I know what you're thinking right now. Fuck Rutherford B. Hayes.

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

Gee maybe letting for-profit tech firms take over every function in universities was a bad idea?

:( :( :( more like cantvas

Can't Access Nothin' Vandals Ate System

Please don’t forget that the story about the hack broke widely on MONDAY. And instead of preparing campus contingencies, administrators kept it quiet. www.techrepublic.com/article/news...

who could have imagined that it wasn't a good idea to have a nearly ubiquitous educational platform run by for-profit tech? @mattseybold.bsky.social is who! (yep, Canvas is down, hacked, stick a fork in it)

A former student stopped by to ask for book recommendations - not for a class, not for a project, but just out of a desire to learn more. I worry about the effects of AI and everything else on this generation, but at least some of the kids are more than all right. It gives me some hope.

Feeling some FOMO, because I'm not seeing Phish with @pdunham.bsky.social and @dunhamrc.bsky.social this weekend. I looked at flights. If they weren't $600+...

Phish N3 Sphere #pick5 1. What's Going Through Your Mind 2. Wave of Hope 3. Sand 4. Chalkdust 5. Antelope

The tl;dr of my timeline - the world may be a nightmare but Phish is still a massive bright spot.

With all due respect, it's utterly dismaying to see the leader of the AFT saying that we should embrace AI as a solution to the crisis of overburdened, under-resourced teachers instead of leading the charge against this project to make them do more with less.

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

In other words, the liberal arts has provided an all-you-can-eat, buffet style approach to education while the “skills-based,” careerist approach that now seeks to replace it is more like being force-fed spoonfuls of tepid gruel.

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

If you haven't seen one of these videos yet, here's ChatGPT Atlas taking a quiz, masquerading as a student. I feel a need to make sure educators are aware of this shift in how students may be using AI... youtu.be/e6pvUXT8PO0

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

The amount of money that is currently going to fund immigration enforcement in the US is larger than the military budgets of every country in the world other than the US and China. We are witnessing a military assault on American cities by a wildly unpopular governing party.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

RIP Rob Hirst. I listened to a lot of Midnight Oil in the 80s, and it sparked my social consciousness. Finding the Dead in 90 exploded it. Painful to watch them fade into the past.

America is truly in uncharted waters right now. The president of the United States seems to be genuinely insane. If Congress doesn't get its act together & curb the Mad King's ambitions, the global economy & the global geopolitical order is going to experience utter turmoil; possibly even war.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Makes me proud to be a member of the AFL-CIO.

First Ratdog (or any dead related) show I saw after Jerry died relisten.net/ratdog/1995/...

Gonna keep screaming this but the Founding Fathers would 100000% call this tyranny and call out the militia #TwoIfBySea

Farewell, Bob Weir. I was hoping to see one more show, but he gave so much.

We’re here in Portland, OR with nurses, healthcare workers, bus drivers, teachers, medical providers and others, holding a vigil for those hurt and killed by ICE. There are more than 1,000 vigils across the country this weekend.

Every time you call out the lie. Every time you call it murder. You smack at totalitarian control. Keep doing it. Keep speaking the truth. It matters.

You know what’s helping me get through….the God damn Grateful Dead, that’s who.

The president unilaterally decided to attack a sovereign nation and kidnap its leader, and now he says he's just going to run that county himself for a while too. Call your representatives now and demand they impeach him.

This is why they want us talking about day care centers and $500 boots.

All the kids are doing heroin, so it only makes sense that teachers do it too

#OnThisDay in 1899, the Western Central Labor Union established the Union Record in Seattle. historylink.org/File/3744

I cannot roll my eyes hard enough. They "escaped" the horrors of secular Dutch society where they had religious freedom but had to exist with others.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Holy cats, I'm kind of shocked to see I'm on this list. I'd file for $1 just on principle...

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Until other senators move to get rid of chuck it is all kayfabe

I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.