I think I’ve successfully muted enough terms that I don’t get all the news now, which is good, although I do get curious. However, afaik, nothing has happened that I haven’t already expected or known, and that anyone could have known if they listened to women.

I’m thinking about all of the pushback and anger I’ve encountered in academia when I’ve tried to talk about gendered violence and harassment. I’ve spent decades being I treated like I’m prudish, paranoid, and overreaching for calling out male behavior. This stuff is legitimately triggering.

Um yeah we’d all figured this out whenever we figured out that with Trump, “every accusation is a confession,” but just in case anyone needs it spelled out

AI is now being used to “flag” school library books. The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency. This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...

Idk why people get so excited for red cup day (it’s a cup? You have cups at home), but be mindful about crossing the picket line

I think my job interview went ok But in the near-term, my students are killing it right now! I’m so proud of them.

It’s amazing how much power some of these people have when they are dumber than rocks. Not just “not qualified to be President,” not just Alzheimer’s, not just “worm eaten brain,” but essentially unintelligent, unlearned, and incurious to their cores. That’s what patriarchy and privilege get you.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Shout out to everyone completely demoralized about the state of the world who still manages to get out of bed each morning. And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.

I'm grading Games papers. Here's an interesting article about transgender representation in the video game "Tell Me Why" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This though

If you listen to women you know things much faster.

I was updating my CV and apparently I’ve had 3 poems and a book nominated for the Pushcart Prize over the past decade (prior to yesterday’s 2) … although I don’t think my poems will ever win a prize like that b/c they’re weird (style/format). But poems have been getting weirder, so maybe one day. 🌈

From Adam Hochschild's American Midnight:

"Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone." ― Czesław Miłosz

Giving out extensions like candy b/c I literally don’t care when they turn in their papers (within like a week of it being due, so I don’t get flooded with things to grade)

Tfw you make dinner and then don’t want to eat it

I did it I cancelled plans. I have no desire to be at a bar, ever, but especially not a weeknight prior to a work day when I also have a job interview, like, I’m an adult.

Idk why people aren’t as upset about child sex trafficking as they are about other kinds of trafficking, but it indicates to me that our culture (generally) believes that women and children are property and you (man) should be able to do anything you want to with them. Their lives don’t matter.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

The whole nation collapsing & crumbling into the earth all to keep the crimes of a pedophile secret. Now ain’t that a bitch.

I'm happy for everyone getting their hopes up and I hope you're right, but I'm going to skip this single cycle of hopes up then dashed. I'll catch up again later.

I have a job interview tomorrow (which I am doing in our office early in the morning btw @joshweathersby.bsky.social so if you walk in, that’s what’s happening) and I’m anxious about it…

If we eliminate the penny, my collection of smushed pennies from decades of collecting souvenirs will be a cool historical record.

Neural data may be the most precious commodity of the century “If data is the oil of the 21st century, then “brain” data is the crude oil. We need to guard it more jealously.” on.ft.com/4hWPHJL

I promised my ex I would help him at an alumni event tonight (he’s the president of the local chapter) which is centered around sports (football on a Wednesday?) and held at his favorite bar, and I really hate bars and am not thrilled w/Past Jessica for agreeing to this.

I had great dreams about the aurora so I guess I’ll go back to bed

Free DHy zine alert! @capnpilot.bsky.social's * "CTRL+S: Preserving Your Work for the Long Haul" (plan, preserve/archive resilient digital projects, so that when time to sunset them, is easy to preserve core attributes) * "Web-Native Cryptids & Creatures: A Spotter’s Guide" (web safety+literacy)

Zine/letterpress overlap: Chris Fritton's free zine about dayglo letterpress inks! itinerantprinter.com/wp-content/u... (Fritton runs Itinerant Printer—beautiful prints w/backgrounds I think made using press wash to swirl the ink before printing?) +

There seems a very simple Bond solution but literally in the last one he has a daughter. Just jump twenty years into the future and make her the next Bond. I will take my million dollars for this idea now please studios.

The philosophers and neurologists coming for the techbros on this thread are lovely

Lastly, it's worth noting: the fact that we don't know exactly how the mind works does not logically equal that anything that processes language is therefore likely to be a mind. Also since we actually know how LLMs work, we CAN prove it's not 'thinking' and doesn't contain knowledge.

I'm also a a philosopher trained in ethics and epistemology which is why I can tell you that "containing knowledge" and "knowing things" are different propositions. For instance, an encyclopedia contains knowledge, and knows nothing.

IT GOT BETTER 📍Central MN

I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora

We live in the richest country in the history of the world, and we’re the only wealthy nation that doesn’t guarantee health care. Now we’re arguing over whether people deserve food. Explain it to me like I’m five because I don’t get it.

Woke in the middle of the night thinking about how many times I’ve talked about toxic masculinity with my GenZ boys, not in my gender studies class but just in the wild, because *they* brought it up. We get a lot of “young men are lonely and lost” “GenZ men are red-pilled incels” but

🥹 thank you, David!

History I didn’t learn in school 🧐🤔 specialcollections.ds.lib.uw.edu/SeattleGener...

Visiting LinkedIn for my daily reminder that I’d never make it in Industry b/c I can’t talk like that

My Games students talked about how video games taught them empathy And although I think people should definitely read books, I want to point out that you can learn empathy from pretty much anything if you’re not a sociopath.

In 1918, the average German child was more than an inch shorter than in 1914 due to malnutrition from the blockade, which also killed like 800,000 Germans by starvation. (American Midnight) (file under: starvation is a war tactic.)

As a 46yo who has probably read at least 50 books a year on average since I was ~5, it’s almost easier to answer “what book HASN’T changed you,” but in this moment I will choose Shaun Tan’s The Arrival, a graphic novel that I teach whenever I can make it at all relevant to my classes.

I don’t usually talk about this but one time I met JCO when I was at Buffalo. She was at UB for a reading and I got to go to a reception for her for some reason. I talked to her about Aristotle and how much Blonde meant to me as a young blonde woman. She later told someone that I was smart.

No one is safe from Mother

Joyce Carol Oates: Demonstrating the Value of the Humanities through Public Ownership of the Richest Man on Earth

I’m reading American Midnight which is about (uhh basically fascism) social control in the U.S. during WWI, and teachers had to be U.S. citizens and sign loyalty oaths, among other things. Everything old is new again.

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

Thanks, Black Warrior Review for publishing my new graphic memoir piece "Pink"--about silent movies, living in color and the sadness of my sister fading from my life. bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?

It’s warmed up, and as of Wednesday it’ll be in the 70s again, so you won’t have to listen to me whine about that. I reserve the right to whine about other things. I did discover, today, that fleece-lined tights are amazing.