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Formerly lawlibraryliz. Keeping promises.
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Cap Hill today.

It seems pretty clear to me AI is antihumanist. Superficially useful applications for supposedly altruistic ends don’t sidestep the evasion of accountability, mistaking judgment for intelligence, and devaluation and ultimate goal of extinction of human effort, error, and process-oriented empiricism.

“The story of Cassandra, the woman who told the truth but was not believed, is not nearly as embedded in our culture as that of the Boy Who Cried Wolf - that is, the boy who was believed the first few times he told the same lie. Perhaps it should be” Rebecca Solnit, 2014 harpers.org/archive/2014...

Proposed LOC Subject Heading changes. Note the remarkably short comment period, substantially over a holiday weekend. classweb.org/tentative-su...

Has any recent, publicized, egregious act of violence against a vulnerable person in a protected class generated fewer calls for solidarity, expectations for public side-taking, or calls for actionable reform than the Pelicot case?

hopelessly devoted.

My happy place. If you see this and are so moved, please quote post with your favorite place, beach or otherwise.

Vers as in I will be the mommy otter or the otter pup in this very specific snuggle only.

Today’s adventures in ancestral ration cooking. If you’re ever waiting for a callback, make pita. I always become the most in-demand woman in the world in the 5-12 seconds before the pita absolutely must come out of the oven.

Mason also enjoys crispy banana rolls.

This is an experiments-in-frying-stuff-in-rice-paper account for the foreseeable future.

America is an idea. Perhaps an idea of ambiguous merit. Like this attempt to recreate these chinese-italian fusion dumplings from a hazy memory of a c.1995 Lunar New Year street festival food. May this year of transformation bring us closer to accessible prosperity and peace for all people. 🐍