I know a few trans librarian acquaintances who got the fuck out of Florida because the legal environment was getting too spicy. So yes, generally agree that if you fear criminal prosecution for doing your job something is wrong. In the trans librarian case, it’s Florida. In Doge’s case it was their behavior.

Not sure where I’m going with this, thinking on which set of folk feared repercussions enough to change something (environment or behavior)

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It’s for sure paper rock scissors

The online card catalog my library uses recently added an “AI Research Assistant” feature. While debating whether to turn it on (we decided against), this blog post came up. tldr the assistant won’t return results for certain topics. The is Not Cool. That (and the fact the flipping assistant can’t even limit itself to suggesting resources available in our library) is a deal breaker, without even getting into other considerations.

It’s novel on someone else’s home.

Ah, ok. It sounded like you were advocating for helping the “easy cases” and ignoring those that needed a bit more support.

Reminder: being mentally ill or addicted folks doesn’t preclude someone from holding down a job and/or being a “regular” person. They might just need extra supports.

Source: have mental illness. Am mostly a regular person but need extra supports. Am currently holding down a job requiring an MS.

I could be pushed to 3 homes. One person owns a triple-decker building, lives on one floor and rents out the other two to students. That sounds fine to me.

Rereading: you said houses, not homes. 2 houses sounds good. One main home and a mother-in-law unit seems reasonable.

The sort that would want a Hitler clone would be happy with a direwolf-style pseudo-clone with good marketing.

Me, neither. I think the target market is grievers who believe chatgpt is a magic Oracle. It’s taking the memory of someone dear and diluting it with nonsense.

I’m 4 years out from losing my dad. Can confirm: one of the most upsetting things is knowing I’m unlikely to make new memories of him.

(Unlikely but not unable: his frat brother told last year me about how they used get together in Dad’s room, smoke pot, and play tabletop RPGs. I… I knew about the tabletop games but not the marijuana.)

All potato items 💔

I have an uncommon birth name. My only known name doppelganger has a high prestige job and has started over taking me in search results. I’m happy to finally be a bit less Google-able.

Borrowing accessories is fine, though.

Tbh, I’d grow them myself except

1. They spread out like crazy
2. My HOA would have kittens. We’re not allowed to grow quote “vegetables” because they might attract bears. I’ve gotten away with mint and chives because they’re small and I can argue being confused (“herbs aren’t vegetables!”) but a trellis full of growing giant dangling luffa on my condo porch might be a bit much.

I have no idea. Dad never complained about them and had a whole trellis of them.

Yeah, they’re really cool.

My dad grew tomatoes, loufas, and those decorative gourdes you turn into bird houses.

Look, I can’t be autistic. I fit in perfectly with all my board game geek friends in engineering school.

I rode the subway and bus from Logan Airport to Worcester, heading back to college after winter break. I had trouble understanding the announcers on the T so asked strangers to help me know my stop. I think they knew the story because I had my luggage with me. They felt like… I don’t know. Tolerant indulgence of my inexperience?