Colin Danby

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Heterodox economist working in history of thought, specifically the commerce between body, nation, race, and economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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No delay with the settee.

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Hunter Walker

This one is entertaining. You can follow up on the individuals, each more appalling than the last. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_V...

Happy Valley set - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

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Today the Museum of American Finance published an excerpt from Plastic Capitalism in their Financial History magazine, available for free through the link below. fhmagazine.org

Financial History 150 Summer 2024fhmagazine.org This issue features: “Money and Promises: American Dreams,” “Plastic Capitalism: The Deluge,” “Denying the Odds: The History of Active Management in US Securities Markets,” “All the Rage: Historical C...

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Cherie Priest

I knew a dog that hid people's keys.

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Coach Finstock

I don't get it. Does he think a majority of the delegates,once released from their Biden pledge, will turn out to be crypto-socialists?

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Blue Heron Farm

Hard to photograph, but from the archaeological museum in Athens: "Greek, grave stele ... Boeotia. It represents an elderly man supporting himself on his stick. In his right hand he holds a locust, offering it to his dog... circa 490 BC"

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Joshua J. Friedman

My follows were 60/40 go/stay with almost nothing conspiratorial.

Maybe because I blocked most of the loons.

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Jo Wolff

Indeed, but it seems to me the waters are well charted. It's because contested conventions tend to produce losers that people are anxious to consense early. Defaulting to a VP is also highly traditional!

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Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Normativity and Biopolitical Resistance with Foucault and Canguilhem - Bloomsbury, December 2024 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-the-po...

On the Politics of the Livingwww.bloomsbury.com Bringing the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem into dialogue, Federico Testa examines the notions of life and norms underlying our modern…

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Jo Wolff

100 years ago they took conventions seriously. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_De...

1924 Democratic National Convention - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

RICO *and* HIPPA

Hey.

Our Max, and roommate Marty, share these sentiments.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Senator Manchin is a perfect Veep minor character.

you're right!

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Chris Bertram

Yes to all this. He had a clarity about how power looks from below that ran across all his work. I've assigned his _Against the Grain_ for some years.

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Karen K. Ho

Mask + eye mask + serious neck pillow + window seat!

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Rob Freeman

I started masking on int'l flights a year before covid, because I got tired of having a cold after every long flight.

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Joshua J. Friedman

Max taking it calmly.

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Brendan Nyhan

Yes. Whatever they don't know about policy, every voter understands the effects of age, and it's not an issue you need to be dealing with right now.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Like TSCC s03 John Connor, But Better

Professor Penrose and the microtubules. I can't even.

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Jo Wolff

Yup. It's interestingly recursive. I encourage students to ask who wrote and otherwise made whatever they fish up on the 'net, but you need some initial base of cultural knowledge to avoid the loons.

Also, most written artifacts do not disclose the conditions of their production. An interesting exception is Babbage's 1846 _On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures_.

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Jo Wolff

Looks like the original provocation was a post listing podcasts, bluesky, youtube and chatgpt (!) as free sources of "knowledge."

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Carl T. Bergstrom

I don't check my texts often on account of being old, and yeah, every appointment seems to come with random last-minute challenges. I get that they're trying to reduce no-shows, but there's this larger process of shifting admin work to customers. Do I want to take a survey no not really.

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Philip N Cohen

If it trains on my stuff it'll be insufferably pedantic.

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Greg Priest

It showed he was capable of writing quickly when he had to. Is there a good biography that really tracks his scientific thought?

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Jo Wolff

Yep, by the time you've had your coffee all the obvious jokes have been made. Enjoy our little town and be sure and get to seatac plenty early.

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Jo Wolff

Looks like she's dropped something. Enjoy Portland!