Christian Asch

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I just want to finish my master’s

What Is the Dominant Emotion in 400 Years of Women’s Diaries?

A new anthology identifies frustration as a recurring theme in journals written between 1599 and 2015

by Sarah Gristwood

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-is-the-dominant-emotion-in-400-years-of-womens-diaries-180983834/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

Women literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=women+literature

#books #literature #WomenHistoryMonth

I genuinely think the worst thing the internet did to reading was convince people that finishing books is a competitive sport. You don't need to read 52 books a year. You just need to read. Books you like. At your own pace. And think about them for longer than a TikTok video.

The campaign against Francesca Albanese

"This is a fight we must win. If we lose, if we let voices like Francesca’s be silenced, we will usher in an age" where those who stand up for the rule of law are relentlessly persecuted, & genocide is just another tool in the arsenal to crush the vulnerable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=godS-0hPQdU

#USPol #EUPol #Albanese #racism .

Goodbye! 👋
ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN #12 (September 2025)

Variant by Mirka Andolfo
People are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I'm having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle's Facebook posts, their friend's medical advice, or literally anything Google's top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense...

I wish you would call them LLM outputs rather than AI outputs. I know you think it doesn't matter, I know you think it's better to use the popular term. But the popular term is popular because of successful marketing by extractive capitalists bent on making sure you are stupid and desperate.

There's plenty that's artificial about LLMs, but there's no intelligence whatsoever.

Consumer networking devices come in two varieties: Altar to a Dark God and Aromatherapy Machine.
A new report brings to light two more people who have been wrongfully arrested and jailed thanks to police use of face recognition technology. The real-world harms are racking up and this has to stop. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/police-use-face-recognition-continues-wrack-real-world-harms
Police Use of Face Recognition Continues to Wrack Up Real-World Harms

Police have shown, time and time again, that they cannot be trusted with face recognition technology (FRT). It is too dangerous, invasive, and in the hands of law enforcement, a perpetual liability. EFF has long argued that face recognition, whether it is fully accurate or not, is too dangerous for...

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