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Tom Lehrer died , at 97.

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Thomas Andrew Lehrer (/ˈlɛərər/; April 9, 1928 – July 26, 2025) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, who later taught mathematics and musical theater

In 2020 Lehrer publicly revealed that he had been assigned to the NSA; since the mere fact of the NSA’s existence was classified at the time, Lehrer found himself in the position of implicitly using nuclear weapons work as a cover story for something more sensitive

In 1972, Lehrer joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, teaching an introductory course entitled “The Nature of Mathematics” to liberal arts majors—”math for tenors”, according to Lehrer

He told one concert audience, “I don’t like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn’t as though I had to do this. I could be making, oh, $3,000 a year just teaching.”

White Collar is

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Is the new white power . It makes nothing but money Friction free economy produces nothing but more power to the white collar. Gone is the wet collar worker.

and politics produces the ivory collar scholar . no new knowledge just an addition to division.

between The pitch and the bitch
The pitch not a pit .
getting funded or fondled .

it's tech only because there's data a data store and marketing analysis . so the whole world web is just the back office of the marketing department in an ad agency.

you are your profile . A shadow self.
The difference between the amateur board and the professional board is the form of the conversation the discourse in the amateur case they lose nothing not even credibility since all the amateurs seem to be liars and exaggerating they can lose nothing other than amateur status they won't even be bounced from the board on the professional side they are exchanging information to verify and assure one another

The professional discourse has weight, because it's important to their career

The amateurs don't have a career and never did. The amateur site has a made up career; these are reenactors cosplay.

professionals are engaged in reality, amateurs in fantasy

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book bit. not mine. not on topic, although it has keyword overlap — https://mackbooks.co.uk/products/against-ageism-a-queer-manifesto-simone-van-saarloos?mc_cid=c374f63bed&mc_eid=43c00ae377