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PechaKucha began because, well, because people talk too much!
Interesting.
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www.tristanharris.com www.tristanharris.com
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Stole this from David Foster Wallace.
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consequenceofsound.net consequenceofsound.net
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Under the pen of Aaron Sorkin, the messy world of American politics seems solvable.
I don't think you watched the show.
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These items connect an essay to a longer lineage of writers and working with these gears helps understand what kind of machine you’re working with
They also define the Interpretative Community:
LAST TIME I ended by suggesting that the fact of agreement, rather than being a proof of the stability of objects, is a testimony to the power of an interpretive community to constitute the objects upon which its members (also and simultaneously constituted) can then agree.
from "What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable?"
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the need to join, in a reasoned way, a conversation of differing voices.
Joining a conversation.
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Whether I ’ m for or against.
But who cares, right?
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they do not see that a thesis implies a counterthesis and that the presence of opposing or alternative voices implies a view of knowledge as dialogic, contingent, ambiguous, and tentative.
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Although experts largely agree on what critical thinking means, they often disagree on how to teach it or to assess it.
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It is the challenge of faculty across the disciplines, along with their colleagues in writing pro-grams and writing centers — to show them other ways of imagining writing.
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The problem with traditional writing instruction was that it led to a view of writing as a set of isolated skills unconnected to an authentic desire to converse with interested readers about real ideas.
Too constructed.
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Give both men 30 seconds to solo, and Frusciante would blow Young off the stage, just as Duane Allman would blow Frusciante off the stage. Young is something else, though.
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s led by sociopaths who politicized language,
Peggy Noonan doing her best 18th Brumaire rip off.That's right, Peggy Noonan is stealing from Marx.
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This is David Foster Wallace's line. Why wouldn't you acknowledge this?
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These people are white supremacists.
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Honey’s products do not support Do Not Track requests at this time, which means that we collect information about your online activity while you are using Honey’s products in the manner described above.
So even if you ask us not to track you, we will anyway.
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Once you delete your profile, there is no longer any data attributable to you.
Which means they do not delete all your information.
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After you have terminated your use of Honey’s products, we will store your information in an aggregated and anonymised format.
We keep your info forever, in other words.
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Slickly written. These dudes are good!
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“We can predict if residents are happy based on their digital interactions with the service, which gives us more information about whether they will renew their leases,” says Zego CEO Adam Blake.
happy? Defined as? Lisa Feldman Barrett, the Neuroscientist and author of How Emotions are Made, argues that emotions are constructed. In other words, who gets to say what is "happy"? Adam Blake does?
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forced out by the majority group, I believe it merits a moment of our thought. Why is this occurring? How are those being gentrified affected? Should this be addressed? How so? These are the types of questions we should be asking ourselves so that we as a society can make more intentional, informed decisions in the future rather than acting as if all of our actions occur in a vacuum where no such thing as a ripple effect exist.
Good conclusion.
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no longer afford to live there.
Good link. Interestingly, it references Whitman-Walker, which has now also sold out to Condos . . .
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However, the increasing prices in Dupont Circle are not only affecting businesses; they are affecting people too.
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close, including Schwartz Pharmacy, Janus Theater, and Larimer’s market
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strongly indicates
Well, some might counter that this is a small sample size, so are those two others already flush with cash? Or are they taking a different approach?
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It continues today with a half dozen offices in the region, and while it serves all clients, regardless of identity, it maintains its commitment to LGBT-oriented care.
Not any more!
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First, "postmodernism is the consumption of sheer commodification as a process."
Textual evidence.
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Marxism, as Jameson formulates it,
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Marxism? Yes, relax:
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No Criminal Collusion. Lots of Corruption.
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Weeks later, Trump signed the CLOUD Act into law, which gave US law enforcement more legal pathways to pursue data stories overseas. The provision was tucked into the $1.3 trillion spending bill Trump signed to avoid a federal government shutdown. With the new law on the books, federal prosecutors went back to court in and asked for another warrant to get the materials that Google refused to turn over. In an April 2018 affidavit, the FBI agent argued that "providers are required to disclose data even if it is stored abroad" under the new law. The judge approved the new search warrant later that day, giving investigators access to additional information from Google, including Cohen's emails, attachments, address book and files stored on Google Drive.
Wow. What if it was a pole got that snuck in the bill for this very reason? Or was it just luck?
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“(There is) $65 million for studying salmon. Man, you can go to the Red Lobster and study it for $12.95,” he said. “That’s ridiculous … We didn’t do anything, just spent you all’s money. It’s a disgrace.”
This makes Tim Burchett look as dumb as he actually is. This kind of logic is dumbfoundingly stupid, particularly from an elected official.
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The Free Masons seem attracted to him.
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The classic example:
All whales are animals that breathe by means of lungs.<br> All whales are mammals.<br> All whales are animals that breath by means of lungs.<br>
In the Prior Analytics, Aristotle presents the first system of logic, the theory of the syllogism (see the entry on Aristotle's logic and ch. 1 of Lagerlund 2000 for further details). A syllogism is a deduction consisting of three sentences: two premises and a conclusion. Syllogistic sentences are categorical sentences involving a subject and a predicate connected by a copula (verb). These are in turn divided into four different classes: universal affirmative (A), particular affirmative (I), universal negative (E) and particular negative (O), written by Aristotle as follows:
A – A belongs to all B (AaB) I – A belongs to some B (AiB) E – A does not belong to any B (AeB) O – A does not belong to some B (AoB)
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The bestiary, or "book of beasts", is more than just an expansion of the Physiologus, though the two have much in common. The bestiary also describes a beast and uses that description as a basis for an allegorical teaching, but by including text from other sources it goes further; and while still not a "zoology textbook", it is not only a religious text, but also a description of the world as it was known.
The bestiary manuscripts were usually illustrated, sometimes lavishly, as for example in the Harley Bestiary and the Aberdeen Bestiary; the pictures served as a "visual language" for the illiterate public, who knew the stories - preachers used them in sermons - and would remember the moral teaching when they saw the beast depicted. Bestiary images could be found everywhere.
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“Having played in that offense, they don’t have an answer for all-out pressure,” Hoyer says. “Their answer is for the quarterback to make a play.” BENOIT: Super Bowl LIII Tale of the Tape: Two Dominant Defenses, Gurley’s Disappearance and the Real MVP The flip side? In this cat-and-mouse game, the Patriots knew McVay’s offense had different ways it could crush all-out pressure, so Flores had to be judicious about calling it. New England showed pressure a ton, but didn’t send everyone much at all.
What the hell? This totally contradicts itself, it seems. I've read it now three times, and I still can't figure out the hell it means.
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At Devin McCourty’s kitchen table on Friday, the the brothers brought up Hoyer’s value, Devin remembers a moment a moment during the team’s preparation for Kansas City in October when the first defense showed the scout team a blitz look that had all 11 defenders within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage.
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ItallowsustothinkofHegelasatheoristwhomadepossibletheinsightsthat“alltruthsareatbestmomentary,situational,andmarkedbyahistoryintheprocessofchangeandtransformation,”that“conceptsarenotautonomousbutratherrelational,”andthatthe“philosophicalproblem”is,“namely,thatofrepresentation,anditsdilemmas,itsdialectic,itsfailures,anditsimpossibility.
This is the key to it all.
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What Hegel's critics say.
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Inthisbook,IdemonstratehowHegel’sdialecticemergedfromthephilosophicalpracticesofmedievalthinkers,mappingaspreciselyaspossiblethelineamentsofHegel’sdebtandtheimplicationsofacknowledgingthatdebt(chaps.1and2)
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Identity and Difference is what makes the Hegelian Dialectic.
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Collective bargaining in action. And, more importantly perhaps, this puts Unions as a power to the people backstop. The action of Federal Employees, unionized, who could just stop showing up without fear of being fired is what we should be selling.
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Sounds like Trump!
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Haslam told the group he felt Jackson could relate better to players.
He's trying?
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Why not ", and that comfort"?
Comfortability?
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This is amazing writing, Alex!
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What does he mean here?
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That's right cause the fear of Nukes weren't all pervasive in the 80s.
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Shouldn't you tell people that he was progenitor of Pizza Gate?
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Heroic figures? Icons?
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The original Americans who came over from Europe and founded this country
This makes no sense. How can one be original but not be original?
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carte blanche leash
Please don't let this become a thing: carte blanche leash.
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And is a stupid person's way of making a bad excuse, since all ride services use Waze or GMaps.
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“It just seems like she’s playing a character,” she says. “I just wonder, if those views had not started gaining her attention, would we be getting this version of Britt McHenry?”
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“I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt, and I wish sometimes that was reciprocated for me, because I had to work really hard
Classic white aggrievement. Nowhere does she feel bad for the other human. She's all, "me me me!"
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That’s why I have a degree and you don’t” and “Maybe if I was missing some teeth they would hire me, huh?
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Her evidence for why students learn less with laptops
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Supporting evidence for why she wants to ban laptops.
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2nd reason she wants to ban laptops.
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First reason she wants to ban laptops.
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This is a way to consider this Referendum:
Shall property owned by the University System of Georgia and utilized by providers of college and university student housing and other facilities continue to be exempt from taxation to keep costs affordable?
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Such a key concept, I think. In fact, I'd say this is the US Dividing line.
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Theodor Adorno, The Culture Industry
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Martin Heidegger A very important philosopher. Most recently, his work has inspired a relatively new movement, Object-Oriented Ontology.
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There appear to be no hard feelings between the two
My God, you need editors. Unless this sentence is satire or something?
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This can't be serious?
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The United States's first multimillionaire
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Where you stand on this debate ultimately depends, like many fraught issues, not so much on facts but on ideas and ideology, and how you think about race, about fairness, about meritocracy.
Pathos wins out.
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"Bartleby is a picture of the new typology: "motionless [the Lawyer/Narrator describes him] ... pitiably re-spectable, incurably forlorn" (549)-like Job on his dungheap enduring the rigors and loneliness of alienation. It was not the patience of Job that impressed Melville; it was his perseverance. Significantly, in 1849, Melville had marked Job 13.15 in his new copy of the Bible, and underscored the last clause in it: ''Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him" (Leyda, I: 369). This ancient non-hero's heroism lay in his persistent refusal to accept the appeal to conventional compromises with bitter reality that are spouted by his four friends.
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A theory, in short, is some-thing a practitioner consults when he wishes to perform correctly, withthe term "correctly" here understood as meaning independently of hispreconceptions, biases, or personal preferences.
Fish's definition of a theory.
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The conceptual vocabulary of the law, Felix Cohen, lawyer and legal realist, complained, refers not to items in the world, but to items within its own lexicon; the vocabulary (and therefore the law) is entirely self-enclosed, and as a result its terms are not truly explanatory because they never come into contact with the so- cial realities they purport to order.
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If ever there were a newspaper headline custom-made for Jay Leno's monologue, this was it. Kids taking on McDonald's this week, suing the company for making them fat. Isn't that like middle-aged men suing Porsche for making them get speeding tickets? Whatever happened to personal responsibility?
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students moving from FYC into other writing sites use what they have learned in the FYC class to help them complete other writing tasks
How and if students transfer FYC skills.
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"it was the language"?
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Rhetoric of Space and Place.
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They should be given every right in the world, and anybody who wants to hurt them is bad.
The classic ending which on the surface states the view the public's version of itself demands, said to undercut what the speaker has just actually said. The challenge I have with Norm is what is his own intention with it? And to me that's what makes him interesting.
See, "He's a good man," in reference to president of NBC, who had just fired him:
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Because stand-up is a form and to subvert something, you have to do it perfectly first. I remember somebody showed me a talk show with “subversion” in it — the guy chainsawed his desk. It was so stupid. Why did you build a desk in the first place if you were only going to chainsaw it? Don’t have a fucking desk! You just want little drops of subversion. Letterman in the ‘80s would be 90 percent a great talk show and then 10 percent subversion. If you get to 30 percent subversion, you’re in Andy Kaufman land. If you get to 70 percent, you’re a guy on the streets screaming at people. What are you trying to subvert anyway? Entertaining people? It’s absurd.
James Joyce: Dubliners precedes Finnegan's Wake.
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