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Michael Kevane

@mkevane.com
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Economics professor, Santa Clara University. Political economy of Burkina Faso, Sudan, and Puerto Rico, university governance, and housing issues in San José, CA. Posts here are strictly personal opinion. Also, libraries and reading: www.favl.org

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 21/09/2026
It could happen...
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 08/09/2026
Gabriel Garcia Marquez… what a last sentence
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 30/08/2026
Lovely evening stroll in Pontevedra, Spain… nice walkable city … we start doing bike rides tomorrow
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 13/06/2026
Doerr School graduation…
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 12/06/2026
Yosemite beautiful in June!
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 25/05/2026
Check out murals on Santa Clara st on ways back!
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 15/05/2026
Announcement of Santa Clara University partnership with Sutter Health care on a major new medical school. $175 million gift from Steven’s family.
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 13/05/2026
Feels like if more Americans knew this they’d be “wait wut?”
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 07/05/2026
What do you want, MK? Come and Se...
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 07/05/2026
No scars, no cuts, no scratches, no abrasions, no blackheads, no eye wrinkles, no splotches, no verisimilitude, no odyssey, no watching
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 01/05/2026
This illustration by Victoria Aniefiok for one of the upcoming FAVL sci-fi children's books! Gotta fix that old abandoned spaceship that nobody remembers what it does... favl.org
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 30/04/2026
It speaks to me.... I've been there...this illustration by Dennis Chege for one of the upcoming FAVL sci-fi children's books. favl.org
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 05/04/2026
Saw this graphic in The Economist so for class made an R script that replicates the basics. github.com/mkevane/econ... youtu.be/g-W17l853ZQ
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 02/04/2026
Kind of amazing that google AI still cannot do basic math correctly? And yet these systems are controlling weapons?
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 01/04/2026
Sortie d’animation avec la Bibliothèque Mobile Pénélope à l’école B de Houndé Le 26 mars, l’animateur de la bibliothèque mobile, Sanou Adriano et l’assistant chargé de programme Bazongo… favl.org/2026/04/01/sortie-danimati…
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 31/03/2026
CP Snow - Corridors of Power. The rising 1950s conservative politician sees that Britain will be a second tier power and wants to have the country go anti nuclear weapons. Pretty sure he’ll fail… excellent writing.
Text from novel
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 21/03/2026
What if the headline were: Hegseth claims fictitious powerful alien being approves of military action in Iran.
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 11/03/2026
The view from Airbnb in Tahiti in hills above Papeete
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 10/03/2026
Ferry to Tahiti from Moorea. We were remarking that tickets on Apple Wallet in French Polynesian…it all has happened in 20 years….
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 10/03/2026
Big morning storm came and left in an hour…Viewing Tahiti from Moorea.
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 10/03/2026
Hike to overlook of Opunohu Bay on Moorea. Not a hard hike but in the heat everything is draining! But the magnificent views worth it.
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 10/03/2026
Snorkeling on Moorea. Amazing coral and aquatic life. Friend took the pix.
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 08/03/2026
Snorkeling at different points around Moorea today and then hike to Afareaitu waterfall. Boy was that hot! 3 liters of water in 2 hours. Did walk extra 3 miles on road…
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 07/03/2026
View of Tahiti from Moorea. Gorgeous snorkeling in coral garden right off the Airbnb.
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 06/03/2026
Adieu to Bora Bora and in way to Moorea
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 06/03/2026
After a long rainy night, a rainy morning in Bora Bora.
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 06/03/2026
Rainstorm on Bora Bora
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 12/02/2026
image of ice skaters looking with envy at other ice skaters
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 10/02/2026
FAVL partner in Burkina Faso distributed 10 books to each secondary school student in Dossi village, Burkina Faso. favl.org
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 08/02/2026
Robert Moya’s painting of goats on Vieques looking at the monster that the US Navy became… happy Bad Bunny day…
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 03/01/2026
Tiempos Recios by Vargas Llosa…
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 13/12/2025
Museo de arte contemporaneo de San Juan
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 11/12/2025
Playa Tamarindo, near Guanica, Puerto Rico. Four other people on the beach.
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 09/12/2025
Cabo Rojo area, Puerto Rico… Playa Sucia… very beautiful and only 10 people there on weekday. Playa Buye in other hand pretty well attended.
Playa SuciaPlaya BuyeLighthouse
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 09/12/2025
Joyudas, Puerto Rico
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 05/12/2025
Shower tiling is all you need for a metaphor.
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 04/12/2025
A lot of natural beauty and peace here in Utuado, Puerto Rico this time of year
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 04/12/2025
Nice murals in Puerta de Tierra , near Old San Juan
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 04/12/2025
This is what it sounds like when 4 story building generator going full blast in San Juan
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 24/11/2025
Great we’re going to take the ferry in Ceiba on Wednesday just when Trump decides to invade Venezuela. What a pathetic foreign policy…
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 24/11/2025
HP Lovecraft novella is the break from the serious reading on these flights. Just finished the Trotsky variations… had to give the A to Lezama Lima…
Book cover or Tres Tristes Tigres
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 18/10/2025
More San Jose
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 18/10/2025
San Jose!
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 17/10/2025
Nabokov dealt with this very notion… the line on previous page is “I feel I understand…”
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 19/09/2025
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 08/09/2025
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 05/09/2025
Hahahahahaha. And the “they” too…
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 01/09/2025
Massive protest in South Bay 17 miles of people
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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 01/09/2025
Nice short common-sense reply by @tderyugina.bsky.social about "for cause"
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