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TAG! The Jurisdiction Game: The Crowd Sale has now ended. We sold nearly 100 copies and all the supporters will get a 32% discount. (You can learn more about the game, and find the link to buy it, at the website.)

My first 5 TTRPGs, more or less in the order I played them: 1. D&D (TSR) 2. AD&D (TSR) 3. Top Secret (TSR) 3. Car Wars (Steve Jackson Games) 5. TMNT & Other Strangeness (Palladium Books) (The TMNT RPG was so good!)

This is amazing! Most endowments go to buildings, sports, or students. Very few go to faculty… almost as if they are not really important. 🙄

When you don’t know the meaning of the word “discrete,” or “discreet.”

When you don’t know the meaning of the word “discrete,” or “discreet.”

Of course not. That’s what new bags and backpacks are for.

Bedford County’s Court of Common Pleas will welcome Martin, the county’s first court facility dog, during a ceremonial swearing-in today at 1 p.m., in Courtroom No. 1 at the Bedford County Courthouse. Read more about Martin here: bit.ly/4k9jH8a

I repeat, someone should make a meme-generator thing for those NY Times “we asked a bunch of regular/idiotic voters about their views” articles with quotes and little line drawings.

So, I love FNL. But I honestly don't know, do Texans love it too? Or is it like a view of Texas tailor-made for non-Texans?

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

So, what if your political opponents are actually, really nazis? I assume then it’s okay. So, really the question is whether calling one’s political opponents nazis is accurate.

this is the saddest thing I have ever seen

The principles for imposing liability for AI malfeasance is pretty basic. They can be found in the Katko v. Briney ("spring gun") case and the Escola v. Coca Cola (strict product liability) concurrence. You don't actually need much else.

Just saw a Taco Bell ad pitching a sandwich/wrap thing with the triply-oxymoronic tag line: A Brand New Classic Is Back.

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson. nyti.ms/4yCUebH

En-dash (needed) alert! @bcdreyer.social (though it's gonna take more than an en-dash to fix this mishigas)

It wild to see in real time the term “agent” undergoing the person-to-thing transformation, just like “computer” and “calculator” before it. Any other examples?

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/o... In my whole religiously-complicated life history, high-church Anglicanism is a tradition that has played no part. But the King James Version is my Bible, as a lover of the English language. Even when I'm thinking very Jewish thoughts, they're in the KJV's words.

I think one reason it’s good to have a liberal arts education in the classic sense is that you don’t then spend time trying to invent the concept of “intellectual pursuits” from first principles

First Monday in October feeling

Just saw a Taco Bell ad pitching a sandwich/wrap thing with the triply-oxymoronic tag line: A Brand New Classic Is Back.

First Monday in October. The Supreme Court returns.

You know what almost never works? “Update tonight.”

This is essentially the message of the Coyote v. ACME movie.

This is something that a lot of pundits and economists (but not a lot of politicians) tend to forget: The purpose of the economy is to encourage human flourishing. If some economic indicators are increasing while human happiness is decreasing, then those indicators don't mean what you think they do.

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

Having never heard it, I’m going to assume it’s a song advocating for abortion rights in Texas.

Agreed! I saw Coyote v. ACME today too, and it was great fun. It would be a lot of fun for law students too!

A Post analysis found that immigration judges have ordered more than 440,000 asylum seekers removed during President Trump’s first 19 months back in office — more than during the previous eight years combined. https://wapo.st/4yZlKjy

I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.

Sep 24th 1975 - After being allowed back on the air for a final farewell, Howard Beale launches into a rant about life being "bullshit", causing the ratings to spike. 📽️📅 Network (1976)

ICE's new policy is unprecedented. People who have detained for months are suddenly disappearing from the locator system — even if they haven't been moved. And people newly arrested are not showing up at all, their location now hidden from view. This will severely interfere with legal access.