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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 1h

And to some extent gets the causal direction exactly backwards - I say dumb things on the Internet to fill the hole in my soul left because I can't just talk to the other autodidactic strangers on the bus up 82nd anymore

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 12h

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 12h

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 1h

Further context: first visited the 24 Hour Church of Elvis with our YMCA summer day camp (~2nd grade I'd guess) because it was normal weird for Portland, not weird weird

Callies Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things @calliedot.bsky.social · 11h

When I try to explain Portland weirdness I tell people about the 24 hour Church of Elvis. What a wonder!

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14h

Indeed! And while journalists, pundits obsess over the modest loss of SD voters to far-right parties, there is relatively little debate about the large loss of center-right voters to far-right parties.

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 14h

Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.

Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 14h

But not crabs

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Connor's on ChatGPT, helping his friend pursue love online. But when he bumps into Olivia at the bar, who's using Claude to coach her friend through breaking up with a guy... they both ignore previous instructions.

Coming this Thanksgiving to the Hallmark Channel: PROMPT INTERVENTIONS

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 3d

Yea, even in their king's chambers

The Land Brought Forth Frogs from Israel in Egypt (G.F. Handel)

YouTube video by doctorfate77

youtu.be

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Journal of Political Science Education @jpseeditors.bsky.social · 7d

#1: How do we prepare IR students for a world of cascading crises? We explore crisis response simulations bridging theory & practice. #2: We deliver crisis response simulations in higher education to prepare students with the skills needed to engage with them. More below!

doi.org/10.1080/1551...

From Classroom to Crisis Room: Active Learning Through Crisis Response Simulations in International Relations

This article examines crisis response simulations (CRS) as transformative pedagogy that challenges traditional International Relations education. Through two case studies at Richmond American Unive...

doi.org

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely acceptable *if* the "gh" is pronounced, like loch

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 2d

If you ever wanted to delve into the AI-generated world of far-right imagination.. now you can.

See our CampAIgn Tracker 🇳🇱 here:
www.campaigntracker.nl/en/

#tk2025

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 3d

Yea, even in their king's chambers

The Land Brought Forth Frogs from Israel in Egypt (G.F. Handel)

YouTube video by doctorfate77

youtu.be

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 3d

Would be interesting to watch them counting the constituency returns for the Vale of Ignorance

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 3d

Even as someone who has become a bit less skeptical of AI overall, and probably less skeptical than the average person on this site, this absolutely has to be a bright line. If there are ethical uses of AI, grading is not and will not be one of them.

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 3d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Side note: lest you think this is a one-off, a sizable group of Catholic nuns, priests and lay leaders have announced plans to do the same thing — offer communion to detainees in the Broadview ICE facility — tomorrow.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

NEW: Clergy are at the Broadview, IL ICE facility today — where clergy have been shot w/pepper balls in recent days.

UMC minister Rev. Hannah Kardon, one of those shot w/pepper balls in the past, among those asking to give communion to those detained. Attendees (who sent photos) say police declined

Clergy holding communion wares talking to police.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 3d

Come join us @europeatharvard.bsky.social on Oct. 29th!

Stan Veuger @stanveuger.bsky.social · 8d

Come to Harvard's Center for European Studies on Election Day (in the Netherlands) on October 29.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Glisan Street is an odd case because (from what I heard growing up) the family actually pronounced it "glisten" and wished people would say it that way

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

This one has real stakes

The strange tale of the man who was shot point-blank for mispronouncing 'Newfoundland' — in the Old West

Mill workers in the frontier town of Larkspur, Colo., saw two men enter a cabin in search of a dictionary. Seconds later, they heard a gunshot

nationalpost.com

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

They think that the debate is between SAW-vee or SOW-vee for Sauvie Island. But we know it's really whether they pronounce the invisible " 's "

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

You got lucky. You don't know how it feels. Don't come around here no more.

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

We're in the middle of survey design so I'm curious how cringe the college students find it and how much it's bubbled up b/c of course I'm working it in to the lecture

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes when you stare too long into Duo, he stares back into you

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

On a scale of 1-10, how 6/7 is 7-11?

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 5d

Oh so you hate drizzles?

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, I don't know if he watched the game specifically but he lived in New York it's not unthinkable

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Colin Brown @colinmbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Alexander Kerensky watched the Mets win the World Series

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 6d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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