I resent LLMs for many reasons, but forcing me to act like a cop to keep fake garbage out of publication is high on the list. I want to read people’s work in a spirit of generosity and curiosity again (‘I wonder what cool ideas might be in here?’) instead of ‘I got you now, you lying little shit’

Something all academics get but those outside our field don’t: “I’m so glad we’re on break this week. Now I can finally get some work done!”

And that tells you exactly what so many think about education: nothing more than job training.

Definitely! The country was in tip-top shape coming out of the years... 1857 to...1861... *gulp*

saturation with Tolkien spinoffs has somehow not prepared our culture for the arrival of dark lords bearing a gift that everyone becomes convinced they can wield to accomplish great things but just makes them dependent and start whispering about preciouses if you suggest just throwing it away

It’s funny how all of the free speech scolds, from the editorial staff of The Atlantic to the New York Times, Jonathan Haidt and FIRE to Robbie Soave, are utterly silent on a wave of mass firings over speech — the very thing they claimed to care about. Zero to say about discipline and censorship.

At this stage there’s literally no reason to believe the admin, even if it releases more than you’d expect, are being forthcoming. It’s the opposite of conspiracy theory to look at the proudly lawless pattern of deception and raw power that this trump admin has engaged in then to conclude they’d…

Pam Bondi and all her deputies need to be disbarred.

Counterpoint: this is nothing new, it's the culmination of trends started by Reagan. [Probably brief] story time: I was always good at math. As in, I would have gotten an 800 on the SAT if I retook it senior year (got a 740 as a junior and knew exactly which 5 problems I missed). Going into...

“If it is boyish to believe that a human being should live free, then I’ll gladly arrest my development and let the rest of the world grow up.” Excellent essay with some truly beautiful words from White.

Absolutely true! I am pro- 1) and 2). It often seems most non-teachers just want 3).

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

Great thread that is a reminder that we still have a country worth fighting *for*, not *against*.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

One fact should be crystal clear to everyone (if it wasn't already): the NYT *likes* Trump and *wants* to keep him around. He's good for business and so many of the leadership have had symbiotic relationships with him for so long. They do NOT want him gone and cannot be trusted on the topic.

No no no no no no. This is so dystopian and creepy as hell. Are these people seriously watching Black Mirror thinking, “Wow, that sounds like such a cool thing to build!”

Every clip of Kevin Hassett speaking makes me think of Colin Robinson.

Here's a great idea to combat AI misinformation: just put a watermark in the video so people know the source. Surely no one will ever find a way to cover up that watermark to hide the origins... 🙄

So let me see if I get this: Bill Clinton had less of a connection to Epstein than Ken Starr? 🤯

He’s on a mission from Gahd.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Again, abolition is the centrist position

AI, particularly genAI, simply has no place in education. The “product” of education is a student developing new skills of thinking and learning, not artifact creation. Our society has conflated the latter with the former for too long.

This is a great litmus test for distinguishing who reads the article and who just reads the headline... 😆

Yup. They are the freeloaders who refuse to pay for a fire department but scream for help once the fire spreads to their house.

I just received an obvious scam email to my work account. I forwarded it to our abuse account (which is supposed to be done to give training samples for filters). I just got back a message that this was a phishing test and here's how I could have detected the scam. What year is it again?

Sadly true.

Most of y’all are old enough to remember but it bears repeating, Democrats couldn’t peel off a single member of the Republican caucus in the initial fight to enact the ACA, even after they watered down the plans to attract them. Republicans got 8 Democrats in what’s essentially a vote to repeal.

I rarely vote in primary elections (I know…), but I will be voting in 2030’s Dem primary to replace @kaine.senate.gov for this betrayal.

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Just deleted a post to an article. The article is good and the topic is important (OpenAI's Sora 2 creating truly horrendous stuff). But the preview image...consisted of 18 snapshots of violence against women. Why would you use such a violent preview, @404media.co? Shockingly poor choice.

Ugh. Patel's law strikes again: "The essential truth of every social network is that the product is content moderation."

This company needs destroyed and its founders jailed.

So we have a taxation system that requires me to do hours of labor to calculate a number that the government already knows…and now I’m required to PAY someone else just to report the results of my homework. This country is so f***ing stupid.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

I’ve shown my kids the first one and they still talk about it. Two words: Blender. Microwave. Time for a family movie outing.

The facts laid out in this case are just appalling.

I'm just happy that we've moved on from Dilbert because, yeesh...

Gee, no one could have predicted this would happen. Except everyone paying any attention at all and saw that this would obviously happen 🙄

Whoa!

💯💯💯 Unilateral disarmament of norms and morality brought us here. At this point, I say the only thing that matters is beating them into submission. Embrace Karl Popper's message: A tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerant people and still function.

Agreed! Worth keeping in mind that we're only 20 years out from Cobb putting stickers on biology textbooks warning about evolution being just a theory. That's a pretty dramatic shift in a short time span.

Those of us who lived in VA 4 years ago could tell you that it was clear why Youngkin won: McAuliffe was an uninspiring, stale candidate who ran a crap campaign while facing significant COVID headwinds for his party. But that didn’t stop the garbage theories from being spewed nationally.

Remember, we learned in 2021 that a win by the out party in a Virginia gubernatorial election fully nullifies any presidential mandate. I don’t make the rules

For those outside VA, this is 100% correct. Sears has run a truly awful campaign of fear-mongering (esp. re: trans kids). Spanberger’s ads have been, “Here’s what I think is actually good and why we and our families deserve better.” It works and polls have her up 10-15 points.

Inconceivable!

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.