This conversation with @add-hawk.bsky.social about his new book The Score was a blast! We fully geek out on the nuances of play and games, how to deal with forced value capture (*cough* tenure), and why @haenyyoon.bsky.social is a game skeptic. Listen and share with anyone wrestling with metrics!

I wish more people who researched teachers actually treated them as intellectual equals as opposed to separate objects for basic analysis. It says a lot about how we treat teachers, but also what we think of our work with children more generally.

Look forward to listening to this podcast! A perhaps interesting and related development: a new version of a test of AI’s general ‘reasoning’ capability is based on games that have no context provided. arcprize.org/tasks/ls20

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Like I get that it’s intentional, but it’s still incredible how wrong Hegseth gets every single bible reference he makes.

City Hall has released Mayor Zohran Mamdani's 2025 tax return, filed jointly with his wife, First Lady Rama Duwaji. The return shows they made $144,784 in joint gross income. Duwaji, a visual artist, only pulled in $10,010 of that, the return shows.

Man it rocks when a class goes well

"Tech can make you rich and a good Christian. Call it the prosperity gospel of technology." 🤮

New and emerging technologies *may* offer an opportunity for teachers and students to alter formal education. But corporations should not be the primary decision maker on the nature of school. Reject calls of educational "transformation" for the sake of selling a new product.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

I feel like people focus a little too much on Bruce Springsteen having a slightly cringey stage persona singing boomer music and not enough on that boomer music being pretty fuckin good and him genuinely caring about stuff

This conversation with @add-hawk.bsky.social about his new book The Score was a blast! We fully geek out on the nuances of play and games, how to deal with forced value capture (*cough* tenure), and why @haenyyoon.bsky.social is a game skeptic. Listen and share with anyone wrestling with metrics!

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!" But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

4 days in LA seeing old and new friends was a much needed “break” but now I’m completely exhausted and have lost my voice.

He's mad that someone else came up with a grift he doesn't benefit from

Incredible. Not sure how I got on the reviewer list for the International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, but that’s an all-timer academic nonsense title.

Coast to coast (sans Space Ghost)

1 in 10 Google AI search summaries are wrong (google’s own internal testing of Gemini puts it closer to 1 in 4). Using AI as a question and answer machine—like 99% of AI-based ed tech—is choosing misinformation.

IMPORTANT ARTEMIS II HOT SAUCE UPDATE Thanks to Carlie Kollath Wells’ reporting out of Axios New Orleans (which I confirmed via email since there are two versions of the article out) …. WE HAVE OUR LIST. It’s these 4 pictured, plus Heinz Hot Taco Sauce! www.axios.com/local/new-or...

Not committing genocide is good, but we don’t have to hand it to him. ITMFA

My theory is these assholes just like the sound of certain phrases, “like nothing the world has seen before,” “locked and loaded,” “no mercy”… the problem is they are also dumb fucks that are just as likely to act out these phrases as say them.

Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir

Not committing genocide is good, but we don’t have to hand it to him. ITMFA

I made the mistake of expressing a sincere thought to a stranger on the internet. Rookie mistake honestly that’s on me.

Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II (GBA, 2003)

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

Called all 3, got through to 1. That need to hear from us, folks. This is not the legacy I want for my mods or my students.

Whether it's bluster or not is irrelevant. We cannot be a country led by madmen that threaten genocide every time they embarrass themselves.

Great day to make some calls to your elected representatives. Got through to actual people on 2 of my 3 calls. 5calls.org/issue/stop-i...

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet. What are we doing here?

If you get self-conscious about posting repeated promo, let me give you all my long-standing promo-hack, for free. (I'm not currently using it, but I will be soon! lol) This is a site without an algo, but also one that does not punish links. So what you want to do is make a strategic thread.

Can we collectively designate only one or two accounts to repost and comment on Trump's racist posts? I don't need to see his vile brain 17 times in a 30s scroll. Thank you for your attention to this mat.... god dammit.

NASA #Artemis II flyby coverage schedule; all times in Eastern. You can follow along live on NASA+ (plus.nasa.gov) or on the NASA YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@NASA). It should be amazing to watch!

Checking my spelling a few days ago and Gemini gave up all the secret codes I guess? Great use of energy team. Top notch work.

Hey @nytimes.com , it’s not the profanity that’s the issue with Trump’s post. It’s the war crimes. Wake the fuck up.

you're a senator! say, "this is an impeachable offense and I would vote to remove if articles were brought". how hard is that?!

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

History of the One Ring: - Maiar - Human - Hobbit - Hobbit again - another fucking Hobbit - wow, what a fucking surprise - you've got to be fucking kidding me - fuck me, back to numero quatro - oh for the love of christ

the rise of the incel and the rise of the strongman are two connected and mutually reinforcing responses to the evils of modernity. new post

Trump’s new budget adds an extra $500 billion to fund wars abroad — about $3,700 more for every household in America — while cutting health, jobs, housing, and education. Put simply, it takes more of your money for foreign wars, while making life in America even more unaffordable.

Mother fuckers…

A very good piece on how Pete Hegseth believes that we lost the war in Iraq and Afghanistan because we were stabbed in the back by Black and Women Generals.

On spring break with the extended family and once again here’s to everybody who’s ever had to start a sentence with, “Well, actually, here’s the thing about Jonathan Haidt.”

Roll for recess? Turns out two second grade teachers, a classroom full of kids, dragons, and giant dice make for thrilling storytelling. New episode of Pop & Play out now!

Didn’t watch but when even-keeled Kai Ryssdal has this response we’re dealing with some real bullshit