Zeb Larson

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Freelance writer with a PhD in history. Ex-academic; studied the anti-apartheid movement. Emeritus adjunct. Became a software engineer in 2020.
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I’ll admit, I do like this title.

Ah yes, a natural phenomenon famous for being a safe and positive experience

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

Sorry, which nation exactly?

Garlic crop of 2024 has arrived

He compulsively fetches these doorstops from all over the house and brings them to the bedroom, meowing in triumph.

The many moods of Zeb

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Lia

They send their regards.

I worry about the Boomers

go into your photo roll or whatever and post the first image that makes you laugh literally out loud

This is one of the problems with the Supreme Court in this country, or rather, the Fourth Estate and the Supreme Court. This is the kind of coverage we get days after somebody voted to make presidents above the law: a fucking puff piece.

People showing up to the PAWG meeting are going to be seriously disappointed

My pride about my piece in Diplomatic History is ever-tempered by who I see citing me. Glad to see a year and a half of work going to...the Legatum Institute... (But please cite me anyway, I'm using my citation count to taunt somebody at work)

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"nobody has ever died from it being too warm outside" Start burning your personal info now and prepare that move three states over, small-town lawyer.

Argument for keeping my Facebook: where else could I see adults nostalgizing a long-gone Arby’s

A company that can’t stop LLMs from hallucinating is going to crack fusion. Tell me more about this bridge you’re looking to sell me.

Donald Sutherland's energy as a professor was pretty much what I always brought to the job. Do with that what you will.

Ok spelling bee, I call bullshit for real this time

The thing about Stockton Rush is that he was a bog-standard shitty entrepreneur — all of this is the same dumb shit you hear from tech CEOs or anybody else huffing their own farts in the hope of turning a profit. He just happened to do so in an incredibly dangerous place, and actually paid the price

from: www.wired.com/story/titan-...

The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imaginedwww.wired.com A year after OceanGate’s sub imploded, thousands of leaked documents and interviews with ex-employees reveal how the company’s CEO cut corners, ignored warnings, and lied in his fatal quest to reach t...

As I have temporarily eaten my fill of fried pumpkin flowers, I’m going to have to take a crack at a squash blossom soup.

Criminy Christmascakes

Zeb and Casper in a contemplative place

“Can’t grow blueberries in Ohio,” CHALLENGE FUCKING ACCEPTED

It’s a fucking miracle, you two managed to write an article without mentioning the economic or financial challenges of starting a family (all of which conservatives are committed to worsening). Bravo.

Conservatives constantly undermine families—criminalizing women's healthcare, defunding schools, slashing support like the child tax credit, flooding the country with guns—but the NYTimes says liberals & progressives who want better are the problem.

Opinion | The Success Narratives of Liberal Life Leave Little Room for Having Childrenwww.nytimes.com Progressives need to stop thinking of family as a conservative hobbyhorse.

Posting my usual birthday meme, but OH SHIT THIS TIME I’M 36

There can only be one

Is this what we're calling the Platt Amendment or support for the Somozas or the 200,000 Filipinos we killed so that we could have a colony "ambivalently"? Just want to be on the same page.

Everything i thought I knew about history was wrong

On D-Day, the U.S. Conquered the British Empireapple.news On June 6, 1944, the British found themselves suddenly and irrevocably overtaken by their former colony. June 03, 2024 For most Americans, D-Day remains the most famous battle of World War II. It was ...

Me after sacrificing my empire

I call this a 2 for 1 deal

This is exactly the kind of shit that scares me: a bunch of dumbasses all waving their guns around and on the verge of turning a block party into the O.K. Corral. It makes any kind of public life in the United States impossible, because everything is at risk.

Spotted on the morning run.

Be gentle with me today, I’m dangerously relaxed.