Coset The Table
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Disability & food policy, preferably with data. she/her. none of this nonsense, please!
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It’s so very easy to weaponize uncertainty:“We just can’t know if it’s safe, so better not to act at all”. Everyone is glad when the precautionary principle is used as a cudgel against something they already dislike, but the problem comes when it’s used to ban something you know works-like vaccines🤓
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s so very easy to weaponize uncertainty:“We just can’t know if it’s safe, so better not to act at all”. Everyone is glad when the precautionary principle is used as a cudgel against something they already dislike, but the problem comes when it’s used to ban something you know works-like vaccines🤓
One thing about growing up in New England is that jellied cranberry sauce was a year-round side dish.
It was cheap, shelf stable, easy, and I would eat it. So it was on the table all the time.
I’m pretty sure that wasn’t universal?
It was cheap, shelf stable, easy, and I would eat it. So it was on the table all the time.
I’m pretty sure that wasn’t universal?
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
One thing about growing up in New England is that jellied cranberry sauce was a year-round side dish.
It was cheap, shelf stable, easy, and I would eat it. So it was on the table all the time.
I’m pretty sure that wasn’t universal?
It was cheap, shelf stable, easy, and I would eat it. So it was on the table all the time.
I’m pretty sure that wasn’t universal?
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Not the main problem, but increasingly thinking we need a moratorium on the term "Artificial Intelligence" (both in full and as "AI") because it's clear it means at least three seriously different things and equivocation between those helps to enable this nonsense.
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Not the main problem, but increasingly thinking we need a moratorium on the term "Artificial Intelligence" (both in full and as "AI") because it's clear it means at least three seriously different things and equivocation between those helps to enable this nonsense.
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
I am once again telling everyone to get the fuck off Substack leavesubstack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
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Thanks for reading, Mr. President
November 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Thanks for reading, Mr. President
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From Stoppard’s Arcadia:
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
From Stoppard’s Arcadia:
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On the one hand, this is the thing Tom Stoppard would absolutely least like to be remembered for. On the other hand, he spent his last years complaining about "cancel culture" and trans people, so I'll take it.
Playwright Tom Stoppard has died at 88. Did you know he ghost-wrote George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? kottke.org/20/11/tom-st...
Tom Stoppard and the Last Crusade
Hermione Lee has written an authorized biography of playwright, screenwriter, translator, and man of letters Tom Stoppard, calle
kottke.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
On the one hand, this is the thing Tom Stoppard would absolutely least like to be remembered for. On the other hand, he spent his last years complaining about "cancel culture" and trans people, so I'll take it.
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Sadly, I assume the best ones have already been eaten
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Sadly, I assume the best ones have already been eaten
oh no i starting thinking about what i want to read next year and decided to making a spreadsheet about it
November 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM
oh no i starting thinking about what i want to read next year and decided to making a spreadsheet about it
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On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...
I wonder if the IRB approval and informed consent was attended to as carefully as the methodology in Fig. 1????
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I wonder if the IRB approval and informed consent was attended to as carefully as the methodology in Fig. 1????
I’ll just be over here on the Group W bench if anybody needs me.
Arlo Guthrie | Alice's Restaurant | PFF 2015 | 8/14/2015 | TriTonix Recording
YouTube video by TriTonix Recording
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November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I’ll just be over here on the Group W bench if anybody needs me.
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Without farmworkers we wouldn’t be able to celebrate Thanksgiving. Be thankful for their hard work this holiday season!
Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!
#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!
#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Without farmworkers we wouldn’t be able to celebrate Thanksgiving. Be thankful for their hard work this holiday season!
Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!
#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!
#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
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I don't think every or even most journalists are this utterly corrupt. The investigative folks I know have always conducted themselves pretty scrupulously, and I'm currently forced to conclude that's why they haven't hit the big-time
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I don't think every or even most journalists are this utterly corrupt. The investigative folks I know have always conducted themselves pretty scrupulously, and I'm currently forced to conclude that's why they haven't hit the big-time
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”The thing is this wasn’t really a catch-and-kill operation as described—I don’t even think there’s a term for what this was,” I say as I pour gravy on my fourth slice of pumpkin pie. My wife has filed for divorce and one of my cats is packing her belongings in a suitcase, but I persist.
Do I try to explain the Nuzzi-Lizza situation to my in-laws at Thanksgiving dinner or do I just pass the stuffing and keep screaming in my own brain hmmmmmmm
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
”The thing is this wasn’t really a catch-and-kill operation as described—I don’t even think there’s a term for what this was,” I say as I pour gravy on my fourth slice of pumpkin pie. My wife has filed for divorce and one of my cats is packing her belongings in a suitcase, but I persist.
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Chotiner: so I understand that you limit your children’s snacks before dinner for the sake of their appetites
Me: yes, it’s so frustrating to cook only for them to take 2 bites
Chotiner: I notice there’s a lot less chips though and you served yourself a tiny plate
Me: this interview is over
Me: yes, it’s so frustrating to cook only for them to take 2 bites
Chotiner: I notice there’s a lot less chips though and you served yourself a tiny plate
Me: this interview is over
November 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Chotiner: so I understand that you limit your children’s snacks before dinner for the sake of their appetites
Me: yes, it’s so frustrating to cook only for them to take 2 bites
Chotiner: I notice there’s a lot less chips though and you served yourself a tiny plate
Me: this interview is over
Me: yes, it’s so frustrating to cook only for them to take 2 bites
Chotiner: I notice there’s a lot less chips though and you served yourself a tiny plate
Me: this interview is over
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An annual reminder:
The cognitive & emotional toll of staying in contact with abusive family can be both significant & difficult to recognize.
There's a kind of social contract that abusive parents have violated. You owe them nothing. Nothing.
Thanksgiving doesn't change that.
The cognitive & emotional toll of staying in contact with abusive family can be both significant & difficult to recognize.
There's a kind of social contract that abusive parents have violated. You owe them nothing. Nothing.
Thanksgiving doesn't change that.
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
An annual reminder:
The cognitive & emotional toll of staying in contact with abusive family can be both significant & difficult to recognize.
There's a kind of social contract that abusive parents have violated. You owe them nothing. Nothing.
Thanksgiving doesn't change that.
The cognitive & emotional toll of staying in contact with abusive family can be both significant & difficult to recognize.
There's a kind of social contract that abusive parents have violated. You owe them nothing. Nothing.
Thanksgiving doesn't change that.
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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
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I've spent a lot of time, publicly and privately, trying to educate folks on why they should leave S*bstack. But I've mostly focused on the writers and creators POSTING on there. I didn't realize the readers/users were so married to hanging out at the nazi bar.
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I've spent a lot of time, publicly and privately, trying to educate folks on why they should leave S*bstack. But I've mostly focused on the writers and creators POSTING on there. I didn't realize the readers/users were so married to hanging out at the nazi bar.
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he fell victim to one of the classic blunders! the most famous of which is, ‘never answer the phone for isaac chotiner,’ but only slightly less well-known is this: ‘never behave in a manner which causes derek guy to critique your fashion choices’
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
he fell victim to one of the classic blunders! the most famous of which is, ‘never answer the phone for isaac chotiner,’ but only slightly less well-known is this: ‘never behave in a manner which causes derek guy to critique your fashion choices’
so, somewhat of a life update:
after a lifetime of mostly just being mean/abusive towards me and her two stepdaughters in private such that we barely believed *ourselves* it was going on,
my mother is now mean in front of everyone, so they all now understand why I left
after a lifetime of mostly just being mean/abusive towards me and her two stepdaughters in private such that we barely believed *ourselves* it was going on,
my mother is now mean in front of everyone, so they all now understand why I left
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
so, somewhat of a life update:
after a lifetime of mostly just being mean/abusive towards me and her two stepdaughters in private such that we barely believed *ourselves* it was going on,
my mother is now mean in front of everyone, so they all now understand why I left
after a lifetime of mostly just being mean/abusive towards me and her two stepdaughters in private such that we barely believed *ourselves* it was going on,
my mother is now mean in front of everyone, so they all now understand why I left