“Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story.” —Jean Houston Today is a semi-regular viewing of the documentary Fine Lines (2019), & that quote hits differently in the age of commercial AI.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

Still looking for folks who'd be interested testing out an eReader app

Yeah, this obsession with language is a trick to stymie so-called nonnative speakers. Make them feel less confident and waste money on proof readers or other non-issue solutions. If your English is not understandable your colleagues should help anyway and it would have been caught years before.

Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.

It’s incredibly frustrating to me that in 2026 people are still holding to the idea that: 1) feeling emotion is antithetical to being able to reason 2) not showing emotion is the same as not being affected by emotion

Do something boring

Question: since locking down accounts isn’t a thing on Bluesky, is there a reason you would block accounts that follow you that you suspect are bots? I figure, who cares? But is there a reason I don’t know about for vigilance in this regard?

Those undersea adventures were fun, I told them. Shooting the breeze with a squid. Playing checkers with a shark (it's difficult to do). Singing with a coral reef. They sure changed my life. But I also told them to make their own adventures. Do yours, I said. You don't need to be me. #vss365

I remember Zadie Smith writing how libraries are one the few areas of communal life in which money isn’t a requirement. It’s stuck with me for years.

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

"What we are trying to look at is, how do we use one problem which is water hyacinth to solve the other problem which is plastic waste pollution,” says Joseph Nguthiru. “We work with fishermen who are affected [by it] and we contract them to harvest the water hyacinth for us.” #GoodNews #Africa 🌱

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

So far we've had some hints, but today's pages tell us WHO YOU ARE. You are a bone-smashing carrion-eating underdog, and not the good kind. Calm down. It's probably just more metaphors... ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/04/sapi...

Which is interesting given our propensity for using the /zh/ sounds in words not from English where we use ‘j’ (e.g., Taj Mahal, Beijing), even though the sound in the actual words is closer to how we pronounce our ‘j’. English is wild, man.

I’m interested in a small detail under 1 —yes, the rest of it is what you’d expect. It’s the phrase, “The engineering elite of Silicon Valley HAS …”. This suggests ‘elite’ is singular. Do they all think this? It’s incumbent on folks who otherwise fit the description who disagree to say so.

HELL NO. via @flipsidenews.bsky.social #bospoli #mapoli

Had not realized this was one of the magnets on the refrigerator until this morning. Offered without comment.

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I keep a collection of photos of women I admire for when I feel overwhelmed by the state of the world. I ask myself, for example, what would Harriet Tubman do? And then I dig in.

I've been reading about this for a few years now...seems to be getting worse (...with some progress?). We can't solve it without addressing the culture that creates it. 😖

Talking to my son about epistemology since he’s taking a philosophy class & needs to do some homework. He gets it. All’s right with the world.

Sudoku 1’55”

Hello.

“All sorts of persons, and every individual, has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respects, whether he chooses to be so or not.”

Whenever I encounter someone who believes in using the Oxford comma, I find myself encouraged, delighted, and hopeful.

someday your child will surprise you and you'll see the fully formed person where a child used to be

this is a bubble fuelled by people with absolutely zero grasp of information theory being scammed by the most obvious hucksters imaginable

If I feel burnt out on trying to talk to people about education, there’s always photographing breakfast.

The realization that only a handful of people have any interest in what I have to say & that’s because they’re my friends. Thanks, friends. ❤️

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2961: Your voice is unique. It’s a combination of many factors: your upbringing and background; the books you’ve read; your personality. Some people may not like it, but it’s yours. Keep it authentic. Trying to sound like someone else is a betrayal of who you are.

Can we fast forward to the Bible Riots of 1844? That’s how all this ends. We should just do the First Amendment, & if you want a religious education, you get one —that isn’t subsidized by taxpayers.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

For all their yammering about accountability in education, there is none for professional ed reformers and Ed Tech purveyors.

“Infinite Patience Is Not Good for Education” https://biblioracle.substack.com/p/infinite-patience-is-not-good-for > They have always been wrong. They were wrong before they got started and yet hundreds of millions of dollars have gone towards a project that was doomed from the outset

Thread. Another way to do education. (Alice Heim, 1971: “Investigations into the human mind, abilities & personality have gone astray because, for one reason, psychologists have established dichotomies …& have considered the elements of each pair as entities which …can be measured independently.”)

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Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Sketchbook: charcoal and oil pastel on Fabriano, A3

If we want to understand scientifically, we need theory. Data can license many things, but it's useless and meaningless on its own and any statement that says "if we want understanding, then we must collect data" is prima facie false. If we want understanding, we need theory.

We need to work on defining words before throwing them around, & people need to agree to a common definition when having discussions in order to avoid misunderstandings. “Everyone knows what that word means.” Maybe. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that ‘everyone knows’ the same thing.

Lighting the void

This definition also excludes grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, single parents (via divorce or survivorship) with children, married couples without children, … The Governor of Tennessee needs a dictionary.

I have this with Spanish. I love the lag before you realize it’s not English, that pause that happens.

Reupping. <1 minute. A basic #literacy thing I made based on sound theoretical principles, neuroscience, & 20+ years of experience in special ed & TESOL. Put it out a week ago & already have takers on three continents —mainly because I’m not charging for it. youtube.com/shorts/NXfLI...

we must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world - jack gilbert

A model is not the same as the thing it represents. It’s the finger pointing at the moon, & you know what they say about people staring at the finger. 🌕 ☝️

Also, pet peeve: materials *are not the same thing as curriculum* Don’t get me started on this.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Edge