PJ > Recent Status Updates

- FUCK Ronald Raegan, FUCK Bill Clinton, and FUCK Richard Nixon as always
- Similar to sex-work, the criminalization of drugs just makes the entire ordeal unnecessarily dangerous
- 1/2 of all federal & 1/3 of all state prisoners are there for drug-related offenses; holding them costs 50 BILLION DOLLARS ANUALLY!
- Drug enforcement, in practice, is racist
- Drug use not gonna get better until we address the job problem

Just finished part 2; haven't updated in a while. Notes:

- Generational Peter bag fumble
- Also, fuck Peter
- Stan Naomi
- Part 2 was fairly uneventful???

Holy trauma dump

Also all of his negative feelings towards Ivan seem to really be targeted at himself

Ya no, he's not doing too great

Chapter 2 was like Heated Rivalry levels of tension. It revealed my true colors. Im parched. Starving!!!!

Aside from that one scene, I was most touched about the idea of perceiving others, and living up to the idea of how others perceive you. Embodying this persona that you are aware exists but are equally aware may not be genuine.

I'm hooked

Regardless of how you feel about the moral question of sex-work, it is so brutally obvious that criminalizing sex-work, similarly to substance abuse, is only putting sex-workers in further danger. They should be allowed to organize! Give them health insurance and workers protections! Also, lets stop delegitimizing their work. A vast majority of them do not feel this way and this BS victim complex is degrading

The criminal justice's method of addressing homelessness (which is currently the primary method) is utterly and comically broken.

So get this, our social services fail. Wages are low, housing is high, and as a result, people get thrown into the streets. We proceed to arrest these people, which denies them from essential services, and as a result, they get THROWN BACK TO THE STREETS!

GIVE THEM HOUSES AND FTP 4EVA

Someone desperately needs to match Carmilla's freak. I also never knew that 19th century gothic fables were on some gay ass shit.

A shockingly sensual read with unsettling descriptions and imagery.

Laura was just longing and thirsting and the 19th century version of the nihilistic, avoidant bisexual appeared out of thin air. Lucky her.

Thoughts so far:

- Neoliberal politics have accelerated wealth inequality, which in turn, leads to higher crime rates. Police are not here to protect us, they are here to deal with the symptoms of a failing society and underfunded social safety-nets

- Why the fuck are police in schools? There's no evidence they do anything but send our kids to jail. We need to embrace problematic children, not push them away

Very fun read so far

"I use the analogy of the robber and the policeman consciously. Zionists have penned a narrative where they are a force for good, legitimately fighting off intruders. But the reality, of course, is the inverse. Colonialism is the robber and the policeman at once, committing the crime and legalizing it."

"If we are assessing a certain idological project ..., why not judge it based on how it materially manifests rather than on the perceived attributes of its subjects? Zionism is best defined by its material manifestations---Zionism is what Zionism does. When Zionism's most recent manifestation is genocide, ... what difference does it make how the grieving grieve?

Geez

Fuck the NYT and passports are indeed a currency

Some of the best writing I've ever read. First passage:

We die a lot. We die in fleeting headlines, in between our breaths. Our death is so quotidian that journalists report it as though they're reporting the weather: Cloudy skies, light showers, and 3,000 Palestinians dead in the past ten days. And much like the weather, only God is responsible - not armed settlers, not targeted drone strikes.

Harrowing stuff

Deep neural networks r lit lit

Fuck its getting good. Chapter 6 (There's Magic in them Matrices) went into reducing higher dimensional problems using eigenvectors.

This chapter was the perfect mixture of theory, history, and research (and there were no stupid math notation without subscripts)

My thoughts rn are that the author has trouble finding an ideal target audience. I feel a part of the target audience in this chapter