This could fix me
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This could fix me
the speech
"There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
—James Baldwin
September 11 They woke not knowing. They kissed their children goodbye in the morning dark, left a note under the roses on the table. (I’m sorry. We’ll talk about it later.) Say it: They did not know they would hold hands with strangers and have to choose nothing over fire. They did not know they would have no other winters. Listen. History is human hands, a strand of hair still stuck in someone’s buttons, and absence makes a life undone with hungers: When my friend heard her father was among the dead, she spent all autumn dialing Fire and Rescue: Are you living? she asked them. Can you love? Can you still sing? (These were the days of older phones and you had to cradle the receiver as though you were cradling a tiny child, full of the silences that made you.) Please, they told her. You must only use this number if this is an actual emergency. Silence. A long breath of silence. And then my friend would answer (she, too, is history; she, too, is the wind now), It is. It is. It is. —Joseph Fasano
Anything that smells like Trump is poison to a lot of people, and it’s growing. I said ten years ago Newsom would never be president, and by God you watch.
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
My very apolitical friend just said to me ‘No one f*cks with North Korea. Why do you think that is?’
Yep. There’s a clear message for a lot of Global South and Middle Eastern countries tonight. Sadly. And it isn’t a nonproliferation message.
I'm thinking of this unforgettable email today, especially that last line.
Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.
In my self-defense classes I focus on how most people are socially conditioned to follow the norms of a civilized, polite society — and there is a MENTAL SHIFT required to use violence to defend from violence.
I'm reminded of this while watching our elected officials dithering and delaying. 1/
tweet from Hakeem Jeffries * @RepJeffries Presidents come and Presidents go. Through it all. God is still on the throne.
christ just give AOC the job already
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
David Lynch providing some motivation for you
Cord Jefferson, quitting Instagram, sums many things up:
“I don’t need Instagram to be a haven for free speech for the same reason I don’t need a Jamba Juice or a Hooters to be a haven for free speech.”
Never forget.
update: here is the AI policy i wrote for my doc seminar this term (i have already located the typo and fixed it, which tbh is like 60% of the point of posting it in public)
One of the best things I ever did for myself was stop comparing my life trajectory to people who have support systems. I won’t say I never had help, but I’m just now truly understanding the difference between “assistance” and “support”.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
As we confront a second Trump presidency, here’s a path forward: 🧵
If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life
NEW: UnitedHealth strategically limits access to critical treatment for autistic kids. Leaked documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say United’s strategy may be illegal.
Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
Ugh this is so sad. Maybe not her most powerful, but to me, her most moving poem is this one
Storytime.
In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.
Screenshot of transcript excerpts from the jury process for Martin Shkreli's 2017 fraud trial. Juror no. 10: The only thing I’d be impartial about is what prison this guy goes to. The court: Okay. We will excuse you. Juror 28, do you need to be heard? Juror no. 28: I don’t like this person at all. I just can’t understand why he would be so stupid as to take an antibiotic which H.I.V. people need and jack it up five thousand percent. I would honestly, like, seriously like to go over there — The court: Sir, thank you. Juror no. 28: Is he stupid or greedy? I can’t understand. The court: We will excuse you. Juror 41, are you coming up? Juror no. 41: I was looking yesterday in the newspaper and I saw the defendant. There was something about him. I can’t be fair. There was something that didn’t look right. The court: All right. I’m going to excuse you. Juror Number 59, come on up. Juror no. 59: Your Honor, totally he is guilty and in no way can I let him slide out of anything because — The court: Okay. Is that your attitude toward anyone charged with a crime who has not been proven guilty? Juror no. 59: It’s my attitude toward his entire demeanor, what he has done to people. The court: All right. We are going to excuse you, sir. Juror no. 59: And he disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan.
For some random reason I can't put my finger on, I've been thinking a lot lately about the jurors in the Martin Shkreli trial harpers.org/archive/2017...
Yeremi Colino was 18. He was an immigrant. He was killed after being asked if he spoke English. The NYPD isn't investigating his murder or the attempted murder of the person with him as a hate crime, and there is no reward offered.
Thank you for raising this, Anil.
