"Everyone should be able to express themselves in the way they want to!"

And also to not be subjected to state sponsored kidnapping of children, but ok.

My kids are now in grades 5 and 9, and past the age when one might suggest that only these stories are "age appropriate", fwiw.

Oh god, the resurrection of “Je suis Charlie” 🤢

I wrote a previous reply because I misread this as saying I was underestimating; the "we" here is probably true. Whatever semblance of a formal political left still exists is not actually in opposition to this.

This paper started years ago because I have never been able to stop thinking about the weird ideological implications of a universal translator as presented on Star Trek, and took a lot of work to wrangle into something worth saying about embodiment, mediation, and translation

Here's a conversation he had about "bro" that I'm embarrassed to realize is much older than I thought: sfkiesling.com/dude-of-the-...