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Get an ad-free version of the show, plus a monthly extended episode.#252: Briefly, It Was the Future.
Everything becomes crab.
January 17th, 2025 · 100 minutes
Updates on match cuts, the college ranking racket, and some historical perspective on t-dropping.
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Follow-Up brings updates on match cuts, the college ranking racket, and some historical perspective on t-dropping.
The main topic is kind of hard to pin down, but it might come down to a word choice on a website. Making it an ideal topic for this program.
In this month’s member bonus episode, there's some more discussion of scrobbling and media consumption, plus John watched The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015), and Merlin wants to hear how it went.
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Kieran Healy's Mastodon thread about college admissions selectivity
"The selectivity racket is driven by the US News & World Report Rankings…"
Kieran Healy's essay about "Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability" (PDF)
The Grammarphobia Blog: Uh-oh, it’s the glottal stop
'English speakers have been glottalizing the letter “t” since at least the mid-19th century.'