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I'm slightly losing my mind at this parenthetical, is this an actual thing that has been litigated in the past. I could never be a professor, I absolutely can't imagine having a word count requirement and also needing to clarify that
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I'm slightly losing my mind at this parenthetical, is this an actual thing that has been litigated in the past. I could never be a professor, I absolutely can't imagine having a word count requirement and also needing to clarify that
So calling the assignment an "essay" is an exaggeration. This is a "did you do the readings" assignment. The relevant part of the profs' replies are where they say she did not engage with the reading, not the part about citing empirical data
November 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
So calling the assignment an "essay" is an exaggeration. This is a "did you do the readings" assignment. The relevant part of the profs' replies are where they say she did not engage with the reading, not the part about citing empirical data
So, the answer is yes. Authors get an "advance" from the publisher and then, if the book sells enough copies, they start getting royalties on top of that. But important to remember that the size of advance depends on estimated sales--piracy kills both advances and royalties bsky.app/profile/hect...
Wow I didn't know that. This has inspired me to go to a bookstore.
Do authors typically make money off the books they sell?
Do authors typically make money off the books they sell?
November 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
So, the answer is yes. Authors get an "advance" from the publisher and then, if the book sells enough copies, they start getting royalties on top of that. But important to remember that the size of advance depends on estimated sales--piracy kills both advances and royalties bsky.app/profile/hect...
It's kind of fun that in Star Trek we see a built-up YIMBY-fied san francisco but the rest of earth depicted is like Picard's historic vineyard and Sisko's one-story street level creole restaurant bsky.app/profile/zas....
There is basically zero YIMBY literature and sci-fi other than Toni Morrison's Jazz and The Expanse.
November 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
It's kind of fun that in Star Trek we see a built-up YIMBY-fied san francisco but the rest of earth depicted is like Picard's historic vineyard and Sisko's one-story street level creole restaurant bsky.app/profile/zas....
I've said it before, we'll know it's actually useful when they stop calling it AI bsky.app/profile/kavi...
Was talking to @kesnet50.bsky.social about this a few months ago but like this is why some people don't consider OCR to be AI. It works too well! Once the problem is solved, it's "just [specific thing]" and no longer AI. Same thing happened with query based search, machine translation, etc
November 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I've said it before, we'll know it's actually useful when they stop calling it AI bsky.app/profile/kavi...
There's nothing AI does that I think would be useful being in Microsoft Word. Just gotta be blunt here. People have this idea that AI can improve your writing, I think it is actually trashing it.
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
There's nothing AI does that I think would be useful being in Microsoft Word. Just gotta be blunt here. People have this idea that AI can improve your writing, I think it is actually trashing it.
I'm sorry but this is the most excommunicated it is possible to get under today's church's practices bsky.app/profile/chri...
Pope Leo's envoy to the United States is raising the alarm on JD Vance’s political ideology — warning it’s authoritarianism disguised as religion.
Pope Leo XIV’s US Ambassador Rips Vance’s “Post-Liberal” Crusade in Newly Discovered Speech
In a once-secret address now brought to light, Pope Leo's envoy to America delivers a stinging critique of JD Vance’s “post-liberal” Catholic movement — warning it flirts with authoritarianism.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I'm sorry but this is the most excommunicated it is possible to get under today's church's practices bsky.app/profile/chri...
yes. A functioning FDA would never make a claim like this without lots of data and followup, it's really suspicious that this one did bsky.app/profile/wend...
Who were the ten kids? How did they die? Where is the proof they died from mRNA vaccination?
Proof please, Prasad!
Proof please, Prasad!
We are supposed to believe that FDA paused and removed the J&J vaccine immediately after 6 cases of clotting, but they hid 10 kids dying from the mRNA vaccines until Prasad and Hoeg, who were always antivaxx, revealed the truth.
Checks out.
Checks out.
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
yes. A functioning FDA would never make a claim like this without lots of data and followup, it's really suspicious that this one did bsky.app/profile/wend...
my history teacher in high school failed the entire honors class on the first assignment when nobody properly cited the material. There was no rubric saying you have to cite, he was making the point that it is always expected, never asked for. This way you'll never forget bsky.app/profile/caca...
It’s really interesting that she claims the rubric didn’t ask her to cite empirical work when the rubric asked her to refer to class materials which I assume included it
Also that’s such bad writing I gave up right away
Also that’s such bad writing I gave up right away
November 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
my history teacher in high school failed the entire honors class on the first assignment when nobody properly cited the material. There was no rubric saying you have to cite, he was making the point that it is always expected, never asked for. This way you'll never forget bsky.app/profile/caca...
"Trump is systematically pardoning and ending prosecutions against drug cartel leaders" is one of those things that's true and you couldn't possibly convince a normie voter of
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"Trump is systematically pardoning and ending prosecutions against drug cartel leaders" is one of those things that's true and you couldn't possibly convince a normie voter of
Armida is a Christmas opera. I could explain it better but I'd need some charts and an easel
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Armida is a Christmas opera. I could explain it better but I'd need some charts and an easel
the act 2 creatures in the met's Armida look like the Wild Things from Where the Wild Things Are, as a kid I never expected the Wild Things to have beautiful baritone singing voices, my whole childhood could have been different had I known
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
the act 2 creatures in the met's Armida look like the Wild Things from Where the Wild Things Are, as a kid I never expected the Wild Things to have beautiful baritone singing voices, my whole childhood could have been different had I known
My mom gave me a box of "fabric" she doesn't want anymore but turns out inside most of it is actually a coat she started sewing and got like 70% finished. I'm wondering if I should finish it and give it back as a Christmas present.
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My mom gave me a box of "fabric" she doesn't want anymore but turns out inside most of it is actually a coat she started sewing and got like 70% finished. I'm wondering if I should finish it and give it back as a Christmas present.
I forgot to turn off my automatic watering when it snowed a few weeks ago, so it burst and water was leaking for like 3 days before I noticed. On the upside I've conclusively proved that the city really does have a meter to measure sewer usage separate from water usage, it's not estimated
November 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I forgot to turn off my automatic watering when it snowed a few weeks ago, so it burst and water was leaking for like 3 days before I noticed. On the upside I've conclusively proved that the city really does have a meter to measure sewer usage separate from water usage, it's not estimated
One corner of Old Twitter I don't see on bluesky is the programmers/infosec, I think we may have left them behind at mastodon. I guess that's the law of social media now, any twitter that falls behind stays behind
November 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
One corner of Old Twitter I don't see on bluesky is the programmers/infosec, I think we may have left them behind at mastodon. I guess that's the law of social media now, any twitter that falls behind stays behind
This is a thing I wish more people knew. Upzoning *mitigates* displacement that would otherwise occur. It makes existing residents wealthier (yes plenty of poor people own houses in poor neighborhoods), while decreasing the number who are forced to leave bsky.app/profile/yona...
What happens when you downzone?
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Our new open-access research paper in @findingspress.org investigates effects of decades of downzoning in Chicago.
Findings:
—Downzoned areas added 1/7th of the new units as comparable non-downzoned areas;
—Downzoned areas became more white & were more expensive.
Downzoning Chicago: How Local Land Use Policy Has Reduced Housing Construction and Reinforced Segregation | Published in Findings
By Yonah Freemark, George Kisiel. Downzonings were used by US cities in the postwar period to preserve neighborhood character. These land-use policies were associated with lower housing supply, higher...
findingspress.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This is a thing I wish more people knew. Upzoning *mitigates* displacement that would otherwise occur. It makes existing residents wealthier (yes plenty of poor people own houses in poor neighborhoods), while decreasing the number who are forced to leave bsky.app/profile/yona...
how does it make older people feel that "vintage" now mostly means the 1970s
November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
how does it make older people feel that "vintage" now mostly means the 1970s
the thing I really don't like about that Hitler documentary is the implication that you have to be mentally insane to be evil. This wasn't a secret loony toons villain plot, Hitler said evil things an much of the country enthusiastically cheered. Evil is rational.
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
the thing I really don't like about that Hitler documentary is the implication that you have to be mentally insane to be evil. This wasn't a secret loony toons villain plot, Hitler said evil things an much of the country enthusiastically cheered. Evil is rational.
none of chipotle's toppings are weird per se but it still seems like chipotle-style restaurants (piada comes to mind) get a weird premium for creating a sense of variety that doesn't really exist bsky.app/profile/hype...
this seems to be the appeal behind Mod pizza. The pizza itself is fine, maybe slightly worse than a Dominoes pizza. In truth I'm not sure the selection of toppings is all that different than Dominoes but people love this idea of going to Mod to get a pizza they would never order anywhere else
November 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
none of chipotle's toppings are weird per se but it still seems like chipotle-style restaurants (piada comes to mind) get a weird premium for creating a sense of variety that doesn't really exist bsky.app/profile/hype...
I think a tax on luxury housing is a good idea, probably the best version of a "luxury tax" that is possible to make. Notice how the article tries to use a wedge angle--retirees who didn't plan for this--to attack the whole concept bsky.app/profile/mrmo...
I'm astonished that anyone would think these are sympathetic stories. All of them can get in the fucking oubliette
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I think a tax on luxury housing is a good idea, probably the best version of a "luxury tax" that is possible to make. Notice how the article tries to use a wedge angle--retirees who didn't plan for this--to attack the whole concept bsky.app/profile/mrmo...
there's two food trends that seem to sell really well but I think are really stupid
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
there's two food trends that seem to sell really well but I think are really stupid
the two american groups that were probably most persecuted for failure to assimilate are mormons and jewish people
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
the two american groups that were probably most persecuted for failure to assimilate are mormons and jewish people
an important question about roman dodecahedrons I don't see asked much is "why did so many survive?" Bronze is valuable and can be melted down, whenever we find a bronze artifact it's kind of aberrant
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
an important question about roman dodecahedrons I don't see asked much is "why did so many survive?" Bronze is valuable and can be melted down, whenever we find a bronze artifact it's kind of aberrant
yes this is what I've been saying. Pen and paper is clearly better for students but the school vendors hate it because they can make more money with ephemeral electronic media bsky.app/profile/tumm...
💻 Laptops are great, but not during class. 💻
Laptops are the standard in classrooms. This needs to change.
New meta-analysis of 24 experiments shows that handwriting will lead to higher grades for students.
So this 2017 NYTimes op-ed by @dynarski.bsky.social is even truer today.
Laptops are the standard in classrooms. This needs to change.
New meta-analysis of 24 experiments shows that handwriting will lead to higher grades for students.
So this 2017 NYTimes op-ed by @dynarski.bsky.social is even truer today.
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
yes this is what I've been saying. Pen and paper is clearly better for students but the school vendors hate it because they can make more money with ephemeral electronic media bsky.app/profile/tumm...
I know there's no point in being like "can I see your manager" on the internet but come on Miller's comment is so obviously opposite what actually has happened in history. bsky.app/profile/robe...
Stephen Miller explains his view about why non-Aryans Musk not be allowed to emigrate to the United States.
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I know there's no point in being like "can I see your manager" on the internet but come on Miller's comment is so obviously opposite what actually has happened in history. bsky.app/profile/robe...