Notices by Deb Nam-Krane (dnkboston@apobangpo.space)

@MaryAustinBooks Holy god, I never thought I would see "mutual aid" for active, enlisted service people.

@benroyce

My health insurance premiums are more than doubling. Happy November!

We are going from a little over $1000/month to more than $2300/month. Some of that is an adult child we're covering because she's underpaid, but not most of it. My family can bear it (plus two kids in state colleges, plus helping a disabled relative...), but it won't be pleasant. And it does not make me feel any better that other families will be much worse off.

Did I mention that everyone who voted for Trump is monstrous?

This is one of the aspects of Korean history I take the most pride in. Slaves set fire to the records so they couldn't be bound by them--badass. It makes genealogies more challenging--they didn't just burn the records of slaves--but it's a worthy price to pay.

I note, however, that slavery in South Korea persisted until as late as 1950. Yes, far fewer in number, but still.

https://writeout.ink/@ljwrites/115393540692777685

One of the highlights of my life is geeking out with Ivan over his *No Bullshit Guide to Math & Physics* while I was homeschooling my sons during the pandemic, and thus I am happy to share his latest, *No Bullshit Guide to Statistics*. I'm almost sad that my sons already finished their Stats class, but if you're looking for a reference, pick this up.

**As with any endorsements I make, I get absolutely nothing for this, so buy in good conscience**

https://minireference.gumroad.com/l/noBSstats

“You can’t be anti-hunger and pro-capitalism.” - Malik Yakinin

The problem with food banks is that they depend on the "largesse" of big corporations. (Yakini said it better.)

#food #HumanRights #capitalism

https://lacuna.org.uk/food-and-health/do-businesses-corporations-have-a-vested-interest-in-american-food-banks/

I am looking for a live-in #caretaker for my sister. She is autistic and nonverbal, but ambulatory and can perform basic functions on her own. However, she can't take care of herself--cook, clean, etc--and needs prompts for numerous things.

The position would be in a #Massachusetts suburb adjacent to #boston The salary is funded by a few programs; the bigger benefit might be free rent, given the cost of living in MA. She is in a day program during the week.

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#employment

Seeing--yet again--that Trump is getting his way with the courts thanks to judges he appointed.

Imagine if people had thought things through with their 2016 and 2024 votes instead of posturing.

No, I'm not ever going to let people forget what sexism and double standards cost us.

I might be the only one following news from #southkorea regularly. Fine, other people are tracking different things, and the point of the exercise is how universal things are--but it pains me right now how many people aren't getting that memo.

It looks like there have been three data center fires this week in SK, linked to batteries. Data in "the cloud" is gone.

Seeing stories about data centers and cloud computing in my feed, and I'm pulling my hair. The future is here, indeed.

1. Disney bringing Kimmel back does nothing to rehab Disney, and any journalist or outlet that publishes a piece in 6 months "How Disney fought back to relevance" or whatever should rot.

2. The fact that Disney felt the pressure to bring him back does say something about *our* ability to press forward. For all the handwringing about how "we're doomed", it looks like when we put the screws on, we make a difference.

3. Keep putting the screws on, in any way available.

#uspol #resistance

If you live in a safe place, do everything you can to help your friends who don't. One of my friends in a Republican state was assaulted after calling the cops TWICE for help. GOP hostage states are going to be rife with corruption, which means public services might be worthless. Get those fuckers out, but in the meantime, show up in any way you can.

@benroyce The people who voted for Trump or Stein because they were disgusted by Biden's inaction re: Gaza should go to Gaza for just one day and apologize to everyone there. I don't care what they do when they get home, but maybe then they'll understand that voting has real world consequences @nazokiyoubinbou

In case anyone needed proof that MA is not a Bright Blue Bastion--sorry, you're not getting COVID boosters at CVSes here.

h/t @blogdiva @MaryAustinBooks

https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/115117761843500460

@ApostateEnglishman WHERE IS THE JUSTICE FOR EVIL-LYN? @oberstenzian @blogdiva @skeletor

@aral Ugh. I knew Obama palled around at Google and Amazon, but FB is another low altogether. I know, as much shit as Clinton gets for neoliberalism and being triangulated, people don't like talking about how VERY similar Obama was. (FTR, I voted for HRC in the 2008 primary, because I valued someone knowing what they were talking about.) It's Syria, though, that I'll never forgive him for.

Sorry, do you mean Blair or Brown?

@aral SHUT UP! Really?! Oh my god. Was that a joke?

I'm going to have to go with "he doesn't care", probably because he doesn't have to. #USpolitics

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-06-20-obamas-prophetic-voice-has-never-been-more-needed/

@clacke Liboiron may have coined the term, but they're pulling on a bunch of other people as they discuss it, particulary Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang. Tuck wrote a twitter threat in 2017 that might help (but I can't access it) https://twitter.com/tuckeve/status/917068205667110912

@ephemeral *high five* I'm trying to explain the concept of extractive reading to friends, and the best I can do is something inelegant like the opposite of "whole is greater than the sum of parts".

You might also like *Women in the Picture* by Catherine McCormack https://www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/women-in-the-picture/ and *Native Nations* by Kathleen DuVal https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/575441/native-nations-by-kathleen-duval/

I am loving this book. It's ostensibly about #indigenous science #pollution #plastic and #colonialism but it's also about extractive reading and nuance in all things. It's fantastic, and I recommend it to everyone. #PollutionIsColonialism #bookstodon https://www.dukeupress.edu/pollution-is-colonialism