Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈

MANDATORY TIMELINE CLEANSE

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

You in another decade

BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon

At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me

LLMs are not gaining consciousness. They are not showing symptoms of anxiety.

Anthropic’s CEO, on the other hand, I hope, is gaining consciousness and experiencing anxiety.

I have one that I bought in 1987. It’s got a few holes, but I still wear it occasionally.

'An Iranian missile landed on him': Sky News speaks to son of expat who died in United Arab Emirates Saleh Ahmed, 55, was delivering drinking water when he was fatally struck by debris after a missile attack on the first day of the war. His son tells Sky News he does not believe his father knew the c...

Victims in our countries seldom get profiled and humanised in Western media. This is a portrait of a life cut short. What a tragedy.

"Saleh Ahmed (55) lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under £500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children."

ICYMI: I spoke with legendary DC Comics publisher Jenette Kahn, in the first half of a wide-ranging interview about her life in comics.

I was definitely wrong.

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LLMs are not gaining consciousness. They are not showing symptoms of anxiety.

Anthropic’s CEO, on the other hand, I hope, is gaining consciousness and experiencing anxiety.

61 years ago today, a group of 600 peaceful protestors began a 54-mile march from Selma to the steps of the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery— in response to the police murder of 26-year-old Army veteran Jimmie Lee Jackson during an attempted march in Marion, AL two weeks prior.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

Great shirt!

That's quite a beard on you!

The answer is 3 doughnuts (in my youth, it would have been at least 6).

U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to “take all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”

I'll keep you posted.

My first real trip out of the US was also to Ireland.

We could have been siblings!

homer simpson is holding a plate with a donut on it . Alt: homer simpson is looking at a levitating plate with a donut on it . The caption says "mmmmm...donuts"

A Saturday Morning Word Problem

I am driving to pick up 2 dozen eggs this morning. My route takes me by a shop that sells delicious doughnuts. How many doughnuts will I eat?

@reaDonald Trump Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years, to surrounding Middle Eastern Countries. They have said, "Thank you President Trump." I have said, "You're welcome!" Iran is no longer the "Bully of the Middle East," they are, instead, "THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST," and will be for many decades until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse! Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iran's bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP 263 ReTruths 808 Likes 3/7/26, 6:11 AM

6:11a on a Saturday what are we doing here.

I think the secretary of defense should not be a psychopath

Data center tax breaks cost Phoenix residents millions, city audit says Statewide tax breaks for data center developers are costing Phoenix taxpayers over $12 million in yearly revenue, a new city-sanctioned audit showed.

Data center tax breaks are costing Phoenix $12 million dollars a year.

A new audit says Arizona’s tax breaks for data center developers are costing Phoenix taxpayers the same amount as the city is spending on arts and culture initiatives and environmental programs put together.

You in another decade

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I think if you’re OK with Graham Platner working for Blackwater, you have officially lost the moral high ground required to yell at anyone else for working for a military contractor or being in the military ever again

Like sorry you gotta choose!

"bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide." apnews.com/article/suic...

a post it note that says " be gentle with yourself " Alt: a post it note that says " be gentle with yourself "

Goodnight, friends.

I'm full of pizza and chocolate, and I'm tucked into bed with a book and two cats. Be gentle with yourselves.

I love you.

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