For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.

Damn, Margaret, that’s savage. Incidentally, the maddest I ever made people on the internet was when I suggested that there are disadvantages to going into fields populated by meek young women who never expect to be particularly valued.

I find mine most useful as a substitute for a huge pile of printed PDFs. I haven't figured out a way to automate this, but every time I save a citation in Zotero, I send the pdf to my remarkable. Finding isn’t easy, but it’s there and ready to be read.

like we don't have to accept everything as it is except allow google to do a massive expropriation of public resources in the name of safety. We can make things better! Reduce VMT, slow down cars, change infrastructure. We know how! Other cities and countries have done it /

I inadvertently watched the entire thing because I couldn’t look away. Thank you so much for reposting it.

Last week. I don’t drive, so I’m always out on foot/transit, and often have a little kid with me. I get asked about once a week.

Kobo?

It has an insane electro swing soundtrack that means we get to continuously quote this to each other

We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.

Man, I recognize that I’m an anti car radical, but I do think cars have done huge damage to childhood.

One more thing. When I wrote about this study showing one-third of Americans don't drive, people were messaging me saying this cannot be true for LA.

In LA County *23 percent* of the population is under 16. Kids are people! We must plan for their movement, just like all nondrivers. Hope that helps!

there's a priest who's job, twice a day, is to lift a floor stone in the nave and check the water level with a Holy Dipstick and communicate if the sluice needs adjusting

again, i am not exaggerating

I have complicated feelings about this as the parent of a first grader who is learning to read this way. I see no reason to doubt the reporting that it’s systemically flawed, but it sometimes gets portrayed as an assurance that no kid will learn to read, which isn’t what I see, at least.

Gravy doesn't need a recipe, it's between you and your ancestors.

I will warn you, don't try to make gougeres while you're also doing everything else. Any time before, you can pipe them onto parchment paper-lined baking sheets and freeze them, then transfer to a ziploc. Then you just have a gallon of gougeres ready to bake whenever, which is really the way to live

8.) If you want to be very extra, which I do some years, gougeres are a great pre-dinner nibble to have with a Campari or something similar. I cut the milk by a few tablespoons.