It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

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Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

Wonder how long the major news agencies will continue to report the US and Iran are close to a deal based only on the administrations unsubstantiated statements

Got some good news. Got some very bad news. Life man.

Donald Trump is sending the Justice Department after a woman he raped.

Update: 196 killed so far. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

@midimyers.com on a recent Triple Click ya'll mentioned you like daily word games. My spouse and I made this one that's different and I think kind of fun. Perhaps it'll scratch an itch. (best played on a phone or touch device) switchitgame.com

SwitchIt: 5/27/2026 Score: 170 🟦⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟦⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟦⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟦 🟦⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟦🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟦⬛⬛ ⬛🟦⬛⬛⬛ 🟦⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟦⬛⬛⬛ SwitchItGame.com This one is fun. Once you see a path to the bonus word it’s a pleasure to watch it unfold

See also: Kurt Vonnegut. “A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society…

Weingarten trying to ride whatever bullshit breeze is blowing in her face is bad for teachers and children. “Screens” is a meaningless construct. Haidt is a grifter. And schools shouldn’t be data farms for tech companies. We should be able to hold more than one idea in our brains.

Yeah I won’t ever be feeling good about “the weaker candidate” winning a GOP nomination. Y’all’s memory of 2016 is too damn short.

That shit you see about attacking grade inflation or locking students into rooms to do Blue Book essays and oral exams does nothing, nothing to address the fundamental underlying issues that stand between students and learning. Questioning tech is necessary, but not sufficient either.

Yeah I won’t ever be feeling good about “the weaker candidate” winning a GOP nomination. Y’all’s memory of 2016 is too damn short.

Good 🧵 (In a couple of weeks, I will be working with a colleague on a workshop where teachers will learn some coding through making music with some AI assistance. Constructionism FTW.)

A great example of an educational design paradigm called constructionism. Making stuff that is meaningful to you and your friends is a GREAT way to learn. Too often the computer (and now AI) is imagined to be a digital instructor, rather than a generative tool for building and exploring…anything!

“Sorry son, can’t go to your wedding this weekend I’m super busy.”

A Pope is a Pope and will always believe many things I do not believe, but that does not change how absolutely bang-on correct and beautifully articulated this is.

Apologize to your children when you fuck up. Which you will a lot. Work on doing better. Show them the process. Let them see your humility and your work.

Reading 50 Years of Text Games (a fantastic book btw) and struck by how many early explorations of language with computers were essentially party tricks--methods of faking intelligence with deterministic programming. LLMs are not that, but our desire to see intelligence from a computer runs deep!

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

the way I always describe Sam Vimes is that ACAB includes Sam Vimes and nobody is more aware of that than Sam Vimes

In sum, skip the Atlantic on this one and read Monstrous Regiment, a great standalone Pratchett and a perfect book for right now, because it takes on propaganda, war, gender, and how religious zealots starve nations and ruin everything. Quote me on that, why don’t you.

Here's my parenting tip: Stop making laws that hurt LGBTQ+ kids.

Reading 50 Years of Text Games (a fantastic book btw) and struck by how many early explorations of language with computers were essentially party tricks--methods of faking intelligence with deterministic programming. LLMs are not that, but our desire to see intelligence from a computer runs deep!

KIM KITSURAGI - “You need to get your shit together.” YOU - “But I don't wanna get my shit together!” KIM KITSURAGI - “Then the world will turn away from you, and leave you behind.”

students come into my office with questions and I typically have answers; students come into my office with problems and I often have solutions. The student interactions as an academic advisor tend to be a goddamn delight.

Excellent essay on why the social sciences cannot ignore AI. Not because it's "here to stay" or because it's a neat research tool, but because AI is already intertwined in nearly all sociotechnical systems in which we live.

Efficiency may be the most misused word in the English language

My whole thing right now is to interrupt our knee jerk acceptance of this usage of “gender ideology.” No, everyone has gender ideology & they’re still going to teach it. This is about enforcing a *particular* fascist ideology of gender that is bioessentialist and rigidly hierarchical.

Countdown to when we learn a woman grad student posted this exact solution to their blog 9 years ago? openai.com/index/model-...

Nice and easy puzzle if you want to give SwitchIt a try! SwitchIt: 5/20/2026 Score: 165 ⬛⬛🟦⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟦 ⬛⬛⬛🟦⬛ 🟦⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟦 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟦 ⬛⬛⬛🟦⬛ ⬛🟦⬛⬛⬛ 🟦⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟦⬛ SwitchItGame.com

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Did I mishear and think it was “drinking in the kitchen?” Yes. Was I hoping sandwiches were involved? Also yes. On this Pop & Play Srikala and @wargojon.bsky.social get salty, paddle the highball right out of my hand, and teach the not so ancient art of Pickleball. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Tech bros working furiously to build an AI toothbrush that will send a picture of the meal I just ate for dinner to my bathroom smart glasses meanwhile when I paste text from a PDF it looks the ravings of a serial killer.

"'We believe student outcomes are the only metric that matters,' wrote Kelly Sia, the company’s CEO" Good overview of the snake oil that is i-Ready. The freakout about "learning loss" is a huge driver of this awful tool being in 1/3 of US schools.

No caps on S tier

Tech bros working furiously to build an AI toothbrush that will send a picture of the meal I just ate for dinner to my bathroom smart glasses meanwhile when I paste text from a PDF it looks the ravings of a serial killer.

The vast amounts of money being either stolen by Trump and crew or burned up via missiles is a helpful reminder we have (or had) the cash to do big things, we just chose not to.

It is possible Brunson made a deal with a demonic force, but holy hell that turn around was fun to watch

Insane! #GoKnicks

The vast amounts of money being either stolen by Trump and crew or burned up via missiles is a helpful reminder we have (or had) the cash to do big things, we just chose not to.

Republican primary voters, boy. the shambling compost heap president goes "vote this guy out, on account of how he publicized documents proving I was best buds with Jeffrey Epstein" and they say "yes sir"

I guess probably nobody at these meetings has ever looked up and said, "Hang on everybody. Are we absolutely sure we're not the stupidest fucking guys on the planet? Like SURE sure"

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

Just wrote 1000 words that I’m 99% certain will not end up in the final product. But writing is like that. Sometimes you need to write and trash 1000 mediocre words to surface the 250 good ones.

Did I mishear and think it was “drinking in the kitchen?” Yes. Was I hoping sandwiches were involved? Also yes. On this Pop & Play Srikala and @wargojon.bsky.social get salty, paddle the highball right out of my hand, and teach the not so ancient art of Pickleball. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

remember when they screeched that cancelling student loan debt was unfair and unconstitutional