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ChelseaNH
@chelseanh.bsky.social
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Cisgender apprentice geezer (she/her). Love of money is the root of all evil. I ain't no follaback girl.
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chelseanh.bsky.social
Off to a banging start:
excerpt of essay: "People read Foucault," the redoubtable David Brooks once wrote, in an actual column that I've all but committed to memory, "and develop an alienated view of the world." God, did I love this. An "alienated view of the world"! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied -- no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003. Anyway, it was clearly time to get the elaborate machinery of manufactured bewilderment and sour indignation up and running again.
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
chelseanh.bsky.social
Key paragraph for those who don't want to travel there (an explicit rejection of the search for a savior figure):
Untangling this ethical knot is, I think, a matter of perspective. It comes down to the way that you think of what politics is. For the most part, it is wrong to think of elections as contests between "good" and "bad" candidates. With few exceptions, it is more accurate to divide most politicians into two broad categories: Enemies, and Cowards. The enemies are those politicians who are legitimately opposed to your policy goals. The cowards are those politicians who may agree with your policy goals, but will sell you out if they must in order to protect their own interests. Embrace the idea that we are simply pushing to elect the cowards, rather than the enemies. Why? Because the true work of political action is not to identify idealized superheroes to run for office. It is, instead, to create the conditions in the world that make it safe for the cowards to vote the right way.
April 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
chelseanh.bsky.social
Rule 2:
Screenshot of a tweet by John Rogers on 12/10/21 with his five rules. Rule 2 is "A fine is a price."
October 29, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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Screenshot of a tweet by John Rogers on June 29, 2021 at 9:34 PM: A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a nuke. Once you understand that, you can understand that the same reasonable motives that drive us to limit access to nukes should be acknowledged as justification to limit billionaires. Quoted tweet by John Rogers: As I was saying earlier, "The animating purpose of democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or --" WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
September 5, 2024 at 11:31 PM
chelseanh.bsky.social
Pizza boxes (that have never had pizza in them) make the best beds.
A black and white cat lies on her side on a pizza box on top of a kitchen table.
August 29, 2024 at 2:48 AM
chelseanh.bsky.social
There's gotta be a pony under there:
Screen cap from WSJ article: The deal presents a Catch-22 for the banks. On the one hand, they are eager to be well-positioned to work with Musk and his six companies that range from electric-vehicle maker Tesla to Neuralink and xAI. Many view a possible initial public offering of Musk's rocket company SpaceX or his Starlink satellite business as a fee-generating event that they don't want to miss out on. But in the interim, some of Musk's public comments and tweets have made a sale of the debt more difficult for them given the resulting pressures on the business.
August 20, 2024 at 3:08 PM
chelseanh.bsky.social
Pity the poor bankers, getting paid for performance:
Screen shot from WSJ article: The hung loans also have cut into some investment bankers' annual pay. Barclay's top investment bankers on the mergers and acquisitions team were told at a New York dinner early last year that compensation for everyone in the room would be cut by at least 40% from the prior year. The bank had several hung deals hurting its performance but X was by far the largest, according to people familiar with the situation. Once bankers were paid their bonuses for the year, about 50 of Barclay's more than 200 managing directors left the firm, according to the people.
August 20, 2024 at 2:55 PM
chelseanh.bsky.social
Ah, I see, they usually pass the buck to loan servicers after they get their fees:
Screenshot from WSJ article: The banks haven't been able to offload the debt without incurring major losses -- largely because of X's weak financial performance -- leaving the loans stuck on their balance sheets, or "hung" in industry jargon. The resulting write-downs have hobbled the banks' loan books and, in one case, was a factor that crimped compensation for a bank's merger department, according to people involved with the deal.
August 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM
chelseanh.bsky.social
A black cat wearing a plastic cone around it's face is held upright in someone's lap, so it's paws stretch out along the outside of the cone. A label at the bottom says "targeting system operational."
August 19, 2024 at 4:49 AM
chelseanh.bsky.social
I'd have gotten Maya up sooner but she was doing this again:
A mostly black cat with white mittens and a little white soul patch lies on a laptop keyboard. Never on a laptop, always on the keyboard.
July 29, 2024 at 2:02 AM
chelseanh.bsky.social
Maddie sends greetings from her pizza box
A black and white cat curls on her side in the sunshine, exposing her belly. She is lying in a pizza box on top of a table.
July 29, 2024 at 1:44 AM
chelseanh.bsky.social
Intelligence could recognize gibberish:
Screenshot of Microsoft Copilot attempting to make sense of a keyboard smash created by a cat lying on my laptop's keyboard with her feet on the touch screen.
June 22, 2024 at 7:53 PM
chelseanh.bsky.social
That face is familiar...
A tuxedo cat curled up in a bathroom sink, looking possessive
June 22, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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If Gen AI can't recognize a keyboard smash, it's not ready for prime time. (Thanks to my cat Maya for the assist.)
Screenshot of Microsoft Copilot trying to impute meaning to the gibberish created by my cat lying on my keyboard and resting her feetsies on the touch screen.
June 21, 2024 at 9:29 PM
chelseanh.bsky.social
Now packaged for a marketing campaign:
Screencap from https://www.dove.com/us/en/stories/campaigns/keep-beauty-real.html "Two decades ago, Dave made a stand in challenging false beauty standards. Today, as we transition to an era where 90% of content is predicted to be AI-generated by 2025, our message still stands: keep beauty real."
May 24, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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"Your occasional reminder that the animating purpose of representational democracy is to protect us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting."
February 13, 2024 at 12:33 AM
chelseanh.bsky.social
Leverage: The Rashomon Job
Eliot Spencer unknowingly chatting up Sophie Deveraux at a museum gala
February 4, 2024 at 5:59 AM
chelseanh.bsky.social
Screenshot of tweet by John Rogers: Your occasional reminder that the animating purpose of representational democracy is to protect us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.
January 7, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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Your occasional reminder that the animating purpose of representational democracy is to protect us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.
December 30, 2023 at 2:56 AM
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"Fortunately, there is a simple solution staring us in the face"
People on path reach signpost for Answers. Most go down the left path labeled "Simple but wrong," which leads to a cliff. A few people take the right path labeled "Complex but right" which winds its way uphill.
October 6, 2023 at 11:10 PM