Meredith Guthrie

Yaaaaaay, spring forward! (I haaaaaaaate fall back. I need the daylight!)

The World Baseball Classic section of the MLB app is AWFUL. They’ve made it nearly impossible to find game scores.

When I write academic papers, one of the files I always make is “(title of paper) cuts” for stuff that’s great but doesn’t belong in *this* paper. It may belong elsewhere! (I also have files for notes, outline, draft, and final.)

If there's media you care about, it's hard to overstate how important it is that you subscribe to it. Ad rates are garbage, and the changes to search mean fewer new folks discovering sites they didn't already visit.

Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.

move slow and repair things

*cough*UPMC*cough*

I love bright colors!

Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo

Profar made me so angry! I want to mom yell at him “Young man, I am very disappointed in you!”

AJ Pierzynski needs to stop being a jerk about the Brazilian team. He keeps making fun of them. They made the tournament! Their tiny baby 17yo pitcher held his own! Stop being rude.

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

Also: Substack is too fond of publishing Nazis (I know Andy knows this. I just always highlight it.)

If you're still using Substack, have you tried subscribing to your own publication lately to see what it's like?

Like how the entire process is about Substack 1) annoying your new reader and 2) trying to them to make use the Substack app, where your paying subscribers become theirs, not yours?

A vaguely flower shaped, roundish crocheted doily madenwirh bright green, dark blue, and pink yarn.

Watching the WBC (USA v Brazil) and crocheting a doily out of scrap cotton yarn. So far, it’s so pretty! I’m on round 10 of 21. The yarn isn’t as crisp as thread for making doilies, but waaaay easier on my hands 🧶

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Honestly, same.

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Honda Fits are legit! I fit a whole ikea run in one.

I grew up in TX. TX styles of femininity are intense and not something I can do? So I was always considered masculine. I loved to OH for grad school, changed nothing, and was suddenly “too feminine” to be taken seriously according to more than one professor. My mind was boggled.

Rangers baseball was basically my mama’s religion, and she got me into it, too. I know I should never trust a billionaire, but I’m devastated.

The Horrible Truth of Love Field’s Texas Ranger Statue A new book about the Texas Rangers tells the truth about that famous bronze at Love Field and a 1930 lynch mob in Sherman. An excerpt from Cult of Glory.

You can read more about the racist statue that @mlb.com is tacitly endorsing here. This was written in 2020. It caused Love Field in Dallas to remove the statue and put it in storage. The Rangers are cool with it, though. www.dmagazine.com/publications...

Here’s some context on Banks and TX school desegregation. He was a racist segregationist. Full stop. (Warning for racist language here.) refusingtoforget.org/mansfield-sc...

The (baseball) Texas Rangers erected a statue of (law enforcement) Texas Ranger at the ballpark. The statue was removed from Love Field airport in 2020 because it’s modeled on Ranger JE Banks, who supported white segregationist mobs in TX schools. No Pride, now this??? They don’t want me as a fan.

"As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work."

~ Octavia E. Butler 🌸🌸🌸

#WomensHistoryMonth

Still true.

We Support Protesting Against Any Authoritarian Government Except Our Own “President Trump called on Iranians on Tuesday to keep protesting against their government and warned that those responsible for killing demonstrat...

"No peaceful demonstrator should ever be killed for standing up to their government. Unless, of course, they’re a suburban mom in an SUV that’s driving away from law enforcement."

Suddenly, I desperately want some good chicken noodle soup. I hope I’m not trying to get sick.

Hopefully I just need salt…and noodles.

YouTube video by Lip Sync Battle Tom Holland’s “Singing in the Rain” & “Umbrella” vs. Zendaya’s “24k Magic” | Lip Sync Battle

We should remember to celebrate their reported nuptials by watching BOTH Zandaya’s and Tom Holland’s lip sync performances! youtu.be/1i5DEipIWh4?...

Also a good evening to fall into a YouTube rabbit hole of @goingmedieval.bsky.social videos

My kids & I were at a restaurant/sports bar tonight when ABC News broke into the hockey game to talk about Iran. I had to chant “Nope. No. Nope” so I wouldn’t say what I was thinking. I do not want to get shanked in the suburbs surrounded by chicken wings.