Kristen Hanley Cardozo

I’ve been badly wanting to try one of those

I dislike so many books that I would also say are incredibly well written! I hated One Hundred Years of Solitude! That’s on me! And sometimes I reread a book I disliked and oop, I like it now!

I’m only X post-facto, but I think one factor is a more limited TV diet than later plus early internet culture. The Boomers largely weren’t getting online en masse when we were.

Gorgeous!

Oops, sorry, "hundreds of millions of dollars"

On the other hand, telling queer children that their existence is unspeakable seems pretty likely to lead to thousands of dollars of therapy.

Yeah, like literally anything can scare or upset a child, and while ideally people will strive to be age appropriate, you cannot control for what might be brought up in therapy! But there's nothing about queer people existing that is inappropriate for children!!!!

My mom was traumatized by the dancing mushrooms in Fantasia and had regular nightmares about them as a kid and they didn’t cut them in case that might happen. And dancing mushrooms seems about as chill as “gay people exist.”

Mrs Henry Wood’s Wario

“Hey, gay kids! Your existence will force people into therapy! So maybe cram it way way down inside and stop troubling people with your problematic presence? Good talk. This movie is for kids!”

Elizabeth Gaskell; she apparently didn’t like being treated as though she didn’t have a first name. Can’t personally confirm but I remember hearing it.

A Gaskell scholar at a conference I attended said that she didn’t like being called Mrs Gaskell and yet it’s continued even to this day! Impressive!

I have a book from the sixties where a male scholar compiled ghost stories by Victorian female authors and his introduction to her is something like “Mrs Gaskell was so pretty and married she didn’t even NEED to write but she did!”

YouTube video by A/V Geeks 16mm Films Flatland (1965)

Anyway, they (Eric Martin directed, but you can also see the influence of John Hubley) made a delightful animated version in 1965 and it’s narrated by Dudley Moore.

I finally finished Flatland! (It’s short, but I lost the book, which delayed me.) I loved it but was also hindered by the fact that I’m better at algebra than geometry.

That period when all you had to do was literally cosplay as someone they’d already funded and they’d be like “there’s something about this person dressed as Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg/Bill Gates that I like…”

Everyday we are getting closer to rebuild our lives after Gaza gencide. Every dollar is part of rebuilding our lives and all your donations appreciated. I really appreciate every share

I was at a protest a few weeks ago and there was a woman wearing a “this is my second rodeo” shirt and I was awed

That’s so cool! Yogurt is genuinely super interesting and I’m glad there’s a new yogurt PhD out there.

Amazing

Our system is designed around punishment rather than prevention and accountability, but even an ideal system wouldn’t stop at “she’s not doing that exact job anymore so it’s fine”

“Torture murderer fired from job at RadioShack, but victim’s relatives still demand a ‘reckoning.’”

The best case scenario is that when (really if) you see a real doctor you can provide them with slightly better clues. A chatbot cannot prescribe antibiotics or get you into a treatment program.

Also, let’s say you do find the correct answer via Google or a chatbot. So? You still need treatment and no doctor is going to accept that as a diagnosis.

a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky . Alt: a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky .

Happy birthday!

And people said the same shit about Google but there’s a reason we don’t have people flip through a medical book to find symptoms that sound right

AI research:

Researcher: Claude, please eat ten hamburgers.

Claude: Done! I have eaten ten hamburgers. The first two were delicious, but after that I began to experience bloating and the meat sweats.

Headline: Anthropic Says Claude has "A Fully Developed Digestive System"

Goddammit typos

Yogurt’s evil opposite!