A dozen students at Brown were shot over the weekend. But the real violence on America's campuses is the silencing of conservative voices.

I don't even think it's hidden. I remember working in offices when I was a young woman, and I remember the way so many men treated us in real life.

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

This is actually the trippiest thing I've ever seen that was not deliberately created by M C Fucking Escher. It straight up took me over a minute to make sense of and now I can't go back. This is the white-and-gold dress on a gram a week of trenbolone.

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

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Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?

LLMs. They promote suicide and murder, undermine a century of educational practice, drive deskilling, harm the environment, and benefit foreign adversaries spreading disinformation. But the federal government wants to prohibit states from regulating them. You'd think they were guns.

What a time to be alive and in BC.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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Snow poem time. From Jane Kenyon's Collected Poems: bit.ly/kenyonpoems #poetry #books #writing

For a while I was a film librarian at a public library and I loved it, although the budget was small, so it was challenging to maintain a balanced collection. (I also remember replying to multi-page handwritten letters championing Busby Berkeley movies. We had some, but apparently not enough!)

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I subscribe to a service that supports local food producers / suppliers, and a few days ago they sent an email saying I'd been assigned to send one of them a holiday message, plus photos and stories. I appreciate the thought, but please no. Do not ask your supporters and customers to do this.

Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from. We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.

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A Five-Step Guide to Combating Misinformation on Social Media -- from Dr Jen Gunter open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

Got a lil fired up 🤪

Well, this will look good in the history books.

When my neighbourhood hardware store brings in the trees every December, I see so many folks outright joyful about being able to carry them home in their arms or on a bike. We live where we do because of our absolute love of being able to walk to things, where we truly don't need a car.

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif.

After getting to sing and play songs at a party last night I fried my voice, and now am doing nothing but hydrating and watching quite charming kids introducing films on TCM -- including Ben Mankiewicz's daughter gently correcting him on an actor's name. This is exactly what I need.

My son was on the train platform and noticed this and decided to wait for the train

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Totally insane feminized academic organzation:

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Update: Richard Hamelin, a forest pathology professor at UBC says the cuts are "mind-boggling." “Once you pull the plug on a program it can take several decades, even with the best intentions, to get these programs going again,” he said.

I know I'm a bit of an outlier -- I still boycott Nestle and stopped eating meat after learning about factory farms -- but am I really the *only* one who is upset to see library websites using AI art?

This memorable 2017 quote found its way to life in an event this fall that was part of The Word for World exhibition in London. As part of "Dream Maps: A birthday part for Ursula K. Le Guin," Rain Wu created an edible landscape inspired by Ursula's work.

Don’t let the government regulate your reading www.bookbanpetition.us

This is probably as good a time as any to announce that my next book, which I start drafting on research leave in January, will be about AI as an agent of cognitive, epistemic, emotional, physical, economic and political dispossession.

It's possible I am enjoying this chaotic news a bit too much.

john rustad right now

Me watching B.C. Politics:

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Does anyone have suggestions for SF & F in which the main character is a full time wheelchair user? Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.

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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Fine, some people can call it holding a grudge, but never underestimate my ability to see that something is outright unethical and refuse to do it.

“5. Have our schools emphasize critical thinking about what students hear and see in the ‘news,’ so they’re better able to distinguish truth from fiction and real news from hype.” In other words, the humanities.

Is that you, Harold?

MOSS!

Do you get to read all day?

All 50,000 panels of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt has been fully digitized. You can search Duane's name and see the panel he made. And someone else made a panel for him, too. www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-...

I'll have to go back and listen to the rest of the show, but the bit that I caught was very good: Just Asking's segment on the pipeline MOU and fighting climate change. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...