A nice update outlining all the Marvel shows and movies that are planned and when to expect them. I had no idea that “What If…?” Season 3 was coming this Christmas.
Quick Thoughts
Shorter than a blog post.
Bluesky and Micro.Blog make a pretty complementary social media set up. And the integration keeps getting better.
Just changed my username on Bluesky to my domain name. Micro.Blog makes it so easy if you already have a blog with a custom domain.
Checks mentions. Sees a bunch of replies from Bluesky. Pretty sure that’s new. So thanks @manton.
South Carolina’s offense isn’t always pretty, but they’ve got heart. Go Gamecocks! 🏈
At this point in the semester, Team Wertz is heading to study at Starbucks every weekend. (Ryan usually has some homework, but really just joins us so he can get a lemon loaf.)
One of the fun things about being a Ph.D. student married to another Ph.D. student is that you randomly discuss research methods over your morning coffee.
Only $40.
The number of people I actually know on Bluesky has increased significantly in the last week.
How the Ivy League Broke America. Incredibly thought provoking article about education, society and the concept of merit.
When income level is the most important division in a society, politics is a struggle over how to redistribute money. When a society is more divided by education, politics becomes a war over values and culture.
I haven’t been active on Twitter in a very long time, but I deactivated my account this morning. Now I have to find all of the links to Twitter on my blogs and other profiles and delete them. Going to take a while.
Really, really don’t understand how people are still on Twitter. Communities will reform elsewhere. So many people have left, your follower count is an illusion at this point. There are other options. I just don’t understand.
Today, everything in my life seems small. My job feels inconsequential. My career choices, misguided. My research, misdirected. My dissertation, pointless. The world is so broken. I feel like I could have — should have — committed to making more of a difference… somehow…
I have grad school advisement this afternoon and class this evening. I have decisions to make about my next step in my Ph.D. process. I’m not at all in a mental state to think about next semester.
Sometimes, being a goalie is lonely.
According to Facebook, 15 years ago today, I got a Google Wave invite.
Just a reminder that aggressive tariffs and the resulting trade war were one of the causes of the Great Depression.
School trip. Early morning departure.
I got a really great score in Quartiles this morning. I wondered if I could easy share my score on social media like I could on Wordle. While Apple has a share button, it’s just a link to the puzzle in Apple News+ that few can access. Missed marketing opportunity.
I thought it was interesting that during the start of the Scout Motors unveiling, they promised to never sell their customers’ data. Privacy matters.
Scout Motors is unveiling their new vehicle designs later this afternoon. I’m excited because I want to see how they interpreted the old design into a new EV. But also, they are going to be built right here in Columbia, South Carolina.
I know I should probably vote early, but it’s my daughter’s first presidential election and I want her to have the full experience of going to the polls.
At Jillâs Research Reveal for her AP Research class at Chapin. Whatâs AP Research? Basically grad school, but in high school. Fun to see all the interesting projects.
SEC football this season is incredible.
Went to the SC State Fair to see a giraffe.
Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader:
RSS basically works like social media should work. Using RSS is a chance to visit a utopian future in which the platforms have no power, and all power is vested in publishers, who get to decide what to publish, and in readers, who have total control over what they read and how, without leaking any personal information through the simple act of reading.
I really enjoy the Apple News+ game, Quartiles. It’s fun and challenging and I’ve started to mix it into my daily morning routine.
Got the email that my latest journal article was accepted for publication. I’ll soon have one more entry on my Google Scholar profile.
I bought my first Retro 51 pen at Origami Ink in Asheville, an amazing pen shop that was destroyed in the Hurricane Helene flooding. So when I saw that Retro 51 was offering a special edition to support Origami Ink, it was an instant purchase. Amazing pen. Cool design. Great cause.