Kristin Netterstrom Higgins

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I’m fond of the college student debt answer. They couldn’t even go to the bathroom without permission and now you want them to solve world peace?

I have deleted many replies to this.

Oh Arkansas …

We've fallen down that hole...it's very interesting! Enjoy

Congratulations!!

*Melani* because I care

As Melanie says, we do not care

Don’t go chasing waterfalls!

And 😭😭 by desktop I mean whatever fresh hell is on my laptop and “in the cloud.”

Colleague and I were setting up LinkedIn ads yesterday. Colleague asked LI's new "AI assistant" where to find a field. It gave wrong answer. Colleague said "tell me I'm not crazy. It's not here, is it?" It was not. He reverted to old interface. I found answer via help page. We are not saving time

I love this times pie (which my phone changed to lie)

I think I clicked on a button somewhere to turn that off but now copilot harasses me by not showing all the available apps for at least a minute. Today I *gasp* opened outlook on my desktop and cried.

I don’t want AI. I want my teenager’s shower to turn off after 5 minutes.

This makes me want to know more about who was selling tile and where they were sourcing their stuff.

I don’t want AI. I want dog hair to stop accumulating on the kitchen mat.

Wow! Is this color common?

I don’t want AI. I want my child’s school to provide lockers.

No. It wouldn’t be.

ACLU urges school districts to follow federal court ruling on Ten Commandments, not state law - Arkansas Times Arkansas's Ten Commandments law is still in place for most school districts after a narrow court order on Monday.

A federal judge said the state's requirement to post the Ten Commandments in school classrooms was "obviously unconstitutional." So why was his injunction limited to 4 Northwest Ark districts, rather than statewide? We break down the reasons here.

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Mine were infected because my long hair got in one hole…. I repierced them myself a few too many times over the years and they eventually became uneven. If I had just known the ease of a tattoo shop!

I had my ears pierced at Claire’s many moons ago and had an awful recovery experience. Let my holes close up and finally a few years ago went to a tattoo shop to have them repierced. It was a fantastic experience!

Book cover for Kenneth Barnes’ Mob Rule in the Ozarks. A picture of an old steam train appears below the title.

Super excited to add this Kenneth Barnes book to my shelf.

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that t...

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent
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I’m appreciating the late UALR Professor Cal Ledbetter today and his publications in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly

Arkansas has played a significant role in recent court decisions related to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, specifically Section 2. This section deals with filing federal lawsuits over voting rights violations.

Attempts to end the poll tax in Arkansas started in 1937 but voters rejected several attempts to repeal the poll tax until 1964, when they beat the clock on the adoption of the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That same 1964 state amendment created Arkansas' voter registration system.

A 1964 study from the Arkansas Voter Project found that only 42% of eligible Black Arkansans were registered to vote compared to 72% of eligible white Arkansans.

The 60th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act prompts me to share how one of the earliest constitutional amendments approved in Arkansas was the $1 poll tax. Revenue from the poll tax went to Arkansas schools, but as we know it also prevented many Arkansans from voting.

This case is also full of racism and gender bias.