Notices by Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com), page 3

"But to their eternal discredit, many universities have so far been rolling out the red carpet for the fascist tendencies and policies that Trump and his acolytes proudly promote, obeying even before he took office."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-trump-universities/

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"On 30th November 841, the day after William’s birthday, Dhuoda sat at a writing desk and picked up a pen, thus beginning her famous work, the Liber Manualis."
https://justhistoryposts.com/2025/02/24/historical-objects-duchess-dhuoda-and-the-liber-manualis/

It's the last day of Smashwords' Read An Ebook Week, and many of my titles are heavily discounted. You can find them here. https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Lilith_Saintcrow

"Only then, I think, was it possible to conceive of humanity as a point on a line that could keep extending, to imagine something that would be more than human without being supernatural."
https://lithub.com/ted-chiang-on-superintelligence-and-its-discontents-in-j-d-beresfords-innovative-work-of-early-20th-century-science-fiction/

"The term "Crypto Strategic Reserve" is a non sequitur since there are no plausible circumstances in which the United States government holding large amounts of cryptocurrencies would be of any strategic benefit."
https://popular.info/p/strategic-corruption-reserve

Instead of the biweekly D&D game, I'm covered with powdered sugar and doing administrative tasks.

*sigh*

For those asking, the sugar is because someone who loves their dear old mum brought doughnuts home this morning, and I may have gone face-down in said baked goods while weeping about the sheer amount of work I've put off the last two weeks.

"Both Putin's invasions of Ukraine and the January 6, 2021, insurrection recall a deadly form of coercive control: the former husband or boyfriend furious that she left him and somehow intent on terrorizing her into returning or destroying her if she resists..."
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made-him-do-it-theory-of-everything-2/

It also hasn’t escaped me that the rise of the “AI” grift and the sudden spike in furious harassment when I dare to give a piece of writing advice which requires actual effort are… well, entirely parallel.

People wonder why I don’t do weekly craft posts anymore. I don’t have time for the threats.

Another quote: "To control personnel psychologically, and to destroy the integrity of an institutional mission, you must not only assign people to what they don’t do, and shouldn’t do, but make them seem to do it to themselves..."

"The hallmark of totalitarianism at this stage isn’t genocide or extremes of violence. It is doubled or twofold organization."
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-fork-in-the-road/

From the above-linked article: "...to corner the most status-quo-seeking individuals into the temptation to do wrong, and dirty their hands for the sake of keeping the status quo, inviting them to do a “minor” wrong in order to steer back toward “normalcy”..."

"The good news is that you can do a handful of simple things that will make Windows work for you, instead of for Microsoft."
https://next.content.town/p/unfucking-windows-for-fun-and-profit

Crock pot bubbling, fresh bread out of the oven and on cooling rack. The house smells divine, and it's finally warm enough after days of freezing and snow.

There are still good things. Holding to them, insofar as I can.

"With his authoritarian orders, the president—and his unelected South African Rasputin—have not only pre-emptively cut off discussion and debate, they have eliminated the fundamental tools of discussion and debate, namely words themselves."
https://lithub.com/winter-is-here-on-the-chilling-effect-of-elon-musk-and-donald-trump/

"Lamar gave Williams space to reclaim that dance as he was rapping about the ills of folks who don’t belong in the same universe as Black excellence trying to tell us what to do."
https://andscape.com/features/genius-of-kendrick-lamars-super-bowl-halftime-performance/

"This is the way that tens if not hundreds of millions of people are introduced to software, and the software they’re introduced to is inherently exploitative."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

"Bagenstos told Popular Information that both judges were "very clear" about the scope of the TROs and that the NIH is violating both orders."
https://popular.info/p/trump-maintains-funding-freeze-at

There's a dual problem here: The felon in the White House and his brownshirts will not stop until they are removed from power and placed in jail cells; and many of our institutions are falling over themselves to comply in advance.