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scott galloway: women showing feet is a social cancer we can solve by making boys do war

placing.technology/i-submitted blogged a very belated debrief on the dissertation as I mull over what (else) (if anything) I do with the dissertation blog as I approach the finish line

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: raccoon, redwood, gambling, bruised, sweater, mysterious, winter, ripeness, cult, flesh-tone, beaver bombing, laissez-ed, ethics, definitionally, glands, indolent, robot wolves

Between this and the abundance nonsense I low-key believe there's a guys-in-a-room-planned-this project to appropriate lefty rhetoric to serve shitty capitalist ideas through dumb thought leader books

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I read a review of the Stewart Brand maintenance book and I'm pretty sure it's a psyop

dissertation submitting accountability note 

I did it, the full manuscript has been sent to my committee, hope it is deemed defensible!!

dissertation accountability note 

also I haven't written the acknowledgments because that seems like bad luck to take the victory lap prematurely

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dissertation accountability note 

sorry, 256 pages for the actual dissertation, the whole document is 335 pages

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dissertation accountability note 

265 pages, word count around 65K (I've added the bibliography etc so the document word count is much, much longer), tempted to just turn it in early by sending tonight but should probably do one last round of spellcheck etc.

1 ) why is my retired mom on LinkedIn

2) why is my mom asking to connect with me on LinkedIn

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