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- "Watch any old figure skating program from the ’70s or ’80s on YouTube and read the comments below; you’ll inevitably find at least one that is wistful, yearning for a past era of skating...."
- "A Kalispell woman allegedly called the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office to complain about being on the couch and her juice was in the kitchen...."
- "Zuckerberg, in his trademark nasal drawl, seemed to acknowledge that the tide was turning against the business he has been running for 18 years as of this week."
| Posted: 03 Feb 2022 05:15 PM PST ... where you can talk all night. No photos. Sorry... too cold! |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2022 01:08 PM PST "While there is absolutely nothing wrong with preferring a style of skating from a previous era the way one might prefer music from a different generation... this sort of sentiment is peculiar to sports like figure skating and gymnastics. In track and field, for example, there is no yearning for a time when athletes ran slower or jumped lower but embodied some other essential values.... It's too soon to tell whether the pendulum will swing back toward presentation and skating skills because it's too soon to know if a critical mass of female skaters will be able to do the quad. The quad mountain is a much steeper climb than the triple hill was.... Historically speaking, anxieties over the safety of female athletes have been used to deny women the opportunity to participate in sports, especially ones that were deemed 'masculine.' There's a blade-like thin line between protection and protectionism. We, of course, should be concerned about the physical ramifications of training certain jumps, especially during growth periods when athletes are more susceptible to injury. But we have to be wary of the protectionist impulse that stems from a particular worldview about what women's figure skating is — and is not — and the determination of some to steer it in a certain way so we end up with the 'right' type of winners." From "The Quad Jump Revolution Has Transformed Women's Figure Skating. How Far Will It Go?" (FiveThirtyEight). |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2022 12:10 PM PST "A woman called to report she and her fiance were 'having a little dispute about helping each other.'... Three to four dirty mattresses were spotted on the side of a road in Martin City.... A man's friend might not be so friendly after all when they allegedly pawned a TV he left at their house.... A man was allegedly on the side of a road in Columbia Falls flailing his arms, yelling at cars and acting like he was going to 'jump into traffic.'" From the Law Roundup at the Daily Inter Lake. |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2022 12:05 PM PST "'The balance of content that people see in feeds is shifted a little bit more towards stuff that isn't coming from their friends, which they may discuss with their friends, but it's kind of shifting towards more public content,' he said. The upshot here is that the voyeuristic behaviors that made social media as we know it so profitable — what are my friends talking about? Who did my high school ex marry? — were actually starting to fade.... During the earnings call, [Zuckerberg] said he believed there was a kind of evolution of the internet, from text to pictures to short videos, and the next leap would be the kind of 3-D avatars being pushed for such thrilling things as business meetings and conference calls.... If people are buying Zuckerberg's version of the internet's future, they would be more excited about how he spent nearly $10 billion during the past year to build it. As of now, Facebook looks more and more like the past." From "The Worst Day of Mark Zuckerberg's Reign" (NY Magazine). |
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