‘How the South Won the Civil War’ 💯🎯 @hcrichardson.bsky.social

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. Here's why. gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

A thread of questions for @rweingarten.bsky.social and the @aft.org, who are celebrating their partnership with OpenAI and Anthropic to push "A.i." onto teachers and students.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Galaxy Quest (1999) Sigourney Weaver: “I wish they put out a director’s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan [Rickman] was in because it needed a kids’ movie to go up against Stuart Little.”

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Dec. 20, 1925: "Herr Gebhardt, noted automotive engineer of Munich, Germany, is pictured demonstrating his power roller skates, which are propelled by little motors. Gebhardt has made many recent developments in aero motors." (Spokane, Wash., Spokesman-Review)

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...

Fuck spotify. Boycott them! Download music into your Walkman. Fuck streaming platforms. Either sail the high seas or buy DVDs and CDs. Get hard copies of your favourite things; music, books, games, etc. Ensure you own your stuff. Fuck the capitalist ruling class. Fuck them! Fuck all of them!!

"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.

As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line. No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!

I salute the utter musical nerdishness of this.

Wow. I was already impressed with the interview earlier today. Now I am in awe. Gift link wapo.st/49ixYtq

Patriarchy is the actual menace to children that conservatives pretend queer people are.

God, this is so fucking depressing, SO DEPRESSING www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ps...

Because it's nearly Christmas, BUY THIS SINGLE MAKE IT NUMBER ONE IN THE CHARTS AGAIN THIS YEAR: https://youtu.be/rNkgDJpcuwU?si=lHJM7K9JEFfa-0DU

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re under no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you decide to spend the entire day reading books and eating cinnamon rolls.

The thing about AI is that it’s that episode of the office where Michael listens to every step his GPS tells him even as he sees that he’s driving into a lake except the gps is AI bros and Michael is every ceo of every industry for some reason

this is, of course, exactly what republicans have always intended for vouchers to do: defund public education to facilitate the creation of a private system of segregation academies

Yearly reminder that the best Christmas action movie is actually The Long Kiss Goodnight.

tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

It's kind of amazing how you can very specifically date the precise moment Nate Silver's brain turned to pudding: March 11, 2020, when the NBA suspended the season for COVID and suddenly Nate had no outlet for his crippling gambling addiction.

its so depressing that the allegations against Allen are framed in the press as "the controversial controversy over the impossible to prove who-can-say allegations that Woody Allen is a pedophile" then his actual movies are like THE PEDOPHILE CHRONICLES: A TRUE STORY FROM MY REAL LIFE AS A PEDOPHILE

Damp, by Sam Francis, 1969 (rotated, detail), 📸 by @itsryantweets

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

Jimmy Fallon: ...so you'll just consume everything. Artaxias, The Screeching Void From Beyond the Sun: ALL SHALL LIVE WITHIN MY MAW. Fallon: That's so wild.

How to make public transit free? Charge for parking. "After three-quarters of a century, the policy of charging for mass transit while providing free storage for car owners is overdue for some fresh thinking." - @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social

"ACAB / All Colonizers Are Bastards" Stencil seen in Mexico City

Conservatives love AI because it's far easier to abuse a population that can't read, can't write, can't think, and can't tell what's real

After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

This is your occasional reminder that, if you like Neil Gaiman's stuff, but can't bring yourself to like it anymore for justifiable reasons, Tanith Lee is the author he is credibly accused of extensively cribbing from, and her work is on Audible, and AMAZING.

Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion. Car dependency, dumb land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars being driven too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion. Think about it. THAT’S common sense.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

God damn it, xkcd, I didn't need to get hit this hard in the feels. xkcd.com/3172/

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

the “thanksgiving food is bad” discourse raises its ugly head every year, but the truth remains that thanksgiving food can be amazing as long as you know how to cook. the problem is we’re throwing a few million sunday drivers directly into a grand prix

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

I think about this all the time

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context