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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 23h

Also, between this, Sage being born in Japan, and a cat that I remember driving you to get from the airport (can't remember which cat), I think your pets might be better traveled than the average American. :-D

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 23h

This is absolutely some circa-2010 Cat Valente internet magic nonsense right here, and I LOVE IT!

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 23h

I'm actually a little disappointed! I've actually got some fiction I'm writing that involves some light money laundering and I was looking for a source for details. :-D

(Holy poop... this is near-future science-like fiction... maybe I can get away with a fake laundry app money laundering scheme!)

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 23h

(This is also in no way some kind of humble brag about my Rise-and-Grind mindset. The opposite, actually. I just let myself get behind on feedback and then got sick right as it reached critical stages.)

MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 23h

Giving feedback to student drafts while running a low-grade fever is a *TRIP*! I'm crossing my fingers that A) the feedback was actually useful for revisions, and B) that I didn't say anything incredibly stupid. >.<

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 23h

("And, more importantly, why she's posting to social media about laundering money?") :-D

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 23h

This thread just tickles me every time I see it, because I didn't grok at first that it was marketplace/payment app that you use at a laundromat.

So I was thinking, "Uhm... should I ask why she's laundering money?" :-D

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 23h

Because seriously, this hasn't been NEARLY Orwellian enough... let's get some straight-up Double Think up in this.

MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 23h

Let He who is without (multiple) Nazi tattoos cast the first stone...

No seriously... we got tons of stones and tons of folks without Nazi tattoos. Somebody just needs to lead off.

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 23h

I love how, when pressed on "demolishing the White House is kinda unprecedented", the administration says "No, every president makes changes to the White House..."

But when pressed on why it's necessary, they say "The White House hasn't been updated since Truman..."

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 23h

Ground School for horses seems overboard. I mean... I did ground school for lifeguard certs and flight school, but... Horses are already on the ground.

Wait, do the horses have to take the class?! I mean, they presumably are going to be doing more of the work, right? Seems like they should.

MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know... I've been wondering if Melania pissed him off, so he demolished her office.

MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 1d

I'm super non-knowledgable about grant-writing (and -receiving), but I've also heard that receiving a grant makes you more likely to receive future grants.

In this formulation, does that potential benefit factor into the equation? Is it worth it for under-resourced applications to try anyway?

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 1d

Orphan's Tales. Oh great merciful gods... Orphan's Tales. o.0

MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 5d

Reflecting (aka "brooding") on this morning's tech outage has reminded me:

I have a PhD and 10 years of pedagogy experience, and my job performance is largely gauged by what amounts to Yelp reviews from teenagers.

Meanwhile, university tech decisions are gauged by... divine fiat?

MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 5d

It's flat, it's square, it's bread-y, it's cheesy...

It's a Cheezit. That's just a single, giant, hot Cheezit, isn't it?

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 5d

Same boat, here. Only you're at it after being awesome and productive on all previous days, and I'm at after being all "Well, I've slacked off for a while, but I'm ready to catch up on grading after a nice, relaxing fall break and... wait, AW-what-now?"

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 5d

In a previous post, I almost called Amazon "an online book retailer with delusions of grandeur," but scrubbed it because its grandeur isn't actually a "delusion" anymore.

And "overgrown" seemed insufficient to the point I had in mind.

I think "metastatic" might be the term I am looking for.

MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 5d

(Dammitol... now I'm not going to be able to avoid that association, and reading Academic Bluesky(tm) is going to become a VERY different experience. THANKS A LOT, tiny robot brain!)

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know... I might be with the tiny robot brain on this one.

If I came to the name "Ted Underwood" without previous associations, I think I might immediately picture a stuffed bear that had adventures in a forested low-land...

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 5d

Also, I've recently read some pushback on "the cloud is just other people's computers" that basically amounted to "No, the scale/redundency/clustering makes it a totally other thing!"

Kinda feeling like this AWS thing is a kind of vindication of the "other people's computers" standpoint.

MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not a big fan of the Internet Industrial Complex. And I realize I take that disgust and distrust further than most.

But when I can't grade student assignments on the University's course management suite because Amazon is having tech issues, we can all agree this is a bad timeline, yeah?

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 5d

Don't even get me STARTED on this phenomenon on a bike. >.<

"No, f'real dude... I'm traffic. I'm yielding right of way. And I'm'a keep yielding it, cuz it's a hospital trip if you get impatient or somebody passes you."

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 5d

So, at about $1M per satellite and another $1M+ each in launch costs... let's round down and say $8M per day?

Man, sure am glad we put THAT guy in charge of government efficiency and reducing waste!

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MishaOutLoud @mishaoutloud.bsky.social · 6d

Not gonna lie... I'm wishing I'd invested in an inflatable frog costume company this time a month ago...