“The library assumes the best out of people. The services it provides are founded upon the assumption that if given the chance, people will improve themselves.” ― Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

Joys and Sorrows is the UU communion and you can't get rid of the whine without making it bloodless

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You can really feel the difference in health systems when someone gets injured in a Roller Derby bout.

Intent in terms of Mens Rea hits different 20 years later and after seeing how often intent is how we apply the advantages of privilege in society. It seemed, kind, obvious and moral the first time I read about it. Now it makes me pretty uncomfortable.

Call my malpractice carrier and my therapist in that order.

My dream as a parent is for my kid to wake up most mornings happy about their life and excited about their day and in love with the people surrounding them.

On "predatory" website ADA lawsuits - We have invented stairs that only the disabled have to climb and now we call them predatory for telling us that they exist.

There is a WILD ONE out of the 8th Cir. today about a man who stole another man's identity 30 years ago, lived all those years under the other man's identity including getting married and having a kid, who then got the other man prosecuted for identity theft. ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/04...

Planet Money writing about Joan Robinson is absolutely wild but there's just absolutely nothing here about the battle Joan and other heterodox economists waged against neo-classical economists and how they were driven from academia by Moreover, ICE must be destroyed www.npr.org/sections/pla...

Cami got her Rabies today and is doing really well considering.

The most useful thing AI (LLMs) have done for me is make it clear that most men in my life have a very different impression of mansplany conversation than most women in my life, I kind of know that but I thought they just didn't notice, not that it was something they were impressed by

I have been spending some quality time on Ancestry lately and I am fascinated by the information sharing practices. Most things come up as hints but photos set to display on someone's tree are often automatically imported. So really important information is often captured in photos.

#TTRPG friends: I assume *someone* has done a hack of Blades in the Dark that trades the grimdark death spiral for something that feels more like Leverage or the Oceans movies - still dangerous but optimistic with strong team dynamics and relationship growth. Pointers and boosts appreciated.

One of the things modern Western masculinity has lost is the idea that men feel Big Emotions; that feeling Big Emotions and sharing them is part of being a man, and that putting yourself in the position to feel Big Emotions is, in a way, part of what defines heroic masculinity.

So this is the relationship and sexuality education my kid is going to get in grade three that I can have them not take part in. What I want to know is how can I sign up too, this is good stuff.

John Waters! I took my dad & stepmom to his Christmas show once years ago. My dad & I got a real kick out of it 😄 Reposting the photo with alt-text

I'm looking for places that sell print versions of independent TTRPGs (and ideally where people meet up to play them) in the K-W/Grand River Metro area. So far the only place I can think of is the Dragon in Guelph, but that's in Guelph. Is there anything closer to Waterloo?

I just finished reading a nasty little bruise of a book. The writing was excellent, the craftsmanship good. The character I so disliked I am still angry.

Trumpism, and people who crash out at being told maybe they should stop buying Harry Potter stuff, both seem, at their core, to be motivated by a lack of distress tolerance for shame. Because they’re both crash outs at the idea that there might be social consequences for what you do and say.

So if you are a USian queer and have anyone in your direct line who is Canadian you should consider applying for Canadian Citizenship. The end of the second generation limit means that is more possible than ever and you are not applying to be naturalized, its recognition of citizenship

Professional Announcement Template- For Men- Announcement. Details. Thank you to team. For Women- Expression of intense feeling! Announcement! Minimizing Statement. Expression of Gratitude. Specific Praise for at least five people and two organizations. Emotional reflection on younger self.

But just like steam-powered machines ate the forests of Europe and fossil fuels are powering the present off the life and work of the distant past, eventually the stored labor you’re using as a source runs out.

Canadian Constitutional Law has resulted in me having a crush on Former Justice Abella.

Sometimes chores are just chores. Sometimes chores are a way you remind yourself that you and your people are worthy of care and attention by applying care and attention.

This is the Meads v. Meads of Romantsey.

I love a cozy mystery but I tend to feel guilty about them because they tend to have a sort of everything should be sorted according to existing boxes outlook on life. The Dorothy Gentleman books not only do not do that, they recognize and critique it in book.

TIL that military service members who were discharged for their sexual orientation or gender identity qualify for in-state tuition rates in Washington regardless of their residency! wsac.wa.gov/student-resi...

Out tomorrow: Nobody’s Baby, a sapphic sci-fi mystery novella on a space cruise ship where, suddenly, a wild baby appears!

Oh man that is ... Upsetting to read about happening I don't know how angry it would make me to have it happen...

essentially the entire problem with doctoring is that two totally different professions— medicine and care— have been combined into one, and people who want to do medicine broadly resent the expectation to perform care, to disastrous results.

Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less via sethackerman.substack.com

Most technological changes are things our culture is unprepared for and doesn't have lore to depend on, but I promise you tales of the fey were preparing you to think about LLMs. Working while you sleep, deeply dishonest because truth is not understood, your success depends on how carefully you ask

Important update.

That is literally their job

This is great reporting about the lawyer t-shirt in the "antifa" trial in Texas www.thisamericanlife.org/i-want-what-...

Well this story blew up. Went to the front page of reddit, hacker news, Gizmodo. People donated thousands of dollars to the legal fund of Jeff Sovern, who dismantled 13 Flock surveillance cameras. The response was near-universal enthusiasm for the project of smashing invasive, exploitative tech.

If we needed fewer police how would we know? I think about that sometimes because there doesn't seem to be any mechanism in the system that might allow for that to be possible, at least internally.

I have fallen down a laundry optimization rabbit hole lately and it is such an embarrassing enthusiasm. I still miss my all in one GE.

So people who know a lot more than I, why isn't dog sledding in the winter Olympics?

Man Canadian coverage of the winter olympics is so much more excited and loving! I was not prepared for the lack hyping up the pressure or the genuine joy.

Abduction of the hearts of all who saw.

I think a dispatch center that doesn't include the police sounds like a great alternative, you can call them as needed but I don't see a compelling reason they have to be involved if you are building a separate dispatch center anyway

We met for coffee. It was about four hours long?

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

So something I am realizing there are a lot of documents about the technical how of using collaborative document creation, but there are not a lot on the interpersonal how of collaborative document creation. Anyone have any sources?

Like, it's just really easy to see that I am not going to be able to keep up with the LITERAL REST OF THE WORLD in output. Even without AI. The way people like me win is by writing memorable books that relate to the human experience.

I thought I had an understanding of what was going on in Minneapolis but this podcast broke down the systemic legal process abuse and the human impacts in a way I really appreciate and did not fully grasp. This is good even if you are not an attorney, but almost essential if you are an attorney.

This feels like the mass arbitration type attack the Roberts court should have seen coming from denying class relief.

This week: 911 calls unlike any we’ve heard before, and other stories about immigration agents sweeping through America. link.podtrac.com/hrwz3zhh