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oh you believe in spirits? rituals? ancient gods? primitive, simple. not like me, the rational white man, who creates a person by filing some papers. this paper person I have created has more rights than women. I have fought for this.

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trying to balance my anger and general despair at current events with also maybe having walking pneumonia amidst a bad AQ day

LLM stands for "landlord models" because you have to pay rent to a corporation to use them

academia blah blah, complaining about writing 

the good news is I'm adapting a chapter of my master's thesis as an article for a special issue of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, which mostly just gives me nerd points and if I finish my PhD fulfills a requirement of publishing something

the bad news is: writing, which is my job but also the worst thing anyone has ever done

do I know any labor historians on here who might be able to talk about this NLRB case for a podcast? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLRB_v._.

causing chaos in the group chat by asking whether Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park would have given a TED Talk

catching up on media art goss and realizing that I am 100% Out of Touch lol

buttondown.email/perfectsenten this week in sentences: precisely how, elbows, thin cream, never getting close, a spooky place, well-read

Seeking recommendations for listserv codes of conduct--I have a lot of past ones from running events and forums but need something that also speaks a little to stuff like security culture and email etiquette

Navajo Nation’s COVID-19 curfews saddled hundreds with citations, netted no money for police https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/062223_navajo_curfew/navajo-nations-covid-19-curfews-saddled-hundreds-with-citations-netted-no-money-police/
The Navajo Nation tribal government passed legislation to direct revenue from COVID-19 curfew fines to the Navajo Police Department, but an investigation into the aftermath of the public safety measures found multiple breakdowns in implementation.
#Tucson #Arizona

we're doing a mini explainer episode about corporate personhood for RIP Corp and returning to the Hobby Lobby case I feel totally brain wormed by the idea that a corporation *has a religion*

i have a cis friend and he said i can say it

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