Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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I would like to be at the beach today.

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

you did it again! I tell you every year not to eat the marmot and you do it anyway and get black plague. english.news.cn/asiapacific/...

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · 3y ago

one of the funnier rules is every year or so, the Mongolian and Chinese governments have to put out a notice that you MUST NOT travel to Mongolia and eat a marmot. And every year someone fucking does it anyway and immediately dies of black plague which is why you don't do that.

I love when new brunswick fights about our biggest cities its like arguing who has the finest cuisine at the mall food court

This thread (which Robin pursues down a couple different, useful forks) is a great overview of the mess that is eBook licenses for libraries, especially 24-month expiring licenses for books in series! (Context: cost per circ = cost per each time it's checked out.)

Robin Bradford@tuphlos.bsky.social · 2d ago

Book 1 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 Book 2 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 I'm not buying book 3. If the cost per circ was $5 or $3, I wouldn't mind. But that is WAY too high, especially for a thing that expires after 2 yrs.

It’s called the Maritimes because sometimes the air and the ocean get mixed up about which is which.

I rarely comment on departing players, but Kevin Gausman is different. A thoughtful, reliable and impressive person to cover. All of the reasons #BlueJays fans were drawn to Gausman are genuine and real. Model player, model representative of this organization. He did it right.

No one ever had to spend $175M on librarian misconduct settlements Not even when we drank that Dallas bar out of tequila

sara@saract.bsky.social · 3d ago

we're on pace to spend something like 5x the total public library budget on misconduct settlements alone. do we think that number will go up or down with 1,000 more officers? you cannot propose this kind of stuff and be taken seriously as a "fiscally responsible" candidate

Last year, I sat in the grass in Dartmouth to watch the Natal Day parade and it was extremely crispy, because it hadn’t rained all summer. This year, I’m not going to the parade but I’m really glad we’ve had rain and that grass isn’t so dry.

I wondered what to draw , then 3 black-capped chickadees joined me on the deck, and one said “you nimrod, we are NB’s official bird and we’re so cute! “ .. they were kind enough to hold my sign and pose for me. Kind NBers. Enjoy your day!

We got a Blackstone griddle and I’m now an annoying person who cooks everything outside!

Inspired by the summer film and Discourse, some freshman are going to show up to register for classes in Ancient Greek and Ancient History only to find that those courses and faculty no longer exist.

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

Barrington, Spring Garden, Quinpool, Gottingen, etc I think a lot about how these streets are trying to be all the things to all the road users; pedestrian- friendly, transit-oriented, while moving traffic and sometimes commercial truck traffic. It leads to sort of failing at all of it.

Mac the squirrel :)@macsquirelera.bsky.social · 4d ago

I really like Halifax but they have got to figure out what barrington st is going to be. Right now it’s the main pedestrian drag (other than waterfront), main arterial for cars, and the main route for all of the buses. It only has 2 Lanes downtown and it’s a big ole mess

bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris

I suggested we send emails that say “good luck with that lol” when people invent new degree programs and don’t allocate additional money to the library to buy resources and everyone was like “this is why you don’t write the letters.” BUT I SHOULD!

Alison@alisonburnis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sometimes I miss being a hospital librarian because responding to people complaining about the library not having a resource/not buying something with "lol no money bro" was a legitimate and acceptable way to handle that.

*checks the discourse, as a person who is a professionally trained searcher and gets paid to find research for people and also teach it* Sigh.

Yes but also read the absolute hell out of these

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

that guy: OMG these new buildings are all so ugly Why don't they design them like they used to The used to's

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

It should be illegal for employers to drag out contract negotiations for years. It's just union-busting.

If there was a surface, Maud Lewis painted on it. She turned her small home into a colourful work of art. While she was born with birth defects, she never let that stop her from capturing the beauty she saw in the world. This is her story. 📸 Art Canada Institute 🧵 1/12

At least I had the good bloody sense to wear my Saltwater Sandals today.

The "They're throwing away books!!!" panic is so boring and tired and irritating to me, but since this one is making people hate AI more I'll let it slide

It would be lovely if Anthropic got a fraction of the pushback over destroying books that libraries do over basic collection maintenance.

We went fridge shopping at Christmas and I was so glad that the cutout for a fridge could only fit the two most basic fridges in the store. My fridge is cold. My freezer is on top. It has zero frills.

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.