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“You always hurt the one you love…the one you shouldn’t hurt at all.” –Blue Valentine
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When you wish upon a star…
On Twitter, there’s a convention of adding the handclap emoji between each word for added emphasis. Imagine it done out loud, with a clap for each word: the effect is like a preschool teacher yelling at a child who doesn’t listen, or a cheerleader rah-rah-ing a statement. Like this:
The convention has been a meme for a few years, which means it’s permuted into various levels of irony. Like this:
Serena Parr, a graduate student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, came up with the idea for a bot that would retweet emoji handclap tweets as a class project a few weeks ago. Since the handclaps are used for something you’re saying with conviction, Parr thought it would be amusing to see a feed of people’s most emphatic opinions, both serious and silly.
The first challenge was searching for these tweets. Normally, you can’t search emojis on Twitter, so Parr turned to a tool made by Matthew Rothenberg for his very fun website Emoji Tracker, which shows you real-time emoji use on Twitter. With a little bit of coding magic, the bot was made and launched in mid-January. She called it @lol_yelling.
And then, the inevitable and obvious thing happened. Much like Tay, the Microsoft Twitter bot that quickly became a Neo Nazi, within just two days, @lol_yelling took on the tenor of the rest of the cesspool of Twitter.
Parr wasn’t naive to the fact Twitter is often full of harassment and abuse, and she deleted her own personal account recently. “It was making me feel bad and miserable about the world,” she told me. She built into her bot a word filter to block out offensive language. But racism on Twitter isn’t just tweets that use the n-word. Ideologically racist stuff, like someone insisting that reverse racism is real or arguing that MLK’s “I have a dream” speech is bad because black people also owned slaves, kept getting through Parr’s filter. It was the kind of stuff that wouldn’t necessarily get someone banned, but is offensive to a reasonable person.
“If you click on these profiles, they’d retweet the most vile, racist, disgusting things. It was a strange glimpse into how this part of Twitter works,” Parr said. “There’s also really bad images and memes that would never get caught by a racist word filter.”
Less than five full days after it was created, Parr deactivated the bot, because she didn’t want to have to keep filtering out the bad tweets. She was keenly aware that the handclap emoji convention started in Black Twitter – the fact that it’s become so widespread that racists are using it makes the whole thing even more ironic and sad.
The bot isn’t doing any more retweets, but its account is still up, in case you want to enjoy it as a living monument to the fact that Twitter ruins everything .
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Faster and more delicious meal prep with the pros.
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For lots of us, weekly meal prep just might be the answer. But anyone who’s tried it knows how boring it can be to open your container on Thursday night and face the same food yet again.
But Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, pro chefs and founders of Food52, have it down to an art. They wrote a book, A New Way to Dinner, packed with fully formed weekly meal plans that won’t leave you bored. Here are some of their best tips for making meal prep work in real life.
Whether you’re making your own meal plan or following a written recipe plan like the ones in A New Way to Dinner or even the Clean Eating Challenge, spend a bit of time before you go grocery shopping doing what you need to do to feel organized.
This might include things like:
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Remember, meal prep can take as much (or as little) time as you want it to – and there’s no shame in shortcuts. Buy the sausage instead of making it, use your favorite premade salad dressing instead of mixing it yourself, get the bag of preshredded Brussels sprouts if you feel like it’s worth the splurge, skip making dessert entirely and just buy a carton of your favorite ice cream. Amanda and Merrill frequently suggest shortcuts that you can feel good about taking, even if you don’t know much about cooking.
Of course, if you’re following a plan that’s based on a certain amount of protein or calories, making substitutions or replacements will probably alter the final nutritional measurements. Same goes if you’re on a budget – for example, opting for the precut bell peppers can be more expensive than buying the whole peppers. The key is to look at the price per unit; learn more about that here.
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To celebrate its 225th anniversary, the U.S. Mint and Treasury unveiled a brand new $100 coin – made of solid gold – that features Lady Liberty as a black woman.
Treasury & Mint officials unveiled the 2017 American Liberty High Relief Gold Coin! https://t.co/HkfcPN5Enq #USMint225 @USTreasury pic.twitter.com/0ShGHPn5oF
– United States Mint (@usmint) January 12, 2017
The coin, mostly a collector’s item, is the first of a series of 24-karat gold coins that are a beautiful nod to America’s diversity. The other coins in the series, the Mint announced, will feature a variety of Lady Liberty etchings, “including designs representing Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Indian-Americans among others to reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of the United States.”
Since 1792, all U.S. coins have been required to feature an “impression emblematic of liberty,” and what could be more emblematic of liberty than diversity?
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In April 2016, the U.S. Treasury announced that Harriet Tubman will appear on the $20 bill starting in 2020 – making her the first black woman to be featured on the front of a U.S. bill.
As the United States becomes more and more diverse, and as we continue making progress in the fight for racial justice, gender equality, and equal rights – progress that will no doubt be met with resistence – representation like this will become more and more important.
Displaying Lady Liberty – America’s most enduring symbol of hope and freedom – as a series of women of color sends a clear message that diversity is as American as it gets.
But really, how could you not love the most beautiful creatures in the whole universe??
They rule the earth that we mere mortals tread. When you have one, you must accept the fact that it is the cat that is giving you an opportunity to live with it, and not the other way around.
And remember: do not break these rules. If you do, your precious kitty will not hesitate to show you his “not-so-nice” side.
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But also, over generations, cats have learned that it’s the only way to effectively train us humans. *sigh*
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1% pictures of family and friends.
3% selfies.
96% pictures of kitty.
Come feast your eyes on these steamy high-level daddies and rack up loads of experience points!
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