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JKR explicitly said she considers anything Potter-related, even fan-made, endorsement of her politics. And every time you engage with this franchise, you signal to the industry that there's still money in it and they should keep pumping out content from full-cast audiobooks to book box partnerships.

Normally professors get to repeat in class activities, but each semester I'm reinventing the wheel because the same students keep taking me! It's only about 10 of them, but I can't look those students in the eye and use the same activity I did last semester.

So. This "underlying health conditions" / "pre-existing health conditions" framing is understandably upsetting b/c amid the COVID public health emergency, it became a way of discounting the morbidity or mortality of chronically ill & disabled people. The people behind MAHA leveraged this framing.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

For future reference, I need all visitors to my house to come for at least a week if they are able. I need a built in "laying around my house reading and watching TV" day if all the other days I'm going to be driving for hours and surrounded by people.

There's a lot in this thread & its multiple & various reply/quote offshoots that i disagree with, & am exhausted by, but i want to focus on 1 that i keep trying to press on: Let's stipulate LLMs *Can* do grad- & even expert-level math & we should prep for a revolution in the field… So what then?…

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d ago

There's lots of stuff LLMs can't do, but if you want to disbelieve all the recent math, you have to believe a bunch of Fields Medalists with long track records are just straightforwardly lying about the thing they care most about. Here's a recent blog by Gowers: gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...

I hate homophobic black people so much. The same talking points you use are exactly how white people used to/still speak about us. "I don't like them being pushed on us" "I wouldn't want my children around them" "They always have an agenda" "You know they (insert offensive untrue stereotype)"

Double Aunt Andre 3000 AKA Jason Reefer@arrogantade.blacksky.app · 5d ago

I just had a convo at the gym with this dude who I do not align with on most topics. The topic today was homosexuality. It came up because he jokingly said he’s not buying the new Madden because Caleb Williams is on the cover with nail polish and he can’t support that.

Struggling to decide what book comes next... I'm reading the stand and pet sematary and need a distinct third one in the mix. I don't want a historical fiction, so maybe I add a fantasy book... Finished a thriller recently and not in the mood for that yet. Haven't done a lit fic in a while?