I have a short end-of-year fiction roundup, in case you're trying to figure out what stories of mine were published in 2022!
First: "The Dragon Project," which was published in Clarkesworld in March.
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SF/Fantasy writer who writes that Mpls/St. Paul election guide. She/her. YA novel CHAOS ON CATNET now available from Tor Teen!
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the greatest thing the internet gave us was the ability to bully corporations
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ChatGPT's AI is pretty rough in a lot of ways, but one job I think it could swoop in and take over pretty seemlessly in its current form is "New York Times op-ed writer on the anti-woke beat"
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For people who think the Family Circus is too sharp and incisive, there's always the opinion section of the New York Times
nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opi
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OK, now I have a Spoutible account. Who all is over there that I should follow?
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Alexandra: more McSweeneys than McSweeneys is.
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We read it so you don't have to!
And we've distilled it down from a nearly-gross 140 to a tight ten, the ten rules that are the most generally applicable and widely necessary.
Here are the top ten most essential new rules found in The Cut's "New Rules for Etiquette" article...
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📢 For #TwitterAPI devs ➡️ See this list of Apps/Bots heading to #Mastodon—add your service if you're leaving before the free API shutdown in days:
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And see the good 🤖 bots moving over here:
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And please help retweet and share!
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some other things that are likely to go away when the free Twitter API shuts down: tools that post or delete tweets or likes, follower management apps, migration tools like debirdify or fedifinder (so get on that). Literally anything you log into that interacts with your account
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if there is any account you have anywhere that you log into via Twitter that you depend on for anything important, I highly HIGHLY recommend setting up an alternative way to log in before February 9. Don't put it off. You will lose access to that account if you don't.
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I haven't seen my non-tech friends talk about this much, so let me break this down a bit: do you like severe weather alerts? Animal every hour or hydration reminder or other fun bots? Do you log into anything with your Twitter account? You won't be able to do that anymore.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 
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The lovely thing about a "will party" is that it's the best way I've ever seen to gently pressure your friends into dealing with this stuff. 💀
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Does anyone know of an estate lawyer who does this sort of thing still? Was discussing wills/trusts/medical power of attorney type paperwork with some friends this morning and how many people we know who need to set stuff up (or update it) and have not.
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Lawyer Marjorie Holsten (mentioned in the article) is still practicing but does not mention will parties on her website.
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Back in 2008, there was an article in the Star Tribune about "will parties," which were kind of like Tupperware parties except instead of buying Tupperware you met with a lawyer, paid $75-150, and got a basic will.
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A locked friend notes that plenty of colleges also don't accept AP credits, which is a fair point. Most of them will at least accept it for placement, though. I took the AP Spanish exam in 1991 and that proved enough proficiency I didn't have to take a language in college.
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For those unfamiliar: the families are not charged for PSEO at all. Even the books are covered.
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PSEO is a really great program, although as Hal points out, it's a lot less available to the kids outside the metro.
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Since I went to a rural high school, the AP program was basically my only option to get college credits. I suppose e-learning is more feasible now for a lot of rural kids, though not necessarily at home. There's a massive cost barrier to broadband if you live outside of a city.
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OK, maybe CIS classes are more broadly accepted than I'd gotten the impression of, FWIW.
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Really? My CIS went through as an actual U of MN class and transferred without any trouble to Texas A & M University.
I did not do PSEO though.
In fact, they told us these classes transferred more reliably because they were actual credits and not relying a score.
This was 2007
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If you go anywhere other than the U of M, the likelihood that they'll give you credit or even placement for CIS classes is low. Much lower than the odds they'll give you credit for a 4 or 5 on an AP exam.
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Minnesota offers the PSEO program (which lets you take some or all your classes at a local college or university in 11th/12th grade) and also has the U certify certain high school classes as "CIS," college in the schools. However...
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My hottest take: just get rid of the AP program. Figure out a way to get kids into classes at local colleges & universities. The stilted, test oriented classes are nowhere near of the same quality/style as college classes & it empowers the College Board monopoly.
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Things that are not going to be a problem for me: planning food that you can eat.
Things that will upset me a lot as a host: having to call an ambulance for one of my guests. Like, if it happens, it happens, but FFS TELL ME IF YOU HAVE AN ALLERGY.
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If I've invited you to dinner, for the love of god tell me your allergies and dietary restrictions. If you want to come to hang out with people and bring your own food because you don't think my kitchen will be sufficiently allergen-free, that's fine!
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Look. I’m sure @TheCut is getting lots of feedback on their etiquette list but this is so offensive. The situation described here isn’t a person with an allergy. And a person with a severe allergy cannot just be all chill and not inform ppl making them dinner of said allergy
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Would like to see more blue-state governors sign on to this.
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What are democratic lawmakers in blue states doing to defend history? Pushing back at college board? Demanding textbook publishers stop censoring their books? Any movements in any state?
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"We think everyone who pays for a multiple user account is doing so in order to watch from multiple rooms in the same house." --, apparently.
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The kids/parents who pay $16 for those multiple-user accounts so those people in their lives can use them. Are they going to keep paying extra for multiple-user accounts their families can no longer use? lol. lmao. lmfao.
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Y'know what students have always been great at? Pirating things. Netflix put a dent in that by being more convenient. What do you think's gonna happen when Netflix isn't convenient any more? 🏴☠️
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The main person who watches Netflix is my college kid. If they're going to cut off her access idk why I'd even bother paying for the service.
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this is such a wild decision by Netflix lmao like, they're aware of long distance relationships, kids in college, and poor people right?
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This shouldn't surprise me, since truly their central belief is, "my children are my property, and no one has the right to tell them anything that doesn't fit with my worldview, even if it's literally true."
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I'm also struck by the fact that several of these books are about children surviving abuse at the hands of parents ("A Child Called It," "Eleanor & Park.") So apparently censors object to the message, "parents sometimes abuse their kids & that's bad."
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“We banned Slaughterhouse Five, Native Son, and Handmaid’s Tale, but it like really hurts our feelings when you call us fascist”
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That any of these books were removed is horrifying, but there's something extra ironic that one of them is Laurie Halse's SPEAK.
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Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals.
This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man.
This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks
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Hey do you not understand how many of us don't watch a ton of television and are likely to just not notice that month going by? I've often thought I'm wasting money and should cancel, but if you're gonna do it for me...
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Netflix's new password-sharing rule: Every 31 days your device must log in on your home network — or it will be blocked.
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pretty sure someone has said this before but all these men falling for very obvious uncanny valley AI girls really has convinced me that those folk tales where a man falls in love with what is very obviously a demon lady would 100% happen in real life today
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I wish I could call my mom and complain about Naomi Wolf. Mom was never impressed by the Worst Naomi and would be incensed right along with me at her recent shenanigans.
(Mom died in 2016, that's why I can't call her.)
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“…making life a living hell for pain patients isn’t now addressing overdose deaths caused by illicitly manufactured synthetic opioids like Fentanyl.”
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Wonderful columnist busts local anti-inclusion expectations wide open with this lovely account of West Saint Paul neighbors--who worked hard and did many difficult, uncomfortable things--in order to bring essential health care to people in their community. 1/2
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"This is my neighborhood reflecting to the world that we're not welcoming to a population of people who need to be welcomed. That didn't sit right with me."
Meet the West St. Paul neighbors who said, "Yes, in my backyard." New column from @laura_yuen startribune.com/yuen-meet-the-
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Tell me why this Irish-Iraqi wedding is the hardest thing I’ve ever seen
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12yo and I have come up with a new term - “nerbanist.” It’s when you’re a nerd and an urbanist. You play D&D and also like public transit.
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"Libraries should be neutral" and "libraries should submit to parents wishes" are incompatible statements.
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This is a failure of the national media. It is their job to explain why these situations are extremely different.
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NBC NEWS POLL: Americans say they’re equally concerned about classified documents found at President Biden’s residence and former office as they are about those found at fmr. President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. nbcnews.to/3DmNnIV
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Back in the 1980s my grandparents used a pickup truck with a cap over the bed as a tiiiiiny camper, they put cots in the bed. I don't think you could do that now, there isn't space.
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