Did you know that Devo was still together and active? . My new thing? Devo for halftime at Super Bowl 60! . Who’s with me?.

At Eastern Michigan, most of the little campus convenience stores have been shut down with no notice by the private contractor, Chartwells—the one with the $19.4 million dollar fine in Washington DC. Note how its sign says it’s going to serve us better by not serving us at all.

A slightly different take on survivorship bias.

I am a strong advocate for nonviolence. But, when the revolution comes, and someone needs to be put up against the wall, I want you all to think about the people who made it necessary to have three remotes and several network subscriptions to watch a few preseason football games.

Random advice for young people. Don’t talk to older people about email, the internet, computers, or such things as though we’ve never encountered them. I’m 66. It’s people my age who put the whole thing together and have been using it all longer than some of you have been alive.

Despite significant decreases in violent crime (and most crime) over the last decade, Trump appointee wants to bring child beating back to schools on the theory that this will improve “discipline.” I’m a PHD in child psychology. That’s not how it works.

Hey @CNN! What’s a “heavy cown?”

Virtually no one in rank-and-file academia realizes there are students, mostly rural, who still use dial-up. Most don’t realize there are students whose only “computer,” aside from the ones in the library, is a phone.

i tried it so you don’t have to. Just had some Olipop Rootbeer. It’s supposedly “prebiotic,” whatever that is. They sell it at Starbucks because, I guess, it’s unconventional. It’s also the worst-tasting rootbeer I’ve had in my life.

One weird thing about Apple Watch’s fall alarm is that you can fall from a horse, break bones when you land, and it won’t go off. Suddenly swat at a fly, it’s ready to call 911. It appears that if your fall doesn’t involve you swinging your arm, it’s not a fall.

Equestrian helmets and vests work. Took a very hard fall, breaking my collarbone and doing other damage. What wasn’t hurt? My head, which hit very hard, and back, protected by a vest. About 44% of sports TBI is from equestrian sports. About 85% of that is from unhelmeted riders.

People post stuff to show how good the school meals are in various non-US countries. We are no longer at that point. The issue is not going to be the comparatively low quality of US school food, but whether the children are going to be fed at all.

I worked at an NPR station for almost 7 years. I helped write a CPB grant for about $300k. I’m 100% convinced that the public got more than its money’s worth, far more than it would have from any commercial station. Everything was about excellence.

Here’s an exercise in the importance base-rate thinking. Tell somebody inflation rose from 2.6 to 2.7%. Then ask what the increase is. The person who’ll get you in trouble will say “Tiny, just 1/10th of 1%.” The person you hire says, “Substantial for a large economy, up 3.9%.”.

I turned on “Rural Awareness” in my GPS. Now it uses roadkill as landmarks: “Go past this dead raccoon. Then, at the next one, turn left.”.

Due to yet another power failure in southeast Michigan, I renew my call for the official “State Sound” to be people cussing as they start up their gas generators.

One of the interesting things about the telepathic theory of FC/RPM is how it conflicts with the trapped consciousness theory. Are the kids deep thinkers who can’t express themselves or conduits for someone else’s thoughts? It’s both! When one doesn’t work you shift to the other.

There’s a simple reason people don’t know how tariffs work. The people who talk about tariffs don’t. @CNN says Trump is imposing a 15% tariff on the EU. No, he’s imposing a 15% import tax on us, the buyers of EU goods. The tax is intended to change our behavior, not the EU’s.

For context, here’s approx* US major numbers (NCES). Varies widely by school:. Business ~12.8 %.Nursing ~10.9 %.Psychology ~6.0 %.Education ~4.6 %.Biology ~4.1 %.Crim Just/Legal ~3.6 %.Comp/Info Sci ~3.4 %.Other Health ~2.4 %.Accounting ~2.4 %.Engineering ~2.4 %.

I asked Grok about it, and X crashed.