Renaissance Grrrl
@wrengr.org
Researcher and educator in linguistics, mathematics, computer sci., cognitive sci., gender/sexuality, philosophy
https://wrengr.org
she/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴♿️🦓🥄☸️🪷
https://wrengr.org
she/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴♿️🦓🥄☸️🪷
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cool to see the rich paying 0% on property, while unhoused people get displaced and their possessions mulched by the VPD...
cool cool, not at all dystopian and cruel and heartless...
cool cool, not at all dystopian and cruel and heartless...
Vancouver's 2026 draft budget has PASSED.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed.
Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others.
Full story to come.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
cool to see the rich paying 0% on property, while unhoused people get displaced and their possessions mulched by the VPD...
cool cool, not at all dystopian and cruel and heartless...
cool cool, not at all dystopian and cruel and heartless...
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
Cops murder black folks constanly. But don't overlook that pacific islanders and indigenous folks are murdered at essentially the same rates,
Abolishing ICE is only the beginning. Have you looked at your local cops?
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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Cops murder black folks constanly. But don't overlook that pacific islanders and indigenous folks are murdered at essentially the same rates,
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Abolishing ICE is only the beginning. Have you looked at your local cops?
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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Abolishing ICE is only the beginning. Have you looked at your local cops?
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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
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Some helpful advice for all you software devs:
- You cannot solve social problems with code
- You cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does
- You cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they're trying to accomplish
- You cannot solve social problems with code
- You cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does
- You cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they're trying to accomplish
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Some helpful advice for all you software devs:
- You cannot solve social problems with code
- You cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does
- You cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they're trying to accomplish
- You cannot solve social problems with code
- You cannot improve a system until you understand why it works the way it does
- You cannot produce tools for someone else without understanding how they work and what they're trying to accomplish
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If you believe only an AI hype monster would say the above, compare Drimmer and Nygren's rationale for not using AI (url in alt-text). I agree w/ them, and would add only that I was a well-prepared student, but would have struggled to produce prose as succinct and well-informed as these bots.
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you believe only an AI hype monster would say the above, compare Drimmer and Nygren's rationale for not using AI (url in alt-text). I agree w/ them, and would add only that I was a well-prepared student, but would have struggled to produce prose as succinct and well-informed as these bots.
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Children are not therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Children are not therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy
only therapy is therapy
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You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
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Just gonna use this moron’s post to recommend people read this short pamphlet from EP Thompson, “Time, Work Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism” about how our relationship to time fundamentally changed under capitalism
tems.umn.edu/pdf/EPThomps...
tems.umn.edu/pdf/EPThomps...
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Just gonna use this moron’s post to recommend people read this short pamphlet from EP Thompson, “Time, Work Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism” about how our relationship to time fundamentally changed under capitalism
tems.umn.edu/pdf/EPThomps...
tems.umn.edu/pdf/EPThomps...
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"For us, the Anacé, this would mean losing yet another piece of our spiritual and historical world. It repeats the same old pattern: large enterprises choosing Indigenous areas because they are treated as fragile, silent, and made invisible by the State itself."
I'm an Anacé chief in Brazil. For Indigenous people, resistance is not a choice
Anacé chief Roberto Ytaysaba Anacé warns that a proposed data centre and state neglect threaten his people’s land, spirituality and survival.
www.bigissue.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"For us, the Anacé, this would mean losing yet another piece of our spiritual and historical world. It repeats the same old pattern: large enterprises choosing Indigenous areas because they are treated as fragile, silent, and made invisible by the State itself."
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the "Hitan" here is حيتان ḥītān, pl. of حوت ḥūt "fish/whale".
this word also shows up in the star name Fomalhaut (α Piscis Austrini) < فم الحوت fam al-ḥūt "mouth of the fish"
this word also shows up in the star name Fomalhaut (α Piscis Austrini) < فم الحوت fam al-ḥūt "mouth of the fish"
Today: Wadi al-Hitan. The world heritage site features whale fossils, including whales with hind legs. Marine mudstone and sandstone give us the geological formations visible today. It really is a special place. Ok
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
the "Hitan" here is حيتان ḥītān, pl. of حوت ḥūt "fish/whale".
this word also shows up in the star name Fomalhaut (α Piscis Austrini) < فم الحوت fam al-ḥūt "mouth of the fish"
this word also shows up in the star name Fomalhaut (α Piscis Austrini) < فم الحوت fam al-ḥūt "mouth of the fish"
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Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
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"line go up is more important than preventing children from being preyed upon" - billionaire Mark Zuckerberg
“Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.”
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"line go up is more important than preventing children from being preyed upon" - billionaire Mark Zuckerberg
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i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
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This is the 🧵 i needed
Actually in the spirit of this conversation, what’s a decision you made about a past Thanksgiving holiday that really paid off? I think people often feel trapped by their lives. Sharing our experiences can liberate us from that sense of claustrophobia.
On the most recent episode of VIBE CHECK, we answer listener questions about Thanksgiving, most importantly “do you go celebrate with the family members you don’t even like?”
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is the 🧵 i needed
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Shorthand: If someone expresses that US Imperialism is a stain upon the earth whose sin can never be washed clean, but Soviet or Chinese imperialism is either acceptable or just didn't happen, you're talking to a tankie.
November 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Shorthand: If someone expresses that US Imperialism is a stain upon the earth whose sin can never be washed clean, but Soviet or Chinese imperialism is either acceptable or just didn't happen, you're talking to a tankie.
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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Because a lot of us are programmed to only pick at things we hate: don't be critical of things we like! Just let people enjoy things! Enjoying things is its own reward!
And no! I think that's very wrong! I believe that this kind of analysis only benefits us, as hobbyists, as artists, and as people.
And no! I think that's very wrong! I believe that this kind of analysis only benefits us, as hobbyists, as artists, and as people.
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Because a lot of us are programmed to only pick at things we hate: don't be critical of things we like! Just let people enjoy things! Enjoying things is its own reward!
And no! I think that's very wrong! I believe that this kind of analysis only benefits us, as hobbyists, as artists, and as people.
And no! I think that's very wrong! I believe that this kind of analysis only benefits us, as hobbyists, as artists, and as people.
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But here's the thing: there are (at least) three (umbrella) categories of ways "we didn't (even) touch the dice" could be said! It's a dogwhistle because of one of the three, but the other two are either unproblematic or actually good!
Let's dive in!
Let's dive in!
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
But here's the thing: there are (at least) three (umbrella) categories of ways "we didn't (even) touch the dice" could be said! It's a dogwhistle because of one of the three, but the other two are either unproblematic or actually good!
Let's dive in!
Let's dive in!
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Good old Woz. Good for him.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Good old Woz. Good for him.
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Fascinating read on the world beneath Antarctica's ice!
Violent 'storms' hidden under Antarctica's ice could be speeding its decline
When sea ice melts and refreezes, it stirs vortices that pull warm deep water up, eroding Antarctica's shrinking ice shelves.
grist.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Fascinating read on the world beneath Antarctica's ice!
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I've told this story before, but I'm going to tell it again, because I think it's important with all the copaganda floating around On Here.
Last year I was representing a marginalized client charged with a crime in a rural client who had been denied the public defender.
Last year I was representing a marginalized client charged with a crime in a rural client who had been denied the public defender.
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I've told this story before, but I'm going to tell it again, because I think it's important with all the copaganda floating around On Here.
Last year I was representing a marginalized client charged with a crime in a rural client who had been denied the public defender.
Last year I was representing a marginalized client charged with a crime in a rural client who had been denied the public defender.