Alexis Deise

One of the (many) things that makes me upset when I hear Management taking about AI is when they refer to using it as "unavoidable". Because it absolutely is. I avoid it daily. You've either given up on thinking, or you've been suckered.

this Is why frats use extreme hazing at rush and initiation — to select OUT anyone who would potentially speak out or up. They select for boys who are so desperate to belong that they will high-five their own abuse first, then anything else that follows.

It’s too early for me to have to feel this old.

DC, Maryland, Virginia

"The right’s characterization of higher education is a fiction. Students across the ideological spectrum feel free to express themselves, think their education is worth the cost and don’t think their views are silenced." Only 3% of Republican students feel out of place on campus for their views.

They want us malnourished: weak, tired, and distracted. This makes us easier to manipulate, overpower, and control.

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

This was me in my 20s and 30s. In my 50s it is amazing. Change in brain chemistry maybe? Increased DGAF that comes with age?

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

"she doesn't deserve the hate directed at her" is where you should have stopped! No one, including her, is saying she exercised good judgment. The question is whether her entire life needed to fall apart for going to first base with her boss a single time.

It feels like people are desperately seeking reasons to still think she sucks even though the facts don't bear that out. If hundreds of millions of people were saying something false about me and it ruined my life, I would want to respond!

"Prompt engineering" isn't a real career field and the degree to which it even seems necessary to anyone is the degree to which the technology doesn't actually work as advertised

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

and everyone is obsessed with sharing screenshots of this shit too. oh my god Scrumblo Meyer wrote a new article about wokeness in The UnCancelled, a magazine that cumulatively 400 people a year read. let's all click on it and argue

"Hurt people hurt people" is sometimes accurate, but "people who have been raised to see themselves as superior to others, have been given immense power over other people's lives, and have never had to face consequences for their actions, hurt people" is a lot more broadly true.

I was thinking to myself, "I can't believe it's December," but if I reflect a little and I'm honest with myself, I still can't believe it's the 2000s.

Tangentially: "Drawing attention" has become an ENORMOUS built-in part of working in creative fields, and people who can do that effectively start out waaaaay ahead of people who are actually good at doing the job itself well. (Sometimes people can do both, of course!)

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Beyond sad. The computer does not know why YOUR child, a unique individual human being, is laughing. Wondering why your child does the weird thing children do, which is part of figuring out what brings them joy and who they are as a human being, is one of the true joys of existence.

Couldn't watch it once. Really wanted to but.....waiting until my sons are in their 30s.

This is the best Christmas card I have ever seen.

If only there was, I don't know, a *painting* of Van Gogh they could've used to illustrate the quote.

Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently. This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.

It's a low bar but yes, easily surpassed in this instance and many others.

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar: "So I'm putting a team together..." Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

This is not a surprise to anyone who was closely following this case. It *ought* to be, however, a moment to reflect upon the responsibility (or not) of media outlets that, deliberately or not, led folks to believe that a grant was a serious possibility (which it never was).

I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy. "I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."

This federal employee working without pay says THANK YOU FOR HOLDING THE LINE WITH US

Same and same. HOLD THE LINE

I often have trouble in the winter discerning whether something in the dryer in an unheated part of my garage) is just cold or still damp.

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Best niche joke of the week candidate right here.

There is literally no other way to describe your father’s cousin in English thats accurate. Second cousin is not a culturally relevant term. “Aunt” is a class of person, not a single bond of relation. “Uncle” is a class of person, not a single bond of relation.

I’m from like the whitest of the white WASP culture and even we call my moms good friends “aunties”.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.