shel

The Transsexual Chofetz Chaim

Mutant, librarian, poet, union rabble rouser, dog, Ashkenazi Jewish. Neuroweird, bodyweird, mostly sleepy.


I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.


I review Schoolhouse Rock! songs at @PropagandaRock


Website (RSS + Newsletter)
shelraphen.com/

Watching every single schoolhouse rock song is really skewing my YouTube algorithm. I think Google has concluded that I've spontaneously acquired a five year old child. My recommendations are full of creepy YouTube Kids Learn to Count with Bubonic Elsa videos.

Anyway I have Figure Eight stuck in my head which I know is the point but I sure am walking around multiplying by eight all day.


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in reply to @shel's post:

If anyone doubts the destructive potential of The Algorithm, let them gaze into the yawning abyss that is children's content on YouTube.

Honestly I'm more freaked out by the CGI & text-to-speech videos about colors that looks like it's just extruded directly from an algorithm that optimizes for view contents. Its complete lack of humanity unsettles me more than any of the intentionally-disturbing stuff.