]

@FrankConniff No pressure :)

[Dr Theo Nash @theo_nash]

The trouble is that Twitter is now full of grifters who hide their ignorance behind the label of autodidaxy. Having no teacher is not a virtue: it is in fact a disadvantage, and one that most are not capable of overcoming.

[Dissent Magazine @DissentMag]

After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.

Read @resnikoff on why the left needs bureaucrats: https://t.co/KLuYwa7Sxy

[Jason Locasale @LocasaleLab]

Academia already did what you’re proposing.

Universities are now run like businesses with professional administrators, branding strategies, risk management, consultants, and KPI dashboards. The result hasn’t been better research or teaching. It’s been the transformation of universities into brand-management and lifestyle companies, where prestige, expansion, and revenue extraction matter more than scholarship or education.

Research and teaching don’t reliably maximize short-term financial returns, so they get crowded out. What grows instead is administration because once an administrative class is established, its primary function becomes self-preservation and expansion, not mission fulfillment.

This is exactly what happens when a nonprofit adopts corporate logic without corporate accountability. You don’t get efficiency. You get mission drift and an institution optimized to look successful rather than to be successful.

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

There's absolutely no shortage of opportunities to produce 'new knowledge' in the humanities; vast swathes of medieval, early modern and modern texts remain untranscribed, unedited, untranslated. The failure to take these opportunities is partly a skills issue; (cont.)

[San Francisco Bay View Newspaper @sfbayview]

Rotting From the Coast Inward: Sea Scouts displaced, waterfront in decline
https://t.co/vEYLFPkOda

[Katy @KatyGerman]

https://t.co/oi8B3crDL6

Still happily shocking. RIP Mr Lehrer

[Katy @KatyGerman]

@RonPlacone Ron, thank you for sharing this sad news. Lucy will always be a shining star in our sky. Peace.

[Katy @KatyGerman]

But you will of course want to listen to all eight minutes fifty seconds of Providential beauty: https://t.co/dOxyXA3tt0

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

George Benson’s version of “Take Five” is a masterclass in musical genius…

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results. I don’t want to include a Teams link on the calendar invite. I don’t want to pay 50 different monthly subscription fees for all my software. I don’t want to upgrade to TurboTax platinum plus audit protection. I don’t want to install the Webex plugin to join the meeting. I don’t want to share my car’s braking data with the actuaries at State Farm. I don’t want to text with your AI chatbot. I don’t want to download the Instagram app to look at your picture. I don’t want to type in my email address to view the content on your company’s website. I don’t want text messages with promo codes. I don’t want to leave your company a five-star Google review in exchange for the chance to win a $20 Starbucks gift card. I don’t want to join your exclusive community in the metaverse. I don’t want AI to help me write my comments on LinkedIn. I don’t even want to be on LinkedIn in the first place.

I just want to pay for a product one time (and only one time), know that it’s going to work flawlessly, press 0 to speak to an operator if I need help, and otherwise be left alone and treated with some small measure of human dignity, if that’s not too much to ask anymore.