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Exactly. You cannot "summarise" sources. You have to fucking read them. You're skipping steps. The reading is the point and you have to do it yourself. My PhD (in history) was based on war crimes trial records, thousands and thousands of them, collected over many years. You cannot do it differently.

I continue to see a) local "news coverage" that is generated from recordings of public meetings, and b) suggestions that minutes could be generated in a similar fashion. And then I continue to see these:

Giving myself permission to do something imperfectly now rather than waiting for the brain weather conditions to do it perfectly later has been so life-changing

I'm guessing this is Snake Eater? I loved Wolf Worm but I am some years behind on her other horror works.

Evacuation of the sixth biggest population centre in France under active consideration and some will still say "it's just Summer"

Had a webserver getting crushed by Claude for some reason. Dug in to the logs and someone made a shitty php hangman game back in 2008, the dipshit computers found it, and were “playing” it 1M+ times a day until I blocked it. The future sucks ass

Admirable clarity @science.org

My take on the kids in the library thing is that if you want to use free, public spaces, you need to increase your tolerance of people who are unlike you and who also want to use those free, public spaces. That means children. It also means homeless people and people you think are weird-looking.

Sudden terrible sympathy for writers of near-future sf: So I got proofreader queries on DEVIL OF A CRIME, which is set in North Carolina, and one of the characters complains about how the Hurricanes need to fire their coach. PROOFREADER: They just won the Stanley Cup. Do you want to change this?

This will be devastating for cultural and heritage preservation. Cultural Resources Management - the work I did for a decade and they type of work the vast majority of archaeologists in the US do, will be gutted.

Missed this when it came out. Thanks for the profile! Don't forget to vote for the Hugos! Voting closed Aug 8. www.thehugoawards.org/2026/05/2026...

Backyard prairie and traditional garden plants in bloom! #nativeplants #prairie #gardening

Well, it finally happened, took 6 years but someone irl asked me if I'd heard about the internet story about the guy who ordered a ton of rice

Incredible!

That both makes perfect sense and also feels like a series of conversations you'd never expect to have. "I can't make our meeting this afternoon; I am probably fine, but I did just interact with a biohazard and I have to wait for the CDC folks to arrive. I'll text you again when I know more."

A favorite story— Petitioner: Would you like to sign a petition to require voter ID? Person: Do I have to show ID to sign? Petitioner: No. Person: Then how do you verify? Petitioner: We do address and signature matching. Person: Do you hear yourself?

ALIVE. they found the giraffe babies ALIVE. YOU GUYS. Miracles do happen!!!! Look at those alive-ass giraffe babies! Holy shit! EVERYONE SAY THANK YOU ALICIA SILVERSTONE. www.nbcwashington.com/news/nationa...

I have been rereading Pride and Prejudice to follow along with the amazing @trungles.com thread and my favorite thing about the Elizabeth/Darcy romance is that it’s not a case of “I can fix him” but more “if he’s worth it, he’ll fix himself”

This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.

The bar exam is next week. I teach the bar studies course every spring at Akron and I coach students for the July exam every summer. If you are studying for the bar (or know someone who is) I have some thoughts for you as you approach the exam. 🧵