For generations of Angelenos,it was Brooklyn Ave.
La Brooklyn.
Including my family.
#losangeles
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-21/amid-talks-of-renaming-cesar-chavez-avenue
Historian at a U.S. university, teaching a broad range of world and regional history courses; research field is late 19th/early 20th century British Empire.
Also a SF nerd and Linux geek.
For generations of Angelenos,it was Brooklyn Ave.
La Brooklyn.
Including my family.
#losangeles
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-21/amid-talks-of-renaming-cesar-chavez-avenue
Bengali English teacher Joyeeta Banerjee on getting a Fulbright to the U.S. <https://www.npr.org/2026/03/01/g-s1-104772/teacher-india-school-patriarchy-fulbright>
βEvery woman who crosses an ocean for her work carries rebellion in her suitcase. Mine is lined with lesson plans, stories of my girls from my school and the slums, and a stubborn belief that my worth does not depend on how well I maintain other people's comfort. Education, after all, is an act of faith that minds can open, that even inherited questions can change.β
Guy who thinks his ai girlfriend is sentient β‘ guys who don't think their human girlfriends are
Imo
plan: train our LLM on the entire internet
expectation: it will absorb the combined knowledge of all of humanity and gain full sentience
reality: our training corpus included the fediverse. CVE: RCE via keysmashing lesbians offering the LLM a blΓ₯haj.
Me. I'm a mad scientist.
(Paul Noth cartoons)