Dr. ShinyGoth

i'm not, like, making up that 15 years ago everyone pretty much agreed that it was bad to publish and profit from open nazis, right? like this whole thing of anyone over the age of 35 defending substack is a new development for them too?

At any time Republican senators could refuse to confirm any more appointees until RFK Jr. is removed from his position and HHS returns to a basic commitment to science and medicine, including vaccines.

If historians know something it is this: nothing is inevitable just because it is popular. AI is not an exception. Nor is fascism.

Home video aficionados of a certain age will remember that Betamax owned 100% of the market in 1975, and a year later VHS was introduced and completely destroyed Betamax within five years

And I have to say, as a founder of feminist indie media who has yet to pay herself for a year+ of work, I would not start with "fund my media coop" if I had 10 rich lefty fuckos in front of me, I think there are better and more impactful ways to spend the money

It took a week for even LGBTQ media to cover what happened here. A decade ago, bathroom bans inspired massive boycotts and cost a sitting governor his seat. Now, it's barely a whisper.

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We're watching the Trump administration systematically purge trans people from public life and the fucking media just hand waives it away as being about sports. This is why the Dem capitulation on this is so dangerous. It obscures and legitimizes what is being done to us.

Anne Rice books

Anne Rice books

It should come as no surprise I’m an avid collector of vintage Anne Rice books. I have A LOT, so I’ve made a few from my collection available for purchase!

Vintage Vampire Chronicles: ko-fi.com/s/1562610704

Other works by Anne Rice, written under her pen name Anne Rampling: ko-fi.com/s/c743a6128c

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Deep To The Heart Of Chi-Town

DEEP TO THE HEART OF CHI-TOWN

Pete Buttigieg clarifies recent comments around ‘fairness’ of transgender kids’ in sports “I see this issue being used to divide,” the former transportation secretary told independent journalist Aaron Parnas.

Buttigieg has triangulated himself into endorsing the “states’ rights” argument segregationists made, just wrapped in McKinsey speak.

Like, he acknowledges that trans folks are a tiny, vulnerable minority community. But then he proceeds to throw them to the wolves anyway.

I've never understood this. In 2020, I read something re: all the center-left online newspapers are paywalled (RIP, center-left-ish NYT and WaPo since then), and all the crazy RW propaganda online papers are free, and since then I've even unable to UNsee it. Meanwhile, LW billionaires do nothing.

I'll make no friends among the monied set who i should be courting with a lot of ass-kissing, but as an indie feminist coop co-founder i have basically nothing to lose:

there's no such thing today as "genuinely liberal media" that's even close to comparable to Fox or other right-wing outfits

Research is poetry!

research and writing are JOYS

We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.

I thought they were non-fuckable though

Logging on

(seeing the president wandering around on the roof while the economy adds 3 jobs per month amid weekly pedophilia revelations) time to sign a billion dollar settlement with this man

And not just on the polite side of things. Organized Black radicals more often than not found Belafonte's money underwriting their efforts. The man was a genuine revolutionary.

Dear historians:

If your book comes through my production department with AI, and it creates any extra work or expense for my team (e.g., the CE has to double-check all the citations because they're AI bullshit), I will personally cancel your fucking book.

Off the schedule. Gone.

If I see it in an article I'm reviewing, instant rejection and recommendation to ban from the journal, and warn others in the field.

Total scorched Earth shaming.

What’s your favorite ending to a movie?

I had a hard time picking, and I maintain that Silence of the Lambs has the *best* ending, but my favorite?

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A “certain amount of rights” for the “host body”🫠

No but you might have a more entertaining afternoon instead.

reminding myself once again that when one of musk's shithead teens makes news you cannot simply search "big balls" and get relevant information on b sky dot app

NEWS: The Library of Congress has launched a significant upgrade to the Chronicling America website, the nation’s leading free resource for historical U.S. newspapers. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

You must use this tool which is so helpful and one of the skills you must learn and teach is how to recognize WHEN IT HALLUCINATES.

"For example, a student who drafts an essay and uses an LLM to refine its language or sharpen phrasing will need strong writing and analytical skills to evaluate whether AI has served its purpose."

This is absolutely pointless and circular so it's good that it's also never going to happen.

Counterpoint to the AHA Committee: it is NOT OUR JOB TO TEACH AI literacy. It is our job to teach students history, critical thinking; how to interrogate and analyse sources, primary and secondary; how to write and weave historical narratives; how to communicate history to the public and more.

Seriously, fuck off.
I say that with all due gravity.