Garry Linnell: Angry old men rule, and are ruining, the world From the Bunnings car park to The Whitehouse, old men are dangerous. And if they aren't stopped soon, the world is going to suffer more for it.

Not new, still relevant.
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Student Loans And Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’: Here’s What To Know The bill would overhaul repayment plans and could require borrowers to pay more each month.

Student Loans Under Trump: New Policy Plan Adds Rules—Could Disqualify Some And Increase Payments For Others

So the “success” of LLMs is an unexpected side-effect that people are assuming/believing is meaningful intelligence & in the process imbuing human-centric attributes onto (trust) that usu are legit earned by humans (e.g., research) but w/LLMs is unearned b/c we don’t know why the side-effect occurs?

There’s a lot of resentment from men like Dale floating around, but I have to say, as a doctor, the vast majority of the patients I see dying alone without purpose in the hospital… are men

Maybe tend your own garden before criticizing someone else’s flowers 🌷🌻💃🏽

#medsky #loneliness #misogyny

They’ve already done the “she’s alive!” dead-spouse-not-actually-dead miracle tho, so I’m not holding my breath.

“People who have kids think they know what it’s like not to have kids, because they were childless once. But they don’t know. It’s different, once you know for sure, once you know you’ll never be anyone’s mother, anyone’s grandmother, anyone’s ancestor.”

“…and here they are, with their miracle baby, their miracle family. ‘I never understood the true meaning of love until I had children’. It’s something people say all the time. And I always think Yeah, fuck you too.”

No miracle baby to see here Often, IVF doesn't work. We don't hear those stories.

“Most people who do IVF don’t get pregnant, but you don’t hear about that much. Every story you hear is about how awful it was, how difficult, how the embryos died and the sperm wasn’t viable and the relationship was strained and then, and then, it happened…”

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If this turns into a miracle baby story I am going to lose my f*cking mind.

Humanity deserves more than false-hope, gaslighting, “everything turns out ok in the end😃”, pandering, toxic-positivity, “women only fulfilled as wife & mother”, devaluing of childless women, lack of creative courage.

The similarities to early 2020 & COVID are astonishing - the timeline, the stunned silence of leaders, the uncertainty of what the next week would look like and who might be impacted. March was a month where things started to hit home hard. Viruses & fascists run rampant in similar environments.

Call for IMMEDIATE action: LCSH is officially proposing changes from "Mexico, Gulf of" to "America, Gulf of" and "Denali" to "Mt. Mckinley": classweb.org/tentative-su...
Send feedback to listcomments@loc.gov by TODAY, Tuesday, February 18, to oppose these changes

Also encourage people to email LC to oppose this proposed revision, which was announced a few hours ago (with comments deadline of today 😡).

Your email can be short (1-3 sentences) and can focus on impact to your patrons. #critcat #LCSH #cataloging 📚

LC published a tentative list to change #LCSH Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America & Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. Comments on the proposed changes can be sent to listcomments@loc.gov by Tues. February 18, 2025 (which is TODAY). If you oppose the change, please email! #critcat (classweb.org/tentative-su...

Opinion | When ‘Just Asking Questions’ About Science Turns Into 300,000 Dead (Gift Article) We have to go toe-to-toe with this administration and resist its attacks on public health.

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Why So Blue: Liberal Women are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why? Less marriage and religion help explain liberal women’s unhappiness.

Literally, this can be explained in one simple way: Conservative women are told they're failures unless they plaster on a smile and pretend everything is great, even when it's not.

Liberal women aren't so oppressed and feel free to want more.

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Happy Valentine’s Day

Seattle voters embrace excess compensation tax to build social housing, reject Chamber-conceived alternative A two-part special election housing ballot measure in the Emerald City is passing, with 57.55% of voters decisively backing a proposal to require the biggest businesses in town to invest in the recently formed Seattle Social Housing Developer.

Seattle voters embrace excess compensation tax to build social housing, reject Chamber-conceived alternative

A two-part special election housing ballot measure in the Emerald City is passing, with 57.55% of voters decisively backing a proposal to require the biggest businesses in town to invest in…

Flood the Zone With Truth How Truth, Technology, and Democracy Can Survive the Age of Chaos

Truth isn’t complicated, but it’s under siege. Technology isn’t destiny, and democracy isn’t doomed—if we fight for it. My latest essay on how lies, algorithms, and power are reshaping our world—and how we win it back: www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/flood-the-...

Opinion | A Sex Strike Is a Losing Strategy for American Women The philosophy is shortsighted and insufficient for our times.

Women: removing men from my life; finally: peace.

Op-ed: but what about the mans?!?!? The mans won’t change unless you help them see how treating you as human will serve their interests in the end.

Women: you’re describing dating. Go to “removing men from my life”

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