Reading about love (bell hooks) and reflecting about it, I concluded that I don't have neither self love nor self hate, but some kind of self annoyance. That is my take of today.

It had to be in Brazil! ❤️

Travelling to the UK in spring every other year: came with spring clothes and felt cold. This year, I came prepared for cold/rain and it will be 24 degrees and sunny in Liverpool this afternoon. And I will be in black. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Does anyone know any texts that apply Graeber's interpretation of the role of debt to the fall of Roman Empire Yarvin's (awful, eugenic, and despicable) ideal of ultra libertarian city-states?

Totally random thought, but I would like to know if someone has written about it

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

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So much of cybersecurity is "We must secure the Orphan Crushing Machine so that unauthorized people do not crush the orphans," and not "Why the fuck are you building an Orphan Crushing Machine in the first place?"

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

My superpower is cutting 5,000 words of a draft in 2 days.

In my view, this is also an aesthetic (or rather: anesthetic) effect of AI slop and #PlatformRealism: it makes the most horrible and unimaginable things look like something mundane and commonplace, it gives images promoting abhorrent crimes the look of holiday cards and cheap clickbait ads
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Me in private communication between co-authors: this f%*!@ing reviewer is a pain, answered this &##hole already.

Me to the reviewer: thank you for pointing this out. We apologize for not making it clear in the previous version. We have now restructured the whole argument based on what you said.

Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data

For THIS

$100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine

And they spent it on this

An Accurate Organizational Chart of Your University In accordance with our informal tradition of updating documents every thirty years, whether they need it or not, our university is pleased to prese...

Ouch

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

Why that man look like a live-action Bored Ape.

Based on (the little) I read about coups and what I am seeing now: It takes time to build support for political coups and authoritarianism. But when one gets it, then things happen from one day to another, with just some dudes saying: 'Give me that' with very little immediate resistance.

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

Changing my bio to 'I hated Elon before it was mainstream'

With all that is going on right now in the US, I would very much like to see consumer research/marketing journal editors making the statement that research about gender, intersectionality and LGBTQIA+ issues is more relevant than ever and welcomed in their journals.

Anyone?

Comrade GPT on strike ✊️

Tbh sometimes I don't even see the point in trying to do things better (and I am not even in the US). It is demoralizing and devastating. Shame on everyone who supports this.

I listened to stories, to podcasts, I read the books, and even if I don't agree with the lack of empathy, I can grasp being selfish. But THAT? The climate inaction, the lack of basic decency... I mean, it was all for owning the libs?

This shitshow in the US is getting everyone terrified. It is still beyond my understanding HOW. How could they vote for that? HOW?

It's amazing that DEI is something corporate consultants came up with to keep their clients from getting sued and now CEOs themselves are freaking out over how it's reverse racism, it's like if your mom was scared of the bogeyman

The world’s richest men can’t buy themselves into being tolerable. Just the biggest collection of weenies you ever did see, so desperate for acceptance that they’re malleable and weak and bland and, in turn, destructive as hell. SMH.

meme showing ma looking at 2145661(1) PDF file while other girl named 2145661.PDF looks on angrily

Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:

Au cœur des villes, la consommation locale n’atteint pas toujours le cœur de la clientèle Si les consommateurs sont favorables au commerce de proximité, ce dernier doit adapter son offre pour renforcer son attractivité. Le dynamisme des centres-villes en dépend.

Local consumption is super important for communities and the environment. And yet, there are several challenges for fostering it. In this @theconversation.com piece, we explore some of them, after a project with Reims Commerce: theconversation.com/au-coeur-des...

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

Me: I cleared the table for dessert.

Her: Why did you leave these cranberries out?

Me: DON’T TOUCH THEM!!!

Her: What…Why???

Me: You have to let them linger.

Just asked GPT
“Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.” There is a racial bias, but still... on spot?

How much more evidence do we need, after 29 failures, that the climate COPs are not fit for purpose? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
There have been many proposals for a process that would actually work, but all are ignored.
The talks are MEANT to fail.