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Agenda with knitting on schedule
You know you work in Denmark when your team workshop itinerary has knitting scheduled in
Shabbat table set up
February was horrifically terrible- personally and globally. Hoping this Shabbat (which fell on one of the nicest days in Copenhagen recently) will usher in less pain and grief.
News alert about strikes on Iran
The worst part of being in Europe again is waking up every morning and immediately seeing a new fresh hell
like this isn't 2012, there are no national queer rights orgs who are flush with cash. Everyone I speak with is dramatically cutting their budgets. And red state queer orgs are always fighting uphill on a shoestring budget.
My challenge to you today is to google a red state queer org and donate.
“We don’t have a government that’s properly staffed,” she said. “All of these things [federal workers do] are really part of making life a little fairer, a little safer for the public. We’ve lost that.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/26/n...
The idea of a less than 30 election cycle will never not blow my mind
This is state violence.
vivaldi four seasons, Doechii, 90s nostalgia music
When I think about new technology I think about: Is this helping humanity? Is this hurting vulnerable populations? What does it do for labor/workers rights? Who does it benefit?
like thankfully for me it was mostly annoying, but for Global South scholars, this could actually create real risk for folks trying to come to the US for conferences, etc. Really poor judgment on whoever did this
Yeah like I understand that we all have our opinions on BDS. But giving our names and contact information to the ADL to say "hey if you support this, you are antisemitic" is a fucked email to get. Like, that crosses a line IMO
Though Governin Council makes it sound so folksy
Governing***** -- y'all, my brain is mush from this damn meeting
I will also say that it is so beyond messed up that I had the ADL in my inbox this week calling me antisemitic. I really hope whichever colleague submitted an *early career scholar* (and others) to the ADL rethinks their choices. It's intimidation (not to mention silly as I am a practicing Jew).
I am so tired after the 7 (!!) hour ISA Governin Council meeting. I am going to pocket a lot of feelings I had on the motions for the group chats but today was a really good example of why it's critical to know rules of stuff inside and outside. Also ISA please get a parliamentarian 🥲
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the journal Global Environmental Politics with a special issue. All articles are free to read for the first 60 days @gepjournal.bsky.social
direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...
![To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com]
From: roger schank
Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM
Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence
intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed
(this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature)
it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what
thinking and feeling about her
hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why
hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag
roger schank
http://www.rogerschank.com/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dtgy62tymnpbnzozbpgnov56/bafkreid2mznu7l72zvvigmpcouxb4dqdqjpnvqaguq47xewvm4jcvhtuxu)
To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/
Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.
I think it would be wise for folks to pause and consider that the breathless headlines about cognitive decline of Gen Z are based in eugenics. There are def impacts to the onslaught of tech in schools (and many valid critiques) but I would encourage folks to avoid making this your *core* argument
Baked uterus challah
Proofed uterus challah
Initial braided uterus challah
Today is #ReproShabbat hosted by @lilithmagazine.bsky.social and @ncjw.bsky.social - I was a co-champion of their uterus challah competition last year and decided to give it another go this year to reclaim the crown. Stiff competition this year though!!
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
This part right here. AI chat bots are a bandaid to a MUCH larger structural issue. The NYT article out today discusses how AI chat bots for health are not more useful than just looking things up online when just given straight to patients. We cannot tech our way out of this problem.
HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025
🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year
😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition
news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...
Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist
Shabbat table set up
A late Shabbat Shalom! It’s been a … weird week. I’ve been pretty sick all week but also got great news on my book, Daniel received some good news, and we got a lot of great things rolling with our water governance project. Hoping a restful Shabbat will kick what’s left in my system.
There’s no such thing as an unbiased chatbot. Academic librarian Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social on how “AI” developers ignore how people actually become informed. From Ep. 51 of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, “The War on Knowledge”.
(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
Two BBQ champions grill off to become king: Meated Rivalry
Two of the best omelette chefs in town competing against each other: Beated Rivalry
Canada and Denmark are not exceptional and what's happening the US can happen in these places too. My jaw dropped hearing the blatantly racist comments from the Minister of Immigration in Denmark back in the fall. Yes, cut ties with the US but also recognize that you are not immune to these risks.
Being an American living in Denmark and Canada during this administration is.... something. I'm glad this author calls out the Canadian government's active collaborations with this regime here but also, the call is coming from inside the house in Canada too
montrealgazette.com/opinion/op_e...
Excellent. So, my university doesn't allow live captions in Zoom meetings but does allow the AI companion to be turned on. We truly live in the bad place.
