“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Press, 1955), 6.

yessss! so many cases! my constant retort to a certain flavor of Dish Authenticity/Purity Ideology is that nothing but magic happens when someone has a taste of something exotic to them and decides to do a take on it

Everyone always quotes the gorgeous "there's a crack in everything/that's how the light gets in" but my favorite lyric in that song is I can run no more with that lawless crowd While the killers in high places say their prayers out loud But I've summoned up a thundercloud They're gonna hear from me

one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers

Apparently I'm getting old. It's been a while since I had one of my shoulders so utterly wrecked, and I can't pinpoint an origin except sleeping on it wrong. And having to actually use it certainly didn't help.

The land-acknowledgment-equivalent copyright announcement can't be far off ...

Again, I think some of y'all need to be reminded that the NY Post is a fucking gas station tabloid.

First time I'm making white bread in very nearly a decade I think, because sudden medical need to introduce lots of fiber has now met sudden medical need to cut out fiber, and I may accidentally have wound up with light, holey high-hydration artisan loaves.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"

My Mom & I are discussing how we rather miss Foodies & the 2000s idea that cooking is great & cooking is often fun & it's great to know how to cook. Like that Tumblr post that went "Woman belongs in the kitchen, Man belongs in the kitchen, Everyone belongs in the kitchen, Kitchen has food."

Working on Heinrich Scholz's "How is it Possible for Protestant Theology to be a Science," and I've skipped to the end where he mentions the responses from Barth's class (in Bonn, before he was forced out) to whom he gave the lecture. And I feel like I have met these kids already.

Today I made a candy glass sugar cookie based on Ellsworth Kelly's 'Austin' chapel (2018) on the Blanton Museum grounds.

The tumblr idea of Tony the Tiger singing "You're a Mean One, Mister Grinch" as a song about his ex, to a torn-in-half picture of them, while the Grinch says "You're ... great" to his copy of the picture ...

"cite your sources" is how you keep yourself accountable to others. "cite your sources" is what enables people to run down the origins of myths and bullshit passing themselves off as "common knowledge." "cite your sources" KEEP US ALL HONEST

"cite your sources" is not just an externally-imposed mandate but a personal discipline on thought itself. "cite your sources" is how you keep yourself in contact with reality. "cite your sources" is how you keep yourself from shadowboxing your own imagination."

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

This is a great clip. Say no to the future they want. But also actively build the future we want. Honestly, I think that's the part we're really struggling with. In the absence of our own vision to give us direction, we'll still get dragged along with whatever is happening.

It's been my personal anecdotal experience that people who have gone no contact with a parent usually have done so for good reason, and that re-establishing contact on the parent's terms would do both parties more harm than good. defector.com/who-can-imag...

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Sigh. Filter changing day is also wearing a mask in the house and still coughing day. Better than our last apartment, at least.

It's a Patti Lupone sings Being Alive kind of morning for some reason. My brain is a shitty jukebox.

It’s that time of Advent. Alt text: An Order for Anytime Following the Third Week of Advent Rubric: at the most random point in the day, generally while the parish photocopy machine is breaking down People: I need to speak with you about (name of program or ministry). Celebrant: In January.

TFW you can't get a book for your research by illicit means, and then you remember that you work at a library with partnerships that will scan things for you licitly.

Got a low-end gamer laptop because it was the only way I could get what I wanted and have future upgradability. And the fucking WASD are clear and so illegible, and the fucking RGB keyboard lights only half work in Linux, and sometimes I have to reboot into Windows when they stop working in Linux.

This handy flowchart is for any fellow cis people out there who have someone in their lives who come out to them as trans.

So much of the hideous bullshit of modern business makes a lot more sense after you realize that the “customer“ for the products being peddled aren’t actual human beings that go “Oh, that looks good, I’ll buy that,” but the investors shoveling money into the burn pits of these go-nowhere companies.

I've gone back to KDE for the first time since KDE 6 has been a thing, and I'm amazed at how, while it uses a lot of RAM, it is incredibly power-efficient.

Everywhere the AI techbros go, I want videos of Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck saying, "Cosmo, I want you to know, you're going to die, just like everybody else." We would not need AI to accomplish this, either.

So the Pantone color of the year is High-Hiding White?

Half access, half technical services; half agony, half hope.

It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!

also this is a vastly better message than anything jeffries & the DNC are coming up with: Feed the babies Who don't have enough to eat Shoe the children With no shoes on their feet House the people Livin' in the street Oh, oh, there's a solution

Oh, does a *venture capitalist* have a good slogan? Surely they have the best interests of ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND?!

Wait for the Lord, his day is near Wait for the Lord, be strong take heart Prepare the way for the Lord Make a straight path for Him The Glory of the Lord shall be revealed All the Earth will see the Lord Rejoice in the Lord always He is at Hand Joy and gladness for all who seek the Lord

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

I do somewhat wish we were still in the realm of "imagining that human consciousness can be digitized" and not "convincing other people that LLM bots are humanly conscious in order to keep the profit spigot open forever."

Don Draper: (pitching a snow chain company) I’m tired. You’re tired. We’re all tired— (Reveals ad art) For snow tires.

Every fucking one of us has a story like this. We had entire covid wings of hospitals. We had zero covid vaccine injury wings.

"There are sources of culture in this town, they just all come from fermentation."

After midnight / we gon' pull off our braces while we sleep // After midnight / we gon' double up and scream Gon' stimulate circulation / relieve some enervation / we gon' sit up and scroll on our phone — ha! After midnight / we gon' go sleep on the couch.

gonna call them to let them know they’re never getting any donations from me since they apparently have $75 million lying around to appease the government

Sigh. Time to play "what FODMAP did I ingest that's making me into a balloon," but also I absolutely nailed a dry brined turkey and gravy from the drippings, so you can't tell me anything tonight.

saw relatives’ two month old baby. cuddled him in my arms and said “hey little buddy….don’t feel bad, there’s a website i’ m on where grown adults have afternoon crashouts too. you ain’t the only one. “ he looked at me weird and then fell asleep

Little birdie, can't yo' frien' do nothin' right?

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And the obligation on the second day of the Festival of Thanks Giving is to consume leftovers in the form of a sandwich, such as Hillel ate when the Temple still stood. One should consume enough to become drowsy but not enough to nap.

If you want your library to have an easier time getting what you want, ADVOCATE FOR THEIR BUDGET

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.