Leslie S

@elshap.bsky.social

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Linguist, educator, Pittie Mama, game player, gardener. I mostly keep my trap shut and try to promote others' voices.
Living in Floriduh. Happily married.

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my perspective remains “we are obviously in an existential war and the last thing you do in one of those is go around telling everybody on your side that we’re fucked and we can’t win”

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torn between being constantly frustrated that people seem to have forgotten how to behave in public while simultaneously understanding that there could not be a single more appropriate statue on which to do this in the whole entire world (and also that it did no harm)

Italian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping, and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the God of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.

Italian officials slam tourist who ‘mimicked sex acts’ on a statue of Bacchus in Florence | CNNwww.cnn.com Italian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping, and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the God of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.

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HOLD UP. Are you saying Sam Altman bought a massively overpriced property which turned out to be hiding massive structural flaws? Whose seller blithely dismissed significant construction problems? Whose most ostentatious features were the ones that ended up causing the most damage? Interesting.

Lmao get scammed bitch fuck u sfstandard.com/2024/07/16/s...

Sam Altman sues after buying $27M 'lemon' mansion on Lombard St.sfstandard.com OpenAI boss Sam Altman thought he'd bought a Russian Hill mansion complete with a "Batcave." But a new lawsuit against the builder claims the billionaire was misled into buying a $27 million "lemon" r...

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Karl Bode

it's important for outlets to explain that when we talk about AI "posing a threat to humanity," we're talking about the rushed implementation of half-cooked automation killing your grandma with an auto-rejection of her medicare claims, not sentient industrialized planet-scouring murderbots (for now)

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit allegesarstechnica.com For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Harry

"Host bodies must be quiet and do only as the men folk dictate." "Florida Republican called pregnant women 'host bodies' five times while discussing anti-abortion bill" www.cltampa.com/news/florida...

Florida Republican called pregnant women 'host bodies' fives times while discussing anti-abortion bill | Creative Loafing Tampa Baywww.cltampa.com It wasn't a simple slip of the tongue, either.

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Let's be clear: Who gets to be considered fully human is what's at stake this election. We can have reasonable disagreements about government regulations and taxes, but we cannot have a reasonable disagreement about whether everyone is entitled to be treated as equally human.

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"Life in a New Language" collates two decades of research into the journeys to “belonging” of 130 migrants from 34 countries. For many migrants, establishing careers can be a heartbreaking struggle. #Linguistics

Life in a New Language: how migrants face the challenge lighthouse.mq.edu.au...

Life in a New Languagewww.languageonthemove.com Visit the post for more.

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The reason that the language of domestic abuse and the language of authoritarianism looks the same is because it's just the same thing on a different scale.

#DomesticViolenceWheel

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My diet is going well. I’ve lost 5 lbs. and my will to live.

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Bartenders, Uber drivers, servers, and strippers in Milwaukee have confirmed one consistent, clear fact for me — RNC visitors don't tip

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returning, this tuesday morning, to the subject of antiblackness: a word to white allies: STOP SAYING YOU ARE TRYING TO LEARN ANEW OR UNDO YOUR UPBRINGING. there is no phd from your black follows awaiting you at the end of your "learning". maybe youre learning its discourse landscape of language—

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Saw someone’s take is “Bouie not being here won’t make or break” this site. I am happy to say some things about how platform migration works. It’s true, one user never makes or breaks anything, but for U.S. users the presence of young Black folks has driven the popularity of new tech for decades 1/?

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I’ll say this for JD Vance, it’s like he was engineered in a laboratory to be irritating.

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JD Vance has somehow managed to be two guys you'd hate for entirely different reasons

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It was so bizarre watching this bubble up across the whole GOP and the media just not talk about it. Is this still the plan? Are we going to end up sleeping walking into an *invasion of Mexico* because it was too awkward to ask questions?

Like Donald Trump himself, JD Vance has endorsed a new authorization of military force to bomb Mexico.

Sen. JD Vance endorses the U.S. military’s going after drug cartels in Mexicowww.google.com The Republican from Ohio said fentanyl’s increasing popularity and Mexico’s apparent inability to quash the illicit narcotics trade necessitates his proposal.

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It's a total stopped-clock thing but I DO enjoy the man's relentless commitment to finding new ways to publicly humiliate Marco Rubio.

NEW: Marco Rubio has been informed that he is NOT Trump’s VP pick, two sources tell Politico

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I don't talk about what I know about certain shit on here because your knowledge and understanding is never good or pure enough for white people. They think they set the standards for respect and objectivity, and dictate the means of analyzing things. Like they invented science or thinking. Miss me.

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As a Black woman, I have been told my entire life that if I don’t want to experience violence (state sanctioned, or otherwise) I should comport myself differently. Weird that the red hats aren’t getting that same instruction.

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Excellent initiative from Florida Nat'l Weather Service offices: daily virtual tropical training sessions geared toward the public. From preparedness to post-impact recovery, each day will focus on 1 topic. Flexible times! Choose 1 of 4 daily sessions. Info/register: www.weather.gov/jax/FloridaT...

Florida Tropical Training Week 2024www.weather.gov

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"It brings together experts from the biological and social sciences to clarify and contextualize – but not resolve - the complexities around sex, gender, and genomics by considering them in their scientific, ethical, and historical contexts."

Reminder! great webinar on SEX this week! www.genome.gov/event-calend... www.genome.gov/event-calend... #QueerSTEM #PsychSciSky #Complex #devsci #IntersexInSTEM #LGBTQSTEM #medsky #philsci #PsychSciSky #PublicHealth #Queer+TransStudies #science #STS #TransInSTEM #TransRights #womeninstem

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This is not terrible news. There was already no way this case would go to trial in 2024. This (pretty out there) decision will be appealed & decided de novo, & if the appeals court reverses & reinstates the charges, it has the option of reassigning the case to a different judge.

Judge Cannon went and did it. She has dismissed the stolen documents case against Trump on Clarence Thomas’s (nonsense) appointments clause rationale.

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Popehat

It really feels like we’re exiting the previous era of plausible deniability and entering a new era of corrupt rulings begetting more corrupt rulings.

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It’s weird that when they’re just blatantly making shit up there’s an assumption that we still have to do what these judges say www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/u...

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Essential reading for any American today:

I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There.gen.medium.com Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death

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Good work -- actual journalism -- from ABC News. h/t Joy Reid 'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. abcnews.go.com/Politics/bla...

'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.abcnews.go.com President Donald Trump insists he deserves no blame for divisions in America.

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Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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What a world it would be if our nation’s leaders’ stance against violence - political or otherwise - extended beyond acts against them and their peers. To fund wars and genocides abroad and enable police brutality here and then turn around and say, “Violence is never the answer”? 😒 Sure, Jan.

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so if i understand this correctly democrats are establishing trump as somebody to have sympathy for and unilaterally suspending their campaign efforts while the republicans work to establish a new rule that calling trump a fascist threat to democracy is stoking political violence