SB
@stephestellar.bsky.social
she/her. Archivist, rabblerouser, general life enthusiast
cw: medical, diet
Recently I've been restricting some foods in an attempt to see if they alleviate some chronic issues, and the result is: I think 1c of rice could fix me but in the meantime, potatoes are a superfood
Recently I've been restricting some foods in an attempt to see if they alleviate some chronic issues, and the result is: I think 1c of rice could fix me but in the meantime, potatoes are a superfood
December 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
cw: medical, diet
Recently I've been restricting some foods in an attempt to see if they alleviate some chronic issues, and the result is: I think 1c of rice could fix me but in the meantime, potatoes are a superfood
Recently I've been restricting some foods in an attempt to see if they alleviate some chronic issues, and the result is: I think 1c of rice could fix me but in the meantime, potatoes are a superfood
Old fashioned tech complaint: this gadget doesn't need wifi!!!!!!!!!!
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Old fashioned tech complaint: this gadget doesn't need wifi!!!!!!!!!!
This is what it means to live like a Leo IMO
Shared blocklists: not just for social media!
December 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This is what it means to live like a Leo IMO
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We don't have flatten every idea to make it palatable.
December 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We don't have flatten every idea to make it palatable.
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For The People Newsletter Vol. XXXIV
For everyone working to strengthen and expand public libraries
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December 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Please participate! We are excited to feature your contribution in 2026.
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This sure sounds like another way to make it even harder for Americans to get the benefits they've earned.
I will not stop fighting to protect Social Security.
I will not stop fighting to protect Social Security.
December 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This sure sounds like another way to make it even harder for Americans to get the benefits they've earned.
I will not stop fighting to protect Social Security.
I will not stop fighting to protect Social Security.
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If you donate $40 to @propublica.org for Giving Tuesday, you can get this awesome Tips Tote: ‘Someone reading this tote has the next big story. Is it you?’ give.propublica.org/campaign/749...
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
If you donate $40 to @propublica.org for Giving Tuesday, you can get this awesome Tips Tote: ‘Someone reading this tote has the next big story. Is it you?’ give.propublica.org/campaign/749...
??? "Target will also let consumers fulfill drive-thru and pickup orders within ChatGPT"
December 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
??? "Target will also let consumers fulfill drive-thru and pickup orders within ChatGPT"
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This should be a bigger thing! States rollout for the real ID has been shit in different places and it's not accessible to everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This should be a bigger thing! States rollout for the real ID has been shit in different places and it's not accessible to everyone.
Hahahaha
just like "woke Marxist Pope", the phrase "gay hockey show" also works for Chappell Roan's hit song 🎶Pink Pony Club🎶
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hahahaha
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I looked Trump's Education Secretary Linda McMahon dead in the eye and asked, “Do you think you can shut down the Department of Education?”
She said, “No, I don’t have the legal authority to do that.”
Yet here we are.
Linda McMahon should resign.
She said, “No, I don’t have the legal authority to do that.”
Yet here we are.
Linda McMahon should resign.
December 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I looked Trump's Education Secretary Linda McMahon dead in the eye and asked, “Do you think you can shut down the Department of Education?”
She said, “No, I don’t have the legal authority to do that.”
Yet here we are.
Linda McMahon should resign.
She said, “No, I don’t have the legal authority to do that.”
Yet here we are.
Linda McMahon should resign.
Cauley's "The Payback" is a great and short feel-good read if you like heists and hate student loans ✅✅
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Cauley's "The Payback" is a great and short feel-good read if you like heists and hate student loans ✅✅
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Hell yeah bro
ICYMI AAUP is starting a PAC news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Professors Launch PAC to Fight Back Against Trump’s Attacks
The American Association of University Professors, a union whose members are fighting policies from the Trump administration and GOP Congress, launched a PAC this week to spend in federal elections.
news.bgov.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hell yeah bro
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When I talk about why we need a structural fix for public sector revenue it's because the structure of our economy has changed so much.
The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
When I talk about why we need a structural fix for public sector revenue it's because the structure of our economy has changed so much.
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I also ask this of universities but ya know.
When I see LLMs pitched as a guaranteed productivity tool for software engineering, the is the counterweight I keep trying to get people to seriously engage with and not handwave away is the future cost, and “oh everything tech gets cheaper” isn’t an answer. Services don’t and LLMs are a service.
November 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I also ask this of universities but ya know.
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our media is so obsessed with the five famous assholes who unapologetically fucked up instead of all the people who didn't
what about everyone who doesn't "need" a second chance because they didn't expose themselves or assault anyone or move a former student into their house right after graduation?
what about everyone who doesn't "need" a second chance because they didn't expose themselves or assault anyone or move a former student into their house right after graduation?
November 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
our media is so obsessed with the five famous assholes who unapologetically fucked up instead of all the people who didn't
what about everyone who doesn't "need" a second chance because they didn't expose themselves or assault anyone or move a former student into their house right after graduation?
what about everyone who doesn't "need" a second chance because they didn't expose themselves or assault anyone or move a former student into their house right after graduation?
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The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
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Ah, the accusatory “we,” where rather than describing something the author and others do, it means “you,” and it is meant to describe something others, but certainly not the author, do, which is implied to be wrong or unreasonable.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Ah, the accusatory “we,” where rather than describing something the author and others do, it means “you,” and it is meant to describe something others, but certainly not the author, do, which is implied to be wrong or unreasonable.
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this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this is quite the detail
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Exactly. The only way to prepare students for the work force is to teach them to do things AI can't do.
“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”
“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“
November 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Exactly. The only way to prepare students for the work force is to teach them to do things AI can't do.
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Finally watching Down Cemetery Rd and Fehinti Balogun is very good at his job and also good looking
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Finally watching Down Cemetery Rd and Fehinti Balogun is very good at his job and also good looking
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So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
I am once again telling everyone to get the fuck off Substack leavesubstack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
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Still haven't read the full agreement because I deserve nice things occasionally. But there's really a need for a propublica-type investigation into the social network of these boards, presidents, & donors with the admin. At the same time, exploring the similarities and differences across deals.
I would love to see detailed reporting about how these deals come together. This one looks like an inside job even more than Columbia’s.
I’ll look at it in more depth later but Northwestern’s agreement seems more campus-specific than previous deals and imposes restrictions on campus conduct beyond what others ave agreed to. Northwestern seems to have surrendered autonomy to a shocking extent. www.northwestern.edu/president/do...
November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Still haven't read the full agreement because I deserve nice things occasionally. But there's really a need for a propublica-type investigation into the social network of these boards, presidents, & donors with the admin. At the same time, exploring the similarities and differences across deals.
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NEW: The House Oversight Committee is set to vote Dec. 2 on whether to advance a bill calling for excluding people living in the states without U.S. citizenship, such as green card holders, from #2030Census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”
Full Committee Business Meeting - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
oversight.house.gov
November 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
NEW: The House Oversight Committee is set to vote Dec. 2 on whether to advance a bill calling for excluding people living in the states without U.S. citizenship, such as green card holders, from #2030Census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”