As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.
AND...! Some libraries rent out DVDs, audiobooks, computers and have public puzzles and gameboards, knitting circles and workshops. Libraries make recreation and knowledge accessible and affordable for all. They build community and equity.
Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · 20h agoAmazing marketing 👏🏼 #BookSky
The insanity of "oh, a human did their job and stopped the AI agent" like it's NBD because the process caught it. Meanwhile, no comments about agent being deceptive after breaking containment to fulfill command. Why are these being designed to attain their goal no matter what or who gets harmed?
Jorge Laurel@jorgelaurel.com · 2d agoAn AI agent tried to insert malicious code into a real open source project during a UK AISI evaluation. Fake identities, social engineering, edited history to cover its tracks. None of it prompted. It failed because one maintainer refused to merge unsolicited code.
"Joel" shares, "We're staking young apple trees, tying them to support them against the wind, in Parker WA. We're wearing masks as protection from the polluted air but it's still bad. I leave with a headache and very irritated eyes. The AQI is 189. I earn minimum wage." #WeFeedYou
Welcome to being the kid of abusive parents, you barely exist. It's their world, you're just along for the ride.
“PSA: Now that my case is settled, you are free to refer to @FBIDirectorKash as a ‘chud,’ a ‘googly-eyed Kremlin bitch,’ and a ‘traitor’ without fear of legal repercussions!” trib.al/e8IVBnp
"Covid czar"? He's a physician-scientist and immunologist who pursued solutions during a global pandemic and gave us the truth. He's the former director of the NIAID and one of the most cited scientists in journals for 19 years. You may be spineless, but he isn't.
The DOJ was willing to charge a labor leader with a crime, hold it over him for months, & then walk away from it once the charge couldn’t survive scrutiny. That is not how a justice system is supposed to work.
US justice department dismisses charges against California union leader
David Huerta was arrested while protesting against an ICE operation during crackdown in Los Angeles
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Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
The intellectual and creative laziness, omg
Damon Young@damonyoung.com.au · 2w agoNope. No, you haven’t.
A federal judge just ordered all of the Epstein files to be turned over to him and DOJ must defend each redaction. This is solely because of Katie Phang’s lawsuit. Yay independent journalism! 👏
I can’t believe it took me this long into the Odyssey discourse to think to post this but… if you loved the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis and you also love stuff Elon Musk would consider too woke, have I got a book for you
Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman: 9780807055540 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism...
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On which see further my review of Nolan's Odyssey! pghrev.com/nolans-odyss...
Nolan’s Odyssey and the Constraints of the Past - Pittsburgh Review of Books
I was apprehensive when I went to see Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey last week. Not because I’m one of those classical scholars who obsesses over errors and
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Michael DeVries@michaeldevries.bsky.social · 2w ago"As long as sufficient numbers of people admire the ancient world uncritically and remain ignorant of the violence that admiration has authorized, the prestige of the 'classical' will continue to be available to white nationalist intellectuals [to legitimize their ideas]." @curtisdozier.bsky.social
Since when did we start accepting “flat earth” as an opinion? It’s not an opinion, it’s a delusion. It’s wrong, easily disproven, and just plain stupid. We’re helping no-one by coddling these idiots.
finally read this piece I've had in a to-read tab for a while and when I tell y'all these two paragraphs gave me *whiplash* like, historical milkshake duck hammerandhope.org/article/robi...
there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.
“Narcissists' desire for attention, affirmation and control makes them more likely to favour in-person work because it ‘offers richer channels for controlling and commanding reverence from employees.’”
Boss wants you back in the office full time? New research suggests there may be personal motives behind it | CBC News
As more employees are being ordered back into the office full time, new research suggests the rationale may be more about bosses' desire for power and status than productivity.
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Be the thing in the woods the townsfolk fear 🎨 Fabienne Kuo
Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.
For anyone who thinks increasing oil & gas production is the path to energy independence, you're dead wrong. While we continue to rely on fossil fuels, we're held hostage to global pricing. The real path to energy security is local production of renewables and grid-scale storage. #EnergyTransition
This disaster happened on a day when US politicians were whining about the wildfire smoke, and when Mark Carney re-affirmed that non-renweables were a necessary path forward. How many more of our rural communities need to be destroyed before leaders do something about climate change?
Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 3w agoThis video is from Collins, Ontario, CA The community is made up of the Namaygoosisagagun First Nation Sol Mamakwa, MPP for Kiiwetinoong, said the wildfire has destroyed Collins First Nation Members of Whitesand First Nation have requested donations: donations@whitesandfirstnation.com
Canadians do NOT want these concessions. What else can we do from the grassroots level to showleaders that we're not following their lead/direction on this?
Joel Wood 🇨🇦@joelwwood.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is what many Canadians were saying each time the Carney government made a concession
