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“Elizabeth Taylor” is the second track on Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” record. It’s probably my fifth favorite on the album, partly because it feels a bit more generic pop than most Taylor Swift tracks of recent years. Even while I feel like all this high-gloss and the highly referential nature of this…
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“The Fate of Ophelia” is both the first track and first single released from Taylor Swift’s album Life of a Showgirl. The music video itself deserves its own deep dive, but for today, we’ll focus on the track itself. Widely considered the “earworm” of the record – although I’d say track three “Opalite” fits that…
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Only doing the bare minimum the next couple of days as I battle extreme fatigue. First recruit wasn’t exciting. I just took an Alakazam on trial. I took wide guard off of aegislash and gave it Poltergeist instead for singles. I only played one battle to knock out a couple more missions. That also netted…
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Back in 2021, while reading lots of books about sabermetrics, using statistics in baseball to find hidden value, I came up with this wild idea of a metric called Words Above Replacement. It’s inspired by the WAA (Wins Above Average) metric in baseball statistics. The idea I had was to find some way to figure…
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On this 4/20, my goal is to just see how many missions I can knock out today. They didn’t reset until around 7pm last night around which time I no longer felt up to doing much of anything. The sudden return to winter yesterday in Vermont didn’t help my state of mind or my nerves.…
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Excerpts From “Reflections on War and Death” by Sigmund Freud (1939), which is freely available on Apple Books here: https://books.apple.com/us/book/reflections-on-war-and-death/id494504141 “…for our conscience is not the inexorable judge that teachers of ethics say it is; it has its origin in nothing but ‘social fear.’” “Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and…
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I needed a good start to the morning and what do you know… I got an Omastar in wonder trade on home. Not something I can use, right? But when I checked the GTS for potential trades, I got a shiny Hisuian Goodra , level 100, ready to go. Now I do have one in…
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Source: TOP 10 BOOKS FROM UNDERGRAD IN HISTORY | philosophy, journalism, political theory by Ruby Hart Ruby is an undergraduate student of history offering her top ten book recommendations. These selections include fiction, non-fiction, journalism, and philosophy. Her approach is to offer books that reflect a diverse approach to understanding history. I felt these were…
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When I first began to develop the framework for what would eventually become the CRAP framework, it was because I felt the language I was using to discuss ideas was broken somehow. I needed a better vocabulary with which to define and expand on my own disillusionment with institutional education and intellectual life. I’ve long…
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The ABCD critique framework is an extremely useful tool for feedback, and is one I use for my critiques of both my own and others’ work all the time. I learned about it through a Sublime App interview with Substack writer Anu Atluru, but the ABCD framework origin seems to be the blog of Cassidy…