Quote: "I say this with full awareness of how uncomfortable it makes men: most men are not safe to be around alone." A man wrote that. He's right. If you read that and it made you uncomfortable or angry, sit long and still with why it did.
Go ahead. Give me yet another reason why I love working from my home in the woods and venture out as rarely as possible.
DTF St. Louis was unsettling and heartwarming and I'm still thinking about it. Enjoyed Greg's post on the series.
Text reads, from John Bistline @JEBistline, This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset. Below the text, the chart shows a bloom time in 800 AD of early April. It fluctuates in April for centuries then shifts to late March in the the 2000s.
Yeah, it's straight-up vile to subject human beings and other beings to this noise pollution. AI data centers are hazards.
I'm sure there will be no long-term consequences to all of us veering between hypervigilance over potential nuclear war and trying to go to work because none of us can afford to pay our bills and may still be trying to recover from health consequences from the pandemic we're pretending didn't happen
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
Now that's a doozy.
"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT
there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS
Ten years ago today, Donald Trump said he would pay off the national debt in the span of just eight years.
That did not happen. Instead, the gross national debt has doubled since that day—from about $19 trillion to over $39 trillion.
Love the detail and whimsy in this needlework.
What? What????? All the nopes.
"Multiple people have told me that they now “write for the A.I.”: Even when their writing is superficially for their co-workers or their readers, they are actually thinking about how their words will be read by A.I.s."
Thread worth reading.
And while lCE is certainly a function of white supremacy, it is also a tool of patriarchy because, regardless of race, most of the agents are men.
I am convinced that the pandemic will lead to 2 paradigm shifts. The first, as described in this article, is a reconceptualisation of pathogens as not just common causes of acute illness, but also common causes of chronic illness.
The second will be the end of droplet dogma
time.com/article/2026...
This is one of the most important issues with the global food system, yet it is often ignored.
Put simply, we don't actually grow much *food* in our farms around the world. Instead, we grow grossly inefficient animal feed and biofuels.
drawdown.org/news/only-ha...
My take on the two recent genAI-book publishing scandals almakatsu.substack.com/p/do-you-wan...
Not only did the houses and the authors lose money because readers downloaded the stolen books instead of buying them or getting them from libraries but then, then!, that pirated work (the creative work of humans) ended up in the maws of these Al monstrosities. 2/4
There are at least three major news stories about sexual assault and abuse of power by men in prominent positions this week. Government, labor, academia; the culture is everywhere, and women disproportionally bear the weight of the consequences.
If this week feels extra heavy, be kind to yourself.
Newsletter is out: musings about TSA, actions you can take, funsies, and free patterns.
badasscrossstitch.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
I'll have to sit with this. Energy is energy. Culture shapes what's acceptable as expressions of it.
You're right. There is no way to explain. I read Ms. Huerta's statement an hour ago and feel so sad and rageful for what she endured and carried for decades. Some days I'm just numb. Not today.
Here’s the free pattern if anyone wants to make one
drive.google.com/file/d/11w5k...
Yep. (Things would look different, maybe, if Anthropic had been bankrupted instead of settling to pay about 1% of its worth to authors whose work they stole.)
From Kate Manne: "Take one man, who is reasonably benign and has nice-enough moral values. Put him in a group of men, and you will watch a stunning devolution all too often." ((Who hasn't witnessed this with their own eyes and ears?))
These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable.
