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my dysautonomia has progressed to passing out occasionally when under stress, esp when I forget to drink water. so that’s super fun.

on many other metrics it’s actually gotten a lot better. resistance training is starting to make EDS life easier. instead, I feel good right up until I… don’t.

look I want to have a shoe-free household but also I have too many executive function issues to clean the dog’s paws every time

and my husband wants to have a shoes-always household

neither of us can convince the other because we each cause the other’s destruction

my tortoiseshell cat nestlé sitting in an open cardboard box that’s on the floor

I will say again that it has been just *beyond* hammered home for me that not only do we not live in a meritocracy, we live in an economic and sociopolitical order that actively rewards avarice, incompetence, unkindness, dishonesty.

And tbh that makes me feel better about my lack of success.

Conversation with Claude about tracery parsers, and it advises me to look at kate comptons parser, to which i reply “but Doctor i am kate compton”

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.

there really haven't been enough sheer conspiracy theories in the AI space, I think

Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

very disappointed on behalf of all olivias

IN THIS HOUSE WE

have really dry and itchy ears

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

don’t tease

I'm super stoked that Colorado voted to fund free meals for kids for schools.

(I've been saying lunches, but the program includes breakfasts, too.)

Too many people thinking about "AI threats" as "threats from AI agency" (which is science fiction) and not "threats from human agency used to productize LLMs in evil ways" which is in the news every day.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

look colorado’s elections may pale in comparison to the big picture tonight, but early results suggest that we’ll pass permanent free breakfast and lunch for schoolkids and a raise for the cafeteria workers

no matter what I’m calling the night a win

A dishwasher is already a robot that does your dishes

You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.

absolutely not, lol

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

I love when you ask an autistic person for something and they're like STAND BY and you know you're about to get the absolute best resources available.

ah yes, the White Whale Way

I want to know why they need my donations to do their damn jobs. credible reasons, thanks very much.

the donation texts never answer these questions. instead they just insist that somehow, me donating to their campaign (??) will help pass legislation, tomorrow. and act like people like George Conway and Gavin Newsom have sufficient credibility that I'll trust their endorsement.

the spammy PAC donation texts are bad enough, but even the semi-legitimate seeming ones are still so useless to me.

who are you? what are you running for? why do you need the money? what will you do with it? why are you better than the next person?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

thus the invention of Strava, for when you need to know how quickly you can bike up each and every Tall Hill

Tall Hill theory is here for seattle too!

solving all your Tall Hill-related problems: San Francisco tech is here for you

perhaps your laundry needs to be done, but the laundromat is up a tall hill?