Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 1hstatic.klipy.comTeletubbies Baby Sun SmilingAlt: Teletubbies Baby Sun ascends above the skyline 000
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 2hThis is really good. And good for Noren for drawing the line. I've seen the teacher (below) present to kids and adults. He's masterful at demonstrating, through math that a solid 8th grader can understand, that the house will systematically crush you.abettorlife.comAbout Arty | Gambling Awareness IArty Smith, gambling education speaker, teaches students, parents, and educators about sports betting risks with data-driven presentations and youth gambling prevention strategies. 111
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 3hFamilies at schools with high participation rates in after school activities back-pedal on this issue when they learn that 9:00A start time means that kids aren't home from rehearsal/practice until 8:00. Bus rolls in from the away game at 10:30 (or they leave early and miss the last 3 periods). 010
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 4hA haunted house where in each room you must endure hour-long ppt presentations packed with “leadership” jargon and “brain science” 020
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 19hI talk to Dallas clients and colleagues just infrequently enough to forget that they laugh at my STL weather complaints. 010
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 21hGreat. Designated smoking area is in the NE corner of the parking garage, 3rd floor, by the dumpsters, in Buffalo, in February. 000
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 21hWould like to nominate this writer for a headline/lede combo that could be the best ever. 000
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 23hRunning for President of her class freshman year, but her older sister wrote the speech, and she's looking at it for the first time at the podium. 110
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This essay outlines the shortcomings of AI compression, its tendency to reduce a primary source full of unique, human responses to extraordinary events to a flattened textbook-history perspective. bsky.app/profile/mike... 164
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026STL is a top-tier sandwich city, solid taco and sushi choices. A city full of fast food connoisseurs might be a top sign of lameness. 010
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Wonder if the optimization grind is making places like Colorado College and Grinnell more appealing to a segment of kids/ 130
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Don't like to brag, but I was invited to become a Costco Elite member. 000
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Didn’t help that they chose a notoriously cursed site in Kirkwood, more cursed than the rest of downtown Kirkwood, minus the Argonne strip. 010
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The only people I can’t draw sympathy from are my Dallas friends and colleagues. 020
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Great. Designated smoking area is in the NE corner of the parking garage, 3rd floor, by the dumpsters. 010
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Every Kratom/Vape shop in US preparing to sue University of Oregon for trademark infringement over today’s football uniforms. 000
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Best weekend of the season for University of Michigan football fans 000
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We were at Mass at the basilica on campus a few weeks ago, and I was surprised to see how many women, including college women, were wearing the mantilla. Not sure why I was surprised, in retrospect. 010
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This aligns with my dad’s “the other day” (any time in the last year). 110
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I regularly re-read her essay on John Updike just to laugh my ass off.lrb.co.ukPatricia Lockwood · Malfunctioning Sex Robot: Updike ReduxWhen he is in flight you are glad to be alive. When he comes down wrong – which is often – you feel the sickening... 100
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Unfortunate news from Chelsea, MI @raychili2.bsky.socialmlive.comPub owner says work on Jeff Daniels’ new Chelsea bistro destroyed his building - now he’s suingCleary's Pub owner Pat Cleary alleges excavation work at JD's Stage Bistro in downtown Chelsea caused cracks and structural damage. Attorneys for the building owner deny the allegations. 120
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In the meantime can we just ignore him? Like treat every piece of Rahm news with, hey, how bout them Bears? 020
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I mean, $60/day in Imo's pizza is a TON of pizza. It's a wonder the dude's alive. 010
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Having one of those Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead days. I WFH, every one else is coming and going, deeply engaged in entirely different dramas, while I'm stuck on calls. I have no idea what's going on. Or maybe like the Moonstruck grandfather. 000
Reposted by Mike VachowJohn LaRue @john-larue21.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There is a website calked Bacon Ipsum that makes meat-themed lorem ipsum strings. baconipsum.combaconipsum.comBacon Ipsum - A Meatier Lorem Ipsum GeneratorDoes your lorem ipsum text long for something a little meatier? Give our generator a try... it's tasty! 023
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Couple of yrs ago, I arrived in Peoria, IL, a day before a consulting gig. Driving around, I heard about a HS state sectional game on the radio about to start. Bee-lined it to the park, 2 very talented teams, chatted up some of the parents/fans, electric game won on a walk-off double. Amazing luck. 000
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026We have just reached the end of real tomato season in STL. Those lil Cherub tomatoes will hold me over until next July, and if they’re made by CRISPRing in an orangutan gene or two, I don’t want to know about it. 020
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Our President is committed to making fetch happen 010
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Prine’s storytelling genius is most affecting when his songs push against the barriers that keep people from reaching one another—racism, ageism, a plain lack of curiosity about other human beings." --Annie Howard We need John Prine now more than ever.chicagoreader.comAmerica still needs John Prine - Chicago ReaderOn what should’ve been his 80th birthday, beloved songwriter John Prine offers enduring lessons about the value of empathy and curiosity. 030
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026UFL is divided into three venue categories: *seasonally repurposed, cool, new soccer stadium *kind of campy, 90s outdoor soccer stadium *haunted indoor barn that hosts boat shows and monster truck rallies the rest of the year 000
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This academic, @bnerlich.bsky.social, finds, categorizes, explores metaphors for AI and other matters related to how science is communicated to lay audiences. Very, very good stuff.makingsciencepublic.com‘Habsburg AI’: Portrait of a metaphor and its familyA reader of my blog (yes, there is one!) recently asked me whether I had heard of “Habsburg AI”. To my shame I had not. So, I looked it up and what I found made me think, both about AI and about me… 110
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It was a separate, barter economy in Park City where I ski bummed for a year in the late 80s. Free sandwiches for a week for tuning my skis, etc. 010
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Sure, I've heard your jokes about our pizza, but I'm going to take you to the ninth circle of Provel where the prevailing question is, what if your body was 90% Imo's?stlmag.comSt. Louis man ran up $3K in fraudulent expenses at Imo’s PizzaA 21-year-old St. Louis man spent $3,000 in other people’s money at his local Imo’s over the past three months, police say. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department arrested Trent C. Kyles on Mon... 000
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hearing same from students in school assn that I direct in Michigan. Often: kid finds patently evident AI slop in teacher-generated materials, (justifiably) loses her natural mind. 030
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026That would be this guy, who leveraged the value of his labor and expertise, just sort of borrowed the materials, if you will.charlotteobserver.comMan breaks into Little Caesars, starts making and selling pizzas, NC police sayThe suspect kept all the money he made selling pizzas, police say 110
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Using a voice-trained AI tool to read to a child vs. reading to a child IRL is the cognitive development equivalent of a stale rice cake vs. a balanced, home-cooked meal. Any parent, uncle, babysitter should be able to intuit this. You don't have to be a child development expert.npr.orgWhat's Going On In Your Child's Brain When You Read Them A Story?There are many ways young children encounter stories. A new study finds a "Goldilocks effect," where a cartoon may be "too hot" and audiobooks "too cold" for learning readers. 27017
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Read this thread. Also, re: this particular activity, using a voice-trained AI tool to read to your child vs. reading to your child IRL is the cognitive development equivalent of a stale rice cake vs. a balanced, home-cooked meal.npr.orgWhat's Going On In Your Child's Brain When You Read Them A Story?There are many ways young children encounter stories. A new study finds a "Goldilocks effect," where a cartoon may be "too hot" and audiobooks "too cold" for learning readers. 000
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026legendstlmag.comSt. Louis man ran up $3K in fraudulent expenses at Imo’s PizzaA 21-year-old St. Louis man spent $3,000 in other people’s money at his local Imo’s over the past three months, police say. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department arrested Trent C. Kyles on Mon... 281
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026One of the last redoubts of live, community-supported radio. None of the hits, all of the time.radiosurvivor.comRadio Survivor - College radio, internet radio & podcasting newsRadio Survivor is the comprehensive source for news & ideas about the future of radio, covering the best in college radio, internet radio, podcasting & more. 010
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026As a fan of summer, I enjoy the way it hangs around into the first few weeks of October in STL. It's "just messing with you" heat as opposed to the "actively trying to murder you" heat of July - September. 000
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Banking on a stadium to be the magic answer is foolish, but there's gotta be something to cultural synergy with other city civic efforts. The worst case scenario, in my mind, is sports venues rusticated to off-brand-Disney complexes in the exurbs--what Isaiah Thomas called "plantation basketball." 100
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If everyone subscribed to Poetry Foundation free daily poem, we could kill AI in a week. 000
Mike Vachow @mikevachow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I wish this report had more credibility as I think there is a compelling argument there. The club could find synergy with successful downtown development in KC, unlike STL where the park and its neighboring entertainment venue are siloed bc there's no viable municipal partner. 100
