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Jeremy

@jeremycarter42.bsky.social

(he/him) Science teacher, Cast of Wonders audio producer, boardgamer.

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Jeremy@jeremycarter42.bsky.social · 3d ago

Caught up with an old friend last week. They've deliberately decided to cut out pretty much social media and ignore all news. Haven't got a fucking clue what's happening in the world but seemed very happy.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d ago

Ghent professors challenged expertise of Jason Arday’s plagiarism accuser

Ghent professors challenged expertise of Jason Arday’s plagiarism accuser

Allegations Nathan Cofnas was unqualified for Ghent role and would cause ‘negative impact’ made to senior leaders months ago Nathan Cofnas, the academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism, has been accused of having “very limited expertise” for his academic role by professors also working at Ghent University, who say he has a “far-right agenda”. Cofnas secured a postdoctoral research role “on the future of liberalism” at Belgium’s Ghent University in March. Weeks later, Ghent’s department of philosophy and moral sciences handed a 19-page statement to university officials, setting out why it believed it was “improbable” that Cofnas was the best candidate. Continue reading...

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Jeremy@jeremycarter42.bsky.social · last wk.

Turned on the radio to "..a force for good" and knew exactly what they were talking about. Imagine having such a legacy. I talk with my trainees about teaching as a force for good in the world. Dolly Parton is a great example of living that philosophy.

Adrian Tchaikovsky@aptshadow.bsky.social · last wk.

Genuine inspiration to see someone who garners huge success and uses it for good.

Boze Herrington, Library Owl@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · last wk.

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 2w ago

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune

Jeremy@jeremycarter42.bsky.social · 2w ago

Donated a carrier bag of Warrior Cats books at our local cat shelter charity shop. The volunteer looked so happy I think she might immediately have started rereading them

tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 2w ago

I'm sorry but "a huge number of NYC cabs now are remaindered EVs running grey market software written by some dude in a garage" is the most cyberpunk thing I've ever heard

JarekFA@jarekfa.bsky.social · 2w ago

I asked a driver how they service them since they’re no longer made. He said they have a guy they go to for all the software updates and all that. Even though, it has many missing typical car elements. (Like cruise control or power windows even I believe).