Curlsinthelibrary

I was lucky to still be teaching while teen vogue was in print AND doing political coverage under Elaine Welteroth. It was SO PERFECT for my “non readers” I did not give af what my students read during silent reading. teen vogue became reliable AND engaging for so many of them. Now gutted. For what?

Immigrants dragged down the social capital held by a country. When race mixing occurred, it brought down the overall IQ of the country, thus impacting the social capital 🤮 he purposely exposing a new cohort of people to the beliefs of racists from the last 60 years.

The way he casually throws this disgusting rhetoric around on public stages should be disqualifying within our exec branch. But we aren’t living within a functioning govt. His predecessors of thought believed diversity was a form of communism, added inefficiencies to the free market, & that 2/

Read Quinn Slobodian’s book Hayek’s Bastards to understand the lineage of Vance’s sickening line of thinking. He is continuing the legacy of a long line of racist neoliberals who truly believed in race science (that our biological differences make us better or less fit to exist within capitalism) 1/

still can't get over what we learned today that the actual story is elon musk just copied enough of wikipedia word-for-word for grokipedia to be useful but rewrote all articles related to him to be more favorable, leaving out facts he doesn't want people to see or talk about

1. It is wild that there is enough coverage of our mayoral race that my midwestern grandma has seen enough to form opinions.

2. I swear I’ve been trying to teach her a nuanced understanding of “democratic socialism” (would be most accessible to her). Hard to break all that propaganda 🤓

This just in: My grandma (83, in the Midwest) says that Mamdani is the best choice for nyc mayor! She says to vote early! And even though she’s still skeptical of the “socialist” thing, she think something’s gone corrupt about our capitalism & billionaires should not exist!

Listen to my grandma

And to be clear, in case it’s not: they don’t have to do this. Trumps admin is using hunger as a stick to beat Dems into sacrificing ACA benefits which will fund tax breaks for the very rich. The fed govt has shut down plenty of times without sacrifice SNAP and WIC.

I don’t even know what to say. I know my Prozac is working because I’d be bawling otherwise. This is devastating and cruel. And as one of so so many children who grew up fed because of food assistance, it makes me sick to my stomach.

It makes the most sense to me, especially since she’s been spending more time in dc rather than New York this fall. And of course, I’m not invested in a federal building being decorated for a religious holiday - but the possibility that her ire for the tradition goes THIS DEEP is wild 😂

I am convinced that least 50% of the reason this demolition started NOW is because Melania didn’t want to decorate the east wing for the holidays. If I recall, it was like the first thing she bitched about after the election. She probably has a lot more to do with this than is being reported.

Lots of folks are surprised that the IRS is involved in shit like this considering they are so “broke” but they have always been part of the surveillance state in the US. They were buying spy tech in the 50s and 60s before Congress knew a thing.The IRS had their own intelligence operation.

I know a student who I am going to recommend this to IMMEDIATELY. Congratulations! Cannot wait to read it!

What a nightmare. Folks who believe everything can be quantified are a scourge. They will do anything to eliminate what they see as human discrepancy vs real data. My rheumatologist just yesterday was shocked when I told her that I don’t anything for pain under a 6. My face will not fall under norms

Oh and probably more important: you CAN opt out. nyulangone.org/patient-fami...

A receptionist tried to bully me about this today and I am PISSED about it. Langone has done plenty of training to help workers coax consent.

NYU langone’s roll out of amazon one palm scanners is collusion amongst the billionaires to the extreme. Patients hate it and they know it. The integration of Amazon one is in efforts to squeeze work out of fewer human employees. They profit, life is harder for patients and employees.

The Brooklyn Costco is a universe all of its own. It’s like all societal norms just disappear the moment folks cross that threshold.

Omg the response even provides screenshots of the lexisAI marketing material.

Image shows note contextualizing the case. It reads “In their response to the Order to show Cause, Council specified that they used Lexis+Ai, and stressed that “lexisnexis itself has publicly emphasized the reliability of its AI platform, marketing it as providing “hallucination free legal citations” specifically to avoid citation errors”

For example, this in this case, the lawyer puts on the record that they used Lexis+AI because of how the product was marketed.

Anyway, fun teaching tool methinks.

I came across this very neat AI Hallucinations in court tracker today. Two things stand out: 1st, lawyers really do be using AI in this year 2025 💀 that’s wild.

2nd: how often the specific AI tool is recorded or not. And when nexis or westlaw are named 🤓

www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

Are just ONE example. Living in nyc now, I grimace whenever I hear native nyers glorify cars. Cars are a trap. They determine a persons ability to engage in society while draining money at the same time. I grew up poor in the Midwest. My life is tainted with car troubles.

This became so clear to me the last few years I was teaching. Kids were turning 16 and wanted to buy cars, saving up money, and literally couldn’t even find the little POS cars that everyone starts with. Combined with all the surveillance, it’s no wonder teens aren’t interested in driving. & they 1/

Grateful to be able to add to this collection! As soon as I saw the ads last week, I knew they would get defaced pretty quick.

Apropos of this blog and the oligarchs

For the record, I think the citric acid via Gatorade worked. I had the Gatorade within 20 mins of taking the 2nd dose.

My only noticeable side effects were hot flashes, horrible dry mouth, and it was pretty hard to fall asleep last night.

For the first time since my dx two years ago, I accidentally took a second dose of my adhd meds this morning 😭 I forget to take them all the time but this 😭😭😭

(Downed a Gatorade hoping the citric acid will cut the absorption 🤞🏽wish me luck)

I was flabbergasted. I honestly think they only believed me because my first response was “lol” 😂

There’s a lot going on rn and this is small potatoes

but a patron just asked me to prove I wasn’t a bot on chat reference by sharing something that happened in the news yesterday 🤡

(yes, ironic because an genAI chat bot would be also be able to do this)

(yes, I did suddenly forget all news 🤓)

Absolutely!! AND THEY’RE STILL HERE. I see them every week. It’s been months and months of seeing troops every time I come and go out of certain train stations.

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