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"Don't start borrowing trouble from tomorrow." I see this is a phrase eager to become part of my workaday parlance.

‘Neither war nor peace’: What Gaza looks like six months into ‘ceasefire’ https://aje.news/481qqo

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Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

Schumer is pro the war on Iran and I think that in and of itself is disqualifying. It seems imperative that Democrats demand that he resign or be replaced as Senate minority leader because he is actually working to support the fascist in chief. It's untenable.

This piece just illuminated a topic I knew almost nothing about. It is extremely well argued and the call to action resonant. Pay attention.

Befuddled I stand. (Writing in the midst of everything all at once) sherrisslice.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/u...

The name of this masterclass is “Anxiety and Accommodations in Higher Education” and it’s free! April 15 live ➡️

I applaud this level of enthusiastic research sharing.

the more you know.

Befuddled I stand. (Writing in the midst of everything all at once) sherrisslice.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/u...

I feel no relief over an averted armageddon just yesterday because everything is still amplified by the desperate animal brutishness of the US political machine passed off as masculine power. There is no amount of destruction that can satiate such boundless emotional need. It will not end itself.

Friends, what are some resources you've found helpful when a loved one suffers from depression?

The adultification of black children and the infantilization of white adults is a very real thing. Lots of interesting studies on it over the years.

I think some people interpreted "the ai con" narrowly as saying these tools don't have their advertised capabilities when clearly the larger con is the pretense that it's about tools and not power

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This is true on basically every scale. Nobody should have enough money to make themselves a societal problem, and no nation should have enough power to make themselves a global threat. Nobody should have enough financial power to trap their family members at home.

Friends, what are some resources you've found helpful when a loved one suffers from depression?

"Israel has bombed Beirut in a devastating attack that authorities say has led to 100s of casualties... Netanyahu had earlier said that Lebanon wldn't be included in the ceasefire." Israel, in partic Bibi's hard-right messianic partners, has wanted to do this for yrs. They were never going to stop.

Israel hit all over Beirut. Strikes were in nearly all the neighborhoods surrounding my house. Reports saying many injured and dead. Israel seems to be intensifying before a ceasefire is implemented

It's worth listening to @attackerman.bsky.social explain where Israel fits in all of this US war-mongering against Iran. Notice how the attacks on Lebanon have intensified since the announced ceasefire between US and Iran.

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

I've updated the Against AI and Its Environmental Harms Library with a new section for data center toolkits created for community organizations and collective education and action. Visit the library - and add your resources - at: pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI...

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

i got a 911 text from an eviction-defense attorney today who had a client who needed nearly $5,000 to prevent her eviction i was all ready to barn-raise for it. but then—what’s that? the community-run rent fund in her area had the resources to cover it! need met! done! another world is possible.

this is my nephew's homework and i'm gonna cry

"Most of my writing is based on my lived experiences. Everything is happening all at once, and if I do not write, I will forget." - Omar Hadad

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Needlecraft, because stabbing humans is generally frowned upon. Pattern by @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social

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.

(202) 224-3121 is the capitol switchboard for connecting to any senate or house office; even if you've never called; even though the lot of them are useless. no abominable war crimes, no war, no.

This morning, I get real with @thepersistent.bsky.social about what it's really like to be a Black woman in #economics, why one Harvard professor called me a “wild card”, and how building a legacy beyond myself has completely changed my life. #blacksky #news #womenhistorymonth

While we're focused on the war crime of blowing up the power plants in Iran... We aren't talking enough about how we have literally deprived a country of electricity for three months without a single missile fired. Cuba.

Whew, this is a word.

If you spent a decade getting degrees and another chunk of your life training to teach in your field of expertise, then *that* is still the best thing you are qualified to do and it will yield the best outcomes for your students. Stitching together a module w an unfamiliar tool will not add value

It’s my understanding that unless you are someone who specializes in these tools, technologies, and practices, the best thing you can do is teach students to develop their own critical abilities and facility with language bc more than ever this is necessary to navigate the infrastructural landscape

this is true beyond journalism. the federalist society is exceptionally well-funded while the closest thing to a liberal counterpart has to engage in endless penny pinching

As an alternative exploration of genAI and education, may I invite you to delve into @sarosecav.bsky.social's brilliant satirical offering? You'll thank me. puregenius.education

If for no other reason, to see the impoverished, rapacious, empty vision of humanity that these people have — for themselves bit, more importantly, for all of us. We must refuse them, and instead lift up the essence of ourselves and that which we see in others as having intrinsic value and beauty.

What I can say with a full throat, however, is that “AI” is a rhetorical, political tool and a set of ideologies built on specious claims. The technologies are almost incidental to those things, and are built to try to fulfill those claims, not the other way around.

We are so eager to believe that what *we* are doing is safer, better, wiser than what others are doing - students, colleagues, family members. The point is to be certain of our own competence and general superiority. Gen AI is here just in time to build on and boost this tendency in individuals.

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

Fascinating to hear these AI-boosting educators also communicate their fears about student use: "As professionals, we use AI to save time and enhance our work—but we’re still doing the thinking and using a mix of resources. Too many students are using AI to think and do their work for them. "

Teacher: "I used AI to boost my surveillance capacity in monitoring when and how often my students go to the bathroom. " I just... 😔

Okay but this is a great analogy bc the responsible way to interact w/ cocaine is to be able to identify what it is & to not use it, & identify when others have used it so you can get them help / avoid them. Much like the responsible way to interact w/ AI in ed is to be able to identify & reject it

FIN. #PhDone

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