Ruby Parker
@rubyparker.bsky.social
Recovering teacher. Sometimes writer. Full-time cat mom. 🇿🇦🇵🇸
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Clippy would never 😂
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Clippy would never 😂
In my high school English classroom, I encouraged kids to express their opinion freely. But they weren't allowed to debate anyone's human rights. (Thank goodness for South Africa's Constitution).
‘Debate’ is another one of those very commonly used words everybody thinks they have the same definition for, and clearly, they do not.
September 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In my high school English classroom, I encouraged kids to express their opinion freely. But they weren't allowed to debate anyone's human rights. (Thank goodness for South Africa's Constitution).
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So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes
Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease
www.science.org
September 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Jia Tolentino reviews Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoir, “All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation.”
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies
“Eat, Pray, Love” was a huge hit in part because readers imagined they could be like its author. Her new book, “All the Way to the River,” shows how dubious that notion was.
www.newyorker.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Jia Tolentino reviews Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoir, “All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation.”
Silliness as an act of resistance
August 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Silliness as an act of resistance
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SURPRISE!
🚨ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
We've snapped up @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's multi award-nominated ASUNDER for the UK!
SABRIEL meets WITCH KING in this deliciously dark fantasy.
UK/BC, exc. CAN rights acquired by Amanda Raybould from Tor.
Learn more bit.ly/45uJheZ
Preorder geni.us/asunder
We've snapped up @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's multi award-nominated ASUNDER for the UK!
SABRIEL meets WITCH KING in this deliciously dark fantasy.
UK/BC, exc. CAN rights acquired by Amanda Raybould from Tor.
Learn more bit.ly/45uJheZ
Preorder geni.us/asunder
August 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
SURPRISE!
The sixth love language
A cartoon by Jeremy Nguyen. #NewYorkerCartoons
See more cartoons from this week’s issue: www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...
See more cartoons from this week’s issue: www.newyorker.com/gallery/cart...
August 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The sixth love language
Reposted by Ruby Parker
I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg
The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?
wapo.st
August 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.