Bill Bartley

@algorecrave Jeez that bad? Only saw the first ep

just watched the final episode of jfk jr cbk: love story and it’s the most vile, exploitative, sensationalist thing i’ve ever seen in my life. when the series was announced i was so worried about how they would portray their death and this was so disgusting. sickening.

Tremendous defense.

Tiger not having a driver is such horrible decision making

You killed the moderate (college admissions discourse), now you get the radical (anal sex discourse)

@ivan_stoner @estherzelda0514 On point 1 you're just wrong man idk (jneurosci.org/content/39/39/…) On point 2 you're missing that audiobooks do require some form of mental stamina to stay focused. Passively listening risks non-comprehension, just as skimming a page risks it

@RatAlt64 @estherzelda0514 It's false that they are "cognitively" the same though. It is an entirely different cognitive architecture to decode visual text vs. hearing audio speech. Reading requires mental stamina to decode. You are "doing" something the whole time, not just consuming.

Hot take: audiobooks are a perfectly acceptable way to consume books if you are busy and on the go and want something to listen to when you drive, do puzzles, or go for a walk. Moreover, if you are already a proficient reader, and audiobooks do not entirely replace physical reading, there is little cognitive difference between audiobooks and physical books. I do nearly all of my fiction, work, or academic reading with a physical article, book, or ebook, and nearly all of my nonfiction reading via audiobooks. I have not detected any particular gaps in recall for an audiobook. The key difference is that audiobooks do not build literacy in children, who need to see sentences and spelling to gain it. It is also easier to split your attention while listening to an audiobook, which decreases your information uptake. But this is a problem with physical books as well, if you are distracted while reading. Ultimately, for highly literate adults who read for leisure, there is very little meaningful difference between formats. I don't think anyone should worry about it, and gatekeeping reading comes off as snobbish.

@tenobrus Also got a walker guy

if you ask claude to write a short essay on anything it wants, it writes the same essay almost every single time

@jenbegakis Love a “hand-typed” letter

the most Oberlin thing to Oberlin

Trump has accidentally created a death market for himself by linking equity markets to his insane whims

Mr. Pillow getting tf out of CPAC before anyone else serves him papers

@tolstoybb Agree. I was probably going to watch it tho lol

@moonsandhues Things happening

is there anything going on tonight in nyc

@maxtmcc It's basically just potion making, wand making, and then food.

The Harry Potter economy seems to have basically no private sector? Everyone either works for the Ministry or something probably funded by the Ministry (healthcare) or is some kind of small business owner. Education is almost nonexistent. There’s some entertainment jobs ig

Wacky day for the discourse I must say

@wil_da_beast630 Complete horseshit.

"Since some of her organs had already been reserved for donation."

Love when completely fabricated fake news goes viral

@AndrewKolvet Economic shot to the head

We need an economic moonshot for Gen Z. 10 million new homes 10 million deportations No foreign buyers No institutional investors Tax breaks for first-time home buyers Abolish the H-1B scam End invasion level LEGAL immigration New homes > New wars 🇺🇸🇺🇸

@kynakwado If you see this then no

@axiochrono I think they should let it rock and not race swap any of the Marauders. Racial neurosis is toxic. Just show a black person getting bullied it won't end the world.

The more time that passes the more I understand the decision to race-swap Snape. You can't cast anyone who looks remotely like Alan Rickman without their performance being compared to his non-stop. The only solution is to do something completely and entirely different.

@atlanticesque Election Day is fun, but I've come to enjoy the little ritual one makes out of taking your time with the ballot at home, looking stuff up, and the rest. I deserve two votes so I can enjoy both

I’m anti-mail voting for quirky civic pride reasons. Come on, Election Day is fun! You go out to the polls with friends or family, you get to wear a sticker, make a day of it. We should make it more festive; brass bands and streamers and confetti and parades!