Ms. Rachel 2028

Judith Butler/Ned Ludd 2025.

Today is an important day in the turning of the seasons: I'm gonna swap the garage positions of the snowblower and the lawnmower.

In her #NWAV53 plenary, King discusses an example of a juror being dismissed from the pool due to forestressing in the word police (so PO-lice), because the prosecutor claimed that the pronunciation showed animus towards law enforcement. And this is exactly why I study prosody!

Nancy smash!

Wait, the guy who wrote Aunt Dan and Lemon is also in a tv show?!?

Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.” This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.

Democrats appeared poised to keep their narrow majority in the Minnesota Senate Tuesday after voters in the east metro elected Rep. Amanda Hemmingsen-Jaeger to the upper chamber.

Another often overlooked but important election. Loudoun County Public Schools has been ground zero for targeting by the Trump administration over trans students, and chose to protect their students. Pro-trans candidates Chandler and Svenson are winning, and anti-trans Munoz-Melendez is losing.

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

parenting is mainly about trying to sell your kids on outright lies like “eating Nerds before breakfast is a bad idea, buddy”

Works for AI too

Currently teaching a course on the good life, and we’re about to start the unit on work. I’m going to lead with this:

I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.

Fuck that, every stadium should be as weird as Fenway

For Halloween, my friend made mushroom skulls:

A trans woman wearing the costume of a cis woman who played a cis man who magically became a cis woman for a high fashion runway walk is just Goddamn, incredible work

"L'empire des lumières". René Magritte. 1954. Image: Christie's.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.

The language is NSFW. The patriotic spirit and courage is unmatched. Look who backed down.

He’d only approve if they had jurisdiction over the entire universe.

stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (if you feel like)

There *is* no case against Comey *without* loyalist prosecutors.

I don't generally consider myself a nasty philosopher, but every once in a while I revisit Nina Strohminger's review of McGinn's book on disgust for the pleasure of a great takedown #philsky www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/McG...

Shamelessly promoting my favorite paper. Everybody who was anybody in the history of science/philosophy/mathematics had a view on the moon illusion. frances-egan.org/uploads/3/5/...

If you are on ICE watch in the Rogers Park vicinity please have a buddy and exercise extreme caution. ICE has assaulted verifiers today and arrested at least one of our people. If you are vulnerable to ICE in this area, I recommend staying inside if possible.

Being a mom to young children is making me rethink a lot of how we perceive mistakes and flaws in others, as a grown person responsible for the wellbeing of helpless little people, I pretty much need elected officials to be at least as competent and informed as your average house wife with a brain.

Today’s Whitman Prize for Multitude Containment goes to the person with three bumper stickers on their truck: a Starfleet emblem, a Prince glyph with angel wings, and one reading “Proud to be everything that pisses off the liberals.”

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

I quit Canvas this semester, print out readings for my students, and we're doing great!

Summer trying to hold on:

Happy anniversary to this absolute banger from @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social !!!

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Some signs from my local #NoKings :

Some thoughts/observations from #NoKings day. Over 4000 people showed up in my town, population ~12000.

This really is just video of Trump transforming into a corn cob.

❤️

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction. My friends, they have lost the flag.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

It is the 14th anniversary of the publication of the best joke in world. I did not make it up. "We don't serve faster than light neutrinos in here" said the Bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar. It was from Talking Points Memo

I built an AI model that writes haunting sci-fi novels in which a vast and unknowable alien other produces seemingly-real replicas of your lost loved ones, just as you remember them but also hollow, since we cannot know the alien other if we do not know ourselves. I call the model 'Stanislaw LLM'

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”