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There's also a third problem, which is more relevant in education and folks getting started, but there's also the fact that sometimes work is assigned not because the output has value, but because *doing the work* has value. Professors don't ask students for essays because they love reading essays
m.youtube.com/@pastagrannies Pasta Grannies, each episode features a new lil old Italian lady making and cooking her favorite pasta
Welcome to Pasta Grannies! I find and film real Italian grannies - nonne - making delicious, traditional, handmade pasta. And sometimes soups, breads, dolci, rice dishes, that kind of thing, because ...
Just did a long interview with Beto O'Rourke who's been registering kids on college campuses here in Texas. His NON-ANECDOTAL info on this -- registration in Texas now leans 12 pts in favor of Democrats -- is that no one is polling these new voters, especially those who have never voted before.
Why wait when you can just go to jail and get a transgender operation?
Back in 2017, author and scholar Bruce Holsinger started digging out examples of men thanking their (generally unnamed) wives for typing from Google Books, sparking a hashtag that I remember reading with fascinating at the time. Here's an NPR piece about it: www.npr.org/2017/03/30/5...
If you actually want to do a thing and care about doing the thing, you can almost always find a way to do the thing. Telling a machine to do it for you isn't equalizing access for the marginalized. It's cheating. It's anti-labor. It makes it easier for corporations not to pay creative workers.