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Luke Hill

@MassCommons

Tweeting about: books, food, history, music, politics, religion, sports…and anything else that comes to mind. Also at: @masscommons.bsky.social

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Joined January 2013
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Welp, now there’s REALLY no chance @FanDuel @DraftKings or @BetMGM sponsor this show. 🤣 Psychologist @DanielCrosby on why sports betting is “financial crack,” and why confusing it with investing is so costly. youtube.com/watch?v=o5-xtIhK…
Why Sports Betting Is “Financial Crack” (Daniel Crosby)

Why Sports Betting Is “Financial Crack” (Daniel Crosby)

Psychologist Daniel Crosby, Chief Behavioral Officer at Orion and h...

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Morning Song - Stretchin' Out (In a Rubber Band) by @Bootsy_Collins "Hallelujah! They call me Casper! Not the friendly ghost, but the holy ghost! Dig! And I'm here to make ya shout, Glory be to the one who knows what the funk's about!" #Halloween #funk masscommons.wordpress.com/20…
Morning Song – Stretchin’ Out (In A Rubber Band)

Morning Song – Stretchin’ Out (In A Rubber Band)

The estimable Ken Davis at Funkatropolis maintains that peak Halloween funk was achieved 50 years ago when Bootsy Collins released “Stretchin’ Out (In A Rubber Band)”. “The …

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Morning Song - Giant Lowrider in the Sky "Once songs like these signaled...the impending collapse of US society. Now they’re nostalgic backing music for grandparents accompanying toddlers to some wholesome family entertainment." #halloween #hiphop masscommons.wordpress.com/20…
Morning Song – Giant Lowrider In The Sky

Morning Song – Giant Lowrider In The Sky

It is a loosely held* tenet heard frequently around the halls of the Music Department here at MassCommons World Headquarters that everything eventually becomes “oldies” music. TodayR…

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Morning Song - I Put a Spell on You by @TheOfficialCCR #Halloween #SideOneSongOne #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs masscommons.wordpress.com/20…
Morning Song – I Put A Spell On You

Morning Song – I Put A Spell On You

Google #SideOneSongOne and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s cover of “I Put A Spell On You” doesn’t make any of the lists* for best song, but as an introduction to the wild (a…

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Morning Song - Season of the Witch by Dr. John & the Blues Brothers Band “And it’s strange, Surely strange, You got to pick up every stitch, Beatniks are out to make it rich, Must be the….” #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs masscommons.wordpress.com/20…
Morning Song – Season Of The Witch

Morning Song – Season Of The Witch

The Blues Brothers band is, of course, top-notch but what makes their cover of “Season Of The Witch” is the New Orleans hoodoo of Dr. John. “And it’s strange,Surely strange,…

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Morning Song - Toccata & Fugue in D Minor by JS Bach #Halloween #instrumental masscommons.wordpress.com/20…
Morning Song – Toccata & Fugue In D Minor

Morning Song – Toccata & Fugue In D Minor

Imagine trick or treating 300 years ago and J. S. Bach’s terrifying new “Toccata & Fugue In D Minor” blares out the doors of the local church as you’re passing by. Kids …

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Morning Song - So Many Falling by the Wayside (Help Me to Stand) by Dorothy Love Coates & the #Gospel Harmonettes “Jesus, lead me, I need you every step of the way….” masscommons.wordpress.com/20…
Morning Song – So Many Falling By The Wayside (Help Me To Stand)

Morning Song – So Many Falling By The Wayside (Help Me To Stand)

One thing that that happens in hard times is people, well, falling by the wayside, including people you love and trust and never thought would fall. Then who do you turn to for help? In 1968 (when …

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Some highlight quotes from Barry @Ritholtz in this thread. 👇
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"I started out life as a little bit of an #introvert and since have wildly compensated." @Ritholtz on @MoneyUnpluggedP with @ChrisHillALX youtu.be/MO2GX0HwtL0?si=rkFW…
Is AI a Bubble? What Investors Are Missing (Barry Ritholtz)

Is AI a Bubble? What Investors Are Missing (Barry Ritholtz)

Everyone wants to know if AI is a bubble. Barry Ritholtz, chairman ...

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"I started out life as a little bit of an #introvert and since have wildly compensated." @Ritholtz on @MoneyUnpluggedP with @ChrisHillALX youtu.be/MO2GX0HwtL0?si=rkFW…
Is AI a Bubble? What Investors Are Missing (Barry Ritholtz)

Is AI a Bubble? What Investors Are Missing (Barry Ritholtz)

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"Everything compounds....not just invested #money but your skill sets, your knowledge, your networks, even things like health & fitness."
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"Quality lasts; junk gets thrown away."
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Morning Song - Autumn Leaves by Nat King Cole "The falling leaves drift by the window, The autumn leaves of red and gold, I see your lips, the summer kisses, The sun-burned hands I used to hold..." #jazz masscommons.wordpress.com/20…
Morning Song – Autumn Leaves

Morning Song – Autumn Leaves

According to those who know such things, we’re approaching “peak foliage” here at MassCommons World Headquarters. In anticipation, we’re luxuriating today in the incomparabl…

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Morning Song - You Sexy Thing by Hot Chocolate "I believe in miracles, since you came along...." #FunkyFriday masscommons.wordpress.com/20…
Morning Song – You Sexy Thing

Morning Song – You Sexy Thing

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy could write a great opening line but, according to psychologist Judith Wallerstein, at least t…

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A Post "Pro-Life" Church? "What language & methods of teaching will best convey Catholic social doctrine in the 21st cen. USA has yet to be revealed. That the bishops (& others) are experimenting with how best to accomplish that end is encouraging." masscommons.wordpress.com/20…
A Post “Pro-Life” Church?

A Post “Pro-Life” Church?

For 50 years the core public policy teaching by the US Catholic bishops has been something like this (my words, not theirs): The Church is “pro-life”. That primarily* means it’s a…

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Morning Song - Joey by Concrete Blonde "...I'm not angry anymore." masscommons.wordpress.com/20…
Morning Song – Joey

Morning Song – Joey

With its steady baion beat and singer-songwriter Johnette Napolitano’s full-throated confessional voice, Concrete Blonde’s 1990 alt-rock crossover hit, “Joey”, is about as g…

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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon "One of the pleasures of being an old reader is reading #books one somehow missed and has always wondered about. 'The Wretched Of The Earth' did not disappoint." masscommons.wordpress.com/20…
The Wretched Of The Earth

The Wretched Of The Earth

It is–with apologies to Tom Lehrer–a sobering thought that when Frantz Fanon was my age he had been dead for 30 years. It’s even more sobering that Fanon could, just barely, still…

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