Jeremy Forbing

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According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵

as a precaution before I hang with friends, I'm testing once a day while nina's positive. And you know what? It's expensive! tests are like $10-15 each! No wonder most people just go without and end up infecting each other! I miss when the government used to mail everyone free tests.

Reminds me of that time I needed emergency appendectomy & I was on morphine & the hospital billing guy came to my room to ask me to pay the copay upfront

I was like dude I’m going next door to check the other hospital‘s price also what’s my name again

Ps I’m an economist, ok w/markets generally

I swear it’s like living in Rohan when Theoden was under Wormtongue’s influence, except prying Miller away from Trump won’t let Trump become a flawed but noble and heroic king, he’d just be a corrupt, pathetic old racist

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

this joke plagues transphobes because it’s an incredibly cutting take on what the modern transphobic panic is, a hysterical panic based off of a lie that transness is fake and that there is an intentional effort from the right to prop up this wedge to destroy all LGBTQ rights

Opinion | Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists

lol. lmao.

I hate myself for laughing out loud at this

“After Virgil’s death, according to the suit, the ship continued on the cruise toward Ensenada, Mexico, and kept Virgil’s body refrigerated until it returned to Los Angeles on Dec. 16, 2024.”

at a certain level of any creative or intellectual collaborative job the main task is sin-eater: to fix what you can and get blamed for what you can’t, secretly knowing how much worse it would have been if you hadn’t done what you did.

A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

1) I was having drinks with @gregrucka.com who is in LA for VERY SECRET REASONS and we were discussing this post, because he had just finished A Thing and I am in the middle of A Thing and write all day, literally 9 to 5, and we were talking baout how THAT felt ...

I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end

Random Rejected Mythos Creature Texture Table

1. uneven
2. chocolatey
3. uncannily smooth
4. moisture wicking
5. raggle-taggle
6. pilled
7. frangible
8. sparkly
9. less rugose than first glance would indicate
10. discouraging
11. ranch flavored
12. penguiny

📢 Urgent Action: Demand Release and Reunification CALL NOW BEFORE ICE MOVES TO DEPORT YUANXIN AND FEI Two weeks ago, ICE abducted 6-year-old Yuanxin and his father Fei, immediately separating them and refusing to disclose the first grader's location. YOU CAN HELP. Call ICE. Tell your reps to call ICE. Swipe for numbers → Now more than ever, pressure is essential. URGENT ACTION - DEMAND THE RELEASE AND REUNIFICATION OF THIS FAMILY.

URGENT ACTION: Demand Release for Fei (A# 221416533) and Yuanxin (A# 221416532).** **Call ICE:** New York City Deportation Officer: 212-863-3401. Email: NYCDetaineeInquiry@ice.dhs.gov. **Call DHS Inspector General:** 800-323-8603. **Call Representatives:** Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (DC: 202-225-2361); Senator Chuck Schumer (DC: 202-224-6542).

📢 Urgent Action: CALL NOW BEFORE ICE MOVES TO DEPORT YUANXIN AND FEI

2 weeks ago, ICE abducted 6-year-old Yuanxin & his father Fei, separating them & refusing to disclose the 1st grader's location.

YOU CAN HELP. Call ICE. Tell your reps to call ICE.

Now more than ever, pressure is essential.

So. Rep Crockett announced her TX campaign for US Senate.

Good.

Voters get a choice in the primary. They can research the candidates, find their positions on issues and choose.

She's getting ultra-gerrymandered out of her Rep seat, so why not take the shot.

It's a primary. Not a coliseum fight.

"But what does that say about my job if a machine that's wrong 75% of the time can do for me and no one notices?"

Hi, you are participating in the most inefficient and needlessly cruel version of UBI possible.

OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.

Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope. www.wired.com/story/openai...

Eve Barlow quote tweeting a Miss Rachel post that reads "Wanting kids to live isn't antisemitic" with "This is blood libel. It's that simple. If you don't understand why, you don't know the first thing about Jew hatred"

The way this woman has wholly dedicated to her life to saying shit like "When you call me Eve Fartlow and make wet fart noises with your mouth whenever I talk, you are doing a Kristalnacht to me" is wild

Everyone: ICE and CBP cannot be more hated

ICE/CBP: [starts wearing Meta smart glasses]

Everyone:

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

“… because that would require me to think and act like a human.”

Fake it until you make it as they say. And I’ve been playing the role of a TTRPG game designer for about 12 years! Now the mask has become my very nature. I am going to play the Masquerade game with vampires, for real. After years of working as an independent game designer, like a good Anarch, I joined the Camarilla. I am now the Lead Game Designer at White Wolf, the legendary publisher that made me realize TTRPGs could be about a lot more than killing monsters. I can be one of them, and surprisingly be even more human! The first book I ever read in English was Vampire: The Dark Ages, and now I get to work as a game designer full time for the first time with the World of Darkness? I couldn’t be happier! To live and breathe the universe of Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Hunter, Changeling, Wraith, and all other games every day, and be able to collaborate in shaping its future is a dream come true. These games were formative in my TTRPG industry, in the Brazilian TTRPG community, and are incredibly relevant to this day. Especially these days I would say. And with me I am bringing my game design philosophy of “playing more with less” to help make the game more accessible while honoring the more than 30 years of World of Darkness! I just want everyone to enjoy the game as much as they can, with as little effort as they can afford. Oh, and I am still an Anarch at heart, don’t worry!

Me with a Bloodlines 2 tshirt setting in a throne under the Ankh banner!

A castle with the ankh banner hanging from a window

Me wearing a shadowy cloak

So this happened…

I am White Wolf’s new Lead Game Designer!

I will figure out how to post the whole text here, but there is a picture with the announcement and the alt text has the full thing!

#TTRPG #RPGLATAM #VtM #WoD #DnD #NotDnD #ShowYourWork

Wurman is being pretty slippery with his definition of "purpose." There was extensive discussion about the impact of the Amendment on Chinese immigrants and "Gypsies," so they knew it would have a broader impact than just on children of freed people, and agreed on the interpretation of the words.

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

Literally a week ago Musk said that falsely labeling people as Nazis "should be treated as incitement to murder." And here he is (falsely) labeling the EU as Nazis.

Musk promoting a post of the EU flag turning into the Nazi flag

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.

It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

Okay, this is a fascinating case of social media priming.

So, this creator, Sarah Velush, basically has a channel devoted to deadpan lifestyle humour (a la Chef Tova).

But because a progressive account takes it literally and says... this? Hundreds of comments assuming she's an evil tradwife.