“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

An ongoing concern of mine is not that GenAI will replace teachers but the technology will - as described in the article - deskill teachers "under the banner of efficiency" while also providing those in power with means to deprofessionalize teachers too.

I made some lamb buns and they’re really good.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: African penguins (❤️) Cape fur seals (smelly) Monteiro’s hornbill (Zazu) Some sort of monkey that literally stole bananas from me Hippopotamus

Milk bread rolls; glass noodle stir fry with shitaake mushrooms, cabbage, and carrots; soy sauce marinated soft boiled egg; sautéed bok choy; roast duck prepared with a hoisin/fermented red tofu marinade served with ginger sauce and plum sauce.

This is what I said about my rolls after they proofed both times. Turns out I can bake bread products, the secret is yeast that’s not dead.

Currently thankful that I discovered that all of our butter is frozen at 9:30 AM and not at any time later than that. Would be more thankful if I’d discovered this yesterday, but we take what we can get. (Most of my recipes call for melted butter anyway.)

But especially here:

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

I graduated from what was considered a very good high school in 2004 and I think I read a total of 8 complete works in 4 years, all of which were written by white men, most of whom were deceased at the time.

The panic that kicks in at 2pm every day when I realize it gets dark in two hours

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

If you ever feel like you are not good enough at your job, just remember: you are better than Chuck Schumer at his.

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

I hope there’s at least one person on the sandwich jury who’s passive aggressively eating a sandwich while they deliberate, just to see what happens

"In normal times, against a normal candidate, we have no evidence that picking a friendly, relatable, likable candidate without a history of sexual abuse will work. Let’s not read too much into it." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yea...

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

This is good. On the linguistic roots why, people say Mandami and why it's not just linguistics (i.e. the impulse is linguistic but at this point for certain people it's deliberate)

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

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

I hope the centrists learned a hard lesson last night. No more reaching across the aisle to people who have been spitting in our faces for decades. Run young people, run socialists, run on actionable ideas that seek to make our lives better.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Book banning isn't popular and isn't what parents nor taxpayers want. The average person is sick of hearing about the unhinged sexual fantasies made up by the genital obsessed party.

I think Dick Cheney’s death today highlighted this divide. The Democrats who still say shit like “reach across the aisle” and praise evil people are playing to a political audience that no longer exists. Mamdani wasn’t cruel to Cuomo in a Trumpism style, but he didn’t concede anything either.

we were told AI would cure cancer. that it would bring us quantum computing. instead we get slop, and racist propaganda. the (historically accurate) Luddites were right, man. Smash the machines built with the sole purpose to demean your humanity. Entrepreneurial spirit isn't inherently virtuous.

The reason not to be empathetic toward genAI users is that if your boss and coworker went "hey check this out, it's a hefty bag full of hot dogshit, it's a valueble part of my workflow now" you would not be expected to be empathetic. People would fully expect you to go "the fuck is wrong with you?"

FALL BACK (INTO SEASONAL DEPRESSION)

it has never been more time for bed

Homework shouldn’t exist 😭

My dog sure sighs a lot for somebody who can’t read the news

Holy fuck.

Chicago Over Everything

Wow 1st graders are A LOT.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

I hope this email finds you on a ladder propped against the side of the Louvre.

A lot going on here but, every Social Studies teacher knows that the number of school leaders and decision makers who dismiss and have dismissed Social Studies content/standards as not their biggest issues for decades is directly correlated with *how we got here*

"How do you expect to win back men...?" We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

If being against a guy with a Nazi tattoo makes me a purist I guess I'm an anti-Nazi purist. If you think that makes me an anti-Nazi single issue voter, you're wrong, but also it's a pretty good single issue. There is more than a year. Go get another real progressive who doesn't have a Nazi tattoo.

There's nothing ableist about criticizing generative AI. It's not a disability aid. It's not an aid at all. It's a hindrance and a blight and a waste of water, power, and land resources, and the disabled will suffer before the fascists let go of it.

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

I went to the Louvre once and enjoyed it but honestly if I was there and a bunch of French investigators rushed in and said “Sacre bleu! there has been a heist!” I would have had a much better time and would have given it five stars on everything

it would be kind of metal if the Isabella Stewart Gardner team had just been lying in wait since the 90s training for this and finally struck a second time

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

I went to college with a Mike Jones, who always introduced himself by saying “no relation,” and bc I wasn’t in the know, I assumed he meant he was not related to the person who had previously introduced themself, which…obviously? Bc not all people who exist are related to one another?

Don’t get me wrong, I would love to be able to say any numbers, ever, without a child replying “six seven,” but when they get tired of it, they’ll find something equally inscrutable to interject, because that’s what kids do and have always done.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important