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@midwest-crisis
ITS THIS THING TUESDAY
ITS THIS THING TUESDAY
Happy This Thing Tuesday
happy belated this thing tuesday to all who celebrate
Stork's Bill
Erodium cicutarium
Wet winter & it hit 80f today on the porch so we have a few flowers around. One of a few things replacing the patches of horehound I've been removing. Some mullein and purslane, lots of good native grass. Purslane can be invasive but it's contained in a box planter & unlikely to spread beyond the irrigated microbiome around the shaded end of the garden. I'll keep them out of the compost if they come back, if they put out runners. I've found it wild around streams, the young leaves are pretty good.
Mullein, I'd eat it in a pinch but it's tough. If you've got a mullein recipe HMU. I won't let this invasive go to seed either, but like the Stork's bill pictured it's not competing with native plants. They're more tolerated because they slow erosion & can help break up compacted areas for hardier native species.
There's a lesson here about how I can best fit in as an "introduced" species myself.
This is going to actually be a thing, isn't it. A chatgpjesus is going to catch on and cause some fucking cult movement in our lifetimes.
Joe Rogan is an ostensibly grown man incredulous about how fish breathe underwater or where the Sun really goes at night. Turn that shit off and get a library card. We're actively getting dumber by even contemplating his endless shit-takes.
I might be wrong on this: I think it actually is significant to not solely focus on but note how bad that essay is, because 1) it would pass no evaluation in any context and 2) because the TA was extremely generous towards it. She did everything right, every single thing right in responding to a student who was clearly expressing that in their ideal world she would not exist. She shoved all of that down, responded strictly properly by rubric, and was still sold out by her institution, what should have been her class solidarities, even though she held to exactly what the people who vilify her insist she is incapable of: engaging, “academic neutrality”, etc. She did it, as is extremely usual. They didn’t care. They were ranging for her and they’re goddamn hypocrites. People I think should know that; at least for her.
For folks who may not know what this is in reference to;
A University of Oklahoma instructor has been placed on leave after a student complained about receiving a failing grade on a paper
So I reblogged this once already so I could more easily read and respond to it on my computer (typing on a full keyboard is way easier than on a fucking phone).
This is genuinely one of the most infuriating things I've read about recently. This girl just straight up DIDN'T DO THE ASSIGNMENT. Then complained about discrimination because the person grading it was trans.
She got a ZERO because she didn't do the assignment. She didn't even properly CITE her source, which was the bible. There is absolutely a proper way to cite the bible, btw. And she didn't do it.
This was the assignment, btw:
She did not do almost ANYTHING this assignment required. She deserved that zero.
this was the TA's reaction, btw:
"Please note that I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs, but instead I am deducting point for you posting a reaction paper that does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive. "While you are entitled to your own personal beliefs, there is an appropriate time or place to implement them in your reflections. I encourage all students to question or challenge the course material with other empirical findings or testable hypotheses, but using your own personal beliefs to argue against the findings of not only this article, but the findings of countless articles across psychology, biology, sociology, etc. is not best practice. "You argue that abiding by normative gender roles is beneficial (it is perfectly fine to believe this), but to then say that everyone should act the same, while also saying that people aren't pressured into gendered expectations is contradictory, especially since your arguments reflect a religious pressure to act in gender-stereotypical ways. You can say that strict gender norms don't create gender stereotypes, but that isn't true by definition of what a stereotype is. Please not that acknowledging gender stereotypes does not immediately denote a negative connotation, a nuance this article discusses. "Additionally, to call an entire group of people "demonic" is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population. You are entitled to your own beliefs, but this isn't a vague narrative of "society pushes lies," but instead the result of countless years developing psychological and scientific evidence for these claims and directly interacting with the communities involved. You may personally disagree with this, but that doesn't change the fact that every major psychological, medical, pediatric, and psychiatric association in the United States acknowledges that, biologically and psychologically, sex and gender is neither binary nor fixed. "I implore you apply some more perspective and empathy in your work. If you personally disagree with the findings, then by all means share your criticisms, but make sure to do so in a way that is appropriate and using the methodology of empirical psychology, as aligned with the learning goals in this class. If you have any additional questions or concerns about this or would like some additional educational resources, I would be happy to discuss this further and provide you with them."
(all typos are mine, I had to type it out from screenshots in this article, which ALSO CONTAINS THE WHOLE ESSAY SHE WROTE)
Can we talk about how PERFECT this response is? This TA did their due diligence when grading this paper. The essay? It was hot garbage. I read the whole thing.
The other instructor for this course AGREED WITH THE TA!
"Samantha, I am the other instructor for this course, and I have also take the time to read your paper. I concur with [redacted] on the grade you received. This paper should not be considered as a completion of the assignment. "Everyone has different ways in which they see the world, but in an academic course such as this you are being asked to support your ideas with empirical evidence and higher-level reasoning. "I find it concerning that you state at the beginning of your paper that you do not think bullying ("teasing") is a bad thing. In addition, your paper directly and harshly criticizes your peers and their opinions, which are just as valuable as yours. Disagreeing with others is fine, but there is a respectful way to go about it. That goes for discussion posts as well as reaction papers. "Please employ more thoughtfulness in your future assignment."
There is genuinely no reason, at all, for this TA to be placed on leave. The TA was just doing their goddamned job.
As someone who had to write all kinds of essays about all kinds of things in high school (and in college, but that's somehow less relevant to this). I was able to write about being pro-gay marriage (before it was legalized in the US), being pro-abortion and being LGBTQIA+ AT A CATHOLIC SCHOOL. And I still managed to get As. Do you want to know how? I used real sources and cited them. I actually followed the assignment while still getting my point across.
It is absolutely possible to write essays disagreeing with the premise without completely flouting the assignment. I promise you it's possible.
I could vent about this for HOURS. That's how much it pisses me off.
Based on the essay itself, this genuinely feels like the student is such a bigot that she doesn't want a trans teacher and is using a RIGHTFUL zero to try and get that TA fired. She is claiming discrimination while actively discriminating against the TA.
We need to stop ignoring the obvious: this was a setup.
The essay is intentionally bad. You cannot write an essay that bad unintentionally, and even if you could, you would not then cry discriminating for being part of the biggest religious group in the US.
This woman saw that she had a trans woman in front of her and decided to try and ruin that trans woman's life to kickstart her own career in the reactionary talk show and podcast circuit. She already had an appearance on Fox, iirc.
This was planned, and what she wanted, and her victim did nothing wrong and was STILL placed on leave simply for happening to be trans. Since when are people just placed on leave when someone challenges a paper worth 3% of the final grade, especially when it is a paper so clearly intentionally written to be offensive, and to be failed? She was abandoned by her University, so so this fucking vulture can make her name for robbing a trans woman's life.
The student responsible for this originally "broke the story" through notable corpse Charlie Kirk's TP USA, and now TP USA is already promoting events where she will be speaking. This is was literally all a publicity stunt where the worst people on earth took advantage of the fact that everyone in power is a coward who would much rather destroy the life of a trans woman than stand up for her
: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI
Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.
Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:
If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.
Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.
if you want to turn off as much ai crap in firefox as possible, from this post on mozilla's connect forum, you should also set all these to false using about:config:
browser.ml.enable
extensions.ml.enabled
browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
to get rid of the revamped sidebar, which is also trying to incorporate ai:
sidebar.revamp
unrelated anyone got browser recommendations for when we have to jump ship from firefox
and now keep in mind that all the other browsers are doing this shit, too, but you can't reconfigure them as with Firefox
on A for Effort's last point, is there any browser that offers users even half as much control as Firefox? if so, I'd like to try it as a backup
irritatingly, the list of AI settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one):
browser.ml.enable
browser.ml.chat.enabled
browser.ml.chat.menu
browser.ml.chat.page
browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
extensions.ml.enabled
browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
in addition to nuking AI, it'll also speed up your browsing
the dev cycle: bloatware until users switch to less-bloated competitor, perpetually
FYI those tri-color mini sweet peppers are not GMO sterilized, I grew a couple out from volunteers. High yield, good shelf life (why I buy them vs regular bells) & will ripen on the counter or windowsill. Now to cross them with some weapons-grade jalapenos.
old yt dude djs thinking theyre the shit playing a carefully curated set of the rarest tech house vinyl to a vibe drier than a dentist's waiting room. then some zoomer kid comes on after, plays an airhorn over bluetooth from their phone for a solid 5 seconds & drops a Dickie Riddim megamix ripped off YouTube in 480p.. & the place goes absolutely nuts
The Wild Hunt
Stargazers? PHX isn't helping but Orion is still kinda blinky if you can easily spot him. Like faint streaks, sort of like the photo but just a faint streak here and there. More like dust or glitter catching the light, where he's chasing across the southern sky from this part of the world. Not my photo but it's the closest thing I could find to what I'm seeing here. If you know that constellation by other names I'd love to hear about it.
ITS THIS THING TUESDAY
Happy This Thing Tuesday
Sea Turtle and Remora (by Paul Souders) Underwater view of small endangered Green Sea Turtle swimming with small Remora in Pacific Ocean.
Underwater view of a small endangered but very serious Green Sea Turtle showing an unruly Remora to the exit
Reposting because I read they're no longer endangered & that's pretty cool. Nice job, green sea turtles. When I was a kid I got to tour a lab where they were breeding Ridley's by the hundreds in tanks for a release program. Every turtle I encounter surprises me, they seem like such unlikely creatures.
I myself might could be released on a temperate unnamed barrier island & figure it out. Setting a fine example there, sea turtles.
Real shit
So based on the way I just read this out loud, I 100% think it should be released as an audition monologue, and I'm 10000% serious. if I were overseeing auditions for Shakespeare somebody's timing on those "fuck off"s and their ability to pronounce and emphasize "harem of fart sommeliers" would tell me everything I needed to know. This is a work of art fueled by rage, and what's more, it's true.
harem of fart sommeliers
"Do you understand the concept of consent?"
"Maybe Later"
Put out another water source (big stock tank in the yard already.) Mostly to encourage mice to not eat the tops off everything just for the hydration like they did last year. Set up the trailcam and got these:
Blue Grosbeak. That's new to me around here, never seen it at a feeder with the regulars. Pretty sure there's a pair but the female is harder to ID.
The board & rocks are so critters can get in & more importantly back out of the tub.
Quail chicks. Seen them with the family a few times but alone is a first. Mama is probably nearby back in those weeds. Their nest must be very close.
Couldn't be me getting around to dinner at midnight like some manner of degenerate. Very stable, very approachable.