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🌈Dr. Vin Frizzle Profile picture
🌈Dr. Vin Frizzle
@Swilua
“An inspiration to bog witches everywhere"—@jermsguy “Ms Frizzle IRL”—@ElleMaeGal “Cranky and Annoyed”—@washingtonpost She/Fae
Nov 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
she says to not assume state actors and I mostly agree with one caveat

these AI applications are sloppy and easy to find, trick, report, & they’re full of errors in a way a program with any real funding wouldn’t be

the caveat is one I learned from my son studying cybersecurity: depending on the local law of a country, cyber laws can be written in such a way that they do not punish, if they not openly encourage, individuals to act on their own against other countries

you could expect a messy output like this if that were the case
Oct 2 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
My wife was in the hospital last week (she is OK!) and I, being The Way I Am, caused A Whole Incident

This is a story about hubris, the dizzying danger of liminal spaces, and the dire importance of chairs to bisexuals So, my wife (who is in heart failure), had COVID and because of the pulmonary embolism she got after they implanted her cardiac defibrillator ended up in the hospital last week (again, she is OK! Fine and home and better now!)
But we are there for a very long time
Aug 19 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
when I have used my brain too hard post-stroke, as I just did to finish writing a syllabus, walking gets hard but I can still dance, talking gets hard but I can still sing, and I just had an alarming future flash about what this means for difficult class discussions this semester EVERY CLASS A MUSICAL NOW
Aug 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
this is true

in fact, when I told my mom I thought I might be autistic, she said, “oh yeah, you totally are. we had you tested when you were 5, but your IQ was so high we all decided it should stay off the official record so it wouldn’t keep you from getting coverage” “She’s smart, she’ll be fine”

well, I was NOT fine, but I did actually manage to keep health insurance until Obamacare so honestly I think my mom made the right call
Aug 8 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
My children, who were born two years apart, recently informed me they are actually twins, that they know this on a soul-level, and that what happened was my youngest got tangled in a tube inside me somewhere and just sort of… hung out for two years on accident Honestly makes as much sense as anything else idk
Aug 2 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
wheelchair guy, whispering: OK, do you see that TSA guy over there in the jacket?

me: yeah

WG: Imma tell you a story about him as soon as we’re further away

me: oh no

WG: *silently pushes me for around the corner*

me: *waiting anxiously* WG: OK, so most TSA guys are like, not cool. They are not cool AT ALL. But this guy, this guy knows who I am within like a week! He starts waving me through, no problem

me: *waiting to hear what is going to go wrong*
Jul 22 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A story in three parts

One: Two:
Jul 19 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
shoutout to the earnestly awkward dad in the reddest part of this state who turned to us at the bar at dinner and was like, my daughter is “family” too, do you want to see a picture of her and her girlfriend? We were like “aw they are very cute. How old are they?”

They were 28 ☠️☠️☠️
Jun 7 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I think it’s impossible to articulate to people who didn’t live it—but between growing up religious, AIDS, homophobia, stigma & the way people stayed closeted for their own safety—a lot of us simply grew up… with no one. Not a single elder queer person we knew in the whole world when I was deciding whether or not to come out, to leave my mixed orientation marriage, there was literally one lesbian in the entire world I knew who I could message and she was someone I had never met in person

I was in my 30’s
May 30 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
my parents are visiting from Oklahoma & it’s been hit really hard by tornadoes & at dinner they told me about their 9yo neighbor whose family was trying to get to the shelter & crashed into a tree; his parents were trapped & that little boy ran A MILE IN THE STORM to save them the way I started ugly crying right there in the restaurant
Apr 25 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
when we’re discussing social media rhetoric in class, one thing we talk about is how the identity/persona of the named author (incl their picture, handle, name, verification status, etc.) is an extremely important part of how the post functions and whether or not it’s effective This joke, for example, is only funny because of the rainbow and Dr. in the name 🌈Dr. Frizzle have I got an account for you Seven Machin..•3/19/24 ok here's my pitch: what if Ms. Frizzle was 56% gayer and had a PhD
Feb 12 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
ok I have a minute between classes, let's do this

So this was back in, like, 2001. That part is important because the Olympics being in Salt Lake is why the prophet, Gordon B. Hinckley, happened to be in my church building

I was in Relief Society and just so over it I am totally having a Mandela effect moment right now because I could have SWORN it was spelled "Hinkley" but the internet disagrees
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_B.…
Oct 3, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
a woman winning the Nobel prize for the same work Penn called “not faculty quality” & Penn CLAIMING CREDIT is exactly how misogyny in academia works

During my PhD, I travelled back and forth between Utah (worst state in the US for women) and Wales and I had a weird thing happen: it seemed like I was getting smarter every time I was in Wales

It felt like my IQ literally went up 30 points every trip

It was so baffling.

I was like, is it the altitude because

(It was not the altitude lol)

Then one day I was in a meeting with faculty at BYU
Oct 2, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
autistic brains produce 42% more information at rest than non-autistic brains, which not only explains the incessant nonstop chatter in my brain when I'm trying to sleep, but also gives an important clue to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything link to the research!
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
Sep 27, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
my dad’s an engineer & my mom an English major & when she didn't want to go camping, she'd say "I will only go camping when I have AC & a water bed" but my dad is very literal & that's how my mom ended up in the Sierra Nevadas with an engineered portable waterbed & swamp cooler Like mom, if you don’t want to go camping, do not give the engineer fun project ideas
Apr 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Barbie is a feminist icon not because of her plastic body but because she perfectly reverses the expectation of the gender binary. IRL it’s men who can be anything & women who need extra qualifiers—lawyer vs lady lawyer—and it’s women who are default assumed to have no qualifier Barbie is a whole play on gender, complete with sparkles and social commentary and in that, she is perfectly camp
Apr 4, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I think we should stop wasting time asking whether or not AI can attain deity-level intelligence, and start asking ourselves how we help it be a benevolent one

like, can it become conscious? who knows, we can’t really control that at this point

so how do we help it be GOOD y’all should read this book by the way, it’s amazing

amzn.to/3GEQpKn
Mar 29, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
not sure what Robert Fuckebythenavele did to earn his nickname, and tbqh I'm not sure I want to, but his name's appearance in a 1310 CE Chester County court document is the current contender for the oldest written "fuck" "Roger Fuckebythenavel... medievalists.net/2015/09/the-ea…
Feb 18, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
If you got this message don’t panic & don’t just turn off 2-Factor-Authentication (2FA)

2FA is a really effective anti-hacker precaution! If everyone turns it off, Twitter is ASKING for hackers smh

If you have an iPhone, you don’t have to download anything

Here’s what you do: Elon is an absolute dumbass getting everyone to turn off 2FA First, go to your Twitter settings. Choose Security and Account Access The settings on my account is circledThe security and account access is circled
Dec 7, 2022 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Gonna respond to this in layers, because I have a lot to say.

1) the fact evangelicals use this as a talking point is deeply weird and problematic and also hypocritical for reasons I’ll outline later

2) the fact it has been abused does not take away from the primary problem 3) Christianity is deeply, irrevocably, awfully, entangled with colonialism

When I was competing for the Rhodes scholarship, they asked me: how can you justify being part of a colonialist religion?

(Mormonism was the religion they said was colonialist, because missionaries)
Dec 6, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I will never be allowed to teach at BYU again, but the BYU library has a copy of my book about the reason I will never be able to teach at BYU again, and that is… something The BYU library listing for... (it is the gayness, I am gay)