I see we're doing the 21st century version of 19th century vagrancy laws again

Compare to how hard the GOP has fought against motor voter for the last 35 years.

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Book cover, featuring a low-angle self-portrait of the rover on Mars.

I wrote THE book about The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job. And because space robot design is conservative, it’s a pretty good resource for both the Perseverance rover and the Dragonfly Titan quadcopter. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I am so anti-AI, I have stopped using word databases because they added AI. Do not make these assumptions about professional creatives.

Email saying "I use maybe 50 sheets per year; I'm not sure who else uses it, but a ream is probably pointless", with the "pointless" highlighted, showing that the original word there was "ok"

How is "pointless" a reasonable substitution for "ok"?? This replacement happened automatically, last word of the email, and I'm lucky I saw it before I hit send. Completely changed the meaning of my email!

Olympic Committee Announces a Broad Ban of Transgender Athletes in Women’s Events

Everything is so stupid and there will come a day when folks look back on the persecution of trans folks with the same moral disgust as other crimes against humanity.

No one needs protection from trans women. We all need protection, tho, from violent hateful bigots.

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Saving this for when I talk to my high school students about privacy, ads, and data tracking in my digital literacy class.

Hard to see it so clearly in numbers, but this is tracks with I've felt watching him this year

Nothing for the women's team though 😒

Anyone playing at Ironic-But-Not-Ironic Literary Snobbery in a world of book bans and right-wing censorship of history is a dabbler at best, and at worst destined to become part of the problem. They’ve already got one foot in the misogyny bucket, and will surely trip on it.

I just got to listen to this episode, and in the Caps section it seemed like John thought Dowd was a pending UFA this year, when his contract is through next year. Does that change your or his opinion on the Caps trades, if Dowd wasn't actually at the end of his contract?

I didn't think I could be sadder about either of those trades 😢

Same. That "retire a capital" locker room vid feels like a sick joke or a jinx now.

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I went to a high school in a poor-ish town one over from a naval base/shipyard during the lead up to invading Iraq. The recruiter that was allowed to roam the halls promised children that all their problems would be solved if they signed away their bodies, and it went exactly how you’d expect.

The Lafayette College Physics Department is hiring a laboratory and demonstration coordinator! Come work with me!

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Huh. Perusing the media landscape, I've noticed that the *women* hockey players are being asked questions about what the men did while most of the men have not had to answer a single fucking one about any of it.

So weird. Odd. Strange.

"I thought the joke was distasteful & unfortunate, & I think the way women are represented, it's a great teaching point to really shine light on how women should be championed for their amazing feats. Now I have to sit in front of you and explain someone else's behavior? It's not my responsibility."

Hilary Knight got the question re: that phone call and the laughter at the Torrent presser. Her answer:

Never forget that the primary tactic of this movement is distraction. They point to medical statements, procedural wins and tangentially related anecdotes because *they have no evidence of their core claim*

If lots of kids were transitioning without assessment they would be talking about that.

The Lafayette College Physics Department is hiring a laboratory and demonstration coordinator! Come work with me!

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Glad to hear the USA women's hockey team declined the invitation to the SOTU, even if scheduling probably played a role.

Disappointed to learn that USA hockey sent the women home on a commercial flight while the men got a charter 😒

Poster's Madness A streaming PowerPoint telethon for mutual aid

We are counter-programming the State of the Union with a fundraising telethon featuring everyone’s favorite Bluesky posters doing short presentations and sketches on stuff they are passionate about. Will stream on YouTube starting at 8:30pm EST

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Underrated life hack: writing things down in one or two central locations. Your memory is faulty. Don't rely on it to remember all the little things that life requires. Instead, remember where you can look for all the things you need to remember. Keep it simple and, when you can, free.

And it's OK if systems evolve over time, too! I've used some form of GTD since grad school, but the tools and exact structure have fluctuated over time.

As a specific tool rec, @habitica.com definitely got me through my last few years of grad school, when my ADHD was still undiagnosed

Ooh I like this game! My underrated life hack suggestion for academics, including graduate students is: pick an organization system and use it. Getting Things Done, Full Focus Planner, Bullet Journal, something. Academia is not a place for trying to do things haphazard.

I know I buy far too many books but I like to think that lining the walls of my house with them wards off evil in some deeply important way.

Note from my notebook (2016). Nothing has changed.

As always, women showing men how to do it.