ice cubes are ridiculous. like yeah lemme just get a piece of water

A man has a shirt that says Devoted. Paul. Preacher. Prisoner. BQ23. Did...did the Apostle Paul go sub 3 in a marathon?

Hey, @stevemagness.bsky.social, I listen to voth your podcasts and follow you. I didn't realize you coach Natosha Rogers until the marathon broadcasts mentioned it. When will a few stories drop for us coaches?

Samuel Beckett is *cackling* in his grave. 😈

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Little did we know we were meeting the future world championship silver medalist! If Hiltz couldn't win, Ewoi was my next choice.

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

Hear me out: Blue books and in class exams are back, but let's be real: penmanship is so passé. I propose a disruptive, portable, innovation in classroom tech.

A.I. is popular because it gives you the experience of being a boss: you get to give annoyingly specific instructions about how to do something you don't actually know how to do yourself, and then claim credit for the end result.

(Not all, of course, but overall siloing stem students away from books and humanities, and more than that, convincing them those things are beneath them/obsolete, has done them a disservice. There just isn't really a way to learn critical thinking skills without, apart from lived experience.)

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

This piece lays out all the reasons AI is ill-suited for historical work — getting facts wrong, relying on existing sources only, churning out banal claims in bland prose, etc — and then asserts we’ll all just have to use it anyway. Yeah, no.

Guess the taco truck was at the US championship meet today. Ugh. Women's 500 the most disappointing rave of the meet

AP Seminar: you never know

Gear layout for Deseret News Marathon: new socks, racing shorts, and the Puma Fast R3s.

Day before a marathon:

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

What's the food truck situation at Hayward? Any taco trucks? Just thinking it might matter in the 1500.

Useful for AP Research kidd

Dress it up in progressive language but you're cheating yourself by not doing the work. This is the worst thing about AI: millions of students refusing to learn, taking zero interest in the world around them, empty in mind and heart. Your punishment is the person you will become.

Nicholas Carr, "The Shallows," 2010

Come out!

Hey, @predamame.bsky.social, have you seen this Grant Fisher video? You might want to take a big sip of George Howell pourover before you cue it up: youtu.be/Mqv7GLz763k?...

After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵

My days of beating him are over, but we're enjoying our era of being the fastest father/son duo. 1st and 2nd in the 5k today, 18:20 and 18:28

Proud of this kid: he just set a 50 second PR. In a banana costume.

Saw a dude at packet pickup who was a dead ringer for Steve Prefontaine. Like, so much that I wondered if he could be some secret descendant. But his bib was in the 7000s, so probably not.

Only one of us is truly serious about running the Newton Hills today

Always look to see what the tech bros want for their own kids: small class sizes with human teachers, human tutors with expert content knowledge, cell phone restrictions in classrooms, high per pupil spending, the arts and humanities--and much more they say is too costly for public schools.

This nails down well my unease with (what my academic friends tell me is) the ubiquity of AI cheating in schools. It's not just that lots of students don't have a problem cheating, but that they've apparently bought into a very sad, anemic idea of what education is for. thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-te...

Calling yourself a king doesnt make you a king. Delivering an all-time banger of a speech on St. Crispin’s Day does.

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

I think something similar is likely to be true with AI. It may have some modest utility to the already-knowledgable user, but for the untrained one it will provide the appearance of useful information without the ability to evaluate whether it actually IS useful.

Highly recommend this reflective essay from Temple Prof. Seth Bruggeman. It captures the central challenge of teaching today in a system that over time has become entirely transactional, and then suddenly technology that could satisfy the transaction arrived. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Mister Rogers never misses

Here's my map of miles run in each state this year, with one more run in NC to go. I got 31 states this year, a new PR. Almost added Connecticut, but the trail crossed into Massachusetts without me realizing it, so it wasn't quite a mile. I did 400 miles in other states, with NY getting the most.

Dinner plan: walk through Hell's Kitchen until we see something unique and appealing. Stumbled on Taco Mahal and got 3 Roti tacos (shrimp, chana masala, and paneer tikka masala)

"Your jawline is hexagonal." Weird, devastating insult at the track meet