A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

What the heck was going on in New York at #Christmas in the 1770s? /u/lord_mayor_of_reddit gifts us with a sprawling answer on how different the celebration was at the time #Skystorians!

This #9Lc thing is all over my feed and I'm trying to figure out exactly what it is without leaving BlueSky. It's music? And singing? Possibly British?

Oh good lord.

That is a LOT more lucrative than being good at swimming

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

I am pretty much firmly of the mind we're seeing the consequences of years of people repeating variations of the phrase, "schools haven't changed in 100 years." There is a long list of teachers who participated in the writing of this report - each one has heard they MUST change schools. Now.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Ha! Got two tickets to a Sabers game for donating blood - picked out seats over the weekend (still lots available) but didn't actually get them. Went to finish reserving them this morning and gone. All gone. The game? Sabers v. Montreal.

Got some more information and although I haven't seen the full statement from her office, it's clearer what happened here and it's about word choice and policy. And, YMMV, but it was probably the right call. (Or, it's not inherently a bad thing and not worth a kerfuffle.)

Tell me again how schools are biased against boys? "Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled" apnews.com/article/scho...

This is a great question and I am utterly baffled by this decision. The only thing I can think is that she was advised it would supplant/contradict Comish Regs regarding local control over curriculum. Or her passing it would send a mixed message regarding state level influence on local decisions.

A reminder: Bari Weiss signed the Harper's Letter.

We occupy a very specific niche when it comes to the public discussion of history, and that niche is serious answers to the question of how bamboozled Hitler would have been by big chungus memes. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Historian: AI has no place in historical research or writing. AI pusher: You don't know what you're talking about! Historian: I do. I am a historian. AI advocate: Luddite! Historian: *writes twenty-seven post thread about Luddism*

The vicarious thrills I'm getting from these videos has not abated and I will watch all of them, every time I see them. Straight to feels, every. single. time.

Our new working theory is we got RSV. Adding it to my list of vaccinations for next year assuming such things are possible.

Over 91% of Clients in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Reach Undetectable Status www.poz.com/article/91-c...

Attacks on feminism are similar to attacks on vaccines. We begin to take for granted a world where women have rights and most children live to see adulthood, and then, over time, we begin to forget, neglect, and (now) reject the movements and innovations that brought us here.

This is good advice! But also! People have sloppy citations habits - lose track of your thought while cutting and pasting and the article you meant to read ends up getting cited instead of the one you meant to cite. Everyone can benefit from an academic/developmental editor!

may every trans child grow into a trans adult

We're currently in that slightly delirious 12 or so hour period when you begin to accept you're not going to be sick forever and start the process of un-sick-rooming the house. Steve!, I think, is going to miss it. Happy healthy #Caturday!

This is so fabulous! The new Buffalo mayor has made the head of GoBike Buffalo - a bicycle and complete streets advocate - his Commissioner of Parking! (Justin is fantastic. Was super helpful when I had questions about policy during my campaign.) www.buffalorising.com/2025/12/gobi...

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...

This is the wildest intentional #PairedTexts I think I've ever seen.

PSA: If you're prone to pneumonia, even if you don't think you're old enough, get the vaccination. We got hit with this bad cold that's going around and I'm confident that if I wasn't vaxxed, it would have been so much worse.

This is really heartening. We can, in fact, make collective decisions about how or whether we will allow new technologies to be incorporated into the things that we care about. It's not just a fact that we have to deal with.

Political autobiographies have never really been my jam but if she wrote a candid book about what the hell happened and what she was thinking for each of her pivots ... I'd read it.

A short piece on the tragedy at Brown University—and why we must refuse to accept mass school shootings as normal. matthewakraft.substack.com/p/the-insani...

Kind of darkly funny that the government's defense of the well thought out plan for Trump's bigly beautiful ballroom looks like this storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

He's been pretty clear we don't have to say nice things about Donald Trump when he dies.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

“The one thing that gave me comfort was, like, statistically, it’s practically impossible for this to ever happen to me again,” Ms. Weissman said. “And clearly, we’re getting to a point where no one can say that anymore.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

Watching Wake Up Dead Man tonight because it's lovely and small. Bit perturbed at referring to a town in the 315 area code code as "upstate" but there's a clearly Wegmans veggie tray and everyone is pronouncing Albany correctly. So it's a wash.

Again, if this thread is upsetting you and you'd rather it not pop up on your timeline, go to the top post in the thread, click/tap on the three dots at lower right, and choose "Hide this post for me"

I am vocally a Luddite and lucky enough to be in a position to refuse to use ChatGPT, etc. in my work. The whole book is great and there is a chapter in Larry and Katie's new book that is the ONLY thing I've read that makes me feel better/calmer about teachers using generative AI with students.

This is such a great question. When K-12 folks tried to respond to accusations teachers were teaching CRT to the children (a thing that wasn't happening), the pushback itself was used to signal boost the accusations. It's lose-lose.

I did a bad discourse. I read an article after seeing some comments on here - which meant I honed in on one section, and missing the bigger picture. So, Take 2. Glad to see @danagoldstein.bsky.social is still covering education. Lots to digest in this piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

I've heard reports of 2 scholarly presses using AI to index and copyedit books. Both reports from authors who were deeply dissatisfied with the quality of the work. Both authors paid to have the work redone by humans. Authors need to demand human copyeditors and indexers! Their work deserves it.

This is a book cover. And title. There is a cover. And a title. Uh hum.

that's a fitting cover. digital edit overlaying imagery of people who actually performed labor and built things people needed

#PairedTexts 1. fordhaminstitute.org/ohio/comment... 2.

Scam alert: Someone is pretending to be me and reaching out to authors. The pitch contains enough specific details that it sounds plausible at first. This is not me! I'm so sorry to anyone who has fallen for this.

It's wild reading about history one lived through and having no memory of some of the events. (I was teaching 8th grade math in the early 2000s.)

This is very cool. The manipulation-busters of the future will be hacks like this one: reengineering the system to expose the algorithms beneath and how they trick us...

I hit 3 of my 4 lifting goals for 2025 (still can't bang out pushups like I want to but I'll get there) and have added just one for 2026: an unassisted pull up (better than this guy.)

The asbestos analogy is the best one I've heard for talking/thinking through Generative AI usage. Because yes! There are good uses! Fireproofing and uh, fireproofing! But just look at what it cost us.