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Charm? That's her strategy? Talk about being unequal to the moment.

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I've flown almost a million miles. And the only flight that ever terrified me was an aborted takeoff in Denver. So every time I takeoff from Denver I get this little residual tickle in my lizard brain. But I'm also grateful to see the vast prairie my ancestors came to as immigrants.

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I'm not this kind of risk taker.

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Day 4 of my "publish something every day" challenge for April. I really don't know if I can make it every single day for 30 days but I'm taking it one day at a time. Today is a poem I wrote pretty recently. #poetry #write open.substack.com/pub/incident...

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Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

I have birthday depression every year. So, this year I'm doing something different and I've given myself a challenge to publish an essay or poem every day during April. I've now made it ONE day. Woot! Today's essay is about what else - the power of the fool. open.substack.com/pub/incident...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

And the choir said, "amen."

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This is why the internet exists. owlsintowels.org

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It was ALSO only 13 states, no overseas territories, did not have a standing military, was saddled with enormous war debt, and the major industry was farming, largely supported by slave labor. I know techbros are fucking illiterates, but goddammit, read some history for fucking once.

submitted 32 days ago • 39 comments

There is literally no ethical use of genAI. 🔥 It's built on theft. 🔥 It consumes vast environmental resources. 🔥 It consumes vast financial resources to support it. No company currently touting their "ethical" genAI has attempted to address all three. Once they do then MAYBE a discussion begins.

submitted 36 days ago • 13 comments

I just trained a crisis management team last week and spent time talking about the hygiene of CMT meetings. Like, a key component is to never conduct a crisis management meeting without taking a roll call of every single person in the activation. Random phone number? Just initials? That's a NO.

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Woke up this morning randomly missing the Sunday paper. I can almost smell the paper and what a joy it was to separate out the sections and decide where to start.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

What the mediocre tech bros are doing to authors is the modern version of raping and pillaging. This represents the single largest theft of artistic works in the history of the world. Think about it, the equivalent is stealing the entire Library of Congress or the Boston Public Library. Gone.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Yep yep

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Standing on principle appears to be a lost art.

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At the DMV in Oregon and after 27 years in Atlanta it's real strange to be in a space where everyone is white.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

The news about the cause of death of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, is just grim beyond belief. Both died of "natural causes" but that does not seem sufficient to convey the horror implied by the circumstances.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

submitted 63 days ago • 177 comments

Personally, I'm in favor of the Lucrezia Borgia method.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

A guy I had a crush on in 7th grade posts constantly in support of progressive ideals, my husband is super fired up about the rights of trans people, & my first boyfriend is a very liberal blue collar guy. This means my entire dating history is the best of white dudedom and I've always picked well.

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Around 5:25 pm every day the setting sun hits my disco ball planter and turns my office into a party. The trick is to remember to look up from my monitor to see this magic since it only lasts about two minutes. It's a beautiful way to end the day before I head home.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Fragile men hate diversity. I'm sorry for all the times I let them impact my voice and my life. The only way to win is to refuse to be silent. incidentalslingshots.substack.com/p/fragile-me...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

submitted 74 days ago • 472 comments

The dog chewed up an Ecobee room sensor so I threw it in the trash. And then wondered why my heater was going supernova. The sensor was chewed up but still working so now I know the inside of my trashcan outside is 48 degrees. Had to disconnect it fully. Now that's a well- built device.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

I'll tell you this - as a person who gets paid to help organizations understand and get ahead of risks - we are entirely fcked with the dismantling of our people infrastructure in science and digital security. Fcked. Biochemical weapons and nation state AI hacks order up on 1!

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Why are white men so fragile?

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I would go back home to California so fast not even a pit maneuver by the Georgia State Patrol could stop me. denmarkification.com

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Just me over on FB explicating Kendrick's half time show for the white people . . . "Our story begins in 1971 with the Gil Scott-Heron's song The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. We then go forward to skating ring culture with Debbie Deb and then you need to understand the role of the Buick GNX."

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