Ben Meiselas unloads on the Trump administration: “They put the worst possible people in every position. Linda McMahon opposes public education, and EPA officials want to dismantle the United States Environmental Protection Agency. They appoint people who want to destroy the agencies they lead.”

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inside you there are two wolves:

Wow, it broke the top 150 😮 I didn’t think niche apps did that anymore. Thanks y’all! No self promotion intended, it’s free. I get paid in ego boosts

Goodnight, friends. May you only have the best of dreams tonight. I love you.

I want to stress again, the odds of this bill passing into law are as close to zero as you can get and likely won't even get a vote in the Senate if this passes. But it does reveal which Democrats are willing to vote for this and which are willing to remain silent when their colleagues vote yea.

Schools could refuse to do this, but they would lose federal funding. The bill would also ban all elementary through high schools from federal funding if they teach or advance 'gender ideology' as defined in Executive Order 14168.

Up for a vote this week is HR 2616, the Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act. If made into law it would require elementary & middle schools to get parental consent before changing a student's 'gender markers, pronounces, or names' on school forms or providing 'sex-based accommodations.'

Students booed AI hucksters at University of Arizona, University of Central Florida and now Middle Tennessee State University too. For all the media obsession over Fair Harvard, these schools are much more typical of the college experience, so maybe we could get a Big NYT Thinkpiece on this?

BTW, what I learned today was that Bluesky has 2FA. I turned it on.

Another week, another fascist bill preview. The House has 22 bills of the docket this week, of which 2 are fascist. Most notably, after getting postponed for two weeks, HR 2616 is back. If it gets a vote, it'll either be on Wednesday or Thursday.

Down to my last few look-ups to be done with this project, and my computer decides it doesn’t like the network connection. Why you gotta clown me, computer? #TLLife #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

Trying to remind myself that middle school kids do not have very good problem solving or social skills -- Kid tries to staple pages, stapler jams. Kid wrestles his pages out, then starts to walk away. 1/ #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

*Bell rings signalling end of recess* Me: Ladies, time to pack up & get going. *Ladies continue talking* Me: Ladies, you are going to be late. Go to class. *Ladies continue talking* /1 #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

Student walks in: When you check a book in, where do you pick it up? Me *pausing in confusion*:...If you check it in, you drop the book off; if you place a book on Hold, you get an email saying to come pick it up… S: No, I returned the book. Where did it go? /1 #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

Looking at the stats for the podcast, having one of those moments where I know there are different ways to do the same thing, but I can't understand how folks don't do it MY way - Subscribe, get new eps automatically. No need to remember to download weekly. But instead, the #s go up and down.

Google pls stop. That’s not a SEARCH I don’t need to have a conversation when I’m trying to just look up something real quick.

Yesterday I saw a description of "AI literacy" that boiled down to "here is how to use Co Pilot across all the M$365" -- that's tool familiarity, possibly facility, but it's not literacy. It's reproducing the "not info lit" Library 1-shot point-n-click in a database sessions.📚

Just submitted my little 200 word article for publication thia summer.

Three years ago I had the absolute honor to watch two Pileated Woodpecker males having a duel for over an hour. I took about a zillion photos so here’s a new one #birds 🌿

They are calling the Kentucky Senate Primary race for Gallrein over Republican Incumbent Massie, who was incredibly popular before he spoke out against Trump. There are officially no guardrails left on the Republican Party.

To prove it’s really me, here’s a short video I took in Shosen Book Tower on the manga floor. ✨

CALL YOUR REPS NOW! SPREAD THE WORD! HR 2616 was snuck onto the calendar for a vote TOMORROW. This is a pro book banning bill which seeks to ban ALL books by or about trans individuals.

SIGN OF THE DAY…

Note: Not weird to me at school. Yes, I am the responsible adult. Totally weird to answer about my parent.

You'll note that the landing page for this bill doesn't tell you a thing about tomorrow's vote or what happened in the Rules committee meeting a few weeks back. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

It's up tomorrow pursuant to a rule. HR 2616 has been floating in the House for over a year, and now it's being rammed quickly through. www.majorityleader.gov/schedule/

Welp. It’s over. But I guess I’m a officially a producer of artisanal hand made writing. Would anyone like to read any my traditionally sourced wan little husks? lithub.com/nobel-laurea...

The next great American book isn't going to be written by someone who wants to fuck / befriend the Computer

BREAKING: Senate advances resolution to limit Trump's Iran war powers for first time, after four Republicans defect.

Did you discover, as part of the Anthropic settlement, that your publisher failed to register your copyright? The @authorsguild.org is collecting information authorsguild.org/anthropic-cl... (This is a correction of something I posted yesterday w/ a significant error. Apologies for the mistake)

From helping establish the country's first bookmobile, to collecting millions of books for American soldiers overseas, to launching a nationwide campaign to sign up every child for a library card, ALA history is American history. Now, you can see it in our new timeline. Check it out at ALA150.org

For the 4th straight year, Arkansas has cut its tax rate on wealthy individuals. The top tax rate on the state’s most affluent has now dropped down to a meager 3.7%. Arkansas per student school funding, meanwhile, now sits 30% under the national norm. www.nwahomepage.com/news/state-n...

"We care about the kids"

COMMENTARY: The national housing shortage has become a significant economic constraint in the Hoosier state and across the U.S. Over the next decade, the places that relieve that constraint will be the places that win the race for population and economic growth.

Purposely disabled microphone permissions in apps that I don't need microphone permissions for (which is everything minus the recording app that I don't use) so my gmail is going to stay silent actually

AI will be the reason I eventually give up reading... I don't wanna spend all my time figuring out who is writing and who isn't.

Today is "Authors using AI to 'write'" day. Not one, but TWO stories from Lit Hub today. TODAY. 1. lithub.com/nobel-laurea...

This Saturday morning, join me and Renee Kurilla at Ten Trees Books in Natick, MA (in their new location!) for the final stop on our DINO DOOR May tour! There will be life-size cardboard dinosaur cut-outs!⁠ #kidlit #booksky #dinosky

The vendor hall gives me panic in any conference, but this one looks great AND like I will panic.

Spent part of the day today in an elementary school. I feel like a giant in an elementary school.

Why AI cannot do good science without humans. With the arrival of ‘AI scientists’, it’s as well to remember that human wisdom, empathy and sheer messiness are as much part of progress as are process and efficiency. | Nature - Editorial www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Really feels like PPP fraud hasn't received nearly enough attention, particularly given its increasingly dubious benefits. We blamed inflation on less $2k in stimulus checks for regular taxpayers, yet $800 billion was doled out to "small business owners" that was mostly pocketed by the already rich.

A **majority** of those arrested for the Jan 6 attack were white small business owners with past histories of bankruptcy, liens, and tax problems. An attempted coup carried out by realtors, auto dealers, and former cops.

A limerick. Based on a true story.

It's actually a really good reason to keep learning to write and read cursive. Next time someone tells me no one needs to learn it anymore because the technology can do it, I get to say "no it fucking can't" 🤣

Wake up babe, new Dahlia Adler dropped!!! 😍

Me: quotes from article using the full available characters. Some guy: why didn’t you quote this other part of the article?

a bumper sticker that made me feel something