Philadelphia nerds and some subset of fedi nerds: Anna Tsing (!!) is giving a lecture at Penn tonight (!!) that will also be live streamed (!!) and is about a new body of work she's doing on CONCRETE (!!!!!!!)
"Mr. Lochridge, an experienced submersible pilot from Scotland, said he tried to calm his boss down and asked him to hand over the PlayStation controller that was used to pilot the vessel." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/us/titan-submersible-coast-guard-hearing.html
There was a little blue eyed cat meowing plaintively at the top of a stoop on my walk home like he really wanted to get into the building. No one answered the front door so I tried the basement entrance and the lady who came to the door was so relieved--she couldn't hear him downstairs--and took him inside. He immediately chilled out in her arms.
Just a wholesome little neighborly encounter, idk wanted to share
Job nonsense
I am trying to view it as not a total waste of time either way because like, I wrote a cover letter and a teaching statement and made a comprehensive CV, but it is sort of annoying realizing that it might not even get read.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2024/09/12/massive-microsoft-data-center-will-require-huge-amounts-of-power-water/74778971007/ my friend Lindsay did a big long piece for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the impact of local data center development and I'm so proud of her!! Regional coverage is very important for this topic!!
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-90/ this week in sentences: dreadful innocence, End of Pants, malaise and satisfaction, leitmotif, cufflinks, squalid and ferocious, luxurious Hamburger Helper, notably
sometimes i feel like i am a real fuckup w/r/t living but for those five minutes of golden hour when the weather is actually decent in brooklyn and i get to watch some dogs play around with abandon? ok fine living, u got me