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📺 “The West Wing” Dead Irish Writers | Netflix
Directed by Alex Graves. With Rob Lowe, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney. Another lively episode centered around a lavish W.H. party, this one for Abbey's birthday the night before a N.H. medical board begins hearings on whether to suspend her license over her secret treatment of her husband's MS. Abbey repairs to the residence with C.J. and Amy Gardener to get blitzed on wine and discuss her concerns about her medical career. Donna is restricted from joining the party...
❤️ benwerd tweeted I don’t mean to brag but #nanowrimo
I don't mean to brag but #nanowrimo pic.twitter.com/Enrqp7rjdZ
— Ben Werdmuller (@benwerd) November 9, 2019
❤️ dimensionmedia tweeted Armchair WordCampers: Discover #WordPress friends in California w/ @WordCampRS
Armchair WordCampers: Discover #WordPress friends in California w/ @WordCampRS and @A_Bowler2 @joesimpsonjr @desertddesign @chrisaldrich @amberrhewitt @davmayne @GenuineAmyHall @rob_bonham @SumnerDavenport #WCRS #WCRS19 pic.twitter.com/7ed66Iq6xH
— David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) November 9, 2019
👓 Lt. Colonel Vindman Fired | Daily Kos
What bugs me even more than the firing of Vindman for just doing his job, protecting the national security of the U.S., is the continued gaslighting, saying that the firing was not retaliation, but just a routine personnel move.
This is so patently a lie, that one would think O’Brien would be ashamed to let it out of his mouth.
But you check your integrity at the door to stay in the employ of the Orange Mousseolini.
More likely he was retasked, but still a retaliatory move…
👓 Limits, schlimits: It’s time to rethink how we teach calculus | Ars Technica
Jennifer Oulette (Ars Technica)Ars chats with math teacher Ben Orlin about his book Change Is the Only Constant.
Finally, I decided to build it around all my favorite stories that touched on calculus, stories that get passed around in the faculty lounge, or the things that the professor mentions off-hand during a lecture. I realized that all those little bits of folklore tapped into something that really excited me about calculus. They have a time-tested quality to them where they’ve been told and retold, like an old folk song that has been sharpened over time.
And this is roughly how memory and teaching has always worked. Stories and repetition.
–November 11, 2019 at 09:56AM
👓 When You Give A Mouse A Domain | Greg McVerry
Greg McVerry (mouseadomain.glitch.me)She'll want a wesbite to go with it
A slick homage to Laura Numeroff’s children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Great job Greg! This is hilarious.
👓 Unfollowing everyone on Twitter | Ryan Barrett
Ryan Barrett (snarfed.org)A few days ago, I unfollowed everyone on Twitter, added them all to a list, and I now read that list instead. It’s shockingly better. Only their own tweets and retweets, in order. No ads, no "liked by," no "people you may know," no engagement hacking crap. It’s glorious.
Even better, when I inevitably end up in the home timeline anyway, it only has my own tweets and ads, nothing interesting. No dopamine outrage bullshit cycle to get caught up in.
Shh, don’t tell, I’m afraid some low level product manager at Twitter will discover this and "fix" lists like they "fixed" the home timeline a while back.
There are a couple drawbacks. I lost a few people I followed whose accounts are protected; I need to find and re-follow them. Also this evidently makes it harder for people to DM me, somehow. Not sure how, I don’t use Twitter DM much.
Still. Glorious.
This is pretty inspiring. Thinking about doing it myself, though I’ll have to be careful about private accounts so I don’t unfollow them. I do also wish that feed readers had a better way to display Tweets.
👓 Indieweb Updates and Thoughts | Roy Tang
Roy Tang (Roy Tang)I mentioned before that I was looking into indieweb stuff. There’s a whole wiki of information about it if you’re into that sort of thing, but also here’s a recent post which kind of serves as an overview. I have some comments on the content of this post, more on that later. Indieweb things I?...
Congratulations Roy!
Acquired Dyson V8 Animal vacuum cleaner
The Dyson V8 Animal stick vacuum is engineered for homes with pets. Captures dust, animal hair and allergens.
I got one of these at Bed Bath & Beyond for $239.00 which was one of the better deals I’ve seen recently. I was loathe to try out yet another vacuum cleaner and didn’t have much hope that anything could win against the inimitable German Shepherd Lily. However, I don’t think I’ve ever seen our carpets cleaner! I think the first pass at the living room rug took about two whole dogs’ worth of hair out. How did I manage to live without this for the past two years.
Now if I could just get the Furminator version of this vacuum so we could get it at the source…
gRegor Morrill (gregorlove.com)Here is a simple thing you can include as part of your online profiles: list the pronouns people can use when referring to you. This removes any ambiguity and helps normalize the practice of sharing our pronouns. Not everyone uses pronouns that match the gender they present as and some people use no...
👓 The Web’s Arrow of Time | Parallel Transport
Kartik Prabhu (kartikprabhu.com)I was looking into adding some navigation links to my post feed/archive pages, when I ran into an old confusion of mine. The Web has a completely messed up arrow of time!
👓 Using Hypothesis Groups in the Classroom | Hypothesis
A couple of weeks ago, we quietly released a new feature here at hypothes.is: the ability to annotate websites and PDFs in groups. Previously, all annotations created using hypothes.is were either public or private (“only me”). Now you can create a hypothes.is group and invite others to join you in annotating a text or set of texts amongst yourselves–here’s a tutorial to get you started.