A blue, Mylar-covered book jacket loosely surrounds a firmly-packed, grapefruit-sized lump of paper with printing on it.
Never seen what happens to a hardcover library book when it's put through the washer? Let me help you with that...
(I told the patron I could absolutely have managed to do this and we laughed and laughed)
I never run my students' papers through AI checkers because it tends to flag the "autistic cadence" as AI for some reason. It's only gotten worse 🫠
That U.S. academics didn't collectively develop strong labor consciousness is really going to bite them in the ass as universities bend the knee to this administration. Politely worded letters to presidents and trustees are not going to count for much of anything.
My strong will outlasted Dr. James Dobson. #sorrynotsorry
Plainly, the people mad about the work required to write well and make great art who are justifying various artificial intelligence tools as shortcuts to that creative process don't value the labor inherent to it.
In some ways actors for the new stuff acknowledging the transphobia they are standing with is worse than if they just stay silent or even overtly support it. “Yes i know i am collaborating with the worlds no.1 transphobe destroying trans rights, HOWEVER“
“We won’t go back.”
‘View from the entrance to the Rohwer Internment Camp where my family and I were sent. Circa 1943.’
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
Random man, saying what we all are thinking...
Good summary. Also, given that we have killing, persistent heat afflicting half this country and people have budgets, AI is at this moment almost certainly causing deaths for people who can no longer afford to cool their homes.
It takes a special kind of privilege to be upset about missing a beach trip because heaven forbid you have to try to keep people from dying because their benefits and Medicaid have been gutted.
My grandparents owned 2.5 acres in SoCal that was covered in veggies, berries, and fruit/nut trees (pecan, avocado, stone fruits, fig, and others) and they still were nothing like self-sustainable. People have no idea how tiny a 1-acre homestead would be.
I'm aware.
Chewing. I want to kill people who are chewing and I know it's awful but I just can't help the sheer rage.
Until the battery died, I had to bury my analog watch in my underwear drawer muffled by clothing in order to sleep.
"Liberate this city from socialists and burdensome leadership." If that's not regime change, I don't know what to tell you.
The inflection point is now.
"One day, everyone will have always been against this"--his book, published earlier this year.
Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported
It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books.
It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse.
www.chron.com/politics/art...
I...am so confused.
I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...
If there’s one thing that makes sense it’s that after just this, other world leaders will definitely all go: oh sure America, need to make long term deals that I want to be stable and honored with her
As a librarian, I'm glad to hear it!
Whimsical skedaddler...omg.
Gang members should not be disappeared to an unaccountable torture prison either.
Nobody knew how bad this would be, except for the many people whose warnings I dismissed, but they don’t count.
Actually a good distillation of the mindset. Having already unpersoned everyone who understood what was happening, there’s no need to reconsider the belief in one’s inherent superiority.
The pandemic conditioned people to see the disabled as acceptable losses
Once you sacrifice an entire group of people, it gets easier for fascism to take hold.
The Spanish flu gave way to Nazis, where the disabled were the first people killed.
Want to fight fascism? Engage in disability justice
Even cottage cheese would be better than mayo in this devilry.
So as someone who is 1/2 French, I NEVER want to hear shit from Americans again about the cowardice of the French during WW2. Say what you want about the traitorous Vichy French, they had literal Panzer units bearing down on them. NYU is afraid of what? Getting their research grant revoked? JFC.
