Reposted by @megafawn.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026You guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist. 9743173
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Probably an unholy combo - he has an inkling it's important, it's harder than it looks, he wouldn't be good at it, and who would he be if he admits that a woman's work is important AND she's better than him at it. 000
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026What I'm not sure of is whether this is primarily out of laziness, or misogyny in the sense that he doesn't want to associate himself with women's work. 100
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026But to quiet any internal rumbling that it might be not only worthwhile but a profound act of care that takes time, effort, expertise, the AI voice reader is as far as he's willing to go. 100
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026One part of the guilt-avoidance is that reading to their kid is just a weird and kind of worthless hobby of hers and who knows why she does it, she's kinda dumb. 100
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yes this relates to the guy who is telling his wife his workarounds so he doesn't have to read to his kid 100
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Men kinda feel guilty for everything women do that they don't do as much of. So they fantasize about having a labor source that they don't have to feel guilty about. When instead, ethically, morally, maybe even out of love, they could say, yeah you're doing too much, I should do some of that. 100
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026nah we need the swifties and they can like what they like 100
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 01/10/20262 is more famous but 1 is more fun to use. 000
Reposted by @megafawn.bsky.socialKris Miranda @krismiranda09.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Abolish frat culture: besskalb.substack.com/p/abolish-fr... 002
Reposted by @megafawn.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If a productivity task is easily automated, chances are good that some invisible labor is managing the work that makes the task easy to automate. bsky.app/profile/tres... 426043
Reposted by @megafawn.bsky.socialKate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 521873618
Reposted by @megafawn.bsky.socialAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030971089
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026That's right; will vote for those NOT scapegoating a marginalized and vulnerable group thanks 0160
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I want to know what the parents of boys are doing. 000
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Expertise can't be fully flowcharted. It's dynamic. The flowchart would never end, and as soon as you write it down the rules would change, the next case will bring new factors that would require a new sub-sub-sub-sub-subsection to particular parts of the flowchart. It's all harder than they think. 0374
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026While the math ed thing is a tangent, it relates back for me to a general creep, contemporaneous with AI's forced ascendancy, towards thinking everything can be made explicit and flow-charted. Like younger coworkers wanting me to basically write down how to handle X kind of legal case. 130
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For the 3 kids I know, this has been such a roadblock to actually getting to the part where the driving (mathing) feels natural or fun at all. The intuition can never kick in, it seems. It's a drag. TLDR: I hate the tape diagram. Also it's a stupid name. 130
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Alright I have a total tangent re recent k-12 math education. Some of these new curricula are requiring students to solve problems in *all* the available ways - number bonds, "tape diagrams," as well as "standard algorithm," rather than letting students run with whichever one(s) make sense to them. 120
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yes And: www.jezebel.com/fall-is-the-...jezebel.comFall Is the Worst SeasonSince 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. 000
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026😆 another great seasonal kickoff, contrarian style: www.jezebel.com/fall-is-the-...jezebel.comFall Is the Worst SeasonSince 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth. 000
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"It's a new reason to protect the world." 💞 020
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Loved the free Messiah singalongs. Saw a Mark Morris Dance Group show set to Burt Bacharach's music, costumes by Isaac Mizrahi, singing by Marcy Harriell - one of the best things I've ever seen in my life. Furious at Trump and his ghouls, wrecking it because it's good and he's talentless. 000
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The huge rooftop, worth visiting of itself with wraparound views. The JFK museum floor. Both free, like the Millennium Stage performances. 100
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The Kennedy Center has provided such an array of true riches to the DMV - from programs for school kids to a platform for local artists on the Millennium Stage to housing the opera and symphony and artists at the height of their powers. 100
Reposted by @megafawn.bsky.socialMichelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o... 34837185
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Finally found a way AI adds value for me: making particular movies and TV shows worth a rewatch. The Matrix! 000
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hmm, might rewatch Severance in this age of AI's absurd over- and mis-promises 100
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026To me it's more the opposite, that it's important to protect women's sports from the actual harms - lack of equal pay, harassment, etc. Which is why I'm OK with what she says in the video - valid concerns are valid concerns. 000
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Meanwhile the initial hypothesis she's agreeing with at the video link - it's right before - is "these charlatans have been able to fill a vacuum because there's so much anxiety people have with the health care system." 000
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026To create the connection for people that their concerns are more aligned with, say, environmental justice and universal health care than they realize - politically that seems like leadership to me. Has she said anything anti-vax, anti-scientific review, etc? (genuine question) 110
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I was worried to see your post but viewing the video I disagree. The things she cites - PFAS, glyphosate, our underlying health care system - are real concerns that deserve attention. She's seeing a fissure and driving into it. 100
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026In terms of respectful, perceptive, sensitive, detail-oriented men, I'm 3/3 lately in encounters with eyeglass fitters/optical sales associates. 000
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Being left to one's devices - such a nice phrase, and in danger of being interpreted narrowly nowadays 010
Reposted by @megafawn.bsky.socialAlex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 2415771128
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Moved by the coach's support for the player as well: 000
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026she did at least once before! tressiemcphd.medium.com/aocs-attract...tressiemcphd.medium.comAOC’s Attractiveness Drives Us All MadI am in the middle of a storm, literally and figuratively. Somehow I missed that a hurricane is blowing through my town. That means I am… 091
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I've heard parents list the low number of other boys as a reason for their sons leaving. It just begs the question why the *girls* participating couldn't be a reason to stay, couldn't be people you want to be around and make art with. 010
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Same happening in my kids' theater group. There used to be at least several boys, even 5-10 years ago, which is troubling but not surprising in light of gender segregation in online spaces and algorithms and the rest of it. 110
megafawn.bsky.social @megafawn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Not very new but deliciously on point: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/603656...penguinrandomhouse.comDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk: 9780525541349 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's... 000