New Yorkers! At 4:00 on Tuesday (June 9), come to City Hall Park and make some noise with parents, teachers, and students calling for an AI moratorium in NYC public schools. @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social

Just a few of the postcards made by NYC public school families last Saturday at the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social and @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social event in Marsha P. Johnson State Park — now on their way to @mayor.nyc.gov ! [thread]

“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes…you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

Proud to be quoted in an article by @winterjessica.bsky.social that's bracingly accurate and delivers all the receipts. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

@bradlander.bsky.social at today's @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social rally at City Hall Park. Organizers including @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social are calling for a morartorium on "A.i." in the NYC public schools.

NYC No Kings march #nokings

NYC No Kings march with @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social

"That's part of the system, these points of contestation where we routinely revisit human values and the collective enterprise of what we're doing here. And the more you offload that onto machines, the fewer opportunities you have to consistently recalibrate and retune and keep that expertise."

Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse. The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:

hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

I wrote about the reality of individual guilt in a culture of moral disintegration. darkforum.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...

I read this article when it came out a month ago, and I've thought about it every day since. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

The people stoking anti-immigrant hysteria aren't interested in adjusting immigration to an acceptable level, not even to zero, because hysteria is the point. "No matter what ever-escalating pledges, solutions or policies are offered, nothing will ever be enough." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"generate a map of the USA with each state named"

Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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A centralized database will be "ill-equipped to correct errors, allow for extenuating circumstances, or bring facts up to date," warned Vance Packard. "The notion of the possibility of redemption is likely to be incomprehensible to a computer."

The reason it was a great crowd and no incidents is BECAUSE there were so few police officers.

Rain could not put out the 🔥 at NYC's #HandsOff march today

I’ve seen a lot of assumptions in the media that Trump (and Musk) are targeting institutions with loyalty tests. But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵

In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like “you’re just virtue signaling, you’re just saying you have virtue, you’re just treating virtue like it’s a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being good”

Yesterday I was working on my next Darkforum post when the NY Times scooped me: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w... A thread… 1/11

Living in London years ago I noticed whenever a politician said "the UK economy" they meant the auto industry. Meanwhile what the world actually admires about Britain are its music, literature, films, universities. And they keep actively destroying those sectors! tiny.cc/i2ab001

An entire analysis piece rooted in the (unacknowledged) logic of domestic abuse. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...

Here's something I wrote about art, individualism, predatory behavior, and how we ended up in this mess: open.substack.com/pub/darkforu...

“If you are… a government that has put all its chips on growth, why is that same government undermining creative industries that bring £126bn to the UK economy and is giving away for free the property rights of 2.4 million people who work in those industries?” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

In my self-defense classes I focus on how most people are socially conditioned to follow the norms of a civilized, polite society — and there is a MENTAL SHIFT required to use violence to defend from violence. I'm reminded of this while watching our elected officials dithering and delaying. 1/

Reporting from Washington DC, here's Gil Scott-Heron on political "mandates" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBu2...

"Politically speaking, we are in the tantrum phase of the climate transition." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/uninsurabl...

This article by @lizpelly.bsky.social (on Spotify's perpetual quest to avoid paying royalties to musicians) is today's reminder that vast fields of human achievement are being destroyed in pursuit of shareholder value — an appetite that, by definition, will never be satisfied. tinyurl.com/bdjdnmhu