Puhleeze. I don't need more pin money for supplies; I need classes capped at 24 students instead of 32. Hire more teachers. More EAs. More psychometrists. More AY workers and therapists. Give all schools comprehensive air purification systems. Fund meal programs for every student every day.

I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this

Hamilton: where no dream is too big, no dream too small.

that UBI lifts people out of poverty and in most cases allows them to thrive has been proven and written about time over time. however if you keep electing politicians that think poor people should die we won't get anywhere with this.

Peter Thiel...warns: “If you proletarianize the young, you shouldn’t be surprised if they eventually become communist.” But this is the logic of capitalism and the rule of the oligarchy. The gap between the ultra-rich and the vast majority of humanity is unfathomable. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Started my "Critical Lenses" unit with grade 11s today. Usually the Marxist lens is a slow slog to get them to understand. Today they were ALL OVER IT. Can't think for the life of me what change to their material conditions is priming the kids to be receptive to Marxist analysis.

For me the change is a consequence of_how_ the story is told moreso than what the story is. A few formative faves: BELOVED (Morrison) AGAINST THE DAY (or any Pynchon) SNOW WHITE (Barthelme) THE SECOND SCROLL (A.M. Klein) IMAGINARY CITIES (or any Calvino) POSSESSION (Byatt) So many more...

yes, tell em king

"They said back to normal, and they meant back to normal. All of it. Capitalism, racism, sexism, environmental destruction, and disease. Back to the office. Welcome back, back to the Hive Mind. Hustle for your check. Buy yourself something nice...."

new carcinisation just dropped

So soon?? That means it's only 4 more days until partially-muscled screaming skeleton day, and I haven't even begun my gift shopping!

The intern at my doctor's office shot me _such_ a look when I requested they not use AI transcription services to record their notes on my visit. Catastrophic errors aside, I also feel very strongly that my medical history shouldn't be fed into chatbots as training data.

Long #covid brain fog crashed my executive function; the creep of unavoidable AI "features" is making my online work obligations increasingly unbearable. #ExecutiveFunctionTheft indeed!

never not reposting

What are the _worst_ karaoke songs of all time?

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/05/a... - text

Might just make a poster of this to hang on the wall in my classroom.

Tolkein is good strong medicine for any climate person and always has been they never at any point thought they would win, and winning came at a terrible price, but what is there to do except the work take the Ring, though you do not know the way

Normally, I just brush off AI on the grounds that it's not close to worth taking seriously. But Montero is a philosopher, so it's worth going into a *bit* more detail as to why I think she's mistaken. (This is still Bluesky and I'm not writing a whole essay.) 🧵

Here's a preview of why you should read Christos' short but 🎯🎯🎯 article below 👇

Oceans 11 as Muppets, Matt Damon is the only human.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

The Ford government has already been a rolling disaster for public education, but things are about to get a whole lot worse. I see defunding, private schools, and voucher systems on the horizon, and a whole lot of additional misery for families who lack the wherewithal to flee a scuttled ship.

me, doing physio for my creaky wrist except it's 3 pounds and a prairie dog

The sociological explanation for current plans to cram AI into the school curriculum is old - a curriculum is always a composite of the "knowledge of the powerful". AI firms and friends are now very powerful, just as tech firms were when "learning to code" got crammed into the curriculum too.

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Society expects schools to fill in the gaps where our social safety net is failing families. Food. Clothing. Health, Vision, and Dental Care. Mental health. Transportation. Trauma recovery. The holes in the safety net keep getting bigger, and our resources are dwindling.

Once again, the "problem" that AI is being used to solve is at root a problem of underfunding and overwork. Hire actual humans to do things that are worth doing, give them time and resources to do things that need to be done, and the use case for AI dissolves into vapor virtually every time.

Jfc people need to go to jail and companies need to be broken up for this.

Maybe if I buy a ring modulator I'll suddenly also get John McLaughlin chops too? Absolutely incandescent mastery. music.apple.com/ca/album/mil...

Maybe if I buy a ring modulator I'll magically be able to play guitar like John McLaughlin. Absolutely incandescent stuff. music.apple.com/ca/album/mil...

If built, this would have had the worst feng shui ever. Physics to the rescue.

Surefire one-noters for me: Welcome to the Black Parade Summer of '69 Jump (VH) Sweet Dreams are Made of This Common People Where is My Mind? Seven Nation Army Sweet Child O Mine Girls Just Want to Have Fun Ring of Fire Don't Stop Believing Baba O'Riley Teen Spirit Red Right Hand Sabotage

Maybe if we filled the tunnel with military hardware the Carney feds would fund it.

ChatGPT says their service shouldn't be used for "legal, medical, or financial advice." Cool cool. Now do education. www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.” This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.

Look man, if Conservatives are crossing the floor to support your budget, you tabled a Conservative budget. I don't make the rules. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

"dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power" 🐐✊

Absolutely nothing surprising about this, but nevertheless disappointing.

Leaving the construction of housing (a human right--UNDHR 25.1) to for-profit corporations is a bad idea at any time. It is a markedly worse idea during an economic downturn where more people experience housing instability and there is less profit to be skimmed. www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...

In many respects, this is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era, writes Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood

Looking at the budget, I can't see anything that I've heard a Native leader highlight as a priority for them. This is like a post-Harper Tory budget plan, where Natives are only mentioned in the context of consultation for development.

Also, the average person has maybe 90 minutes a day of actual productive studying in them, anything much more is mostly masturbation. 90 minutes a day, 10.5 hours a week, or the *first* 90 minutes of your 5+ hour long struggle cram session. Which one do you think is more studying.

Me: born in 1970 My grade 11s: 2009 Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath is to me as Poker Face by Lady Gaga is to them: a cultural artifact from a world before we existed. sleep well, everyone!

ICYMI: Our ancestors survived by knowing that our fate is inextricably tied to the land and the water, to one another. johnniejae.com/why-indigeno... #indigisky #nativeamericanheritagemonth #nationalindigenousdisabilityawarenessmonth #climatejustice #disabilityjustice

The world changes in ways we don't understand, leaving us confused to deal with the consequences. Happens now more than ever. I watched a courier bot the other day and then I did some research on the company. Where did it come from? Who made it? Let's journey into the world of Joel. 🧵1/14

This is brilliant

Prediction: 5 years from now Ray-Bans will not exist as a company.

Not sure how this slipped under my radar in 2008, but this is some really excellent prog metal right here, this is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGgs...