thank you for the share. I cried. How awful, and awful to think about how many more of these cases there will be.

now would have been a really good time to have invested in rail thirty years ago

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

Thank you for the full link - hopefully it will help me to work through the himpathy that is making me pity this dude

Brief fun survey from Jessica, Andrew & myself:

If you are a faculty member, research scientist, postdoc, or senior Ph.D. student in any area of science, please take five minutes and fill it out. We’ll share the results widely along with some reflections.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways

“Peace through strength”?

In twelve days at Camp David, for about the cost of one Hellfire missile, President Carter won peace in the Middle East. No bridge was destroyed; no person was injured. This was peace through strength. ...

After $6B data center plan, Festus voters oust every incumbent council member A week after a controversial vote to approve rules for a CRG Clayco data center, anti-data center candidates ousted half of the Festus City Council.

"The promise of a political reckoning made by residents opposed to a $6 billion data center proposal in Festus came true Tuesday, as four city council members lost their reelection bids."

www.stlpr.org/government-p...

it's an ugly reality that my time living in Stuttgart and Berlin as a student did not reveal to me.

what an awful experience. i'm so sorry this happened to you.

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

Worr Happy with zoom AI Companion printed on a background that starts as light blue in the upper left handcorner and moves toward violet in the bottom righthand corner. Small difficult to read boxes suggest I could "summarize recent messages", "list my action items" or "show me the meeting highlights"

Waiting in a zoom lobby has given me a lot of time to ponder the claim below.

Would I, indeed, "work happy" with an AI companion?

Perhaps I can happily watch movies while zoom lists my action items and summarizes messages?

I read it too - at first in English, and then I switched to French audio- somehow exactly as perplexing, despite my (low) French ability!

Re: my last reposts

“Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

thank you so much for this.

i think about Mr. Rogers all the time - and I respect Ms. Rachel so much for what she is doing.

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention.

“It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

came here to ask this!

incredible. thank you so much for sharing this

i love this.

but this Potoo existing seems to raise some questions like: how can we be worthy of this bird

OMG

somebody seems to have faked the wikipedia page for this fake bird.

can scarcely hope that this is real!

thanks for this. heart wrenching and insightful.

Voices: Reading age-appropriate books about sexual assault would have helped me as a kid. Today’s students deserve better. “Protecting kids and teens from discussions about sex is not saving them from assaults. And books are not causing the assaults,” writes Shannon Hale in an op-ed. “But books can aid in clarifying what…

Read AABB member (and all around national treasure) Shannon Hale's op-ed about how age appropriate books dealing with sexual assault could have helped her when she was young.

Police Have No Duty to Protect the Public - The American Prospect Though often unsaid in police reform debates, numerous court precedents have established that cops aren’t obligated to act in the interests of citizens.

It's a lovely sentiment, but...

prospect.org/2022/04/18/p...

Tufts announces plans for a new aquatics center featuring an Olympic-sized pool, tennis pavillion - The Tufts Daily The University announced plans on Friday for a new aquatic center on Boston Avenue with construction expected to finish by Fall 2028. The center will feature an Olympic-sized pool that will replace th...

Tufts raised $21.7 million for a pool but keeps saying it doesn't have the money to provide cost of living raises to faculty who do the foremost job of a university: teaching. (This is to say nothing of what I'm sure will be pitiful offers to the janitors when they start bargaining this spring.)

he said so much truth here - about performance of straightness, about how hard boys are taught/pressured/bullied into acting like MEN and not given room to be themselves.

and you are so right about the supremacist angle - it's the white supremacy but also masculine, and physical strength Supremacy

Akeelah and the Bee I remember.

Gonna go watch Alice *right now*