goodness I said labor so many times today and did not even clock this

To be clear: the new, near-exclusive emphasis on natural causes of climate change on the U.S. EPA's website is now completely out of synch with all available evidence demonstrating overwhelming human influence on contemporary warming trends.

Look at the birds. Even flying
is born

out of nothing. The first sky
is inside you, open

at either end of day.
The work of wings
was always freedom, fastening
one heart to every falling thing.

(Li-Young Lee)

I asked said person, “just so I’m clear, you’re refuting my account of my marital status based on a claim that AI is making about me? Do I have that right?”

They doubled down. I walked off and mentally cut them off to boot. We are in the bad place for real.

I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ

"'Everyone knows' this thing, I'm gonna try to find out whether it's true" is the recipe behind some of the most interesting journalism of the century. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't but you need to do the work of finding out rather than just assuming the 'everyone knows' part is enough.

Sounds like 3/4 of my dept