valerie

valerie

@vfo.northsky.social

Academic librarian @CUNY ~ Web Services + Media Literacy | AuDHD | In my Molly Grue era | GLAMS feed: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rea3amxwqfkfzhilivubtrib/feed/aaabfz334lr66

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everything is insanely expensive and nothing works and everyone is emotionally dysregulated and i know this has been going on for a bit now but i've been anhedonic for at least the last 2, probably 3 years, so i do not have the calluses for handling this shit my friends

woke up early for an appointment that apparently wasn't until this afternoon, because it was in PDT. going to miss said appointment, because during the actual scheduled time i will be on the reference desk.

You guys the person whose mom I went to Greece with is Victor. I spent a week in Greece with Victor’s mom

valerie@vfo.northsky.social

One of the ladies I went to Greece with messaged the group chat to say her son is going to be on Traitors so I guess I actually have to give in and watch this show everyone has been talking about forever

There’s a man on my roof looking for squirrels and I had to explain to the psych professional I was in the middle of an appointment with that no, “apparently I have squirrels in my attic” is not a metaphor for my mental health, even though it, in fact, IS

it is amazing how quickly i devolve from pretty darn smart person to confused goblin bridge troll the more aware of my body i am forced to be by its surrounding circumstances

Elsevier would love to host this event give us a ring

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

No other building stands a chance at the annual Ballroom & Military Complex Combination Awards.

i can't stop reading about you can see everything, not because any of it is particularly new or insightful to me, but because everyone is FINALLY talking about what i've been driving everyone in my life INSANE banging on about like all the kayfabe and its parallels to modern america stuff

like all the AuDHD girlies out here freaking out because wait wut are we finally allowed to say things about cause and effect OUT LOUD? without the normies freaking the fuck out because they don't like when you interrupt their false sense of reality?!

i'm very used to being different people on different days but i'm actually not too sure WHO we've got at the helm today. whoever she is, we have cramps.

Oh jeezus the normies have learned about the existence of Hasan Piker and now he is on every single one of my podcasts

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When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

I have a question about child psychology, which I know very little about. I want to research children who over-value social connection, but I don’t know the terminology. It’s like the children who need to feel secure in a social group or they experience extreme anxiety and emotional disregulation.

Like social connections are VERY important to them, and they crave deep commitment and integration into any communities they belong to. I could probably figure out the neuroscience part of it, but I don’t know how helpful that would be with a kid, with a still-developing brain.

We looked at JSTOR in my library session last night and I got the chance to point out the AI features and to tell them I, a tech professional with a CS degree, don’t use these tools because for one thing I don’t use technology I can’t trust to work correctly. I very rarely volunteer to beta test.

And they were very receptive. I also briefly got into the problem of how choosing words by probability in interdisciplinary research can quickly snowball into a nightmare when the same words can mean very different things across fields. They’ll do what they’ll do, but they have more information now.

I’m following the online saga of this floofy kitten Herbert and is anyone else obsessed with this cat I’ve already decided I would die for him

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I’m also offering to try to teach their daughters how to fake a certain kind of insanity (that comes naturally to me) that seems to be quite terrifying to men. I swear I put off a certain kind of crazy vibe that kept me a level of safe because I guess no one quite knew what I was capable of, even me

Get that scent on you, girl, and you may well end up a spinster, but no man will fuck with you too hard because to them you’re basically a witch

I am over here texting all my girl-mom besties offering up any murder skills I might have acquired in my >40 years of being stuck in New Jersey

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Replying to @mumbly-joe.bsky.social

"What if the computer has feelings" ask the people who write the code used to blow up Palestinian families and Iranian school children, to strip millions of people of their health care, to help the modern-day Gestapo put our immigrant neighbors in concentration camps. Yeah, what if.

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John Garrison Marks@johngmarks.com

I've been saying for a few years and am now more convinced than ever that the 250th was, in a lot of ways, a "reverse Bicentennial." In '76, we had an early attempt at politicizing the anniversary, which fell apart and led to grassroots celebration. 250 saw last minute takeover. A (possibly long) 🧵:

If you wanna save me the trouble by sending me YOUR info lit handout to edit for this particular class, please feel free. If you’ve ever done an info lit session for a Russian history course and still have THAT handout, I’ll buy you a beer.😘

Finally started watching traitors, and while I would never dare smear Alan Cummings by calling him a straight man, the straight men need to look to him for how to have fun with clothes

valerie@vfo.northsky.social

i wish more straight men wore dresses straight men are the boringest dressers up your game, losers

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I feel like you could make kind of a productive analogy between AI agents where they save the user time by wasting everybody else's time and the American approach to vehicle safety where occupant safety is prioritized at the expense of everybody else's. Prosocial? Never heard of her.

John Herrman@jwherrman.bsky.social

A lot of AI assistants seem to have been built around the assumption that the rest of the world is not actually real nymag.com/intelligence...