Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

"They took the books I wrote about love to create chatbots that isolate people and prevent them from finding human love in the real world, that make it difficult for them to even stand real love, which is not always agreeable, not always positive, not always focused on end-user engagement."

The singular "they" has been around longer than English has had codified grammar, so really, anyone who fumes about it can go fuck themself www.oed.com/discover/a-b...

Of course the way to fix peer review is to fix academia so that academics are not working past capacity. To remove it from the maximising logics of neoliberalism. To return scholarly publishing to scholars, rather than a high profit section of an industry. You can't have peer review without peers.

I’m extremely lucky to have received an invited short term fellowship out of state, but the amount of stress, $ & time prepping childcare & logistics of me being gone so much has me worn out before I leave.

Experience a "brilliant, once-in-a-lifetime phenomenal chance to learn" at Rare Book School this summer! This year’s offerings include courses on cataloging, illustration, typography & more. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all seats are filled. 🧵 rarebookschool.org/schedule

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"Saturday’s No Kings rallies...drew between 8 and 9 million people who engaged in something that matters beyond political strategizing or immediate, tangible victories for Americans who would like to save representative democracy and self governance: These folks saw each other, face to face..."

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It's so disheartening to me that a writer would do this. If you don't want to write, don't be a writer! Seriously. There are many other options.

SOCIETY: no more AI pls & thx CORPORATIONS: we are pleased to announce KETCHUP 2.0 which is exactly like the regular ketchup you already know and love but it's powered by AI somehow which makes it better and it costs $79 per bottle

Ugh.

My 4-yr-old always asks us to tell him stories about "Little Bunny Hippo," so as a surprise for Easter, I have created Little Bunny Hippo for him. (Jadzia had to investigate)

Librarians are heroes. 📚Stand up for your local libraries and your local librarians. 📚They are standing up for the First Amendment and for all of us. 📚

So much cuteness in the cuddle puddle tonight! These ducklings deserve brighter skys!!! 🐣 🪶

LIVE from Duckling Nap Time 🐣 🪶

Spring! I love dogwood season (though I could do without the unseasonably hot temps we're supposed to get this week).

My gas and groceries are up 40%, my health insurance is up 50%, and the president is covering up an elite pedophilia ring. But at least there won't be trans athletes competing in a 2028 Olympic sport that I won't be watching.

Jadzia hard at work

Cats

The national average has just reached $4/gal according to GasBuddy. Maybe someone should remind the U.S. President that a closed Strait directly affects U.S. gas prices.

I mean there it is.

This is nuts. The only reason to do this is the cruelty and the racism. It will actively harm the U.S. economy. We're not talking about undocumented migrant workers here. These are legal PERMANENT residents.

Is the world really going to have to suffer WW3 because the USA can’t impeach a president?

Yes, millions were out protesting their President a mere two days ago, but please American Press, let’s get some nonsensical quotes from him about his mismanaged war to fix stock prices! Pulitzers for everyone!!

Experts say verdict gives Trump officials scope to crack down on leftwing views using spurious ‘terrorism’ label

Never thought I’d see the President of the United States threatening to commit blatant war crimes on social media, but here we are.

I must once again trot out the revealing anecdote: Disney execs were shown beautiful scenery from a superhero movie. They wanted to know what technology was used. They had to be told that the cinematographer pointed a camera at scenery that existed and photographed it. 🤯 These are not smart people

It’s almost like public education is in a manufactured budget crisis designed to create a scarcity mindset so they can justify closing programs and firing people.

No biggie, the most influential newspaper in Finland just casually reported that the defence forces had shot down Russian drones in Finnish airspace. Based on an LLM misrepresentation of a press release. That no one checked before publishing. Oops.

We all know this is fascism.

A freakish March heat wave has already pushed temperatures to summertime levels throughout much of the western and central United States, but a new report comes with a dire warning: This is just the beginning. Climate change, El Niño push Earth 'beyond its limits' www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

America saw police violence against demonstrators in Los Angeles, Denver, Memphis, Portland and Broadview, IL yesterday. It's true that most protests went off without incident but it is also true that proximity to feds or local cops will always bring some risk, especially near ICE facilities.

The Constitution is decidedly anti-king. Not only does it prohibit the United States from conferring titles of nobility, but it also prohibits its officers from accepting any “Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

Lots of "discourse" focused on the big rallies yesterday but what we saw at just one smaller town's protest was solidarity amongst neighbors deeply affected by ICE violence (which is still happening!), calling on their local politicians to do more to protect them from the feds:

Has anyone asked Homan why the ICE agents are armed when TSA agents are not?

On Saturday, millions of people around the country took part in more than 3,000 No Kings protests opposing the presidency of Donald Trump, whose approval ratings have plummeted to 36 percent, a record low since his return to the White House.

I wrote this op ed for Time Magazine/Made By History when the first version of the Save Act was going around, and this version isn't any better. This is a disfranchising bill. 🗃️ time.com/7280834/save...

prepping for a road trip planned before gas was way too expensive & finding myself thinking “well, I guess it’s still better than flying, between ICE and no air traffic controllers,” & then pondering how the collapse of easy travel between states in America is a harbinger of something very bad

Imagine being such a terrible person that the Pope publicly declares that even God won't listen to you. Yikes.

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC

Seeing Rhiannon Giddens live tonight and it also happens to be a perfect day to revisit this #nokings #nofascists

8. Hardliners are now demanding a restart to the nuclear bomb program. www.reuters.com/business/med...

10. Meanwhile, the price of gas in the US keeps going up, with a recession or worse in the offing. www.gasbuddy.com/charts

#NoKings Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social

Thanks to @indivisiblecville.bsky.social for making today's No Kings protest kid-friendly, with bubbles and chalk and snacks!

Ready for #NoKings today! These are the two sides of my sign. @indivisiblecville.bsky.social @indivisible.org

TODAY. 1:00 PM 2:30 PM. Both sides of 29, from Hydraulic Rd to Greenbrier. Power belongs to the people. No thrones, no crowns, #nokings. #NoKingsCharlottesville

Impeach the entire cabinet.

Ready for #NoKings today! These are the two sides of my sign. @indivisiblecville.bsky.social @indivisible.org