Heading downtown? You might want to add some extra time to your commute.

something classic sci-fi shows like ST: TNG and Andor understand is that there's nothing better than scenes of meetings around a conference table

Mixing watercolors and nostalgia.

I just returned from an elementary school dance with my 1st grader. Observations: Kids really love K-Pop Demon Hunters. When Golden started it was a Beatlemania-level crowd goes wild. Also, a surprising number of kids know the Cotton-Eyed Joe.

Grades submitted!

What can I say? I’m a rule follower

The goslings have arrived.

May the Fourth be with you. #ThatOtherGeekReference #May4th This post is when folks look at my profile picture/official portrait and realize I’ve been cosplaying the whole time. 👋

Very proud of the team on this. We fine tuned a model, embedded the entire thing, launched an API, and finally got it on our website. Woo! We get a million queries per day. Now they can use plain language. Finally!

D277,215 - issued to Lucasfilm, Ltd. in 1985 for a design for a "toy figure." #DesignPatents

Name that film.

Last night’s springtime sunset committed to the page. I removed two of the trees and lighted things a bit.

Walking down Mass. Ave. today, the blossoms drew my eyes upward, and I discovered this wonderfully ornate molding on an otherwise unremarkable storefront. Moral of the story: look up!

Earlier today I took my youngest to a birthday party where I had to mingle with other parents, & I can't believe it took me 2 kids & more than a decade to discover these 👌 dad small talk starters, "Raiders of the Lost Ark is 'PG'" & "In our house, we pretend there are only 3 Star Wars movies."

Teach modern knitting techniques w/ knit & pearl. When the 👀 😍 from that gets them to believe I really am from a land w/ exciting advanced knowledge, teach pasteurization, hand-washing, & dietary treatment for gout. Once they see thise work, try my darndest to teach that lead & mercury are poisons.

The swans are building something... 🤔 Could this be the start of cygnet watch 2026?

Just to mark the occasion, my eldest made their first geometry-based pun today at dinner. Context leading up to it won’t fit here. Just know it was acute one. ;)

I like this definition. It has a very liberal arts feel, which despite a common misconception, includes both the sciences and the humanities.

@hankgreen.bsky.social put together this interactive media explorer for the Artemis II mission, and it is awesome!

Are you a leader trying to figure out how to evaluate an AI system? Are you in business, journalism, civil society, or the tech industry? I'm excited to share the publication of the book I wish I had in my first job testing AI seventeen years ago: "Auditing AI." mitpress.mit.edu/978026205172...

Painting this I had two main thoughts. It’s amazing what we can do when we work together, and there’s no way to do this picture justice. #MoonJoy

All art is a collaboration between artist and audience.

I’ve got something cooking.

Apparently, I have become that person who when discovering a collection of Emily Dickinson immediately searches to see if it says, “I felt a cleaving in my mind,” or “I felt a clearing in my mind.” I also look for dashes.

The grandparents are watching the kids, and my wife and I have entered an alternate history where we knew each other in the 80's and are heading to the latest John Hughes movie @capitol-theatre.bsky.social

This is really great actually, and I will be borrowing it

This is a great encapsulation of what we do here. Please read if you’re curious how we’re making a better justice system!

If you're curious about the lesson I'm describing in the clip, I wrote more about it over on the @suffolklitlab.org blog. Never has there been a more concentrated distillation of my teaching than that lesson.

I have wanted digital access to these for years. Now the wait ends. Thank you.

Teachers sculpt attention into understanding, helping their students identify and pay attention to what matters. That’s it. That’s what I do—sculpt attention. I am a sculptor.

Because Gen AI has scrambled traditional indicators of quality, I just found myself writing the following sentence for something I'm working on, "We should work to disseminate new heuristics for the AI age along the lines of, 'LLMs are secondary sources once removed, treat them accordingly.'"

Having finished Start Trek TNG with the kids one Start Trek Saturday at a time, we move on to DS9. I remember Sisko being a good dad, but I suspect this will be like rewatching My So-called Life where it turns out there’s a whole new level to the stories (wait the parents had storylines?)

The is very much how I approach our simulated legislative sessions in lawrpg.org "I would be thrilled if the graduates from this school feel equipped to pursue justice as they understand it, even if that understanding is different from my own." I like this a lot.

I do not know why I felt compelled to make this, but... um, yeah, this is close to how I wish I managed my inbox.

👀 Today is Suffolk's Giving Day, & look, there's a way for your donation to help the Suffolk LIT Lab. There's a complicated set of matches and triggers based on the total number of donors. Meaning: even a gift of $1 could unlock more. Also, some of these have deadlines. So, act now! And thank you.

That dog is truly loved to the moon and back.

Yeah what she said

Wow, just wow.

with our hands over our eyes, peeking through our fingers

It's local news day. If you don't already, consider supporting your local newsroom. h/t @dankennedy.net

okay so we need to talk about Cardinal Christophe Pierre, and how frankly jaw-dropping it is for Mr. JD "Just Wrote a Whole Book About Catholicism" Vance not to know who he is

A friend described doing an exercise w/ a group of students from around the world, asking them to write down the best & worst thing about a bunch of different countries. Answers varied a lot for all countries except for one: every single person said the best thing about the USA is NASA.

If you need a palate cleanser after you doomscroll and before you call your Representatives, here is all the good stuff in one place.

To make it that much easier. You can find their numbers here: www.congress.gov/members/find... And yes, I just called and asked my Congressional Reps to support or introduce articles of impeachment.

This is the ultimate test for a constitutional order. Either constitutional mechanisms are used to check and balance this, and remove him from office, or they are not. For there can be no greater test for any constitution.

There is no path back to anything approaching "normal" geopolitics (or domestic politics for that matter) that doesn't go through impeachment, removal, and trials. The commander-in-chief is threatening war crimes, and it's not even a surprise.¹ #ImpeachNow ¹ See bsky.app/profile/davi...

Re-watching a 20yo TV mystery series is what I imagine it would be like if you were clairvoyant (assuming that was a thing). You have very strong feelings about what’s going to happen, and in some sense you know, but it's really blurry.

The Artemis II mission seems good because it is. People seem excited by it because they are. It looks like a testament to the value of teamwork because it needs many people working together to succeed, and it’s succeeding. One of the best things about this is how straightforward it is. Authentic.