Yes, that’s 100% a thing. I haven’t yet figured out how to make all this work, but it’s on the list!
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Yes, that’s 100% a thing. I haven’t yet figured out how to make all this work, but it’s on the list!
“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃
It does have to do with hormones etc incl cortisol. Common in folks w ADHD if that applies. There are some ways to try to moderate it (early exposure to sunlight, lots of exercise/mvmt thruout day, diet (types of food consumed & what time). But some of it is just baked in (night owls vs morn larks)
The UK will ban NDAs that prevent employees from speaking out about abuse & harassment #hugeprogress www.reuters.com/business/wor...
Extrapolating from his LinkedIn, the writer is about 26 yo “It’s good to argue” is exactly what I’d expect a 26 yo (esp one who went to a fancy prep school) to say It’s the kind of thing that sounds super sophisticated to them, until they begin to grok other people’s actual lived experiences
I’m sorry this is happening to you. It’s totally abhorrent
First hospital closure after the MAGA murder bill passes? Who's building the 🚑 HOSPITAL CLOSURES TRACKER 🚑?
Need more women to review all new designs!
It is 2025(I think) and new restaurants still aren’t putting purse hooks under thr bar.
Today's complaint about the AI in education discourse: Too much of it is framed around a future that is going to happen to us, as opposed to seeing the future as something we may have some agency to shape. I reject the deterministic view of AI, particularly genAI. It's a tool, not our master.
Thank you for doing this!
The dress might have been shorter or the model might have been taller ;)
Women drivers are subjected to these same dynamics w/o having the luxury of peeing in bottles. If they can figure it out, so can guys
You guys are telling on yourselves w all these replies saying, oh yeah totally understandable, really hard to find a bathroom, excruciating bladder pain, etc… Women don’t have this option so they’ve figured. it. out. Whether it’s finding a toilet or being able to hold their bladders longer than u
Foreign Policy’s take in 2014, 11 years after the US invasion: “How [Nouri al-] Maliki Ruined Iraq”
I love it when my Vice President talks like a 5th grader.
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.
“The Big Beautiful ‘Everything for Me and Nothing for You’ Bill” “The Big Beautiful ‘Project 2025 Destroy Everything You Care about’ Bill” “The Big Beautiful ‘Sell Off All Your Public Lands’ Bill”
It’s insane that Dems are repeating the name he gave it & calling it the “Big Beautiful Bill.” They’re playing into his hands by making it sound nice They need to rebrand it, to make it clear what it actually is: “The Big Beautiful ‘Steal Everything from You’ Bill” Any other suggestions?
Ahem, uniformed military is not supposed to decide policy. It's the job of the civilian leadership (White House, nat sec advs, state dept, secdef) to decide *what* they want to happen. Then the generals figure out *how* to make it happen. Letting some 4-star decide whether we go to war is bananas
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Highly recommend RIP Brian Wilson
It's more of a haphazard, mosaic approach to news consumption (bits & pieces vs. a single "authoritative" story) But that's actually how we humans've consumed info for millennia, so we're perfectly adapted to make sense out of a collection of fragments — wh/ produce a more comprehensive picture 2/
So true. I learned more about the UKR drone attack — and about UKR-RU drone warfare in gen — from a slew of individual insta/tiktok reels than I ever would have from a traditional news source. 1/
This feels like AI’s “Theranos”, so question: Will the founders be prosecuted for securities fraud? Or is that just reserved for female founders?
once again I must tap my own sign
Sign of the times
Not letting me steal jewelry from Tiffany's is really going to kill my Etsy fine wearables business, and I think we need to take that into account
When male lawmakers pass these bathroom laws, they’re thinking of what they would do if they had access to the women’s bathroom, not what trans women do in the women’s bathroom…
The best Memorial Day speech is only 271 words and wasn't delivered on Memorial Day, but on November 19, 1863. Read it carefully, it's the most important speech in American military history (and maybe all of American history).
I don't know how much they paid consultants for this report, but I'm happy to offer my services at half the price I can provide something similarly rote & useless for significantly less money, and in half the time, bc I also will just ChatGPT the last 40 years' worth of campaign strategery recos
Men also used to sodomize each other by force. Is he down w that too?
Journos need to come up w a different word than "deport." "Deport" means to remove a non-citizen from a country. What's a word that more clearly defines what's happening? "Trump admin expels 2 citizens from the U.S." Does that work?
Had a similar thought. Worries that it might make (some) Americans more unbearable wrt folks from other countries
Horrifying
The most alarming thing abt this clip is that he thinks 11 yo girls play w dolls.
In case you missed it... WIRED talked to *actual* federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
No. Completely different shows. Totally different experiences
Pls try to weave it into at least one comment/day so that this becomes a widely coined word phrase :) (But also sort of serious. This term explains a lot!)
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It’s amazing what happens when you can pull people’s social security info (and student loan info), which includes useful nuggets like employer, univ you’re attending, and contact info
The MSM obsession w “scoops” is one of the reasons they’re not meeting the moment They still think they’re living in the ‘90s Today, most people just want the news to explain what’s going on. They have zero interest in who found some stray piece of info first
If you want to understand the backstory & psychology of the man who's behind a lot of what Trump's doing, I highly recommend this Bloomberg profile of Russell Vought, the architect of Project 2025, who's now head of the Office of Management & Budget Gift article: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Great illumination of the nuance
When you’ve lost Scalia…
A total branding fail is when: Isaac Mizrahi is talking about the women’s space flight on the Daily Beast podcast and he says he doesn’t know who sponsored it And Joanna Cole’s says: “Blue Origin” And Isaac says, “I don’t know who that is”
Please stop normalizing that anything about this bill is Ok.
Apropos of nothing, anyone watched the Andor S1 prison episodes?
It’s not about whether a process exists. It’s that by making it harder and more confusing to get registered, a certain number of people are just going to give up That’s what they’re counting on
This
If you've never known what it feels like to have an erratic, abusive parent Well, now you do Don't sink into the relief The next bout is right around the corner
Sorry, but does a $92M parade for oneself count as waste, fraud, or abuse? I’m losing track
Make it stop
That was my exact first thought as well
Btw, here's the answer 👇 Granted, it took me about 3 minutes of skimming to find it. But it's not about the time. It's about the irritation & cognitive load (& mild uptick in anxiety ("will i find the answer? how long will it take?")) of having to do that skimming in the first place.
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I want an AI tool so that when the New Yorker releases a 2,500-word story titled "Why is Elon Musk Trying to Buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat?" I can just drop that story into AI, and it will give me the answer in a sentence or two.
I guess his supporters really did get tired of all that winning
The approaches of: Cory Booker vs. Gavin Newsom Discuss
“I promise you, (John Lewis) that I will do everything possible to make you proud.” —Cory Booker
Just a reminder: This bill would benefit fathers on paternity leave too It's a reminder that all new parents need this kind of flexibility And that, for younger generations, all of this is a no brainer. To them, if you deny this flexibility, you're clearly out of sync with the times
I'm genuinely astounded that noone's filed such a lawsuit yet. It's such a no-brainer These folks have not proven themselves able to prevent harm to EVs, space rockets, or the country's nuclear stockpiles So why should we assume they will not also harm senior citizens? 7/
It would be beyond easy to demonstrate that the downstream effects of these mistakes would be real, irrevocable harm to people dependent on social security, including: - Illness from not being able to afford food, medication, ... - Homelessness when rent or mortgages can't be paid - Etc... 6/
It's almost certain that some, if not all, will: - Not receive checks - Their checks will be sent to the wrong address - Their checks will be in the wrong amount - Historical data will be deleted, making it impossible for them to prove how much they're entitled to Etc... 5/
A lawsuit requesting an injunction could demonstrate that Musk/DOGE's standard MO effectively guarantees they will release a system that's broken Which means it's almost certain that some portion (if not all) senior citizens receiving Social Security will suffer direct, irrevocable harm 4/
Evidence: - Tesla batteries that spontaneously combust - SpaceX rockets that blow up - Firing the people who manage the country's nuclear stock piles 3/
Musk's approach to software & other projects — and therefore DOGE's approach — is to just dive into production w your best guess, and then see what happens, and fix stuff once real-world mistakes start happening. 2/
I hope some organization that represents senior citizens files a request for an injunction to prevent DOGE from implementing this migration in production - until - their plan has been validated by third parties who can attest to its soundness 1/
When people gain power, and then do illegal things while in office A light bulb goes off: They realize that, to stay out of jail, they're going to need to stay in office Which gives them incentive to make sure elections turn out the way they want Just something to think about
An easy thing to do: open YouTube on one of your devices and let this livestream of cspan run. Whether you listen to/watch it or not, getting those “watching now” numbers up is a form of protest, a way to lend your voice to this fight www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMx...
An easy thing to do: open YouTube on one of your devices and let this livestream of cspan run. Whether you listen to/watch it or not, getting those “watching now” numbers up is a form of protest, a way to lend your voice to this fight www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMx...
So cool. Thx for mentioning!
Requiring a passport is effectively a poll tax The fee for a new passport is $165
66 yo women have often gone through a cycle of wrangling their own kids, and then their grandkids. Do not mess
As a gender historian, I note that Trump's current treatment of Canada is textbook sexual harassment: "How could you not want to be my 51st state?" "I want you so I should have you." "Let me invade your personal space." Meanwhile, Canada keeps emphatically mentioning her girlfriend in Canada.
Wow: Are men in red states aware of this? A GA woman in this WSJ piece says she's not dating bc her state has a 6-week abortion ban & she doesn't have time to go to Virginia if she got preg. Get it? Red state women aren't dating bc they don't have time to deal w preg! www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
Such an important point For folks in the private sector, this is like having a warehouse manager suddenly appointed CEO of a 2.5 million person company No matter how good, you wouldn't trust the warehouse manager to understand the complexity of the co & be able to make good decisions in real time
Yes, please write & talk abt the things media is missing They aren’t lazy — Their orgs are simply not built for a fire hose like this But the more things are discussed (& the more primary source info is surfaced), journos will eventually see it & start to report on it
Rule of thumb: When a company accuses a former employee of "being disgruntled," "wanting attention," "doing it for the money" *without* refuting the truthfulness of their claims It might be bc ad hominem is the only tool they have at their disposal
The leader of a company that couldn't figure out what glue to use Wants you to trust him to re-organize the govt & manage your data safely
I don’t know who’s writing these headlines. It should read, “Trump told Kennedy Center board he had ‘an aptitude for music’ as a child.” Huge difference
A reminder that this is flat-out illegal & normally would get you put in jail for a long time. Every federal staffer knows this. They go through long (boring) (but also threatening) trainings about what is & is not permissible w info held in govt databases There’s no debate about this
Hotel prices (in the US) appear to be plummeting. Can't imagine why. (I just re-checked some bookings I'd looked at a month ago. All prices meaningfully down.)
But I thought they were libertarians who wanted the govt out of their lives That plan sounds like govt v much _in their lives I look forward to them resolving the inconsistencies
Elon Musk’s strategy at Twitter was to cut back until things started to break, and then return people to those functions. It was his way of figuring out “what was really needed.” That’s fine for a social media site (maybe), but catastrophically dangerous for dams, nuclear waste, & SocSec checks
It sucks, but you can do it. If what it takes is to just do C+ work (instead of your usual A+ work), do that. Like a slow day at the gym where you show up & do minimal effort, but at least you went You got this. Don’t lose your job. You’re needed Good luck
It's a standard playbook — for dominant groups to advance narratives that discredit groups they want to marginalize: "They're doing it for attention." Any woman who's reported a man for harassment or assault has been accused of being motivated by the desire for attention
Equally important: Why is he doing this in the first place? Hypothesis: He doesn't care abt the bracket, or the prizes. At a min, he wants to get people on the the platform At worst, he wants to start merging their public profiles w the info he collected from fed databases
Indeed. It shouldn’t impact your ability to vote. Until now, it never has, bc every state had reasonable registration rules The GOP is trying to push through this new law *because* they know that it will make a big chunk of women just give up
This is what the GOP's SAVE Act would do at the federal level. Adding layers of complexity to voter ID requirements that would strategically disenfranchise women and others who've changed their names.
As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
I haven't really been worried about things like suspending voting, but if they can decrease the turnout of women by 5-10%, Republicans will have a huge advantage. That's what I think the GOP is banking on.
It will come, as you point out, when the price for what he’s doing will be paid on something he cares abt even more That’s what I meant (perhaps not clearly) abt either getting ahead of him or coming at him orthogonally C/
Eg: @karaswisher.bsky.social often talks abt how it is possible to rein him in — he talks smack abt a lot of things, but never abt China — bc he doesn’t want to piss them off So it is possible to constrain him. But it won’t come from just asserting that what he’s doing is illegal or harmful B/
Yes, put another way: You have to demotivate them That can come directly, or orthogonally What might they stand to lose (in any sphere) that is much more important to them than the thing they’re charging toward right now? A/
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Absolutely right The entire biz world is frozen rn. They need certainty in order to plan/do deals etc... Good or bad, they just need to know what the landscape will be. And there's zero certainty right now. That might be one of the orthogonal moves that helps put the breaks on the meshugas
Fighting him by DC rules isn't going to succeed. Go talk to S.Valley folks, & see how what they'd do. You'll prob hear some interesting ideas. 14/
C) You'll only win by getting _ahead of him and/or finding a strategy that comes at him orthogonally. Again, I have no suggestions of what that is. Find your most creative & esp ruthless fighters and ask them what they'd do. And then do that. (Even if you have to hold your nose to do it.) 13/
B) Fighting him in the courts is fine. But understand that's a _reactive strategy. He'll still gain more of what he wants, and you'll still lose some of what you want to preserve. 12/