I normally think of myself as a bad cook, but with just some oil, a stick of butter, salt and pepper, half a garlic clove, some chives, and very haphazard chatbot instructions I seem to have created the best steak I have ever eaten (incl. ones from restaurants)? (Sorry no pics as I ate it all)

“At Harvard, students are clamoring for a class that assigns a hefty book a week, requires regular essays, bans digital devices. Humanities 10 drew 180 applicants for just 90 spots this fall. Students expressed urge to be forced to think for themselves in the age of AI." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ha...

The Brutal Harvard Class That Suddenly Everyone Wants to Take

It’s an ungodly amount of reading and no easy A. So why are freshmen lining up to get into Humanities 10?

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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 9h ago

don’t forget the inverse secondary, inequality the other way: freedom to learn with your human brain from human teachers who professionally decide on curricular applications of model use, a freedom for only the students at one kind of institution

for some stupid reason I volunteered to give a talk next week which is why I am making slides at 9:28 on a Saturday

Oliver Ma, a civil rights lawyer running for CA Lieutenant Governor, on the reality of ICE detention facilities.

hey so quick question if liberals are the new racists who are the old racists

josh boo-erman 👻@bosh.worstpossible.world · 4d ago

just saw this absolutely cracked ad during the michigan game about how thanks to aoc and ilhan omar, white people can't show their faces in public anymore

Happy Pythagorean Triple Date Day

Facebook marketplace never fails to entertain

Blessing your timeline with pumpkin frog.

my friend and I are trying to negotiate a holiday party gig with this wealthy guy who wants ice skaters to perform outdoors in the cold on *plastic* ice (which I’ve never skated on). Except he wants us to wear white fur coats (we don’t have white fur coats) and doesn’t want to pay for them

are people from my previous institution OK?? do I really take up that much space in their minds?? (this is a growing pattern + web analytics flags it as multiple people)

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“why don’t women come forward?”

Leonid Schneider@forbetterscience.bsky.social · 2w ago

2. Sabatini has a billionaire behind him, Bill Ackman. Who also pays Sabatini a private lab with Czech students (Sabatini prefers european women). That's how fucked up things are. 3. Sabatini's science is fake. All of it. forbetterscience.com/2020/01/29/d...

Which opens up a whole nother issue: how common it was to abandon your children in the past for things like being gay, getting pregnant, etc. But nobody is writing scaremongering articles about that.

Remember: People have been cutting off their parents for centuries. It just used to be easier to disappear. Going to America? Bye! Settling the West? Bye! More recently, people have been cutting off their parents and telling them why using therapy terms since at least the 1980s.

Conservatives be like: I want small government. Also conservatives: The state should force my children to spend time with me.

There was a woman at a town hall the other week demanding federal enforcement for 'grandparents rights' and I can only imagine its gonna wind up becoming some kind of movement that wants conservative grandparents to have their grandchildren taken away from their parents if they're woke

But the parents thought they did their best! And they’re extremely reliable self-reporters of the cause of the estrangement

They're cutting off parents for things as small as being horrendously awful parents

It is 100% possible for a parent to be kind to other people and other people’s children and be awful as shit to their own kids. All the time I heard “why can’t you be more like so and so?” I was an only and still not her favorite child

"well I DID scar them for life by being a volatile alcoholic, but I'm not apologising"

Abusive parents blaming therapists for kids cutting ties is just an evolution of abusive husbands blaming therapists for wives divorcing their asses. The epidemic is dogshit people hiding behind the title of "parent" finally being called dogshit people

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last mo.

Many experts believe that estrangements are becoming an epidemic, driven by shifting family norms and changing therapy practices. on.wsj.com/3TuDHay

It’s telling that the cut-off parents in these sob stories are almost always cut off by daughters—we socialize women not just to absorb abuse, but to misinterpret abuse as bids for care. Meanwhile men are socially expected to distance themselves from their natal families anyway.

As with anti-divorce arguments, the underlying premise here is that any explicit break in the family is a grave moral violation. And the underlying premise *there* is that some family members get to be immune to consequence, and others are prevented from complaint. Imagine defending that!

Whether or not ppl cutting off their parents is an actual phenomenon (is it, really?) or just clicky outrage bait, anti-estrangement is a paternalistic, socially regressive position — it’s so similar to being anti-divorce that the two are virtually indistinguishable.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last wk.

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

What's extremely telling is that there is never once an article like this written from the perspective of the person who cut off their parent.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last wk.

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

It's always a "shock" to narcissistic people. I guarantee they've been told very clearly and repeatedly exactly what the problem is, likely for years, but their reaction will still be "I was blindsided! This came out of nowhere!"

Everyone I know who has cut off their parents as an adult has experienced violence or discrimination from their families. Queer people with MAGA voting dads. Child sexual abuse survivors whose moms didn’t believe them when they sought help.

People are not cutting off their parents because they had unfair expectations of perfection of them. But a defensive reaction to stories like these can be a red flag that you won’t be able to hear crucial feedback from your own kids if your behavior has hurt them.