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Scot Evans
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Associate Prof, University of Miami, bass player, enemy within. Born at 317.73 ppm.
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Do I want a summary from Copilot? Nah, I’m good. Irony.
Screenshot of the article title and abstract with a pop up from Copilot offering a summary.
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/24/f...
Image with quote from Tom Alter "With universities as centers of learning, open debate, tolerance, and free speech, the possibility exists that students might become sensitive to the suffering of other people and question an economy based on profit over people as well as the role of the US military around the world."
October 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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medium.com/whither-news...
Quote: Too many universities are proving to be ineffective and irresponsible stewards of enlightenment and academic freedom: surrender monkeys in the face of serious challenge.
September 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Quote from Gill Hickman: “...the purpose of leadership is change—change in human conditions, social structure, dominant ideas, or prevailing practices in one context or several.”
August 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Quote by Sarah Kendzior “Sometime in the twenty-first century, a day with a fascist rally or a mass murder became just a day.” — The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir
August 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Grateful for the nickname and the bus, but I don’t even have a duck.
Screenshot of text of a voicemail message that reads “Hello high school this is Alan your DoorDash driver I'm leaving the bus for your duck in the front of your door OK thank you…”
August 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Quote from Stephen Markley's "The Deluge". This new ideology’s most vociferous proponents argue that a collective human identity is the only way forward, that the next generation must understand how these imagined divisions, created barbarically out of thin air and handed down generation after generation, have led the human project to the brink.
July 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Extraordinary piece. This hits hard. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...
I tell my friends that I’m no longer sure how anyone just drifts through the days, the months, without acknowledging the horrors. I imagine what it must be like to be able to turn off the parts of the world that unsettle you. It must feel like existing in an animated universe that adheres to cartoon physics: you fall from an inconceivable height and, landing, a cloud of dust billows up from the ground, but then you shake yourself off and keep moving.
July 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Don’t dismiss the pain
Quote from Sarah Kendzior in Last American Road Trip “I have sweet memories of all these river towns—Kimmswick, Clarksville, Louisiana—like I do of Grafton, and I was furious at the dismissal of pain that often came from outsiders when this region faced a catastrophe: false assumptions that residents do not believe in climate change, that they deserve sneers instead of sympathy.”
July 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Carl Sagan h/t @davidho.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Transformation is coming; our current system/civilisation is finished and attempts to prolong it will only worsen a crash (thus bringing about a brutal transformation). Transformative Adaptation Rupert Read, Manda Scott, and Morgan Philli...
May 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Quote from The Slow Professor. “Slowing down is about asserting the importance of contemplation, connectedness, fruition, and complexity. It gives meaning to letting research take the time it needs to ripen and makes it easier to resist the pressure to be faster.”
April 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Working
March 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Non negotiables
Sign on a street pole: NO HOMOPHOBIA NO VIOLENCE NO RACISM NO SEXISM YES KINDNESS YES PEACE YES EQUALITY YES LOVE
January 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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If only. Hoping Markley has a crystal ball.
December 27, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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This from the smokies a few weeks ago.
Bald eagle on branch in smoky mountain national park
December 23, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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December 8, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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a famous single-frame cartoon by Sidney Harris from many years ago that captures what’s wrong – what is deeply unscientific – about far-too-much modern economics. In the cartoon, two professors stand beside each other in front of a chalkboard filled with complex mathematics. The more senior professor points to one part of the elaborate line of reasoning depicted on the chalkboard and counsels his younger colleague, “I think you should be more specific here in step two.”
November 28, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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Rolling Stones, Miami, 2019
November 20, 2024 at 9:42 AM