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Jess 🏳️‍⚧️ @jess-does-lyfe.bsky.social · 1d

Took the 5 yo out for doughnuts.
Had trouble parking, pay lot switched to new app that didn’t work. A spot opened up on the street. Took it. Kid cheered.
After ordering I asked where she wanted to sit and was led to the bar by the window:
“To see how other people deal with this parking situation”

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 4m

I am absolutely saving this for the next time someone tries to tell me why they ignore the needs of some groups and prioritize the needs of others.

Jess 🏳️‍⚧️ @jess-does-lyfe.bsky.social · 2h

From what I learned (also from private school) - the flip side of this is also meaningful.

The presumption of guilt and punishment enacted by the powerful does not mean one is guilty.

It means simply that one has been deemed an outsider.

And outsiders lose.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry went to private school and seeing too much of this

The presumption of innocence and grace granted by enablers isn’t empathy

It’s moral self indulgence at the expense of others

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 6m

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 35m

Finally reading THE EMPUSIUM by Olga Tokarczuk & translated by @antonialloydjones.bsky.social, & want to kick off a chat about (gender)queerness in Tokarczuk's work. Yes it's a feminist novel AND it's getting into invert theory (inc entartet assoc of TB & inversion), and a Schulzian textile kink...

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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 10m

I hope people are not only seeing but believing me when I say the crisis has never been at the border- it’s *always* been policy.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h

Controlled substance trafficking as defined in immigration law is any dealing-related offense, including even selling a joint to a friend for $20.

Thanks to the War on Drug, trafficking was one of the first three crimes deemed “aggravated felonies” in the 1980s, which bar relief from deportation.

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 3h

I am once again begging filmmakers to start lighting their night scenes again. Moonlight and starlight are both available, as are torches, campfires, and any number of plausible light sources! What I'm watching right now may as well be a podcast

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 1h

And we are often very not good at understanding what our market is! We might have a sort of folk understanding that works well enough under certain circumstances, but that's not the same thing.

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dankcello-ween @danielketter.com · 1h

Marketplace logic DOES fail, often! Maybe we should be suspicious of any instance where we are expected to let marketplace logic dictate our behavior

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 1h

Because brains are weird, I recently found out I am more likely to close a tab if I save it the link to obsidian with a note about where I found it. I don't know why that works -- it's not like having an open tab means I will remember who sent me there -- but does.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 1h

There are definitely self-help books that could have been an instagram reel.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 1h

I have been wanting to read this, but forgot about it because people I know keep recommending books! Putting it on my library holds now, before I see another bright shiny thing...

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 9h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 2h

Which, when I think of it, is one of my huge problems with using genAI in human interactions. And maybe it shouldn't, but it makes me sad to think of neurodivergent people using it to deal more productively with people who can't accept an interaction style that isn't the extruded average.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not against self-help books. I find many of them hard to read, because I think they would have been better, weirder books if someone hadn't tried to squish them into the genre.

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 5h

Also if the ultimate test of "are you a good dev" isn't how fast you work, why should the ultimate test of "is this a tool that helps people do good dev" be "it makes you faster"......?

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, they do, and this quote made me, someone who avoids self-help books because they all sound like instagram, horribly sad for the speaker:

“They were like things that you read in self-help books – really personal conversations about who we are and what we want for our lives,” she says.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

These modern day takes on Cyrano really suck.

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 4h

I didn’t want to answer any reasonable questions.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 2h

In my head this chimes with so many things. Some of them are in my reply, and another one is @rachelhands.com's thread about a Raven Chacon performance, in which many things get rethought. We can rethink things! We don't always have to use the logics of production!

bsky.app/profile/rach...

Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 3h

Conversations about AI all last week and today on here have me thinking:

How would we see the possibilities of software work for people if we had goals of human expression rather than production?

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 2h

Because I'm rereading Jenny Odell, my brain immediately turned your excellent question to "what would software for uses other than surviving in capitalism look like?" And then I saw this example of applying the logics of production in an area that isn't about that...

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 3h

This is just … being a terrible, exploitative person. That’s all this is. It’s funny but also really not.

A quote from a dude:

"If I'm using a dating app," he says, "I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in - but also I don't want to spend too much time on it.”

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 2h

If anything could make me write a defense of Mrs. Jellaby...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17h

Jordan Peterson, explained

ca.news.yahoo.com/jordan-peter...

She explained how her 62-year-old dad had been dealing with a “host of neurological issues this summer that we believe stem from CIRS, which is chronic inflammatory response syndrome, due to decades of mould exposure.”

Fuller added that he had been suffering from symptoms of neuropathy and weakness for the last few years and his condition worsened after Peterson cleaned out his late father’s basement earlier this year.

“We don’t have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks,” she said.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3h

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 3h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Rotten watermelons in A-steel.

Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 3h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Heldenleben --> Mendelssohn Scherzo --> NEXT

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 4h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

There is no date.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 2h

Dog: "I got out of the hole last time!"

Dog's Person, sighing: "You're not acknowledging my contribution, Dog."

Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 2h

At least now I know what my hard weight *could* be...

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 2h

reposting to read later

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 6h

Thoughtful read on how prompts shift the political imagination & how it may influence government decision making. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI

This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

www.tandfonline.com

Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 12h

Risk shift toward individuals instead of systems is very much on my mind, so I am thinking about genAI as a giant risk shift engine, not least because it puts the burden on individual people to play "genAI or not?"

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