alice in the underland.

i’ve re-opened my private practice, and started blogging a bit about psychotherapy practice www.jessileejackson.com/blog-1/blog-...

"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." –

Grace Lee Boggs

Review bombing is a key weapon in the culture wars. Yes, they work -- and can destroy lives and livelihoods. ICYMI I wrote a history of the American review bomb for @flaminghydra.com! flaminghydra.com/issue-425/#r...

a satellite is a type of angel

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

...this is very basic rhetoric here. Zitron first connects with the reader and how it's about them, then he pulls from an anecdote by relating.

His core point is pretty simple: big companies create easy products to sign up for, and difficult ones to leave. This is a very well known phenomenon.

I genuinely wonder when people are gonna start voting with their wallets and stop rewarding companies for using AI, Arc Raiders using it for genAI voices is frankly disgusting and it blows my mind that some people will defend it, and now Arc Raiders is sitting at 3rd top selling on Steam

The superpower of books like Sapiens is that they require expertise in like 12 academic fields to debunk. So you get these super detailed takedowns of small sections that look to laypeople like nitpicking.

we've got you covered, assignments, short readings, syllabus language, o captain speeches, the works! against-a-i.com

Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.

go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary

"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

I get 100% more information about the performance you want from a crappy scratch track recorded by Jeff in the back office on his phone, than I get from the eerily dead-sounding stolen voice clone of a colleague.

For Prison Banned Books Week, I want to say: it is worse than maybe it ever has been regarding censorship in prisons. It is worse than five years ago. It is worse than 50 years ago.

Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will

“Academics Don’t Talk About Our Mental Illnesses” In the spring of 2019, I won the lottery. I was offered a tenure-track job in English literature. Then, almost immediately, I stumbled into a depressive episode so acute I don’t remember much of my fi...

tomorrow I’m visiting my beloved colleague in creative writing’s class to discuss my Chronicle article on mental illness in the academy, which she assigned. I just reread it to prepare & cried—my sources & I were so brave.

here’s a version w/o the paywall:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

there is no unified queer & trans community, there is only the active but unfinished struggle to build one

Here's one thing you can do: a disney+ subscription is around 16 dollars.

Go on Patreon/Kofi, find your top 16 creators/youtubers with less than a million subscribers and give them each $1 a month.

Changes lives, believe me

Does Trans+ media representation only work when it's explicitly labelled? Does trans media have an obligation to explicitly label its trans characters as such?

Does Trans+ media representation only work when it's explicitly labelled? 👇

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/does-trans-media-representation-only-work-when-its-explicitly-labelled

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Doaa. Doaa is the mother of 3 children Omar, 10, Yasmine, 8 and Youseff, 4 but she primarily started this fundraiser to help her sister Amal who lost a husband and son and is trying to support her children Hiam, 13, Omar, 12 and Jawad, 7.

I get the sense that some VAs see inclusion/safe space as a social currency instead of actual principle unfortunately. The current statements (vs their lack of .... anything honestly in the last fee months) feel so performative and self-serving.

I saw new actors recasting OG VAs speaking up against the latest fuckery too. I think it is extremely rich to make inclusion and safe space your huge moral grandstanding when you take roles from your striking colleagues protesting for better work rights ngl 🥱🥱🥱

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Baraa. Baraa is the mother of 3 children Masa, 6, Ibrahim, 4 and Maha, 7 months. Tragically Maha was killed after a nearby bombing caused gasses to overwhelm her little lungs. Masa is in the hospital because of kidney issues from malnutrition.

For all its worth, as a part of a certain fandom, I appreciate your voices and insight — it is always good to hear perspective from someone who is actually in the industry.

On Surviving Trans Genocide As fascists openly call for trans people to be institutionalized, forcibly detransitioned, and labeled as terrorists, we must remember how trans existence is undefeatable, and how trans people will fi...

In the face of mounting threats of genocide against the trans community, how can trans people still find hope?

In our latest, Mady Castigan (@madycast.com) reminds us that despite the doom and fear spreading across social media, we will survive this genocide as we have survived them before.

Re: Frankenstein An audio drama adaptation of your favorite gothic sci-fi novel, from the team behind Re: Dracula! | Check out 'Re: Frankenstein' on Indiegogo.

Wouldn't it be cool if someone adapted Frankenstein with an entire cast of trans actors?

Oh hey, we're doing that! But we need your help to fund it!

igg.me/at/refrank

I see people on social media who have gotten their feelings hurt sometimes continue to lash out online and I wish I could reach across the screen and just say: "I see that you are hurt and you need to log off now."

If you have opportunities to get out and do things with others, jump at the opportunity: meetings, classes, social events, etc... Get out and be with other people. It's essential. If virtual is more convenient, then take advantage of those opportunities to be with other people.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.