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Andrew Goldstone
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Chiefly interested in applying the methods of a discipline I took one undergrad course in to topics entirely ignored in my graduate education.

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"a 'modern' young man lately come up from Rutgers or some such institution." Editorial, The Double Dealer 3, no. 17, (May 1922): 227, HathiTrust.
At random I take another book "The Beautiful and Damned" by Scott Fitzgerald, the "flapper-philosopher," cried perpetrator of "This Side of Paradise." I plough dutifully through the first one hundred and fifty, getting tireder and boreder as the ploughing progresses. Here is the inevitable flapper (the devil take her) and her consort the male nonenity (of whom the devil will have none). Here is marriage, money and morons to your appetite's satiety. Here is gloom unconfined, dressed in "modern" lingo by "modern" dummies, done as we are told by a "modern" young man lately come up from Rutgers or some such institution.
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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search result snippet drafted by Lucky from Waiting for Godot #waitingforgodocr
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November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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#highestqualityhumanitiescontent
Ms. New, who is married to Mr. Summers, wrote to Mr. Epstein in 2015, the emails show, to thank him for a donation he had arranged. “Finally, Jeffrey, you have been such a wonderful supporter of my Poetry in America project,” she wrote. “That gift woke up the Deans to the importance of Harvard’s role in producing the highest quality humanities content in the WORLD.” (NYT screengrab, 11/23/25)
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Stick with the classics #phonebasedphishing
Security breach email: “phone based phishing attack”
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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starting a file for an article titled "PhD, AO3: new trajectories of cultural capital"; first entry is this website profile of YA/romance author Ali Hazelwood
I'm originally from Italy, lived in Japan and Germany, and eventually moved to the US to pursue a Ph.D. in Neuroscience. | was a professor for about three years, but in 2022 | quit to write full time. When I'm not writing you can find me prowling around AO3, binge-watching shows with my three feline overlords (and my almost equally feline husband), crocheting, or eating candy.
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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there it is
Government and Sociology professor Theda R. Skocpol — who frequently crossed swords with Summers during his tense presidency — declined to comment on Summers’ case, but called the web of connections between Epstein and elite spheres “sickening.” “This kind of mutually reinforcing corruption,” Skocpol wrote, “is what one sees in failing societies and empires in decline.” (Crimson, 11/14/25)
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Kind of a heavy teaching load for a University Professor who is utterly disgraced, no?
Summers has continued to teach at Harvard since, interrupted by brief stints in Washington, and currently holds Harvard’s highest faculty distinction as a University Professor. This semester, he is teaching two large undergraduate courses and one graduate class. (Crimson, today)
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I sure hope Zohran is gonna do something about this nyc schools “fundations” curriculum because spelling is not the only thing that needs correcting here
“Sentence correction activity” worksheet for elementary school. “The class was respectfull to the flag. The wild kids had a punishmet.” Etc etc omfg
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Somebot's sensibilities were offended by Wiki's page on "puce" using a line from Zola, "between puce and goose shit [caca d'oie]" & subbed "nguh" (?). Tried to fix but got autoflagged as vandalism.
Wikipedia s.v. puce: Puce was also a popular fashion color in 19th-century Paris. In his novel Nana, Émile Zola describes a woman "dressed in a dark gown of an equivocal color, somewhere between puce and goose nguh."[6] In Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Mademoiselle Baptistine wears "a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted ever since."[7]
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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@tedunderwood.com significantly, a passage hardly changed from MS's MS. No "Percy did it" option.

https://shelleygodwinarchive.org/sc/oxford/frankenstein/volume/ii/#/p185
That he should live to destroy & be the means of misery disturbs me else this hour when I h momentarily expect death is the only happy one I haven several enjoyed for years. The forms of the beloved ^ dead flit before me and I hasten to their arms. Farewell Walton. Seek hap piness in tranquillity and avoid ambi tion even if the it be only the apparently innocent one of shining in science & discoveries. Yet I why do I say this? I have myself been blasted in these hopes but another may succeed."– His voice became fainter & hissunk ultinto exhausted with the effort he became ^ silen t ce – About half an hour after wards he endeavoured to speak, but was unable – he pressed my hand feebly and his eyes closed while a gentle smile played on his lips.
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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As one of the chief architects of neoliberal shock therapy in Russia, Summers was directly responsible for suffering on the same scale as one of the world wars in the at country. Michael Mann:
Excerpt from The Sources of Social Power, vol 4: 201 Excerpt from The Sources of Social Power, vol 4: 208-9
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Conclusive proof that he is the real problem #neverclick
NYT op-ed: Josh Barro / Chuck Schumer Is a Convenient Punching Bag, but He's Not the Real Problem
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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worth pondering how and why accessibility compliance has become red meat for higher ed managers and the IT vendors that market to them
Chronicle of HIgher Ed webpage: "VIRTUAL EVENT / How Colleges Can Comply With Web-Accessibility Laws / with support from SiteImprove" etc. etc.
November 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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II was looking at the Kirkus review page for J Schumacher's Dear Committee Members (don't ask), & the same page has the review of The Handmaid's Tale underneath? I sort of see the connection, but…?
screengrab of https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/julie-schumacher/dear-committee-members/, showing the review of The Handmaid's Tale inexplicable appended to the treatment of Schumacher's novel. Is the idea that campus comedy is basically the same as campus dystopia?
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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just bookmarking this for later, as one does. John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash, 1929 (in The Affluent Society [NY: Library of America, 2010], 261–62)
During the last weeks of October, Time Magazine, young and not yet omniscient, also featured Kreuger on its cover—*“a great admirer of Cecil Rhodes.” Then a week later, as though to emphasize its faith in the New Era, it went on to Samuel In- sull. (A fortnight after that, its youthful illusions shattered, the weekly newsmagazine gave the place of historic honor to War- den Lawes of Sing Sing.) In these same Indian summer days, The Wall Street Journal took notice of the official announce- ment that Andrew Mellon would remain in the cabinet at least until 1933 (there had been rumors that he might resign) and observed: “Optimism again prevails . . . the announcement .. . did more to restore confidence than anything else.” In Germany Charles E. Mitchell announced that the “industrial condition of the United States is absolutely sound,” that too much attention was being paid to brokers’ loans, and that “nothing can arrest the upward movement.” On October 15, as he sailed for home, he enlarged on the point: “The markets generally are now in a healthy condition . . . values have a sound basis in the general prosperity of our country.” That same evening Professor Irving Fisher made his historic an- nouncement about the permanently high plateau and added, “I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher than it is today within a few months.” Indeed, the only disturbing thing, in these October days, was the fairly steady downward drift in the market.
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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wondering why Cristobal Young's modest 2009 proposal to improve the robustness of research results AND provide "ideal applied exercises for grad…seminars" wasn't realized

https://cristobalyoung.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Model_Uncertainty.pdf
The idea is to develop a semiregular sec- tion titled “Replications,” with its own designated editor, in which several of the sta- tistical papers each year are announced as ran- domly selected for detailed scrutiny, with wide distribution of the data and code, and the range of findings reported in brief form (as in Table 1). Indeed, this could provide ideal applied exer- cises for graduate statistics seminars. Even if only a dozen or so departments across the coun- try incorporate it into their classes, this alone would provide a remarkably thorough robust- ness check. The degree of model variance would quickly become transparent.
October 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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@ncecire.bsky.social as if. But it's probably true that for chatgpt, our co-presence on Arcade means we are basically the same
screenshot: chatgpt will gladly summarize Natalia Cecire's Fictions of Autonomy for you
October 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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@tedunderwood.com I thought @laurejt.bsky.social and @dmimno.bsky.social 's "authorless topic models" were an interesting step in this direction, empirically. Otherwise
Cover image: Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structural Views, ed. Matejka and Pomorska
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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what could possibly go wrong
An associate professor with the Department of Plant Biology in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Besançon recently collaborated on field trials of the high-tech device that uses artificial intelligence and lasers to kill weeds without using chemicals. “It’s pure physics,” he said. “There’s no herbicide involved. It’s just light energy targeting the weeds.” Results of the field tests, conducted as the first peer-reviewed study of artificial intelligence-guided laser weeding on the East Coast, were published in the research journal Pest Management Science.
October 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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The knee bone's connected to the...something.
The something's connected to the red thing.
The red thing's connected to my… wristwatch.
AWS status update: " Between 11:49 PM PDT on October 19 and 2:24 AM PDT on October 20, we experienced increased error rates and latencies for AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region. Additionally, services or features that rely on US-EAST-1 endpoints such as IAM and DynamoDB Global Tables also experienced issues during this time. At 12:26 AM on October 20, we identified the trigger of the event as DNS resolution issues for the regional DynamoDB service endpoints. After resolving the DynamoDB DNS issue at 2:24 AM, services began recovering but we had a subsequent impairment in the internal subsystem of EC2 that is responsible for launching EC2 instances due to its dependency on DynamoDB. As we continued to work through EC2 instance launch impairments, Network Load Balancer health checks also became impaired, resulting in network connectivity issues in multiple services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch. We recovered the Network Load Balancer health checks at 9:38 AM. As part of the recovery effort, we temporarily throttled some operations such as EC2 instance launches, processing of SQS queues via Lambda Event Source Mappings, and asynchronous Lambda invocations. Over time we reduced throttling of operations and worked in parallel to resolve network connectivity issues until the services fully recovered.…"
October 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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@soashworth.bsky.social I think I found the problem
"David Leonhardt is the board's lead editor"
October 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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@bensoskin.bsky.social oh, Duke
Uncle Duke.
October 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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#lrt actual higher-ed state of affairs: unique non-party-polarized consensus that college costs too much

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/15/growing-share-of-americans-say-the-us-higher-education-system-is-headed-in-the-wrong-direction/sr_25-10-15_higher-ed_4/
Pew survey results Sept 2025: US higher ed is "poor" or "fair" at "keeping tuition costs affordable: R 78% D 82%
October 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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tanking the entire US economic and political system, and possibly the climate too, in a quest to hack up some efficiency gains on tedious tasks...in one chart (xkcd no. 1205)
XKCD: "Is It Worth the Time?" (https://xkcd.com/1205/)
October 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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new "AI-powered" Arc browser ("Dia") marketed specially for students as a "thought partner in your tabs" ("how can I improve my essay and get an A"). What new sloply nuances will this bring us?
screenshot from diabrowser.com: "A true thought partner, in your tabs. / A tutor / A study buddy / A writing coach / A coding partner": the graphic shows an essay in progress with the chat prompt "how can I improve my essay and get an A." The chatbot responds: "Tighten your thesis, add current evidence with citations, and deepen analysis with specifics."
October 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM