Lauren Brian @lbrianwrites@computerfairi.es
Aspiring writer. old. incorrectly queer. General gloomy gus.
Joined Nov 2022
argh, someone shoved 30+ outdated, dirty, useless books into the donation bin and we don't even take donations. ffs. hoarding is not a collection development policy. Just throw the damned things away!
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A statement that the pandemic is over is a political one—with over 1,000 weekly deaths reported by CDC in the US alone. Those who want to protect themselves from infection, long covid & its many consequences, will continue to take precautions.
Those infected and subsequently have ill health, brain fog & more, may find their cognitive & physical ability limited, and loose their jobs & find difficulty getting or keeping a job. They may have trouble with daily matters & getting help.
Today I learned that the student newspaper went digital-only in 2021.
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Every school board election is a logic puzzle where you have to figure out which two names out of eight are not religious zealots
The student union bakery keeps small cups of puppy chow on regular rotation. My stomach hates peanuts. I shouldn't sell my pain so cheaply, but, god, puppy chow is so difficult to resist.
No brain, do not listen to your stomach telling you the answer to your intense acid digestion that's escaping all your prescription acid-reducing meds is to eat more food. More food will not "absorb the extra acid." That's not how any of this works. We just need to fast for like three days. Brain, you know this.
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Snake fight thesis defense fanfic
It's hilarious https://archiveofourown.org/works/28299630
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3) An oral history of KidPix by Craig Hickman, creator of the iconic children's bitmap drawing program which was published by Broderbund in 1991
http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years
(By the way, you can play with a JS/html version of KidPix on the web here: https://kidpix.app/)
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Bosses rig #union votes the same way Republicans rig elections: #disinformation, divide-and-rule, #VoterSuppression, #gerrymandering. Union organizers know how to win that kind of election, and they can teach us all.
https://doctorow.medium.com/a-collective-bargain-a48925f944fe
And while it's a shitty move by HR, abetted by the spinelessness of our lovely Admin, it's not like they're getting CS pay with their new classification. They still make double what I do easily. They still treated CS like bottomfeeders they way TT did. My ability to empathize is somewhat tempered.
Feeling some schadenfreude today. some of the NTT faculty that thought they could petition HR for acknowledgement of the fact they they do full TT work got not only denied, but smacked down to my (CS) level. As if HR wasn't where bureaucratic sadists go to indulge themselves with the devil's own approval.
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there's a reason it's compsci people insisting that #AI thinks "just like us" and #AGI is right around the corner: people in human cognition know how far off we are from even fully undersatnding ourselves
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/new-brain-network-connecting-mind-and-body-discovered-71074 #neuroscience #cognition
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Check out @grubstreetwomen 's groundbreaking new book on the Hroswitha Club, founded by women book collectors excluded from Grolier membership--it's free to download until the 28th: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/hroswitha-club-and-the-impact-of-women-book-collectors/D4C67BCB0F31072BFCB12EC3544057BC
And/or (I'm doing both!) watch her talk on the club for the U. of Illinois Rare Book and Manuscript Library: https://youtu.be/9nHy5qbVJqo
I thought PT was going to help, but it seems to have given me fairly intense arthritis in my other knee. So, I have one that won't hold my weight, and the other that I can't put my weight on without intense stabbing pain. And three more PT appointments left.
I managed to collect enough redbud blossoms from the trees at the local uni to make jelly, and didn't have anyone accuse me of defacing university property.
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So today we re-learned that the wealthy are above the law, because they can buy freedom, and that one cannot hope that a corporation launching a civil suit will begin the process of justice, because the aim is always just money.
@SmallWondersSFF Sorry, I'm at work. For some reason that link isn't loading, and neither is looking up the address from google. I'm on Opera on a desktop, if that makes any difference. I'm fully willing to believe it's just weird work wifi issues, too.
@SmallWondersSFF I tried, but I keep getting "site cannot be reached" errors
Fun one: going off the map in video games. Something about not being tracked on the imaginary GPS and the unfinished-ness of not-normally-traversable areas that just sets me off.
Unfun one: That my ex was right and I *am* mentally defective and inherently incapable of correctly interpreting my own experiences.
Aspiring writer. old. incorrectly queer. General gloomy gus.
Joined Nov 2022
