Caitlin Pollock

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

virginia tech's ETD repository has been crashing so often from being scraped by so many bots that they've had to close off external, non-university access. In case you needed more evidence of how LLM training hurts open access.

as she was cleaning out her office when she retired @amaniras.bsky.social found the diversity plan she wrote for U-M LSA in the 1970s. 🙃🙃

DIY Methods 2024

I have not done research zines (yet!) but I have always been so intrigued by the DIY Methods conference where all the of the accepted papers are zines that are mailed to attendees. (They also host the zine on their website) diymethods.net

As distressed as I am by what 47's actions mean in real time and the immediate future, the idea of what rebuilding institutions is going to look like *whenever* the US gets to the other side of this, with so much institutional knowledge being wiped out, is even more distressing.

but alas naming things after people is a funding source for universities

i said something similar during the exhibit room renaming stuff, just name things after trees! Oak Hall, Elm Dorm etc.

NEW — Keith Sonderling, Trump’s Deputy Secretary of Labor, has been named the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an agency source tells me. He’ll arrive tomorrow at their office with DOGE and their security detail.

Yes

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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fed is best! i have been relying on oatmeal cups for lunch because i am unable to make enough decisions to pack a lunch