Whitney Gegg-Harrison (she/they)

Put the typewriters and the letterpress and the looms in the hands of young people. ❤️‍🔥 #DHmakes

new post on my #knitting blog: a wild hodge-podge of stuff, celebrating my regained ability to walk, good books, and all the things I'm currently making or planning to make with my hands.

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

More than a month now since I've been able to sit with my right foot tucked under me. Shin-hole is SO much improved but that's still just too much pressure on that spot. It is kind of wild how badly I want to sit with my right foot tucked under me at this point!!

I asked kiddo tonight what she wants for her upcoming 15th birthday, and she said, “a parliamentary system of government. Or at least a better government than we have.” Oh, child, if I could, I would!!

Just noticed that today is exactly one month after my fall! I can walk basically normally again, but the hole in my shin still isn’t fully closed, which is such a weird thing to think about. Just the faintest ghost of the left hip bruise, and scrapes seem to have left at least semi-permanent marks.

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Just a frosty leaf in a sunbeam, from this morning’s walk between parking lot and office.

New post on my #knitting blog: not much knitting, but some cross-stitch, birthday-cake baking, and continued injury-recovery.

THIS. I mean, I'm so interested in thinking that I got a whole-ass PhD in cognitive science...so I both know how much we love to minimize cognitive effort and can't really relate to that, personally. I love thinking!! It is my favorite thing to do!!

The acid test for me is a simple one: Has my professional and/or creative life benefited in any material way from "AI," and very specifically generative "AI"? No, it hasn't. Has it been negatively impacted by the same? Yup, in a whole bunch of ways. My professional life is worse now for it.

Feeling so sad about missing the best part of the year for going on walks outside…I just can’t do any appreciable distance right now without putting too much strain on my shin. And by the time it’s better, I’m guessing it’ll be shifting into wintery weather :(

There's a guy in my replies who says he doens't read women because they write well about emotional conflicts and unrequited love and that's not what he wants. He reads sci fi he says. Can you imagine reading sci-fi and not reading Octavia Butler? Or Ursula K Le Guin? Or NK Jemisin?

new post on my #knitting blog: updates on cross-stitch, knitting, and the injuries I incurred 3 weeks ago.

You know what really hurts when you have a hole in your lower right shin? Driving. Those muscles/tendons (I study language, not anatomy!) are flexed the whole dang time between the gas pedal and the brake. (Shin hole seems to be doing better after the megadoses of antibiotics. Still hurts though.)

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

2 weeks post incident, and in case anyone was wondering: it really sucks to gouge a big hole in your shin. I mean, you probably would’ve already guessed that to be the case, but I’m here to confirm. 0 stars, do not recommend.

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

Feeling positively ancient because I just saw a post saying that Fiona Apple’s “Extraordinary Machine” came out *21 years ago*

Just now finished the lunch I started at 11:30am but couldn't finish before needing to drag myself across campus to teach my 12:30pm class and then back across campus the other way to teach my 2pm class. Busy teaching day on a still-injured leg and high doses of antibiotics was ROUGH.

new post on my #knitting blog: thinking about why I care so much about making things myself.

It just occurred to me that in this instance, Muse kinda *was* my muse, in that I doubt it would ever have occurred to me to recreate that photo in crayon if not for that ridiculous ad it shoved into my feed. Not sure how I feel about that!

I am nothing if not stubborn, and so I decided to make good on my claim that I'd dig out old crayons and draw it myself. Is it a masterpiece? I mean, I hadn't drawn in decades and it shows, and old broken crayons are a challenging medium, but driven by spite and curiosity, I made it my damned self.

We watch @jamellebouie.net’s Takes on YouTube and for some reason, the captions occasionally come up in (well-translated!) Dutch. It’s mostly entertaining & delightful to our household of linguists, but…why are the captions defaulting to Dutch??