Derek 😮‍💨 & Bill 😾

Israel is still bombing Gaza

The press isn't covering it as much but it's still happening

Last day of class. Apparently I’m pure evil to make all multiple choice answers “C” 😈

Can I let you in on a little secret?

Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.

It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.

Being a thesis supervisor the first time. Reading the student’s paper. I am kind of worried, am I just nudging him to be a mini-me? Maybe I’m doing supervising wrong, maybe there is a way to supervise without end up just making them a duplicate of me 😐

But “including due to start work” seems to be super major factor tho! I take that to mean people who are technically unemployed but already have things lined up. If so, and without further info about this, it is just not clear what to make of the data.

Starbucks workers' union escalates strike on Black Friday () -The Starbucks workers' union said on Friday it is escalating an indefinite strike to more than 120 stores and 85 cities, ​demanding higher pay and staffing levels at the coffee chain. The walkout,...

Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities.

Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.

Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.

Support local independent coffee shops:

A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

Fish-scallop pie (used coconut milk instead of milk 🤞)

I love cooking but am not really motivated to cook for myself, so “Friendsgiving” is the perfect outlet :)

This might be relevant while planning conferences.

I wonder will these people look back and be embarrassed of themselves the way we do when someone discover a blogpost, or something like that, we wrote when we were edgy, overly dramatic teenagers?

Experimenting fish and scallop pie with coconut milk instead of milk 🤞 I love cooking but I am not really motivated to cook for myself so Thanksgiving is always a good excuse 🥹

Yes! And it stinks up the apartment big time…

One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input

The reason I haven’t started silksong is I still haven’t managed to beat the moth boss in hollow knight and it feels like cheating to jump into silksong before doing so 😭😮‍💨

Curious from a cat person… do ppl also “psst psst psst” their dogs (or other kinds of pet)? Or is “psst psst psst” exclusively a cat thing?

… if banning AI is not long term solution because banning cannot be done, then this whole cultivating literacy thing also cannot be done, for it also involves banning AI in some fashion?

How does that prevent students from using AI to evaluate AI essays? I mean this is why some want to ban AI. I don’t see how cultivating AI literacy is an alt solution… cultivating AI literacy also requires teachers to ban students from using AI in some tasks so that they can cultivate said literacy…

Alas… I am doing all short in-class writing assignments and one student wrote in their assignment that *I* do not know what true philosophical inquiry is because I do not assign those long essays and ask them to do exams instead, he said to just give him a zero 😮‍💨 I miss being young and self assured

Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

This is beyond fucked up…

All of the benevolent uses of AI don't make a lot of money. All of the evil applications are cash cows.

I really wish people would realize the guardrails here are about privacy not technology.

Finished wedding present for a wine loving, Platonist friend :) the grapes go from highly realistic to abstract geometric shapes 🕺 I decided that dark fern (black or deep purple) is going to be my signature!

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

This three legged baby refused to let go once I picked him up 🥹

They let this man — who ran for president on the idea that being mayor was enough because also he was gay — adopt Black children, who are going to need so much therapy as adults if they’re being raised listening to this kind of bullshit

Dung beetle seems to be the perfect toilet decor 🥰 (the beetle is dark purple, not black)

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

If you're going to lead, you have to understand that people will make sacrifices for your cause. Your job isn't to avoid the pain, it's to make it count.

This is literally treated as radical, outside-the-bounds of normal political discourse.

But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000.

Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home.

Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.