something i actually just realized on call w some friends recently is how crazey it is that your online friends are as many as thousands of feet above or below u right now. like if you teleported to their location without changing your height above sea level, well your fucked in some way basically
Most of our collective memories of Paris Hilton come from her reality TV/socialite era. When she traipsed around the country with Nicole Richie in fuzzy Juicy Couture tracksuits, working as camp counselors, fast food servers, farmers and what have you, and encountering a young Ke$ha, or the 2000s when she and her occasional wardrobe malfunctions were a staple of the gossip blogs.
But before that, just a few years before that, really, Hilton was in Utah, having been sent away to Provo Canyon School’s Springville Campus, a boarding school for “troubled teens” where Hilton and countless others say they were tortured, sexually abused, starved, shot up with Haldol and otherwise drugged, piled on, and put in solitary confinement as a means to “tough love” them into behaving.
As you can imagine, it did not exactly accomplish that so much as it just traumatized the children who were sent there — and, to be clear, they were children, some as young as 8 years old.
Earlier this week, the Utah Department of Health and Human Services finally revoked the “school’s” license after finding that they “had repeatedly violated rules intended to safeguard the well-being of the teens under its care,” to put it mildly.
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“The place that hurt me, and countless children before and after me, will no longer be allowed to operate,” Hilton wrote on Instagram in response to the news. “The children inside are going to be removed, which has been my dream for a long time.”
Honestly, I think what she’s done here is incredible, because I don’t think a lot of people fully grasped how severely abusive and fucked up these programs were until she started bringing attention to the subject. Whatever else she’s done with her life, she deserves all the credit in the world for that. These facilities have counted on people not fully understanding what happens there, because they make their money off of freaked-out parents who feel desperate to “save” their supposedly “out-of-control teens” and don’t actually know what they’re getting into. Weirdly enough, they don’t put “people who aren’t doctors will be performing cervical exams on your daughter” in the brochures.
There have been endless reports of severe abuse at both the Provo Canyon School’s facility for boys in Provo and their facility for girls in Springville dating all the way back to 1978 when the ACLU filed a lawsuit against them alleging cruel and unusual punishment, although it was several recent cases that prompted the state to finally take action.
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The Provo Canyon School is just one facility in a multi-billion dollar industry ($23 billion in taxpayer funding, alone) with almost no regulation whatsoever, which is pretty horrific when you consider the fact that we are talking about places where we are sending vulnerable children and teenagers. The kids who get sent to these programs vary between those who have committed actual crimes and have been sent there by judges as an “alternative” to juvie and kids who just weren’t doing well in school, who have mental health issues, whose Christian parents didn’t like that they were gay or imagined that they were “promiscuous” because they kissed someone, who have a tendency to talk back, etc. etc. Hilton was sent there because she was sneaking out and going to clubs and parties. Tattoo artist Kat Von D, who was also sent to the Provo Canyon School, said her conservative parents sent her there because she got into punk rock and tattooing.
Oftentimes these kids get “kidnapped” by “teen escort companies” in the middle of the night without even knowing that their parents were going to send them to these places.
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In the 1990s and 2000s, “out of control teens” were a staple of talk shows. They’d come on these shows, fight with their parents, wear overly revealing clothes, and sometimes they’d get a terrible makeover and other times they’d get sent to places like this. Hell, Jenny Jones even had some kind of military guy who used to come out and scream at kids — a guy who, it turned out, would later have his “troubled teens” facility closed after they left one kid handcuffed for three days. We all remember rap artist Bhad Bhabie’s appearance on Dr. Phil — when she was better known as the 13-year-old “Cash me outside, how bout dat” girl. Well, the facility he sent her to after that appearance was one of these programs that it turns out was also abusive.
Utah moves closer to shutting down the notorious teen gulag Provo Canyon School, a place that Paris Hilton was sent to prior to her becoming famous to be tortured under the guise of sorting out wayward teens.
So I do 3D modeling and printing as a hobby, and a few weeks ago I designed wheel guards meant to prevent office chairs from running over cables and clothes... or your pet's tail.
I got the idea from cowcatchers old locomotives used to have.
Anyways, yesterday I uploaded the model to Thingiverse, and just hours after uploading it, the Community Relationship Manager of the whole website left a comment suggesting I enter the model into a competition that's currently being held on the site.
So I did... and now it's in third place not even a day later. First place is $500, but the competition still has a month to go.
Then the Community Manager contacted me again, telling me they want to feature my model in an upcoming design promotion.
Just, what is happening? I mostly made this thing for myself in, like, an hour, and now it's suddenly super popular? This is all a little bit overwhelming 😵💫
Other models I worked on for weeks didn't get nearly as popular. I swear, it's impossible to predict what people will like.
Anyways, if you want to print the wheel guards yourself, you can get the model here or here.
I also made a quiet version you can stick furniture felt pads on.
At the age of 93, Duane Michals (February 18, 1932 – June 9, 2026) created this photographic triptych “Do You Mind if I Sit Here?" for the New York Times, a reflection on gay cruising and the pain of being closeted.
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