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Go gently Roberta
February 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The trolley problem itself was formulated by the descendent of a two term president in 1967, more or less amid the first Long Hot Summer. She actually offered several formulations in a row; the version with a trolley is #3. But here is the original formulation:
January 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Skill issue
January 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
here for example are the top 5 opening weeks for any records ever, pre Taylor Swift***

*** TS, if you are wondering, is the most popular musical artist ever to have lived and the only mystery is why so many people do not understand this
December 20, 2024 at 10:27 PM
December 11, 2024 at 2:50 PM
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
December 10, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Brody, aka Armed Snuggle, aka D.B. Shooter, has fallen off the front page, which can only be good news
December 8, 2024 at 5:26 PM
The NYT essay titled Climate Activists Need to Radically Change Their Approach Under Trump is more peculiar than most—not for the familiar pro-fossil falsehoods that it propagates, par for the course, but bc it swiftly argues THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF ITS TITLE
December 8, 2024 at 2:43 PM
the sustained worrying over brody's professional status bespeaks, I think, a deep anxiety about the possibility that there might be an adequate level of expertise among the general population to just do stuff like this
December 6, 2024 at 1:59 PM
when you want to be remembered for genocide
December 3, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Mountain Goats intensifies
November 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM
if you were looking for the most Boomer email ever sent to a neighborhood mailing list, that game is officially over
November 24, 2024 at 6:19 PM
note the custom @allgrim.bsky.social Fanon!
November 18, 2024 at 10:27 PM
November 17, 2024 at 9:12 PM
This course filled up to its enrollment limit of 77 instantly and begins 2 weeks before the inauguration
November 15, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Some remarks on the student intifada from @culturalcritique.bsky.social folio on the topic. manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram...
November 13, 2024 at 9:09 PM
My review of Conclave
November 13, 2024 at 4:01 AM
rather than, say, method is entirely uninspected in the column. Things get considerably more strange rather quickly, however, when he suggests that retrospectively, we should have been able to decipher unforeseen consequences of previous events. This, I assure you, is weird as fuck. Why? ->
November 13, 2024 at 2:37 AM
today's NYT column by @adamgrant.bsky.social is staggeringly bizarre. It takes as its theme the proposition that our sense of how the next 4 years will unfold is certainly wrong; the basis of this claim is that most prognosticators are wrong. Surely true, but offering as explanation HUMAN NATURE ->
November 13, 2024 at 2:37 AM
COP29 going great
November 12, 2024 at 7:11 AM
Alanis walking away a winner
November 12, 2024 at 3:09 AM
this is a real book
April 24, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Some professional news
April 20, 2024 at 2:35 AM
NYT hire a goddamn editor challenge
March 23, 2024 at 3:57 PM
for years now
March 19, 2024 at 4:54 PM