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Tara Baldrick-Morrone
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research and writing on repro history | labor solidarity forever
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Section 4.b.(ii) below
(ii) Discretionary awards shall not be used to fund, promote, encourage, subsidize, or facilitate: (A) racial preferences or other forms of racial discrimination by the grant recipient, including activities where race or intentional proxies for race will be used as a selection criterion for employment or program participation; (B) denial by the grant recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic; (C) illegal immigration; or (D) any other initiatives that compromise public safety or promote anti-American values.
August 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Yes! Exactly! They don't even reference those Executive Orders until the next answer, which makes no sense
Does the agreement force Brown to move away from all gender-inclusive measures that welcome and support transgender or nonbinary community members? The agreement requires Brown to make female-only housing, restrooms, showering facilities and single-sex floors available as an option to female students, and requires Brown to provide single-sex athletic opportunities to female students, using the definitions of “male” and “female” reflected in Executive Orders 14168 and 14201. The agreement does not address Brown's ability to continue to implement gender-inclusive measures on campus or provide options that welcome and support our transgender or nonbinary community members — including options such as gender-inclusive housing and restrooms, or the ability to specify personal gender pronouns and chosen names into University data systems. Brown remains fully committed to serving the needs of all students and community members in a manner consistent with our long-established policy of nondiscrimination, which includes sex, gender identity and gender expression.
August 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The answer that really got me was this one, because Brown cowardly answers it by pointing to the NCAA policy, which says that athletes who are AMAB can practice with teams but not compete.

www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/...
On what teams will transgender student-athletes be permitted to play? The NCAA’s Participation Policy for Transgender Student-Athletes defines this in detail and outlines eligibility for both competition and practices. Every student-athlete at Brown who participates on an NCAA team does so in accordance with the eligibility provisions of the NCAA policy in place at the time.
August 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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This story about John Roberts is wild

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. studied history in college and wanted to become a historian. A taxi ride changed his mind. “I was being driven back to school and started talking with the cabdriver, and he said, ‘What do you do?’” the chief justice recalled at Georgetown’s law school in May. “I said, ‘I’m a history major at Harvard.’” The cabdriver responded that he, too, had been a history major at Harvard. The exchange was a turning point. “I decided — nothing against cabdrivers — that law school seemed like a reasonable alternative,” Chief Justice Roberts said.
August 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Sounds like more changes could be on the way based on this answer
In what specific ways will Brown’s physical spaces or policies related to restrooms and locker rooms change based on the agreement? Members of Brown’s senior administration have initiated discussions with leaders in multiple units across campus to work through questions about any changes that may be necessary as the University ensures its full compliance with the agreement. We will provide additional details to the Brown community as we make decisions related to implementation, including in regard to any physical space or policy changes related to restrooms or locker rooms in University buildings.
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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"Is the provision in the federal agreement focused on locker rooms only directly related to athletics, or does it apply to all gym use for the campus?" "The provision relates specifically to “Brown Athletics facilities” and providing “intimate facilities such as locker rooms and bathrooms strictly separated on the basis of sex” to “female student-athletes.”
August 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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hahaha i love this for you both
A screenshot of two skeets posted at the same time. On the bottom, Patrick shares a dance remix of I've Written A Letter to Daddy" from the film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? On the top, Anthony comments, "My partner is forcing me to listen to dance remixes of 'I've Written a Letter to Daddy.' How did it come to this?"
July 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I hope Julie K. Brown is doing well wherever she is
Julie K. Brown (born 1961) is an American investigative journalist with the Miami Herald best known for pursuing the sex trafficking story surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, who in 2008 was allowed to plead guilty to two state-level prostitution offenses.
July 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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The study's preliminary finding (on page 141) is fascinating (and unsurprising tbh):
Perhaps one of the more concerning findings is that participants in the LLM-to-Brain group repeatedly focused on a narrower set of ideas, as evidenced by n-gram analysis (see topics COURAGE, FORETHOUGHT, and PERFECT in Figures 82, 83, and 85, respectively) and supported by interview responses. This repetition suggests that many participants may not have engaged deeply with the topics or critically examined the material provided by the LLM. When individuals fail to critically engage with a subject, their writing might become biased and superficial. This pattern reflects the accumulation of cognitive debt, a condition in which repeated reliance on external systems like LLMs replaces the effortful cognitive processes required for independent thinking. Cognitive debt defers mental effort in the short term but results in long-term costs, such as diminished critical inquiry, increased vulnerability to manipulation, decreased creativity. When participants reproduce suggestions without evaluating their accuracy or relevance, they not only forfeit ownership of the ideas but also risk internalizing shallow or biased perspectives.
June 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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I was reading @brianevenson.bsky.social's _Father of Lies_ from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social at a cafe today and just as I was getting to Fochs's first dream, two LDS missionaries approached me to invite me to their ward

It was only so wild because Evenson wrote it as he was leaving the church lol
Front cover of a book in brown with white text and a partial drawing of an animal
May 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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After sending off a few chapters for an upcoming workshop, I'm happy to get back to reading for pleasure (which I do far too infrequently). First up is Altmann's Tongue by @brianevenson.bsky.social, which I was excited to find at the library!
A hardcover book sits on a table next to a light blue mug filled with coffee
February 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Bad news: I hope I'm not
Good news: even the Merriam-Webster dictionary account makes typos
derelict, but misspelled as derelicht
January 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie
A black-and-white drawing of a woman reading a book on a living room chair while a child gazes into an abyss. The woman says, "It's just the abyss, dear. Try not to gaze into it. Drawn by Ellis Rosen.
November 27, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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The university library trying to give me a heart attack this morning

Note: nothing is due. it's just a reminder of what books I have checked out 😂
University Library: Notice of checked out items
November 22, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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David, a male android wearing a black turtle neck, says "Perfection"
November 14, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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When it burned down so you could see the inside, it looked even spookier 😍
A burning red candle in the shape of an anatomical heart is split open and is oozing out wax that looks like blood and gore
November 10, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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Last night, I burned a candle that my friend made in the shape of an anatomical heart. I can't get over how cool this looks!
A burning red candle in the shape of an anatomical heart sits in a pool of wax that looks like blood
November 10, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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Sometime the algorithm works out just right: bsky.app/profile/did:...
A BlueSky post advertising an elections feed directly after Dheepa's post asking for one
November 5, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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Happy Halloween, everyone 🎃

Thought it was a good day to wear my scariest shirt to a meeting
A black T-shirt with red font saying Cattle Decapitation above an angry minotaur figure in white holding viscera
October 31, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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Who decided that Rhode Island's voter sticker should have the state house in the background and not a cute little clam or a tiny Cthulhu or some other indescribable horror?

truly a missed opportunity
A blue circular sticker that's has I Voted in big white letters and a light blue state house in the background
October 29, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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i hate that i had to learn and therefore look up this "catch phrase"
an entry in a dictionary of catch phrases: "she rapes easy is a jocularly sardonic US catch phrase, applied to girls not so very reluctantly admitting that they've been 'raped' once again: since the middle 1940s, if not a decade earlier."
October 27, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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Poster of a quote Pat Robertson said in opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment: "Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
October 18, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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hey, what's Tim Walz doing in The Taking of Deborah Logan?
A still from the horror movie The Taking of Deborah Logan, where the white-haired actor Ryan Cutrona looks suspiciously like VP candidate Tim Walz in outdoorsy clothing
October 16, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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As a certified BlueSky elder, I can't wait to get my BARP card in the mail
Picture announcing that I was user #389,237 when I signed up on BlueSky
September 16, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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Look how cute my new buttons are 🥰🐀
Two white pro-union buttons. The top button depicts a drawing of a possum with its mouth open, with text beneath it which says "Join your union." The bottom button depicts a drawing of a crying rat, with the text around it saying, "Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I cry on company time."
September 11, 2024 at 12:54 AM