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Rachel E. Pollock
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Writer/blogger, costume-maker, professor, cat mom to Clea
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My book STICKS IN PETTICOATS:PARASOL MANUFACTURE FOR THE MODERN COSTUMER is available here:

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Actual lol
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
Thank you! I’m so proud of her for mustering the courage to get up on furniture, this is a big step in her socialization as a member of our household.
Clea decided to try sitting on the couch and she liked it!

#caturday
Please enjoy this impossibly chic vintage 1940s hat
Parasols by my UNC MFA students
Great 🧵
Good climate news this week
1 Global: Renewables generation surpasses coal for 1st time
2 Global: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries
3 Global: Solar and wind generation grew in 1st half by more than overall demand increased in the same period

1/5
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Today's big story. Today's reminder that yes, state library associations *can* do something.

South Carolina school librarians have been fighting incredibly hard against the censorship bring brought across the state by their Education Superintendent and not being seen for it.
**NEW**

Today, the ACLU of South Carolina filed a lawsuit on behalf of public school students and school librarians. They're challenging the constitutionality of the state's book banning law and a memo outlining the state's content censorship policy.

bookriot.com/aclu-sc-laws...
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listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly
“the Human Centipede of content”
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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Everyone who attends on October 9 will be eligible to win this embroidery in our raffle. Join us to explore how YOU can take real, specific, and immediate actions in your own community to strengthen and expand public libraries. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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"most of the theatre continues to pretend sustainability is a buzzword and not praxis."
Considering deleting my socials, painting
LUDD🖕TE on a hoodie with acrylic, and throwing my phone into an ecycle bin
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I want to talk about generative AI because of the defeatist impulses chronicled in this article. While simply expresssing a defiant attitude cannot always change lived-in reality, in certain cases it definitely can. This is in part because, early on, a conflict can exist at a perceptions level. 1/?
All the reasons not to give in to generative AI.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
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That's A.I., not Al, which made for reading this headline in a VERY different way.
To the Daily Beast staffer who put “79” into this headline, know this:

We salute you.
Clea does that! I imagine her thinking “Whew! So glad I’m not out in this.”