Rach Gonzalez

Additionally you have until midnight to sign up for this library mystery box raffle if you are a NYC resident who has signed this letter: forms.gle/aRJ2ncZaJ6iz...

Do Moderates Win More Elections? | On the Media | WNYC Studios Why moderation might not be the silver bullet Democratic strategists seemed to crave.

I thought this was a really good and cogent analysis of the problem with pundits saying Dems have to moderate by @gelliottmorris.com and @onthemedia.bsky.social! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

The Zohran Effect.

This election night, I’m glad to make my loyalties known. @hellgatenyc.com (and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) 4 NYC!!

Email newsletter from The Chronicle of Higher Education in which the first featured article is titled "Pauses in Ph.D. Admissions Are a Blessing in Disguise" and the second is titled "There Has Never Been a Better Time to Start a Ph.D."

Come *on*

I wonder, too, if the manner the info is conveyed is relevant. Had the dems *actually* talked about LGBTQ+ issues, they would have done it in a "we should support people who deserve it" way instead of a "these people absolutely don't deserve support, which is why we won't support them" way.

Also worth highlighting that *still*, almost a year and a half later, access to CU's main campus for alumni and non-affiliates requires prior request and approval.

At 11am today (Oct. 6), Columbia announced that starting at noon — 1hr later — they wouldn't be allowing students/affiliates to request guest access to campus for Oct. 6/7. Additionally, for requests made in time, the guest's presence had to be deemed "critical to the University's academic mission."

If I ran a rodeo I would give people hats that said, “not my first rodeo” on their second time at the rodeo. Just to reaffirm they’ve accomplished something.

Everyone go to the official Housing and Urban Development website (www.hud.gov) right now. Also read this article: www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-omb-...

I saw Maris Kreizman's panel at the Brooklyn Book Fest — the BBF being one of the best things NYC has given me — on breaking down & rebuilding. A testament to this sentiment. In joke for those also there: I hope Scaachi Koul does not successfully divorce doula Maris & Josh. Everyone else, but them.

In addition to the dangers of high fever as others have mentioned, gestational stress -- both physiological and psychological as could be experienced while in pain -- is linked to deleterious outcomes for both the gestational parent and the offspring (ethos: neuroscientist.)

The weird giant boy statue from the Art Institute of Chicago?!? Love your work, creepily standing there, greeting museum-goers, 👈 finger guns. (Off-topic)

I think we'll find the only "doing politics right" is to be the hegemonically empowered, explaining why that power is just to anyone, empowered and disempowered alike, in any forum, even tone optional as long as there are more of you than there are of whoever you're talking to.

Would they say that protesting is wrong? Would they say it both when the left and the right do it? Is speaking to an elected official at a town hall? Is holding a town hall? Is writing an op-ed? Is asking a question at a Charlie Kirk event?

I've re-thought and while the below is true, the hypocracy is well-tread. I more want to frame it as, all this suggestion of Kirk as "doing it the right way," etc. insinuates that he is in contrast to those doing it the wrong way, but who are these people? What are these wrong politics?

Two, it's a total double standard. Hasan Piker, who regularly engages w/ ppl from the other end of the political spectrum, would never be considered "doing it the right way" or "a polite young man" by the right. A leftist, a liberal even, couldn't speak w/ any tone & have it be considered measured.

Not entirely sure why this post made me think of this, but two points: One, Kirk was not particularly polite. He was polite relative to, like, screaming, but he regularly denigrated and belittled people to their faces and not in a clever way. Ad hominem attack, etc.

Yoooooooo!!

Idk, it doesnt at all say what MH's saying? She was miserable justifying doing all the household & financial labor for her family, then she realized she didn't have to & most of the reason she & her husband both thought she did was patriarchy. Bit misandrist, but no need to invalidate her sexuality.

I've read the article. It doesn't get into data, but very clearly sets out the thesis, "society perpetuates heteronormativity on economic grounds. the data doesn't support a benefit and in fact it can be harmful. realizing that allowed me to feel emotionally/economically liberated in bisexuality."

I'm generally a fan of Hobbes' and this will come off as overly extreme, but this take feels...like it comes from a place of questionable reasoning and motivation.

I suspect we present these narratives about the 24/7 CEO as a way to deify them as super-capable, justified b/c they suffer, every thought is labor. But ya know, if by the definition of them being mine, each thought was worth billions of dollars, sure, yeah, maybe I'd call them work, too.

He has incentive to categorize this thinking as "work" to justify getting money to do it. I am p cynical abt venture tech, but I don't think this is inherently cynical. I think this is what I am doing when I say I'm going to work as if this is the same as a tradesperson or a customer service worker.

Obviously, JW does have a profit motive, but nevertheless, his "labor" is highly indirectly correlated to it. So, what value does it add for him to be thinking about the business while at the movies? It's functionally could have been done anywhere at anytime, even potentially by a co-worker.

This causes me personal angst because I want money because I want to live a good life enabled by money and I do not want another job because I like being a scientist and I think the world should have scientists. But I acknowledge and actually think it's good that we have no direct profit motive.

Oh, this makes me think of so many things. For one, the nature of "work." What is "work" when decoupled from product and service? I think about this a lot as someone who also has an insular "use your brain"/"figure something out" job and not a "deliver a good" job.

Incredible news!! I have been missing the @endocrinesociety.bsky.social as a homebase since my transition to epigenetics and a big part of why is the community Lori built and supported there. Academic science feels bleak right now, but Lori is a laureate 😎💪.