And yes, I cry like a baby when they sing "La Marseillaise." Even more now than ever. We're living under the threat of fascism. The immigrant and refugee actors in that scene knew exactly what that was all about.

Wait wait wait, Platner is a creep who disrespects his wife? The slur guy? The mercenary? The guy who loved doing imperialist violence? Are you sure? The guy who pretends to be a working class common joe whose excuse for his nazi tattoo was that he's very stupid? That guy? No. Don't buy it.

I was getting a massage and I was like “Damn it’s really gonna spoil this experience if that was the roof being wrenched off the building.”

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It most uncool aspect of pro-AI folks is that they don't even know what they are talking about. Nothing about these days' AI really stands out as cutting edge either, it just assissts you in becoming less capable as a human. They brag about being useless without a computer holding their hands.

"Welcome to Fenway Park. Home of your underachieving Boston Red Sox, this most magical place on Earth is rooted in suffering, which I assume is the basis for their latest culinary affair: the Lobstah Poutine."

this is the most millennial dad joke ever conceived

I think schools, paved roads and fire departments are good things, actually.

“My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lost...

the new song is here & on all the streamings btw! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjWf...

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

“AI Literacy” and “Ethical AI” are marketing slogans serving as Trojan horses for the colonization and ultimate ransacking of the education sector.

To paraphrase a recent viral post, I look forward to being the last fat bitch alive who can still write a sentence.

🧵 School closure trends are consistently being framed as the fault of women not wanting to bring babies into this world. That's how this piece opens. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

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My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

look how fancy the ocellated turkey is. such a fancy lad

What’s so brazen is that the subhead literally spells out the travesty. It says that tech industry lobbyists have convinced congress to pay for their products to be made a compulsory part of public education so that when the industry wreaks havoc on American workers it can be blamed on educators.

unsubscribing from an author who is moving their newsletter TO Substack :(

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

It’s true, I have twice as many master’s degrees as my husband.

$7.00/hour at the children’s museum in 2002ish. It was a pretty great gig - 80% of the shift was playing with truly incredible exhibits - and I reported to a guy who is still (20+ years later) the best boss I’ve ever had.

An outstanding, comprehensive rebuke of AI mania in K-12 by @winterjessica.bsky.social that rounds out by highlighting the growing coalition of parents, educators, and other concerned humans that is working fast and hard to tamp it down.

any body want to go on a road trip to see the witches and also the @montereybayaquarium.org

He demanded they do what We’re losing ~200 student-facing instructional staff positions and he demanded they do what And he’s worried about…hats

AI is theft. It's anti-Black. It's ableist. It's a wealth transfer from the poor and marginalized to the wealthiest corporations on earth. It destroys water tables and accelerates climate change.

The most likely way out of authoritarianism continues to be intense politicking followed by voting followed by taking power followed by using that power to repair our democracy. Every step is fraught. Obstacles everywhere, including from our own side, but it’s the most likely way out.

Here's the thing: Democrats already know who can win. They know which policies are popular with voters and which candidates are vocally in support of those policies. They're going to throw a billion dollars into trying to prevent those candidates from becoming the nominee.

I think a lot lately about how, from ages 16-27, my cellphone was a device that I sometimes forgot existed for a week or more. (Obviously posting this from a phone, I have no idea how to access Bluesky from anything other than the app.)

Having a dog is fun because you can sing songs to them about how gross they smell and they just love the attention

Today in 1977 began the 504 sit-ins by disabled people. The protest was the longest occupation of a federal building and a reminder that our human rights and access protections were not gifts from the ableds, but fought for by us, and in this instance with a big assist from the Black Panther party.

Wildly upsetting to me as a BPS teacher that I learned about this from fucking REDDIT.

When my MLLs ask me what the names of Holy Week days are in English:

I told myself "AI Is going to be a bubble and the people who relied on it will be weaker for it. Like young people raised on ipads who don't know what disc drives are. Even if AI disrupts jobs now, my ability to think will make me wanted later." Pretty sure my prediction is going to hold up.

When someone says you'll get left behind if you don't embrace AI, they are probably saying if you don't use AI, I'll get left behind.

🚨New working paper alert! 🚨 The US spends huge $ on special education services for students with disabilities. Is that spending effective? Today we released a working paper suggesting it is. "Special Education Substantially Improves Learning: Evidence from Three States" Let me explain...

Millennials are about to spend the rest of their lives hearing about how their parents AND children had to walk five miles uphill to school every day

We all know this is fascism.

Schools are NOT identical to what they were like 100 years. There are many areas of stability, and also areas of change.

ok here are more magical kid lit books off the top of my head that you can share w/ the kids in your lives instead of the one that supports a human trashbag who uses that support as proof her hatred is valid (again, a push for the ENTIRE Rick Riordan Presents line: books.disney.com/character-se...)

"The real solution to uncompetitive elections in Massachusetts is ranked-choice voting, in which people can vote for multiple candidates in order of preference, and voters don’t have to guess which of their favored candidates is actually viable." #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/23/o...

I've been asked recently for something on Why Ed Markey / Why Not Seth Moulton, so I decided to do a stock-taking of Seth Moulton's record. jonathancohn.medium.com/ma-elects-fi...

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Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

"This is the most essential technology ever created in all of human history. Don’t mercilessly ridicule it just because it steals the joy out of your hobbies and creates sexually explicit images of women without their consent. Seriously, please stop! It really hurts my feelings."

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

Guess I’ll actually be answering the alumni fundraising calls this year, so that I can (politely) inform the student callers that @bostonu.bsky.social isn’t getting a dime from me.

Having something called a “Free Expression Board” sounds like dystopian fiction, @bostonu.bsky.social