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@stroughtonsmith I was in Tahiti in 1988, and I needed to make a payphone call to the US. Their payphones had a glass front. You put the coins in, and watched them fall. That’s what all this Token talk reminds me of. Watching the coins fall in a Tahitian pay phone in the 1980s.

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@maxleibman I worked at my college radio station when this song came out. We used to marvel at the chutzpah. Someone said, “Can you imagine some other band doing this? (singing) Everybody have fun tonight. / Everybody The Cars tonight.”

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@augieray Didn’t you post this a few days ago? Did this happen again? A number of people responded the last time you wrote about this, but those comments are gone from this post.

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@hollie Jerry Orbach had more meat on him though.

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@hollie My friend Jim was a film major, and he had a job in college on the set of that movie. Principally, he was paid to watch out for bears. They gave him an air horn and sent him into the woods.

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@jeridansky Wow, how did you get that? We got - like - $18.

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@hollie @superball I did a radio show in the early 90s with this guy - a huge mid-century nature writer. He would go on and on about crows. On air and off air. He said they were smarter than whales, and definitely smarter than a lot of people. https://www.si.com/more-sports/2012/01/30/bil-gilbert

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@Em0nM4stodon Been talking to two hair-care friends lately about how AI-proof their jobs are. One has a husband who’s an auto mechanic. She feels he’s safe too. My late co-author taught a lot of kids getting welding certificates. He swore by that field (he died before AI was in the news as much).

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@NewSpaceEconomy The word “threatening” does a lot of work in this sentence: “But the blast has sent shockwaves through Blue Origin’s entire manifest, threatening multi-billion-dollar commercial constellations, NASA’s Artemis lunar ambitions, and Blue Origin’s own moon-lander program.” There were 56 days between the Vanguard explosion & the Explorer launch. There were 694 days between the Apollo 1 fire & the Apollo 8 launch.

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@Nonilex This story and the E. Jean Carroll need to be taken together. They part of the flooding the zone with s__t strategy. Even his people quoted in the article say this won’t (can’t) happen. Stay focused. Pam Bondi’s been called to testify about Epstein. The price of gas is $2-3 higher than before his war. His popularity is below 40%. He’s looking for your attention. Don’t give it to him.

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@bloodravenlib @USelaine You know, a “why” paragraph would have been super helpful here. I had to go here to find out why. https://libraries.mit.edu/about/vision/our-approach-to-budget-reductions-at-the-mit-libraries/

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@paco I don’t understand 404 Media’s characterization of this as Enshitification. It was free. Now there’s a version that’s not free and that works as users want it to. There’s still a version that’s free, but it has ads. That’s not Enshitification.

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@paco “He gives the kids free samples / Because he knows full well / That today’s young, innocent faces / Will be tomorrow’s clientele.” -The Old Dope Peddler Tom Lehrer, 1953

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@NatalieDavis “CBS said that Colbert's ‘Only In Monroe’ episode was ‘financed and produced by CBS studios.’” Wait, what?!

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@brianvastag I remember talking to this one guy when I was making a documentary about Shakespeare in American Life. He was practically begging me, “So are you going to use my essay about Star Trek and Shakespeare?“ I said to him: “I have to be honest, I couldn’t understand one single word of it. So no, I’m not going to use it.”

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@brianvastag I had the same experience reading academic journal articles when I produced the Folger Shakespeare Library podcast. I used to think: You people are *English* professors for crissskes!

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@CaribenxMarciaX I follow you , but this is the first time I’ve seen anything from you. I know that doesn’t answer your question, but it’s my experience.

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@cyberlyra @dgold Here are several.

https://tinyurl.com/526zb66t

https://tinyurl.com/yefc3kd4

https://tinyurl.com/3rx7mhxm

https://tinyurl.com/bddcdx9t

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@vicgrinberg @quixoticgeek I lived near Dr. Roman, so throughout this project, I would go to her apartment in Maryland, and then drive her down to the Museum in DC. We had some great talks in the car.

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@vicgrinberg @quixoticgeek So cool!

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@vicgrinberg @quixoticgeek Last one. Here’s part of her explanation.

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@vicgrinberg @quixoticgeek There was nothing more fun than watching Dr. Roman muscle her way through the National Air And Space Museum in time to catch a bus. Just this tiny, little 90 year-old woman zipping past 7000 tourists to get where she was going.

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@vicgrinberg @quixoticgeek I had the honor of having this explained to me for the first time by Dr. Nancy Grace Roman. And we were standing in front of the Hubble Space Telescope when she did it!

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@chrisgeidner I’m at page 5, and I still don’t understand this. Who charged that who did what? And what does this agreement mean - either objectively or with bias? Sorry that I’m not smarter.

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@VeroniqueB99 Is there an Aldi index? https://www.npr.org/2026/05/11/nx-s1-5716202/discount-groceries-aldi-food-affordability

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I saw that yesterday at the Golden Globes, the MC used one of the first jokes I ever wrote for the Capitol Steps. The joke was: On CBS News, you see BS news. That was in 1988.

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I'm really looking forward to what this becomes. If someone can explain to me either how to bring over my previous <everything> from Masto, that would be great.

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