This week was better than last
Nov. 16th, 2025 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pennswoodsFirst, I got a lot more writing done on my book. The difficult chapter is not done yet but I am getting closer. I had to put in an interlibrary loan request for a book and an article I need to cite for the final portion and the book has now come in. First I have to read part of the book that's relevant. There's another book I was considering putting in a request for, but I think this will be enough.
I slept better this week though there were still a few middle of the night wakings with dread and anxiety. One of them was the thought that those of us with degrees and training and years of experience are going to find ourselves as a new servant class. AI will be used to replace our white collar and thought work and we will be left with the physical tasks. Door-dash and Uber still rely on humans to do the driving.
What made this week even better was the chaos around the Epstein files and the knowledge that as a result, Donald was definitely having a much worse week than me. I have enjoyed the hell out of the memes and jokes. And yes, there is fanfiction on Ao3 - a veritiable explosion of Political RPF. The tags and titles are hilarious. The nickname Megyn "R." Kelly is also giving me a good chuckle.
There are a few on Bluesky wringing their hands over this, worried that this kind of circus will overshadow or take away from a moral reckoning. This is a naive position. There is not going to be some judicious moral reckoning that is pure and above reproach. There might not ever be a moral reckoning. But this hilarity and mocking serves the function of building fear in the hearts of such actors who think they are all powerful and above reproach. They look foolish and silly and the more they protest, the more absurd the response is going to be.
Anyway, I love how so much how Donalds' Big Beautiful Bill has been reappropriated into something else that is always going to make a lot of people laugh at him.
I slept better this week though there were still a few middle of the night wakings with dread and anxiety. One of them was the thought that those of us with degrees and training and years of experience are going to find ourselves as a new servant class. AI will be used to replace our white collar and thought work and we will be left with the physical tasks. Door-dash and Uber still rely on humans to do the driving.
What made this week even better was the chaos around the Epstein files and the knowledge that as a result, Donald was definitely having a much worse week than me. I have enjoyed the hell out of the memes and jokes. And yes, there is fanfiction on Ao3 - a veritiable explosion of Political RPF. The tags and titles are hilarious. The nickname Megyn "R." Kelly is also giving me a good chuckle.
There are a few on Bluesky wringing their hands over this, worried that this kind of circus will overshadow or take away from a moral reckoning. This is a naive position. There is not going to be some judicious moral reckoning that is pure and above reproach. There might not ever be a moral reckoning. But this hilarity and mocking serves the function of building fear in the hearts of such actors who think they are all powerful and above reproach. They look foolish and silly and the more they protest, the more absurd the response is going to be.
Anyway, I love how so much how Donalds' Big Beautiful Bill has been reappropriated into something else that is always going to make a lot of people laugh at him.
