Post: why don't women want to have kids Woman responds with reasons Replies from men: f all that you just don't appreciate what a good man can offer, you are gonna suffer --- Every time

Gotta say that reading the many exasperated "not spreading covid is a good reason, actually" replies is doing my heart good

(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them

Technology is not neutral.

You know, I realized I never did one of these last year due to being overwhelmed with the new job and I really like these. So let's bring this back. This weekend (Friday-Sunday afternoon) ask me about any comic book character and you'll get my take on them! One character per customer, please. (1/2)

So many news tidbits I keep seeing this morning that librarians have been talking about (and warning people about) for literal YEARS only to have policy makers, journalists and regular leaders pat them on the head and tell them how cute it is that they get to read all day. 🙄

is selling digital coloring pages a thing? do any rad artists you know have any available? wanting to color but yikes it’s an AI swamped field these days (unsurprisingly)

Libraries are expected to provide services so far beyond the core mission and it just isn't sustainable

What strikes me as extreme here is the effort to normalize being sick all the time even if it literally costs you an Olympic medal.

I just…we got real weird about adjusting behavior to protect our health and those around us, and I still don’t understand it. Are we so deathly afraid to admit that COVID changed the landscape of collective health that we avoid normalizing caution?

Exactly. That’s the thing that gets me: wearing a respirator is so STANDARD, scientifically-backed, boring, not new as a mitigation, etc. but it’s not “normal” to wear it. Ok, fine; I’ll give you that I guess but don’t “believe science” me when you MAKE FUN OF masking.

Jfc Things still look "a lot like covid times" BECAUSE IT IS STILL COVID TIMES. Why are you shocked that people who have spent years if not decades preparing for an event that requires peak physical condition would protect themselves from a virus that can steal everything in a single infection?

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The power we had was incidental, based on contingent historical & economic arrangements. We were not organized or prepared to defend ourselves, and even worse, our lack of cross-class solidarity as workers means nobody else is sympathetic or showing up to save our institutions or projects either.

There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.

Genuinely creeped out by this kind of anti mask journalism, people often forget this sentiment originated in the far right & was enthusiastically adopted by a struggling public. There are places on Earth that still encourage masking, are we sure we want this during a regime supporting eugenics?

It was on this day, February 11 (but in the year 2020) when the WHO finalized the names: COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, but at this point you are more likely to hear the virus referred to as the “weird something” everyone keeps catching.

On top of it just being the right thing to do, in this day and age it should be shouted from the rooftops when you get actual people to do your art. From a cynical marketing point of view, that will probably bag you a few extra listeners.

Like, fair play for commissioning actual people to do the art, but it'd be nice to know who they are and where we can find more of their work.

political symbolism? my brother in christ, all flags, anthems and crests are political symbolism

No Kings includes Draft Kings

I was vibing with the BSB karaoke commercial until I saw it was for Coinbase.

One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

From my layperson retailer point of view the desperate push for AI use and the like rings of “please buy into our thing.” Those commercials show me it isn’t operating or being embraced like somebody somewhere assured somebody somewhere else that it would definitely be by now. Maybe it’s just me…

for people who use the word sportsball, today is their super bowl

Tonight, I colored in a coloring page for what feels like the first time in my adulthood. At first I thought ehhhhh but then got into it! Possible downside is coming across AI-generated coloring pages. Sadly, I have come across them. It’s jarring.

no political symbolism at the competition between nation states and flags that we argue instills positive values and promotes a specific form of peaceful internationalism, all sponsored by large corporations whose logos and advertising are visible throughout

I am certain that whenever someone posts about “gatekeeping art” or whatever, they’re talking about posting drawings online for clicks. They never mean arranging rocks in the back yard. They never mean whistling to yourself and finding a tune that makes you happy. They never mean napkin doodles.

If you're genuinely framing AI refusal as a "luxury position," especially for making art, you should be embarrassed all the way out of public.

any post that's like "some people have problems that make it hard for them to do certain things or act in ways that you would prefer" and all the comments are like "yes but an explanation is not an excuse" "it might explain it BUT" and its like OK! never challenge your own beliefs then!

People are making art with $6 cans of spray paint. With BIC pens. Hell, with DIRT. You just need talent and time. Or, maybe you can pick one of the other 50 billion forms of artistic expression that exist. Write a book. Sing. You'll get a hell of a lot more respect switching lanes than stealing.

I do not want future writers to have to come up like I did, starving and stealing and hooking and scribbling out a few sentences before collapsing into bed. I want a world that respects them and provides a firm bedrock of social safety while they build their skills and live their lives.

just idly remembering when i was assembling my dissertation for final submission in 2017 i was chided by one lovely professor at a conference, who felt my use of the phrase "the return of fascism" to describe the present moment was "alarmist"

How hard is it to just tell presenters how to pronounce everyone's names, man?

I like “obviously disabled,” a very cool phrase Beau. Keep using that one, your disabled friends will love it

look thjey need to put video games back in the arcades. they cant all be claw machines and coin vibrating thingies. ok. they need to put like. games in there

5. Who are you to the people new to the community? Who are you to people who can offer you nothing in that community but encouragement? Who are you to the people attractive to you? Who are you to those NOT attractive to you? Are you happy to talk to a "nobody" or looking to trade up in conversation?

Or women would be shamed for being "prudes" and "not getting the joke". There was no way to win

*Free* AI training *Free* chatbot accounts for college students *Grants* for nonprofits implementing/demonstrating AI use *Prefacing* articles and policies about AI/gen AI having lots of issues with words like “Although AI has great potential…” *Conflating* hype with expertise *Acquiescing*

i am experiencing like a low-key spiritual crisis at this feeling that life has just become broken forms and endless logistics that accomplish nothing at all i feel like Ian McKellen crying on the set of THE HOBBIT bc life has become nothing but green screens

I think the #1 thing people who aren't freelance reporters don't understand about freelance reporting is how laughably bad the pay rate/hours worked is – you can pitch many publications and get published, make a few hundred bucks. But to earn a living wage requires hours that do not exist in a day.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

psyduck repost

I don’t even like the term “common sense”. I find it paradoxical and not in a fun way!

“Kitchen table issues” and “common sense reform” are doing a lot of heavy lifting and not well.

"Libraries can balance the need for new technologies like AI with sustainability..." See, you've already lost me, because describing AI as a "need" is not it.