Kitten Whisperer
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| ME/CFS-hater | poet | mage | ttrpg designer | fka Stinger | lover of handwritten letters | advocate for essais | ungrading professor | kitten connoisseur 😺 | he/him |
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Sarah Jeong noted this, too, but I was struck by the prevalence of public universities — from flagships to small regionals — on this list. Glaringly few Ivies, who obvs *should* be, given their resources, forming a first line of de/offense. Reminds us that the publics are higher ed's ethical core.
Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."
March 27, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Sarah Jeong noted this, too, but I was struck by the prevalence of public universities — from flagships to small regionals — on this list. Glaringly few Ivies, who obvs *should* be, given their resources, forming a first line of de/offense. Reminds us that the publics are higher ed's ethical core.
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I love how Tolkien was like, "here's my dwarves! they like playing lil harps and making pretty jewelry. Gimli is a kindly silvertongued warrior who charmed an elven goddess 😊💫🎶"
and every depiction of dwarves since then has been "big buff weaponsmiths who have no patience for those GAY ELVES"
and every depiction of dwarves since then has been "big buff weaponsmiths who have no patience for those GAY ELVES"
February 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I love how Tolkien was like, "here's my dwarves! they like playing lil harps and making pretty jewelry. Gimli is a kindly silvertongued warrior who charmed an elven goddess 😊💫🎶"
and every depiction of dwarves since then has been "big buff weaponsmiths who have no patience for those GAY ELVES"
and every depiction of dwarves since then has been "big buff weaponsmiths who have no patience for those GAY ELVES"
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🚨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...
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...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨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...
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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You don’t say
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"Chronic diseases misdiagnosed as psychosomatic can lead to long term damage to physical & mental wellbeing, study finds"
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Research on people with autoimmune diseases but people with other conditions will sadly be able to relate
#chronicillness
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"Chronic diseases misdiagnosed as psychosomatic can lead to long term damage to physical & mental wellbeing, study finds"
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Research on people with autoimmune diseases but people with other conditions will sadly be able to relate
#chronicillness
1/
March 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
You don’t say
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This morning's quick reminder: generative AI is a natural resource-guzzling plagiarism machine that exploits creatives to enrich tech bros.
Do not use it to create art or writing.
Do not conduct "fun" experiments with it to show us how awful it is.
There is no ethical use for AI.
Let it die.
Do not use it to create art or writing.
Do not conduct "fun" experiments with it to show us how awful it is.
There is no ethical use for AI.
Let it die.
January 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This morning's quick reminder: generative AI is a natural resource-guzzling plagiarism machine that exploits creatives to enrich tech bros.
Do not use it to create art or writing.
Do not conduct "fun" experiments with it to show us how awful it is.
There is no ethical use for AI.
Let it die.
Do not use it to create art or writing.
Do not conduct "fun" experiments with it to show us how awful it is.
There is no ethical use for AI.
Let it die.
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Dear Media:
Halting all aid to Gaza is not "pressuring Hamas." Collective punishment is a war crime. Starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime. Withholding medical care is a war crime. None of this is remotely controversial actually. Israel is doing war crimes, not "pressuring Hamas."
Halting all aid to Gaza is not "pressuring Hamas." Collective punishment is a war crime. Starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime. Withholding medical care is a war crime. None of this is remotely controversial actually. Israel is doing war crimes, not "pressuring Hamas."
March 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Dear Media:
Halting all aid to Gaza is not "pressuring Hamas." Collective punishment is a war crime. Starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime. Withholding medical care is a war crime. None of this is remotely controversial actually. Israel is doing war crimes, not "pressuring Hamas."
Halting all aid to Gaza is not "pressuring Hamas." Collective punishment is a war crime. Starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime. Withholding medical care is a war crime. None of this is remotely controversial actually. Israel is doing war crimes, not "pressuring Hamas."
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Today on the Assay Interview Project, Heidi Czerwiec's mighty interview with Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh
buff.ly/xFAUtDV
buff.ly/xFAUtDV
March 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Today on the Assay Interview Project, Heidi Czerwiec's mighty interview with Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh
buff.ly/xFAUtDV
buff.ly/xFAUtDV
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Measles guidance provided by RFK Jr. includes information about administering vitamin A to measles patients, so I wanted to share this helpful graphic from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Vitamin A alone does not prevent measles. Vaccination does. @nfidvaccines.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Measles guidance provided by RFK Jr. includes information about administering vitamin A to measles patients, so I wanted to share this helpful graphic from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Vitamin A alone does not prevent measles. Vaccination does. @nfidvaccines.bsky.social
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As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.
THIS IS HUGE! A cancer vaccine developed by Yale University and DFCI shows MAJOR promise. Results of an early-phase trial reveal ALL patients with ADVANCED stage kidney cancer had successful anti-cancer immune responses AND have remained CANCER-FREE approximately THREE years after treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️
February 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.
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Protect the people under attack not because you'll be next but because their lives matter and the world will be a sadder, more desolate place without them
(And also... You WILL be next)
(And also... You WILL be next)
February 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Protect the people under attack not because you'll be next but because their lives matter and the world will be a sadder, more desolate place without them
(And also... You WILL be next)
(And also... You WILL be next)
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A dating app but it's just one picture of someone's bookshelves, one of their usual grocery haul, one of their pets, and one their thermostat
February 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A dating app but it's just one picture of someone's bookshelves, one of their usual grocery haul, one of their pets, and one their thermostat
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Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats.
The rise of authoritarianism in America *must* be understood as a misinformation crisis.
The rise of authoritarianism in America *must* be understood as a misinformation crisis.
There's also seemingly no acknowledgement of a massive right-wing propaganda machine stirring this sentiment up. Where it does exist it's largely a manufactured, tribal outrage, it's not actually regular people getting so offended they go fash over this stuff. That's important.
February 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats.
The rise of authoritarianism in America *must* be understood as a misinformation crisis.
The rise of authoritarianism in America *must* be understood as a misinformation crisis.
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Think of this--that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
A.S. Byatt, Possession
A.S. Byatt, Possession
February 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Think of this--that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
A.S. Byatt, Possession
A.S. Byatt, Possession
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The literal wealthiest man in the world donating hundreds of millions of dollars to a presidential campaign and getting rewarded with a government post where he can award his companies with contracts is the most cartoonish possible rendering of what people warned about after Citizens United.
February 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
The literal wealthiest man in the world donating hundreds of millions of dollars to a presidential campaign and getting rewarded with a government post where he can award his companies with contracts is the most cartoonish possible rendering of what people warned about after Citizens United.
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So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
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Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵
February 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵
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Just wonderful writing on the 60 Minutes piece on President aMusk dismantling of USAID
"The world's richest man cut off aid for the world's poorest people."
Well done.
"The world's richest man cut off aid for the world's poorest people."
Well done.
February 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Just wonderful writing on the 60 Minutes piece on President aMusk dismantling of USAID
"The world's richest man cut off aid for the world's poorest people."
Well done.
"The world's richest man cut off aid for the world's poorest people."
Well done.
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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No one is immune from #disability.
Do yourselves a favor and reflect on that. Seriously.
#DisabilityJustice
Do yourselves a favor and reflect on that. Seriously.
#DisabilityJustice
No one is immune from disability. It can happen to anyone at anytime, regardless of how 'young and healthy' you are.
Stop believing you will be the exception, and start engaging in disability justice. It's far easier to fight for better support and treatment while you still have your health.
Stop believing you will be the exception, and start engaging in disability justice. It's far easier to fight for better support and treatment while you still have your health.
February 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
No one is immune from #disability.
Do yourselves a favor and reflect on that. Seriously.
#DisabilityJustice
Do yourselves a favor and reflect on that. Seriously.
#DisabilityJustice
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roses are red
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you
February 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
roses are red
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you
violets are blue
singular they
predates singular you
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Strip clubs, topless bars, Hooters etc have an opportunity to do something really funny and insist on making their workforce 50% male in order to comply with anti-DEI mandates. Those ladies are taking jobs away from red-blooded American men who need the work
February 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Strip clubs, topless bars, Hooters etc have an opportunity to do something really funny and insist on making their workforce 50% male in order to comply with anti-DEI mandates. Those ladies are taking jobs away from red-blooded American men who need the work