relevant to @dmgreene.bsky.social 's interests!

U.S. Government Accountability Office@gao.gov · 3h ago

College Athletics: Most Programs Spend More Than They Generate in Revenue https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108640?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=usgao

guys i think everyone should just go to bed

that guy sure does post a lot, huh

which episode of evangelion is this

Lake Michigan! Live!@lake-michigan.live · 16h ago

Current* conditions near Petoskey, MI:

_wheeeeeeeeeeee_

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 22h ago

ThisIsFine.Gif

im telling my editor that everyone on bluesky loves my book posts and youre all definitely going to buy it and that's why its fine that its 400 pages long

m. r. sauter@oddletters.bsky.social · yesterday

my favorite fact i've dug up working on my venture capital book this summer is all the data we have about venture capital activity in the 1970s comes from two guys, both named Stanley (the second bought the first's company after he died), who were *very* friendly with the nascent VC community

if i dont put tallulah's pile of packing kraft paper back on the floor after i vacuum she yells at me

Cats of Yore@catsofyore.bsky.social · 20h ago

Someone once told me that it's "classist" to advocate for people to have indoor cats because you need to buy them lots of expensive toys. Marcel has been playing with the discarded stem of a fresh green bean for 20 minutes. 🤷‍♀️

my favorite fact i've dug up working on my venture capital book this summer is all the data we have about venture capital activity in the 1970s comes from two guys, both named Stanley (the second bought the first's company after he died), who were *very* friendly with the nascent VC community

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

i worked on my chapter for four hours and then i did yoga and now im eating vegetables can someone send do a body snatchers check on me please

reposting this for daytime weekday people! i'll put your name in the book acknowledgements!

m. r. sauter@oddletters.bsky.social · 3d ago

does anyone on here have a Bloomberg Law subscription and want to do a small bounded research task for me

the good news is i randomly found a document that very neatly plugged an annoying hole in my ERISA chapter chronology and the bad news is ive been working on that since 4pm and now its 8 o clock and i dont know what (or how...?) to eat 😂

does anyone on here have a Bloomberg Law subscription and want to do a small bounded research task for me

a deep piece of me-lore is that my first job out of undergrad was as a general RA/external brain for s senior academic with a substantial public presence. i basically processed and organized information on current events/whatever he was interested in so he could give talks/interviews on the fly

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

goddammit willa

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 4d ago

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

no one needs this, we already have SimCity2000 and *that* has *giant alien robots*

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

oh did the hedge fund run by the 25 year old effective altruist who previously worked for FTX have problems? man who could have anticipated that

Mads Mikkelsen Smoking

ALT: Mads Mikkelsen Smoking

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why does this photo look like the new ticketing system is Death

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 5d ago

Maryland Renaissance Festival’s new ticketing system avoids chaos of release days past

world book encyclopedia, oxford english dictionay (at my bestie's house), doonesbury and jules feiffer collections i picked up at library sales. i was _made_ for bluesky

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

i have never worn heels but i would if i knew that stepping on one of these in heels would pop it like a grape

The Verge@theverge.com · 6d ago

Everyone hated it, so Friend is making it even more expensive. www.theverge.com/gadgets/9731...

i already have a whole AI week in my Intro to Information Studies course, and several "economics of the information society" weeks covering venture, jobs, and firm structures, but i feel like i need to add a whole week that's just called "scams"

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is an insane story about how a bunch of 20-somethings made a ton of AI slop to push supplements for a company that had an FDA recall. Turns out it's not really a supplement company at all; the same bros making the slop own the company. It's a fiction www.404media.co/inside-an-ai...

is Mercury in retrograde or am i just fucking up a bunch of weird little mechanical things all on my own

😬

Russell Brandom@russellbrandom.bsky.social · last wk.

A telling passage from Zuck's WSJ op-ed: "Imagine everyone has a superintelligent lawyer. Justice would be carried out much more fairly and efficiently than it is today." I'm really not sure this is true!

Hathi Trust is mad at me for downloading too many Commerce Department reports and it is passive aggressively expressing it by telling me the clock on my computer is wrong

i regret to inform you that Exercise Still Works and i continue to be mad about it

alright, does anyone have any good cites for the history of the Commerce Technical Advisory Board in the 1970s, *after* the Charpie Report? i have @epopppp.bsky.social, benoit godin, and wisnioski's excellent work literally in front of me right now

ive revised something like 85% of this book while listening to THE FRAGILE on loop and when it comes out im gonna send a copy to trent reznor and i hope he likes obsessive microhistories of finance policy

does anyone have access to the Fortune Magazine EBSCO archives and want to check for me the exact date of the July 2009 issue that had Marc Andreesseen on the cover

posit: people will construct a persistent perception of a personality for any object or system they interact with suffienciently frequently. it doesnt matter if the object possesses one or is even responsive. our incredibly sticky pareidolic tendencies just get all over everything all the time.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you had a robot butler... A) Do you want it to have a personality at all? B) If so, a consistent/persistent personality or something like an instance with notes on preferences C) If a persistent personality, do you want it to act as if it has moral standing, e.g. ability to suffer

i have four copies of Nigel Thrift's KNOWING CAPITALISM and three copies of Hilgartner's SCIENCE ON STAGE distributed between my office at home and my office on campus

Monica C. Schneider@poliscimonica.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pro-tip: If you are looking for a book, don't spend so much time on the library site or googling for a pdf or ordering it on Amazon until after you've looked through your own shelf.

i hate writing books whose big idea was it to write this dumb book man fuck that guy