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CZM Book Club: Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar - Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff | iHeart <p>Margaret reads you a story about yearning and magic and folklore and teenage gays.</p><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>

@margaret.bsky.social reading Sofia Samatar's Selkie Stories are for Losers was exactly what today needed. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

#THEOLOGY

There's some in the freezer, should you want to trek to Boston!

Oooh.

We're all dunking on this post, but we really need to ask ourselves if we would do any better in his position.

Would any of us do better? Would we? Yes. Yes, we would. We would *all* do better than this.

My GOD

In the foreground there's a piece of foccacia with mozzarella visible inside. It's held over the larger foccacia, sitting I. A cooling rack on a counter with various kitchen stuff in the background.

My foccacia is filled with garlic butter and cheese, and @mostlybree.kitrocha.com is partly to blame. 😸

I remain disappointed that I didn't grab the conversation and ask if those were the buildings with the little t's on them...but I wasn't moving fast enough.

This is reminding me of the evening when I was ingressing in a park with a group of people, and there was also something Jesus-y going on, and someone asked if we knew about church.

The people I was with were nicer (and far churchier) than I am, so they just said yes, and moved on.

If our country is going to be run by evil people, I want them as dumb as humanly possible.

History students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally.

Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.

Unauthorized Bread: Real rebellions involve jailbreaking IoT toasters Cory Doctorow’s book, Radicalized, is up for a CBC award. To celebrate, here’s an excerpt.

Unauthorized Bread from Cory Doctorow's Radicalized almost made me cry several times... but it is exactly the hope-read that I needed.

arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/...

This is one of my all-time favorites... and a recipe and a half fits on my sheet pan, and it freezes delightfully. A few nights of "feels like I made really real food for myself" mid semester is fantastic, too.

big @lissaharris.bsky.social energy

skynet could NEVER

When I was 4 or 5, my mom would sometimes talk about "being on autopilot" when she headed the wrong way in the car. I thought it was an actual car system, not a human habit.

Wisdom. 💚🦉

Fair!

Timely: @ihatejamesdobson.bsky.social is a delightful listen, if you need a refresher on why James Dobson is the worst, or just enjoy the send up.

A zoomed in photo of the right side of a white woman's torso. She's wearing a pink/burgundy striped shawl-collared pajama top, printed with a jaunty smattering of galloping zebras.

I mostly went to Costco today to get naan and food court dinner that wouldn't result in dirty dishes... but these adorable pajamas snuck home with me. (August is *far* too hot for them. But soon...)

A golden loaf of foccacia with flaky sea salt on the surface, resting on a cooling rack.

A hand holds a chunk of of foccacia smeared with honey goat cheese above an aqua plate with a larger hunk of foccacia and a knife on it.

I made foccacia as an extended version of pomodoros for myself this afternoon/evening (every 1.5 hours you have to go do a thing with the dough!). Also, honey goat cheese. #3doughs60recipes

In a church with a children's sermon I'd be really tempted to have one about how we don't talk about people's bodies. But very pointedly talk to the congregation instead of the kids. (I'm pretty sure that's not really a thing in catholic churches, but it's a really clear image I now have...)

A tattooed knee, I think, featuring Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm in an apple car. Text reads: You got a fast car. I got a plan to get us out of here.

This tattoo, by InkedMongoose on IG, is perfect. No notes.

“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas:

NYC
Philly
Durham, NC
All of Massachusetts

I will add more as I get them done.
Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

It's so good!

Sitting on a train that is fully plastered in GLP-1 ads featuring women who look like all the women around me and thinking about how a culture of aspirational thinness is essential to both patriarchy and complacency in the face of fascism. You hate yourself and everyone around you, don’t you?

Edward Magnetic and the 69 Love Fields

I guess that "admit" rubbed me the wrong way - there's no entity that can fess up to something, just new streams of words. The way we are all driven to personify LLMs is pernicious.

They produce text that looks like an admission when you ask them questions that would prompt that response. Its explanations of what it did wrong can also be total gibberish.

Is it (or can it be) not the only time you ask them to correct "student" work, with the others being made up? In addition to what Erin is saying, I think unless you draw attention to it being actual student work, current students are unlikely to assume it is.

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary. Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.

Note the border inscription.