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a.k.a. katyakoshka or peripheralobse1
Gothy left-leaning mom w/trigeminal neuralgia. Knitter, reader, casual gamer, drinker of coffee & tea. Big on lurking. Trans rights are human rights. ADHD-minimum neurospicy. Caretaker of 3 cats. (she/her)
Gothy left-leaning mom w/trigeminal neuralgia. Knitter, reader, casual gamer, drinker of coffee & tea. Big on lurking. Trans rights are human rights. ADHD-minimum neurospicy. Caretaker of 3 cats. (she/her)
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This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
They're just taking an ax to the Civil Rights Act
Department of Justice Rule Restores Equal Protection for All in Civil Rights Enforcement
Today, the Justice Department issued a final rule updating its regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964. This rule ensures that our nation’s federal civil rights laws are firmly grounded...
www.justice.gov
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.
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Three Tweets That Capture The Entire Elon Musk Free Speech Con
We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep…
We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep…
Three Tweets That Capture The Entire Elon Musk Free Speech Con
We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep dive ever could. Let’s start with this one: That’s Elon announcing that: Falsely labeling non-violent people as “fascist” or “Nazi” should be treated as incitement to murder…
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December 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Three Tweets That Capture The Entire Elon Musk Free Speech Con
We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep…
We've spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate the entire con more clearly than any deep…
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The thing I have found about my current job is that there is no piece of learning I do not use. It's not just about facts (although those, too).
Learning to do proofs taught me patience with material and the skill of banging my head against a brick wall.
Learning to do proofs taught me patience with material and the skill of banging my head against a brick wall.
December 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The thing I have found about my current job is that there is no piece of learning I do not use. It's not just about facts (although those, too).
Learning to do proofs taught me patience with material and the skill of banging my head against a brick wall.
Learning to do proofs taught me patience with material and the skill of banging my head against a brick wall.
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If you put powerful AI models directly into the hands of every American warrior, we are going to create so much porn. New frontiers of porn. Porn you haven't even imagined.
Pete Hegseth: "The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you put powerful AI models directly into the hands of every American warrior, we are going to create so much porn. New frontiers of porn. Porn you haven't even imagined.
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Soon French media will start their annual debate whether a Christmas tree is sustainable 🤡.
These well-meaning discussions about items of limited ecological impact, but really important to many people, are truly harmful. They help interested parties pretend ecologists want to ban anything fun.
These well-meaning discussions about items of limited ecological impact, but really important to many people, are truly harmful. They help interested parties pretend ecologists want to ban anything fun.
December 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Soon French media will start their annual debate whether a Christmas tree is sustainable 🤡.
These well-meaning discussions about items of limited ecological impact, but really important to many people, are truly harmful. They help interested parties pretend ecologists want to ban anything fun.
These well-meaning discussions about items of limited ecological impact, but really important to many people, are truly harmful. They help interested parties pretend ecologists want to ban anything fun.
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@jorkussmellington.bsky.social On coffee (and really, I would say most other food-related questions OTHER than unchecked consumption of red meat, which the biggest single food-related source of emissions and unsustainable use of land/water resources), this post makes an excellent point!
December 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
@jorkussmellington.bsky.social On coffee (and really, I would say most other food-related questions OTHER than unchecked consumption of red meat, which the biggest single food-related source of emissions and unsustainable use of land/water resources), this post makes an excellent point!
It sounds like it's just becoming another voc ed school, which is fine, but is not a revolutionary reinvention.
It's the reverse of the process where vocationally-oriented regional schools & teachers' colleges became four-year universities offering a liberal arts education.
It's the reverse of the process where vocationally-oriented regional schools & teachers' colleges became four-year universities offering a liberal arts education.
I mean, in what sense will you be able to say the college “survived”?
December 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It sounds like it's just becoming another voc ed school, which is fine, but is not a revolutionary reinvention.
It's the reverse of the process where vocationally-oriented regional schools & teachers' colleges became four-year universities offering a liberal arts education.
It's the reverse of the process where vocationally-oriented regional schools & teachers' colleges became four-year universities offering a liberal arts education.
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This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
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Fuck this airport shit
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Fuck this airport shit
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this is the Watchmen of webcomics
Dinosaur Comics!
see if you re-read the comic you will find that god is correct!! is it magic, or is it an animated gif?? I'LL NEVER TELL
www.qwantz.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
this is the Watchmen of webcomics
This is how I know I "belong" in academia on some level, even if I missed the boat (I've had a lot going on, between history and health).
these are two slightly different things but the point is that academia runs on two things: helping others and holding grudges. often at the same time and for the same people. we cannot lose this
December 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is how I know I "belong" in academia on some level, even if I missed the boat (I've had a lot going on, between history and health).
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these are two slightly different things but the point is that academia runs on two things: helping others and holding grudges. often at the same time and for the same people. we cannot lose this
December 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
these are two slightly different things but the point is that academia runs on two things: helping others and holding grudges. often at the same time and for the same people. we cannot lose this
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When are we to expect newspaper front-page interview features with Dr. Beth Upton about her two-year ordeal of having her right to anonymity removed and her name dragged through the mud and being decried as a sexual predator only for a tribunal to clear her and find SHE was discriminated against?
Sandie Peggie's agony...
BBC News - Scotland's papers: Sandie Peggie 'agony' as NHS board 'harassed nurse'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Scotland's papers: Sandie Peggie 'agony' as NHS board 'harassed nurse'
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scotland's papers: Sandie Peggie 'agony' as NHS board 'harassed nurse'
A review of the front page stories from the daily newspapers in Scotland.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
When are we to expect newspaper front-page interview features with Dr. Beth Upton about her two-year ordeal of having her right to anonymity removed and her name dragged through the mud and being decried as a sexual predator only for a tribunal to clear her and find SHE was discriminated against?
One form of trigeminal neuralgia is post-herpetic neuralgia, from having shingles.
Trigeminal neuralgia is known as one of those "suicide diseases" due to the intensity of the pain you experience.
As someone with trigeminal neuralgia, yeah, you don't want it!
Trigeminal neuralgia is known as one of those "suicide diseases" due to the intensity of the pain you experience.
As someone with trigeminal neuralgia, yeah, you don't want it!
PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.
I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
December 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
One form of trigeminal neuralgia is post-herpetic neuralgia, from having shingles.
Trigeminal neuralgia is known as one of those "suicide diseases" due to the intensity of the pain you experience.
As someone with trigeminal neuralgia, yeah, you don't want it!
Trigeminal neuralgia is known as one of those "suicide diseases" due to the intensity of the pain you experience.
As someone with trigeminal neuralgia, yeah, you don't want it!
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This morning I spent time looking up citations for a student. By the time I got to the third (with zero results), I asked where they got the list, and the student admitted they were from Google’s AI summary.
Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?
Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This morning I spent time looking up citations for a student. By the time I got to the third (with zero results), I asked where they got the list, and the student admitted they were from Google’s AI summary.
Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?
Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?
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"I think much of the US stock market’s growth is held up by how long everybody is willing to be gaslit by Jensen Huang into believing that they need more GPUs."
NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
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At the end of November, NVIDIA put out an internal memo (that was leaked to Barron's reporter
www.wheresyoured.at
December 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"I think much of the US stock market’s growth is held up by how long everybody is willing to be gaslit by Jensen Huang into believing that they need more GPUs."
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I got an advent calendar for the first time since I was a kid, this year.
It's a cookie calendar.
Fuck Dr. Oz.
It's a cookie calendar.
Fuck Dr. Oz.
NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I got an advent calendar for the first time since I was a kid, this year.
It's a cookie calendar.
Fuck Dr. Oz.
It's a cookie calendar.
Fuck Dr. Oz.
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Reinforcing my opinion that AI doesn't improve thinking, it just enables; it makes it easier to bring good ideas to life, but it will do the same work for bad ideas & the bad ideas outnumber the good ideas *at least* 9:1
December 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Reinforcing my opinion that AI doesn't improve thinking, it just enables; it makes it easier to bring good ideas to life, but it will do the same work for bad ideas & the bad ideas outnumber the good ideas *at least* 9:1
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The thing I try to explain the most to those who don’t live here is that the Nuzzis of the world live in Washington (the place that deserves your ire) and the rest of us live in D.C., a collection of diverse, mostly quiet, walkable residential neighborhoods with no federal representation
I live in DC. You think “official Washington” didn’t care what Trump administration 2 was likely to do?
Talk to someone who works at NIH. Or State. Or CFPB. Or DOJ. They all knew what was at stake. They were all scared + furious.
And reporters like Nuzzi saw none of it because they didn’t care.
Talk to someone who works at NIH. Or State. Or CFPB. Or DOJ. They all knew what was at stake. They were all scared + furious.
And reporters like Nuzzi saw none of it because they didn’t care.
December 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The thing I try to explain the most to those who don’t live here is that the Nuzzis of the world live in Washington (the place that deserves your ire) and the rest of us live in D.C., a collection of diverse, mostly quiet, walkable residential neighborhoods with no federal representation
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What a time to have just watched Succession
Jared Kushner's involvement was "not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar."
fancy that
fancy that
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
What a time to have just watched Succession
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andreamatranga.substack.com/p/benefit-of... I wrote a thing contrasting Kitano with Tarantino's relationship with violence
Benefit of Carnage: Tarantino, Kitano and the Art of Violence
When Quentin Tarantino recently dismissed Paul Dano as the wrong “type”—too soft, too twitchy, insufficiently heroic, it was not a comment on his skill, but on his temperament. The man does not fit in...
andreamatranga.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
andreamatranga.substack.com/p/benefit-of... I wrote a thing contrasting Kitano with Tarantino's relationship with violence
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"This is the very soul of liberal democracy as a living principle, that every person has inherent worth and that society is the collective product of such inviolable individuals." www.liberalcurrents.com/american-fre...
American Freakshow: Our Reality TV-Driven Media Is Killing Our Democracy
The lurid details of Olivia Nuzzi's transgressions and the popularity of "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" derive from the same culture of voyeurism.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"This is the very soul of liberal democracy as a living principle, that every person has inherent worth and that society is the collective product of such inviolable individuals." www.liberalcurrents.com/american-fre...
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I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
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It's like the grey goo nanotechnology apocalypse, but for digital information.
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It's like the grey goo nanotechnology apocalypse, but for digital information.
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And they think psychologically breaking a partner will get her to stay
I think an important thing to understand about brofluencer ideology is that they do not just deny that being toxic and shitty makes you a less appealing partner, they insist that women are only genuinely attracted to toxic and shitty men and being kind will instead make women lose respect for you.
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
And they think psychologically breaking a partner will get her to stay