It is currently 78-80 degrees in the library and we are miserable. We're told AC doesn't go on until May 1

I understand leaving Substack to being complicated for some writers to navigate but *joining* Substack? In 2026? Given everything we know about the platform? Come on.

Marc Andreessen on Why He Has No Introspection YouTube video by David Senra

He's also proud that he spends as little time as possible engaging in introspection, and claims that no one did until the 1910s www.youtube.com/shorts/b6Zw5...
(I saw this video the other day and cannot stop thinking about it)

A pastel illustration of a board game board with dice icons. The text: QT Library Friendship is Magic Game Night! Friday April 10 6–10pm Pandemonium Books & Games Cambridge MA

I’m hosting another game night for @qtlibrary.org at Pandemonium Books and Games this Friday, April 10. The theme: Friendship is Magic 🪄 with all cooperative games. I’d love to see you there!

Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/friendship...

Wanted: More School Libraries, Science Labs And Music Teachers For Boston Public Schools Coalition says too many Boston Public Schools fall short offering "core pieces."

As of 2021 40% of students in Boston public schools don't have a functioning library in their school www.wgbh.org/news/educati...

some of you on here have never teleported to a waffle house and it shows

Kudos to the Waffle House product placement team for a big swing!

Maybe the writer could engage with the possibility that the folks saying "I'm okay with legal immigration but not illegal immigration" were not actually as invested in that distinction as they claimed to be

Even for the Atlantic this is weak. First of all I do not believe in the immense power of "conceptual categories."

Second, the only evidence of this breakdown is some articles in academic journals — which were correct! Should scholars not publish true things for fear of political reprisal?

I've seen too many posts from LGBTQ+ "news" orgs claiming SCOTUS legalized conversion therapy in all 50 states. Which is a message that terrifies and demoralizes queer people AND tells right-wing weirdos they can behave with impunity. It's a bad ruling, but the scale of the impact matters

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today.

Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.

Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

Also... maybe there should be some friction! Having to learn about a system before jumping in is, in fact, a good thing!

If we'd taken the discussion of consent and sex seriously we'd be better equipped to push back on the abuses of generative AI

Anything by Derf Backderf -- My Friend Dahmer, Trashed, Kent State

I have open tabs older than these ICE agents

For an administration obsessed with optics… they're pretty fucking terrible at optics

Ugh. Work laptop was asking me to restart so I shut it off… looking forward to being prompted to re-restart

When I was in Thailand I watched a tourist coax a monkey onto his shoulder, at which point the monkey immediately took his glasses

This is why I bristle when people (in regards to book bans) say "parents have the right to decide what their children read, but not what other children read." Children are autonomous beings! They should be "allowed" to read whatever they want, not just what their parents decide is acceptable

(I think it also explains why I never have any opinions about casting when a book is turned into a movie)

I'm an educator and I've TAUGHT visualization exercises without realizing that I was asking my students to do something that I had never actually done

I only figured out that I have aphantasia in the last few years and it has been… mind-blowing to realize that all those "visualization" activities that I just thought I was bad at are a much different experience for other people

I spoke to my calculator, what it said will shock you.

Gmail recently tried to "summarize" an email that was a link I'd emailed to myself. So helpful 🙄

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

There is an intersection I go through regularly that is six lanes splitting to four lanes and no matter which lane I'm in it is somehow always the wrong one. Waymo could never

Cursed blunt rotation

There were a few years where the majority of students got my Back to the Future references... and then I realized their parents were my age and had showed it to them

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

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I respect it