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  MS Outlook outage is like a snow day for adults

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  Letting out a breath you’d been holding in for years and then remembering 2028 and holding in that breath again is a really good way to train your lung capacity

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  Dolly Parton has passed. A music and entertainment legend, for sure, but I’ll always remember her for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, her non-profit that gives millions of books to children around the world. You can donate to support her legacy here: https://imaginationlibrary.com

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  @rickf I found it kind of comforting actually. If nothing else, the series shows that humanity does survive, even if in a nuclear wasteland

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  “Human capital” is such a gross term. I’ve never heard anyone say it in a context that was anything but dehumanizing. The core concept of reducing a human to economic value is disgusting.

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  Every time the Supreme Court releases opinions nowadays, I look for this meme

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  Increasingly convinced that the Gen AI aesthetic is a fascist aesthetic, which is unfortunate because so many unknowingly use generated content, perhaps like so many unknowingly buy into the shifting norms of the regime https://artreview.com/the-fascinating-facism-of-ai-opinion-michelle-santiago-cortes/

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  Living through Europe’s record-breaking heat wave with no AC really makes me appreciate the Spanish siesta. Unfortunately I am in Germany.

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  Every year 🫠

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  Comforting to remember that, in the long, long term view, things are good and getting better. Unfortunately, we live in the short term.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tiffanycli/116332801928708518 Just a reminder that it was absolutely not obvious and certain that SCOTUS would rule the right way on birthright citizenship. Thank goodness we haven’t fallen that far yet as a nation. A win is a win, no matter how small.

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  Just sitting here staring at my screens and sweating through another record-breaking heat wave as my government decides to give or take fundamental rights away on a whim. We were promised jet packs.

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  Hardest part about starting a new job is switching from a Google office to an Outlook office. It’s like going back in time.

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  Writing is just cycling between “best idea ever” and “worst idea ever” until eventually you just get tired and submit it

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  So many posts about how millennials look younger than their age but everyone just looks their age plus Botox

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  Good news! The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, a right that essentially every single competent and well-meaning constitutional law scholar agrees has been well-decided for over a century. Congratulations, no one! We have secured the bare minimum of rights we already had! 🎉

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  98 Luftballoons

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  Do men know there’s also a whisper network for good men? Like, do they know women also tell each other about the men who are allies and advocates for women, and we share specific stories about why they’re great? And we recommend them for jobs and opportunities. Do they know this!

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  Being a professor is weird because I know I’m a full-grown adult but I carry a backpack and bring my lunch bag to school every day

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  When the birthright citizenship decision comes out, people will say it could never have gone any other way, that the law was obvious. But the mere fact that the Supreme Court took on the case is evidence enough that we are living in a time of democratic precarity.

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  Mastodon becoming a nonprofit is undoubtedly the right move 👏 👏 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/mastodon-becomes-nonprofit-to-make-sure-its-never-ruined-by-billionaire-ceo/

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  If—and right now it’s a big if—things do eventually work out, watch how quickly people forget how close we got to complete democratic collapse. They’ll say we overreacted. They’ll forget those who suffered and died. They’ll move on. But the victory will be worth it anyway. Keep fighting.

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  One of the mysteries in the Fallout universe is who caused the apocalypse, because there were just so many bad actors who could’ve done it—for profit, for power, for some inane conspiracy theory. Anyway, time to open my news app to check on current events

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  This is a big deal. Court finds Meta and Google liable for kids’ social media addiction under product liability theories. This strategy gets around Section 230 protections because the focus is on the platforms’ product designs, not the content posted by users. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-25/social-media-lawsuit-trial-meta-google-verdict

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  Morning flights LA to SF are 50% tech people and 50% entertainment people flying up for meetings with tech people

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  me as a kid, reading the fable about the emperor who has no clothes: what a dumb story me today, living through the current political situation: ok i get it now

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  “Historians, librarians and volunteers are racing to document museum displays and historical records they fear the Trump administration will remove or alter.” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-04/volunteers-race-preserve-history-museums-national-parks-trump

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  The Pope warns against using AI to write sermons, both because it weakens priestly skills and because AI “will never be able to share faith” https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pope-priests-ai

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  Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father from U.S. immigration detention. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172886492/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172886492.9.0.pdf

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  I’ve been trying to rely on Amazon less. Turns out physical stores do still exist, other websites also have fast shipping, and I actually don’t need as much stuff as I thought anyway.