Notices by JNL (jnl@hcommons.social)

Today my advisor/our lab had an impromptu rap session about AI and what we are seeing with student work and it was one of the most depressing conversations I've been part of in a very long time WHICH * IS * SAYING * SOMETHING

drove home alone in the rain feeling like I needed to be scraped off the floor with a spatula

I wish I had gotten to spend more of my life in the "fuck around" era

Celebrating the extrajudicial execution via cop-at-traffic-stop of someone you disagree with is probably not the pro-social flex you were hoping for. Which I point out because I care about you, and about us.

Y'all every person the cops shoot and kill is a further extension of social license for cops to shoot and kill. Period. This DOES NOT HELP AT ALL.

WELL HE SHOULD HAVE JUST FOLLOWED THE RULES

wait

'But fuck that guy personally.'

Sure, sure. No reason for concern at all if cops have extra social license to kill certain designated 'assholes.'

Zero chance that might also be you, or a movement leader, or your teenage son, or a political opponent of police unions.

'Fuck Mastodon then why is everyone here not able to take a joke'

If celebrating the extrajudicial execution of a human being is what you do for fun, yes, we are here to interrupt that

what is happening to you?

what is happening to your heart

'This is a really annoying post, J. How dare you call me out like this!'

[taps on pinned post glass]
This would be the EVERYONE'S life is sacred religious tenet that I told you would eventually piss you off. 🤷🏻♀️

I actually don't think we have to be credulous about fake-ass Gaza scammers any more than we have to shut up and take what we are given from gutted and dystopian public school systems. The left-pious 'NO, WE *ALL* AGREE' gets wheeled out for the least good cases and y'all I am not here for it.

The Gaza genocide needs to end NOW and it seems like consensus is rebuilding in that direction. Public pressure on actual political levers- what could that look like; how to engage effectively and learn skills for building coalitions and recognizing partial and successive wins- very here for that kind of imagining. Agreeing to pretend that the comments scammers are somehow not scammers because they say Gaza rather than Ray-bans is ineffectual and nuts.

Am I reporting them? No. Do I think 99.5% of them and possibly more are scam farmers based in places very far from Gaza? FOR SURE. Have a reached a moment of 'lol you have got to be kidding me' toward movement piety along lines that only hurt our cause and everyone else's? Yes.

the right has a 'shut up and be evil with us- it's what it takes' underpinning ... for the left it seems to be 'shut up and be dumb with us' and I am not surprised that it repels a lot of people who are otherwise in alignment

I truly do like Mastodon better, and while my thoughts are still in development, I think giving people here a hug and props now is a left-skill I'd like to see us build more muscle for.

We don't have to have things all figured out to tell people good job and keep it up.

Good job, Masto. Keep it up.

Spouse has been further treated, now by our own providers, and has a surgery date of Thursday. All should be basically well by Christmas, for which we are extremely grateful.

We are people for whom the current American medical system actually works pretty well. It's not, in fact, a broken system; it's a TIERED system.

Which makes it MORALLY broken.

We were just notified of the death by suicide of my spouse's closest cousin today. His adolescent son found him. They also have two other kids.

Our older son is autistic in the 'kicks your ass at everything' kind of way.

I've talked about this before in different ways, but not explicitly connected to autism- extended time at home (2 years in our case; thanks Covid!) in his middle school years was SO TREMENDOUSLY HELPFUL for our kid in fully getting it together on some lagging skills (organization, motivation toward meeting other people's priorities), to the point that I honestly think more people parenting autistic kids might want to consider this if they can swing it.

He came back in batting at the top of his class and understanding in a really profound way that HE was in charge of his learning 'I can teach myself anything I want! I can learn anything!' and that made him MUCH more legible to teachers and admins in a position to help him thrive. Public schools at this point are really, REALLY widgety in their functioning, but they are still deployments of PEOPLE harnessing resources and pathways. It is sometimes (and for academically gifted autistic kids, probably often) worth it to code legibly.

It's cute that we thought that the end of Monopoly ever *wouldn't* be militarized