This is the situation I refer to the most when trying to explain a the state of book bans right now. Utah has state mandated book destruction for books like Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and Damsel by Elana K Arnold. The vast majority of the books are written by women.

The final episode of Outlander aired last night/today and I don't think a single Internet rumor about what was going to happen, actually happened. (I liked the ending and am, funny enough, planting forget-me-nots this weekend.)

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

*deep breath* YOU KNOW WHO IS REALLY GOOD AT FINDING HALLUCINATED CITATIONS? @efafreelancers.bsky.social academic editors! They're really good!

“he’s the kind of guy who would go snorkeling at Pearl Harbor” sounds like a hyperbolic insult you would use to convey that someone was particularly dead inside and the other person would laugh because the premise is obviously so ridiculous and yet!

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

School people! Are you scratching your head about the rush to cram AI into schools? It's not just us. From the very beginning, school in the US has been driven by too much tech-thusiasm. My book tells the story. Get a 30% discount for Memorial Day. Just use the code HMOR26:

Took the time to fill out the feedback form this morning. If you have concerns about this, too, I'd definitely suggest doing the same: ncte.org/ela-ai-frame...

In Utah, nearly all statewide book bans originate from just 2 school districts, sending novels to the shredder, Tribune finds. www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Exclusive: Last year, she was demonized for grading a poorly written psychology paper. Now, Mel Curth is speaking out about being targeted by Christian conservatives and to correct misinformation she believes the University of Oklahoma allowed to spread. www.advocate.com/news/people/...

I missed this piece about reading programs in NYS. www.the74million.org/article/scor...

I try to not get too jaded around local politics but a Democrat running to be my Representative is paying people to call local Dems, including me and many of my fellow Dem Committee members ... who petitioned for the guy he's running against in the primary. It's a wild waste of money.

Hey everybody RT this, please? While mural making I haven't had time to fundraise (it would be so cool if there were 2 of me). I wanna do some cool projects this fall so I gotta sell some shirts.

I very much appreciate this thread and will be making changes to the words I use.

RFK called moms. gov a "one-stop shop" for mom/child health, but it's real aim seems to be "asserting Trump’s pro mom bona fides while preying on vulnerable women with thinly veiled propaganda of an anti-abortion, anti-vaccine, and anti-feminist bent."--my latest for MSNOW www.ms.now/opinion/moms...

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THE SUBHEADING FOR THIS ARTICLE IS MALPRACTICE. Sweet chickens.

There is an absolutely wildly bad plug for Copilot in the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy. I felt embarrassed for the actors.

The GenAI plotline in the latest Hacks was so my jam, it felt like my own very special episode. What a fabulous show.

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

My attempt to explain why it's okay if New York State doesn't pass a Freedom to Read law through the legislature - NYSED and the Board of Regents have plugged up all of the holes and made sure the state has librarians' backs.

Suffs on Great Performances is now available! For free! (And is likely touring to a city near you!) www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/s...

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

#PairedTexts 1. NY school district pays $125k settlement to HS student whose Palestine-related art they erased (www.thehandbasket.co/p/settlement...) 2. High school student wins fight to display Bible verses in parking spot after school faces legal pressure (www.foxnews.com/media/high-s...)

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

I'm 99% sure I was in the room for the delivery of this line and if memory serves, it was a laugh line and a way to transition into how the standards lay out the progression of developing an argument through writing.

“Woodson senior, Joseph, had a simple yet important question to begin the forum about why FCPS made the decision to let AI into the classroom in the first place.“

There is an absolutely wonderful essay about Lord of Flies by Glen Weldon in the weekly @npr.org Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter. I have no idea how to share it but you can sign up for the newsletter here. www.npr.org/newsletter/p...

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Anyway, get to ground. It's always my *advice* [when I offer any]. Get hyper local. Find your people and fight where you are. This is where you can make the most impact and a real difference. Do this as much as you can, take care of yourself, and take care of your people.

(518) 474-8390 - #2 That's the number for Hochul's office. There's a lovely person answering the phone this morning. If you're a NYer, take five minutes to call and leave a message, asking her to NOT participate - the article says she's still considering.

At 9 AM the day after losing my race for local office, I called the Board of Elections to put my name back on the list of election workers. I *highly* recommend it.

This amazing image really captures the Tennessee fight and it's all over the internet. I am reposting it to encourage people to credit photographer Nicole Hester and the Tennessean.

Well. Hells bells.

In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

This is a really interesting project and it's really interesting to poke around, even if you're not a Californian.

I’m very excited to announce my new podcast! I'll be telling true stories of survival, starting with the story of Ada Blackjack, who was stranded for two years in the high Arctic. If you subscribe now to What to Carry, What to Burn on your fav podcast app, you’ll get the first episodes on May 12!

* heavy, heavy sigh *

It (hopefully) goes without saying, but one almost certainly does not want to download whatever is behind the link on that particular screen.

I dunno guys, the internet has very few joy laws but reposting this whenever it comes across your feed is one 🤷🏾‍♀️ It’s not just nostalgia, it’s as good as you remember.

Really like this piece. Parallel to this: I've been thinking a lot recently about we've turned online parasocial relationships into activism. It's not just that people feel personal hatred towards their opposites online, it's that they feel compelled to bully as a means to exercise political power.

Trump is DEFUNDING EDUCATION. (I have been saying that Dems need to say this over and over)

This Times story doesn't mention it, so I will: When Ron DeSantis briefly taught high school in his 20s, some students "questioned the focus, and sometimes the accuracy, of his lessons," and mocked "his takes on the Civil War" in a satirical video...for the video yearbook.

And let me tell you, as as a freelance fact-checker for education authors, it's an exciting time!

Love to see this. Public facting. Building community. Representing solidarity. Cool jacket.

That is a sentence!