Happy to see @rweingarten.bsky.social is starting to catch up with the rest of us on the dangers of "A.i." in the schools. Now it's time for her to CANCEL the @aft.org's partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft to push "A.i." on teachers and students. www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

An interesting thing about NASA is that they’ve never had to worry whether scrubbing a launch for safety reasons would impact their IPO

this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare

Unironically an “autopsy” should not be done by a political consultant. It should be done by a team of trained social scientists with PhDs. They would come up with less splashy and bold conclusions but I’d say those are still more useful in a campaign than factsijustmadeup.tumblr.dnc

please remember all of us who will dislike Nolan's Odyssey for non-chud reasons.

Do you want to see something incredibly moving and beautiful that will remind you of the fundamental goodness of most humans? www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/...

we are losing influence on neopets because you keep posting on the neopets roleplaying forum instead of the neopets battledome forum. you are wasting time pretending to be a shoyru named jeff

Heard something new today. A kid said “this is AI” just to mean “this sucks”

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

This week the New Yorker & NY Mag competed to out-disaster-pr0n each other w the genre of "students using chatbots to college." Yet over the last 3 months alone students from Oregon to MA reached out to me to help them fight AI at their unis & high schools. Journalists should write that article.

The Odyssey but it's just trying to get from Amherst to Boston without a car

Looks like my mom’s hands when she was on IV fluids and nutrition while intubated at the hospital (she died)

I wish i didn’t almost always have a mild headache after work

NYT sanewashes this by leading off with the “help people who want to quit quit” framing and talking about withdrawal symptoms that people experience. Then you have to read to the end to see the actual policy proposals espoused here which will no joke kill children.

A visibly emotional Anne Hathaway responding to a trans kid--who named herself Ella after Ella Enchanted, and thanked Hathaway for her courage as an ally--saying "Ella, sweetie, I want to make something absolutely clear: It takes zero courage to love you"......now I might cry too

man literature in translation is such an easy way to read good books. no one translates the bad ones

Centrists on here will say, "oh you want to firebomb a Walmart? That pales in comparison to my strategy, voting" and then firebomb a Walmart

did he shit his pants again?

or, hear me out, maybe some people on the left end of the spectrum are not nationalists, and perceive that half a win in an illegal war of aggression to preserve a decaying rogue state's "strategic bandwidth" is of dubious benefit to them personally and antithetical to their values

My latest, this feature for @assignedmedia.org ... A story about trans people and mental health that is, I promise, not deeply depressing ... Very much the opposite, if anything ...

In case it is unclear: your ethical and moral obligation is to refuse to participate in enforcing this. To validate that this is wrong. To push back and stand with trans kids. To offer safe bathrooms. It is not to make it palatable or tolerable for other adults. sentinelcolorado.com/metro/federa...

personal circumstances: definitely better state of the world: definitely worse

He told ChatGPT he was a nazі іncel who wanted to dіe, then asked how many people you’d have to shoot at his school to get on the news. ChatGPT helped him pick his ammo, pick his target, pick the best time for the massacre, and then told him how to use the gun. Then he did. youtu.be/IbG-JGdGniY

I want tough on crime candidates but for like, check washing rings and scammers who have semi automated processes for stealing money from anyone and everyone who has a bank account

Had to open a new checking account due to somebody trying to steal my money with a check washing scheme. Feels like a new chapter of adulthood! I’ll explain in the thread how they did it.

this was very good www.thecut.com/article/crus...

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

May I kindly suggest that we translate the verbiage of “PTA moms and soccer coach dads” to “pillars of the community”, or at least make it clear that those are synonymous. because both of those things are volunteer work that people do out of love and care for their own AND other people’s children.

Grammarly needs to be purged with fire from all school devices.

Is it a giant wooden horse

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

One of my things this year has been getting kids out of their google habits. I’ve blocked google in my classroom except for research projects and they now know how to use online dictionaries. Merriam Webster is my favorite!

You've got to see it to bereave it

‼️ Call to Action ‼️ We’re just 35 signatures away from forcing a vote in Congress to protect TPS for Haitians. Have 30 minutes today? Call these reps—even if they’re not your district. The Trump administration has appealed to the Supreme Court to end TPS, putting 350,000 Haitians at risk.

who even thinks of this shit what is wrong with these people

taught about iran today and there were gasps of horror from the 7th graders when i mentioned that desalination plants had been bombed, which was a good synthesis of them having souls and understanding the implications of geography. Which is really all i want them to leave my class with.

Different families are different. Many kids do come out to their parents before anyone else, especially if they're very young or don't have supportive peer relationships. But I don't want parents to think they're doing something wrong if their kid came out at school first.

This is true, but also, I think what people don't understand is how informing on kids who are trying out a nickname and a pronoun raises the stakes in way that could drive the inappropriate transitions and regret, the thing we're supposed to be so scared of. Let me explain.

student today asked what jeopardy was and another replied “if you had any teacher who was alive during the 80s you’ve done a jeopardy review game”. Honestly, true!

If you get into a “who can cut taxes more” battle with the GOP, you’re going to lose because they are far more shameless and antagonistic to the idea of living in a functioning society. Don’t concede to their framing that taxes are nothing but a problem to be solved.

I know what kind of friend I need. I need friends who like know-it-alls. I should go to jeopardy trivia nights.

The sole promise of using LLM's in war is to entirely remove a Stanislaw Petrov from the decision chain. (Oh, remember how LLM's were found to advocate nuclear strikes in 95% of tested scenarios?) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

The rise in antisemitism is so, so ugly. It feels like dams of restraint have been breaking open steadily.

Over 17 THOUSAND people of the Korean #adoptee diaspora in the US, spanning the entire period up to its inception 70 years ago, lack US citizenship because of their adopters’ inaction. americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/...

Just underneath the absurdity lies one of the most volatile fault lines in city politics: The rift between elected government on the one hand, and the political power of the NYPD and the constellation of interests with which it is aligned on the other. hellgatenyc.com/mamdani-is-g...