This is worth mentioning to your friends who traded their ChatGPT for Claude subscriptions - Claude helped kill all of those little girls at school in Iran. Anthropic isn’t ethical AI.

NYC still has the chance to do the right thing here. The only argument for AI in schools is that it’s inevitable-a pretty awful reason to sacrifice our kids as guinea pigs to big tech.

On our drive today’s my son introduced me to two fun new bands he just discovered - Green Day and the Gorillaz. I was made to parent in this moment.

This infuriates me. What an evil we’re doing to these kids and families

This is fucked. ICE out of NYC, @mayor.nyc.gov

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Schools being open tomorrow is a terrible idea. It's a disaster outside--unplowed streets, unshoveled sidewalks, and going to freeze and blow over night. @mayor.nyc.gov this is not a safe plan.

Look at them saying the quiet part out loud

Would love to see US students organize against the draconian “reforms” in Texas, Florida, Oklahoma…

This is absolutely wild.

When I tell you my children wept with joy when they saw this...

My five-year-old licked two subway poles yesterday give me this vaccine now please and thank you.

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Such little faith in students.

This too is bananas. I spent my entire graduate career studying central and eastern Europe, and I can tell you that these things are really, really bad!

This is bananas

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

And the people I want to share a country with are the helpers, not the sociopaths.

Bill Siemering, founding program director of NPR, author of its mission statement, has asked me to inquire if any profs might be interested in a Zoom class visit? No honorarium necessary. Bill founded All Things Considered, Fresh Air, won a MacArthur, etc.

You guys.

And also the clear alternative is his parents playing video games with him and taking him to McDonalds...

Literally every conversation

I think today's a good day to support indie authors who don't use AI. And also to support editors, cover designers, artists, and book coaches who don't use AI and aren't running grift classes. Small businesses that are struggling and get paid poverty wages.

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AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

Someone told me that anti-ICE protests should study Gandhi and MLK instead of engaging in civil disobedience and I muted the conversation instead of losing my whole mind. A sign of growth?

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

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again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

Look at Julia, being brilliant in the NYT!

That’s my mayor!

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1. Magic, Ritual, and Religion (incredible) 2. Logic Through the Works of Lewis Carroll 3. Beat Poetry 4. War (an anthro class on humans and violence) 5. A tech class that predicted, in ~1998, the convergence of cameras, music, and computers into one singular device. I thought it would be a blip.

One of the all-time best scenes ever on television, and an example of Catherine O'Hara's genius. Will be watching Schitt's Creek and sobbing all weekend.

Called Gillabrand and Schumer, left messages for both. Took about 45 seconds because they never answer their phones.

@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social get this kid medical care and home to his family before there’s a vote on the budget.

He’s a good person.

I love cities.

Yes this - take the win, tell stories about the win, use it to get you to the next win.

We’re going to this tonight. We keep us safe.

if you're on line to borrow heated rivalry ZOHRAN SAID THE LINE DOES NOT EXIST

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

I used to press t shirts at the Surf Mall on the boardwalk in OCNJ and this guy came in and asked me to make 10 'MAXIMA CREW' t shirts with a Jamaican flag on the back and I seen that shirt 15 years later in a thrift store in Hoboken and bought it. We both had adventures and met up later in life.

"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'" www.startribune.com/preschooler-...

Just donated to this fund to bring this little boy home. It’s made me sick to think about this story today-here’s something small we can do.

we used to name bands "Toad The Wet Sprocket"

My mayor. We also have seen a number of emails from the school district about how the DOE is keeping kids and families safe - a big change from communication under Adams.