George Michael had his flaws, but he was an earnest, hard-working, and occasionally insightful person. Check out his take on Joy Division as compared to Morrisey and some random DJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj3HOklzUTo

Is their WORST and most overplayed song.

OK then. Next year, to save you from tears, we’ll play it for someone special.

for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Galactic_Heroes

For more, see: !truecomics@midwest.social

It wasn’t 9/11, it was the 2001 release of Slayer’s epic album God Hates Us All.

Oh it gets worse. The article says after they empty a library, they fill it with “teams” of “disruptive students” as well as “teams” of “high-achieving students”.

One strategy among his planned overhaul — called the New Education System, or NES — was to close libraries at 28 schools [eventually 85] out of the district’s 274 total and turn them into “team centers.” It would accomplish two goals, he said: create a place to send “disruptive” students after removing them from class as well as an environment to send high-achieving students for enrichment.

… these schools — and the entire school district — serves a student population that’s overwhelmingly Black and Latino.

So much to talk about. This is in Texas, btw.

“Thoughts?”

hi I’m just a bystander, but here are a couple Lemmy summarizing bots:

• https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyAutoTldrBot
• https://github.com/tracyspacy/ai-tldr-bot-lemmy

I haven’t seen them in action in a while, I think they fell out of popularity.

That’s a great idea, I’ma try that from now on.

Nobody has said Die Hard?!?

See it here on !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee:

• https://lemmy.world/post/18064570

Werner Herzog’s “Aguirre: the Wrath of God” is on !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee here: https://lemmy.world/post/17030774

I’ll just be happy when we never have to see that guy’s face in the news again.

The whole article’s worth reading.

Currently, the academic publishing industry’s business model relies largely on an author’s willingness to submit work for free—or even pay to publish it—and the publisher’s ability to turn around and sell that research to academic libraries through expensive journal subscriptions. Libraries at doctoral-granting institutions spend about 80 percent of their materials budgets on such subscriptions …