Caitlin Pollock

When my friends found out I was moving to Boston, they were so worried about the racism that no one bothered to mention the goddamn turkeys.

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Celebrating Douglass Day here at Northeastern! (And I believe this is my 7th year planning a local Douglass Day celebration!)

i also used ecce romani in my middle/high school lol

a night of insomnia only makes being bullied by workday worse

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

also you name your stuff after evil stuff from LOTR. I sometimes wonder how poor the reading comprehension of him and other LOTR-loving tech bros are.

i am on winter break. i have a stack of books and several Masterpiece Theater detective shows queued up. let’s go (nap).

some days i’m convinced that I live below a herd of elephant the way my neighbors stomp around. they shake my light fixtures!

lonely M

a box of mylar pouches of zines and whistles

using shared resources, colleagues and I got together to put together zine and whistle kits. the letterpress studio 3d printed us the whistles.

Its the 897. Its visible but partially cutoff at 28s

graffiti that reads “thus what union-busting looks like”. the graffiti is on the side of the building of the former Starbucks Steam Kettle location in Boston.

Zohran Mamdani campaigned a lot and appears not to hate the voters whose support he's seeking. Here's what other Democrats can learn from his unorthodox strategy.

cover of their mixtape

it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby

They got Claudine Gay out of the Harvard presidency over a footnote.

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

This reminds of the DocNow project called Social Humans which were labels you could use in social media datasets and one of the labels was "bot" to mark content created by bots. Unfortunately the links to the project no longer work and I can't find any updates about it.

The Human Centipede is a tremendous allegory for LLMs and image generators

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

Every day I draw closer to actually planning what was initially a joke of an idea — a private conference where people who feel absolutely insane in our regular life for not believing robots will save us from our ogliarchs can just get together and latent to be normal for 36 hours. Over drinks.

a screenshot of MOHELA’s dashboard showing all six of my loans have zero balances.

after so many frustrating and painful months, I finally received Public Service Loan Forgiveness for all my loans. I’m freeeee!

It was three dudes. Two guys packed, one doing the living room, kitchen, dining room, and the other guy doing the bedroom and my home office, and one guy loaded them onto the truck with a dolly, sometimes taking 4 or 5 boxes with him. I just provided donuts and coffee, and stayed out of their way.

i also splurged when i moved from Michigan to Boston, and had the movers pack for me. It was freeing. It took them 4 hours to pack everything and load it on the truck

definition of FAFO. karma is real.

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

ugh that’s gross

Scalar has been down since April 7th with no updates since then scalar.me/anvc/

"They won't pay taxes" is eugenics speak

But it is also hypocrisy of the highest order coming from the party and class of people who regularly refuse to pay their share