Ricou Heaton
nightlamp11.bsky.social
Ricou Heaton
@nightlamp11.bsky.social
Attorney, enjoy history, travel, politics, urbanism, and much more!
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Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1
October 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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The first episode is out now and can hopefully be found via your podcast app of choice, where Emma and I discuss John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes. We also have a patron here patreon.com/StarshipAlexandria where you can, should you wish, support us, in return for which ...
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Recommending fiction across the spacefleet
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April 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Welcome to HIGH SPEED!

Today I'm launching the newsletter of the global passenger rail renaissance.

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January 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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@heingoemans.bsky.social it occurs to me that you are one of the few people who might enjoy my occasional series of a decade ago on the sociology of Jack Vance (e.g. crookedtimber.org/2013/05/30/t... )
The Sociology of Jack Vance I: The Spirit of Market Capitalism in Master Twango’s Establishment at Lutic
Described in the early chapters of _Cugel’s Saga_, Master Twango’s manse is a study-in-miniature of society as a web of contractual relations and power asymmetries. When Cugel takes up …
crookedtimber.org
November 21, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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hooo boy. this will be interesting.

The entire deal is to REMAKE each other's libraries.

It doesn't say anything about TV Series so still no word on when we're getting an American #CrashLandingOnYou 😜
(though after this election it just might work... 🙀)

#kdrama

www.thewrap.com/warner-bros-...
Warner Bros. Signs Remake Production Deal With Korean Studio CJ ENM
The two studios will produce English and Korean language remakes of films each other's libraries
www.thewrap.com
November 19, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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Today's "One First" offers some reflections on my exchange with Judge Jones at last Thursday's Federalist Society convention—and what it says about our discourse; left-of-center profs continuing to participate in Fed Soc events; and the future of legal debate:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/109-things...
109. Things Fall Apart
Some reflections on my disheartening exchange with Judge Jones at last Thursday's Federalist Society convention—and its ominous implications for the future of legal debate
www.stevevladeck.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:47 PM