Mike Mackert
@mackert.bsky.social
Director, UT-Austin Center for Health Communication (https://uthealthcomm.org/)
Small sample size. That was a single HR. Lots of other similar hits wouldn't have cleared those other 24 stadiums.
Ya nerd.
Ya nerd.
Also in this game: Romy Gonzalez hit a home run to left center at Yankee Stadium, a famously deep part of a very famous park. The home run traveled 384 feet. John Smoltz, lead baseball analyst for FOX, guessed it would've only been a HR in 5 stadiums. The correct answer was: 29 stadiums.
June 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Small sample size. That was a single HR. Lots of other similar hits wouldn't have cleared those other 24 stadiums.
Ya nerd.
Ya nerd.
Only four games. Small sample size.
April 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Only four games. Small sample size.
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every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
March 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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[to the captain of the firing squad as he lights my cigarette] what you fail to realize is that I’m playing a long game
March 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
[to the captain of the firing squad as he lights my cigarette] what you fail to realize is that I’m playing a long game
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Every time I walk past a bank, I face an ethical question. Should I just rob it? It's a stumper.
When Meta started developing its flagship AI model, employees faced an ethical question, Alex Reisner writes. The program would need to be trained on a huge amount of high-quality writing to be competitive with products such as ChatGPT. Should they just pirate it?
Read more: theatln.tc/1P6gPreS
Read more: theatln.tc/1P6gPreS
March 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Every time I walk past a bank, I face an ethical question. Should I just rob it? It's a stumper.
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Also, it’s owned by a jackass
March 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Also, it’s owned by a jackass
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I don't teach in a law school, but I make similar points to students all the time who are interested in med school, grad school, etc. It's not that grades DON'T matter, but they're also definitely not the most important measure over time.
My annual email to my first-year law students about taking their grades seriously—but not *too* seriously:
January 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I don't teach in a law school, but I make similar points to students all the time who are interested in med school, grad school, etc. It's not that grades DON'T matter, but they're also definitely not the most important measure over time.
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My relationship with Big wasn’t the only thing I blew up that day. At the Trinity test site I detonated the first plutonium bomb, unleashing a 22 kiloton blast. Had I become Death, destroyer of worlds? Meanwhile uptown, Samantha had her hands full with her own “Manhattan project”
January 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
My relationship with Big wasn’t the only thing I blew up that day. At the Trinity test site I detonated the first plutonium bomb, unleashing a 22 kiloton blast. Had I become Death, destroyer of worlds? Meanwhile uptown, Samantha had her hands full with her own “Manhattan project”
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if this ever happens to you, the best thing to do is to reply-all with "please do not send any more emails" so that everyone knows not to send them. in order to make sure everyone sees this message you may need to re-send it every three to five minutes
A student somehow accidentally emailed the entire NYU faculty and the reply-all carnage is like a freeway pile-up
December 30, 2024 at 2:26 AM
if this ever happens to you, the best thing to do is to reply-all with "please do not send any more emails" so that everyone knows not to send them. in order to make sure everyone sees this message you may need to re-send it every three to five minutes
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This was $33 at the Detroit airport. No wonder people think Biden’s economy is bad.
January 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This was $33 at the Detroit airport. No wonder people think Biden’s economy is bad.
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Which commercial will you be happiest to be free of once the holidays end?
Apple phone breaking down (Most Wonderful Time of the Yearrrhhghghgh)
GMC Hummers sliding through the snow
BK Have It Your Way (Not holiday-related, I just assume the people who made those ads will soon be sent to prison)
Apple phone breaking down (Most Wonderful Time of the Yearrrhhghghgh)
GMC Hummers sliding through the snow
BK Have It Your Way (Not holiday-related, I just assume the people who made those ads will soon be sent to prison)
December 31, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Which commercial will you be happiest to be free of once the holidays end?
Apple phone breaking down (Most Wonderful Time of the Yearrrhhghghgh)
GMC Hummers sliding through the snow
BK Have It Your Way (Not holiday-related, I just assume the people who made those ads will soon be sent to prison)
Apple phone breaking down (Most Wonderful Time of the Yearrrhhghghgh)
GMC Hummers sliding through the snow
BK Have It Your Way (Not holiday-related, I just assume the people who made those ads will soon be sent to prison)
Shameless late night cute dog pics.
January 1, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Shameless late night cute dog pics.
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I see this in the Jersey turnpike every time we drive up it and it’s still an all timer of an ad for me
December 27, 2024 at 5:27 PM
I see this in the Jersey turnpike every time we drive up it and it’s still an all timer of an ad for me
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(Smearing leopard bait on my face on the way to the polls) This country is finally about to be well-run!
December 28, 2024 at 4:57 PM
(Smearing leopard bait on my face on the way to the polls) This country is finally about to be well-run!
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Senator that is a TIE fighter
December 17, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Senator that is a TIE fighter
For years and years my grandma in Chicago thought I was 30 minutes ahead of her while I was at Michigan State.
In this period she did not own the Cubs and/or the White Sox, though I can't truly say if their performance would have been better or worse if she had.
In this period she did not own the Cubs and/or the White Sox, though I can't truly say if their performance would have been better or worse if she had.
one of the many joys of being a sports fan is rubbernecking at stories like this that you get at a regular drip that establish team owners as some of the most incompetent people ever born. i always think back to marge schott owning an mlb team for many years and not knowing about time zones
December 19, 2024 at 8:09 PM
For years and years my grandma in Chicago thought I was 30 minutes ahead of her while I was at Michigan State.
In this period she did not own the Cubs and/or the White Sox, though I can't truly say if their performance would have been better or worse if she had.
In this period she did not own the Cubs and/or the White Sox, though I can't truly say if their performance would have been better or worse if she had.
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Hi there! We're the Center for Health Communication, a joint center of @texasmoody.bsky.social and Dell Medical School.
For 10 years our interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners have embraced opportunities to use evidence-based health communication to improve the health of all people.
For 10 years our interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners have embraced opportunities to use evidence-based health communication to improve the health of all people.
November 22, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Hi there! We're the Center for Health Communication, a joint center of @texasmoody.bsky.social and Dell Medical School.
For 10 years our interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners have embraced opportunities to use evidence-based health communication to improve the health of all people.
For 10 years our interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners have embraced opportunities to use evidence-based health communication to improve the health of all people.
It's taken me a lot of years, but I've come around to this: If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.
-Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night
I don't know if I'm going to post much here, we'll see...
-Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night
I don't know if I'm going to post much here, we'll see...
November 23, 2024 at 2:45 PM
It's taken me a lot of years, but I've come around to this: If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.
-Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night
I don't know if I'm going to post much here, we'll see...
-Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night
I don't know if I'm going to post much here, we'll see...