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RFK Wants to Send People to ‘Wellness Farms.’ The US Already Tried That. RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms."

For @teenvogue.com, I wrote about RFK's desire to send people to 'wellness farms'--and how the US has already tried that.

A big thank you to @allegrak.bsky.social for believing in this piece!

A multicoloured sock

Screenshot of the Blowback podcast playing on Spotify

Sunday knitting & podcast combo 🧶 🎧

White House tweet of chatgpt studio ghibli image of government agent arresting a crying brown skinned woman..

Jfc did the "AI: The New Aestheics of Fascism" article call it

newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

I'm so brave publishing grades on a Friday and logging out knowing students will be emailing me all weekend!!!!

6:05 p.m. EDT: Bloc Québécois calls for ‘buy Canadian’ act to counter U.S. protectionist measures Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet has called for Canada to adopt a law that encourages the federal government to purchase goods made in the country.

americans what the fuck did you do to the bloc quebecois

if you lose an argument to a chatbot you should have to pass an independent turing test before you're allowed to rejoin society

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

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again, compare jurors and grand jurors, every day people, who stood up to death threats and were not cowed in the least, with prosecutors, many judges, and politicians, who mostly dilly dallied and hoped trump would go away on his own or folded entirely.

Baldwin, Styron, and Me by Mélikah Abdelmoumen, translated by Catherine Khordoc This expansive, evocative, and insightful book is part memoir, part imaginative reconstruction of history.

WOW.
Dans le Miramichi Reader, recension par Clementine Oberst de Baldwin, Styron and Me (@biblioasis.bsky.social, trad. Catherine Khordoc).
"By knitting together this literary history with her own personal experiences, Abdelmoumen has created something new and vital."
Ces mots me bouleversent.

It’s truly plain as day.

Not only is this answer incorrect, at no point has Netflix's Oscars tally EVER been 13, unless you updated your figures in the middle of the 2021 ceremony. Great stuff!

How great is it that I got to destroy a forest in order to get this INCORRECT AI-powered answer??? (Netflix has 26 Oscars.)

Canada needs: strict regulations on housing, food supply, energy, environment. We need a national housing and alternate energy plan. We need massive capital transportation projects. We need broad national dental, pharma, and child-care, no opts-outs allowed. We need a strong social safety net.

Pink Spring Sky
Robert Newton Hurley
1972

I learned this semi-recently and it truly helped ease my post-rain anxiety about accidentally stepping on worms. 😢

I read a lot. Part of the appeal is that the act of reading connects me - across space and time - with another human being who created something with intentionality. I don't want to read things written by computers. It defeats the purpose entirely.

Grading short quizzes when you're used to grading 2000+ word essays is such a breath of fresh air. I don't even like quizzes, but this is undeniably a benefit...

Screenshot from a scan of page 289 of an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote. The text is set in two columns. In the left column, we read in part “thou hast hit the point, Sancho, which can alone shake my resolution”, and on the right “thy share of the booty would would have been at least the emperor’s crown of gold”; by coincidence, these align so that the phrase “shake my booty” can be read across the columns.

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

omg Haulout was my fav too!!!! I think people are responding super emotionally to I Am Ready Warden but it is the most interesting to me in terms of all the questions it brings up. Definitely powerful and fascinating

I'm going for Incident for sure!!! I think I enjoyed the 2023 batch more (didn't manage to watch last year) but I thought about them all a ton yesterday so that's a good sign

I’ve been thinking for a while that it’s becoming politically untenable for many “international” academic associations to be US-based. Here is yet another reason why - many people literally cannot travel to the US for conferences, which we are supposed to do for our careers.

Stephanie did you review the documentary shorts because I just watched them all and have so many thoughts and I want to be guided by the queen of the Oscars!!!!

me needing to fly out of Pearson in 2 months for a conference 😭😭😭

It is shameful that RAINN, representing sexually abused people, erased trans people because they are scared of Trump.

To any org censoring themselves: you cannot jettison trans to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too.

But we are all in this together.

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I sit at a table with my PhD committee in a university classroom, presenting my work.

A card that says “Dr. Oberst” sits nestled in a bouquet of magenta, orange, and yellow gerbera daisies.

On Valentine’s Day, I successfully defended my PhD in conversation with my incredible committee, surrounded by friends, family, and colleagues. Overwhelmed is an understatement!

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

yeah, we know

www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

The Hat Was Cute. Doug Ford’s Record Isn’t | The Walrus The province he promises to rescue from a trade war is the same one he’s driving into the ground

Doug Ford's goofy hat gimmick was cringe, but cute in its own way. Forget it. Focus on the man and his record. And then vote for somebody else.

thewalrus.ca/doug-ford-tr...