Minneapolis is magnificent. I hope everyone had a marvelous mothers’ day.

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

Yeah, sometimes no one’s at the shop so you call a number and they give you the code to enter and let yourself in. You go behind the counter, get your donuts and ring yourself up, then let yourself out. It’s surreal.

My street is a drag strip and in 6 years I have never seen a single instance of traffic enforcement, I am going to become Batman and start landing on the roof of these assholes cars

Article by @byjustinfox.bsky.social is good The Decline in Police Traffic Stops Is Killing People - Bloomberg share.google/gObHqdfHTRrW...

We toured the Fed, briefly poked our head in the Dayton building’s swanky lounge and gym on the 7th floor, and thoroughly enjoyed the tour of the U’s new collections building.

You may have heard about baby bald eagles being born in Chicago for the first known time in a century. Here are my views of the nest in Park 597, as seen from Indian Ridge Marsh (roughly 700 feet away), shot with an 800 mm lens. Chicago Park District urges people to keep 600 feet away from the nest.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Klobuchar sells out the voting rights, abortion rights, immigrant rights and labor rights of the rest of the nation in hopes of a couple of points margin in her own election. Just pathetically selfish political stance.

If you’re trying to ride the B Line or 72 between Snelling and Dale, it’s still on Selby today. Go to your normal stop. Detour starts 5/11, but the Transit app and Google Maps show it on Marshall today - ignore that!

The guy who prevented 24 hour busses on Hennepin. The guy who has fenced off half a dozen critical pedestrian connections to avoid having to address the issue of unhoused people and public drug use.

Temu Mamdani

It's back!

sure why not

Love to get all the way to the trailhead to figure out I have an unfixable flat.

I am extremely troubled by the amount of standby pay issued to MPD officers during Operation Metro Surge. MPD data shows some officers were paid nearly 24 hours per day for 32 days straight, while dozens were paid 8-12 extra hours each day while we stood out in the cold protecting our neighbors. 1/

FOX9: "Minnesota's attorney general is suing a nonprofit organization for allegedly misusing $6.5 million in charitable assets." The complaint states the Minneapolis reached out to We Push For Peace for assistance during Operation Metro Surge. What kind of assistance? www.fox9.com/news/we-push...

If I only have time for 1-2 doors open things, is there anything I shouldn't miss?

The least normal people on earth

the fundamental job of journalism is to report facts & uphold public trust, which is rapidly eroding. brushing off the careless use of AI to spread misinformation shows why that is. this kind of conduct needs to be treated as a serious violation & called out as absolutely unacceptable.

It’s giving the same vibes as my mom’s Saturday special. SLICED RIPE OLIVES

OPTIONAL GUMDROPS

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

Democrats get a gerrymander in Virginia approved by a referendum, and it falls. Republicans in other states manage to gut the Voting Rights Act to enact partisan gerrymanders with no signoff from voters, and they stand. The game really does feel rigged, doesn't it?

Don’t run universities like a business run it as a public good

Told my students today that the hackers having their data wasn't necessarily worse than Canvas having it.

Overnight this Omni ICE flight landed in Guam, where it sat for 7+ hours, before continuing west. It is about to make its first deportation stop, in Cambodia. Migrants passengers onboard have likely been shackled for at least 63 hours.

All University of Illinois assignments and exams through Sunday are postponed due to the Canvas hack

Baylor cancels finals tomorrow, says out loud: provost.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...

So people are stuck in an impossible position. If you refuse to comply with your annual ICE meetings, or ad hoc ones they schedule, that's grounds to revoke your release. But if you show up, there's a risk you'll be detained anyway. It's horrible. All I can suggest is to be prepared.

I have missed teaching, but not the "AI" hype or the transphobia or the Canvas blackouts or the wholesale, generally batshit way academia has just handed itself over 100% to be devoured by private tech and surveillance and handed itself over to be censored by the state without so much as a fight

I would be out of a job but yes.

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Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

In May 2021 @umdawgs.bsky.social picked up this prairie fire crabapple from the tree lottery and somehow fit it in our Subaru and out the sunroof. It tripled in size in five years. But this spring it has no buds and seems to be dead and I am distraught.

Non twin cities people, you should know that the mayor is renominating someone who publicly stated his force did not witness any ICE misconduct justifying intervention at any point in operation metro surge.

What is especially galling is that this saved zero dollars, since the cruise ships pay for the inspections. And now their industry is less trusted because of perceived health risks. Amazing lose-lose policymaking.

Who has an insurance broker they like?

Sorry folks, I advanced a rumor that was not true. Egg on my face. Glad to be wrong

3. As part of the investigation, CDI examiners reviewed a sampling of 220 claims. In more than half the claims (114) CDI determined that State Farm violated state law.

I keep hearing that "The Body Keeps The Score" has helped to destigmatize trauma but it consistently describes rape victims in stigmatizing terms: - "Obese and aggressive" - "Lacking in self-protection" - "Frozen and uptight"

The fight so far is focused on three fatal shootings, but prosecutors in Minneapolis have opened criminal investigations into 14 additional cases of potentially unlawful behavior by federal agents during Operation Metro Surge.

This is quietly one of the most important things that could have happened this year. As MPRB counsel told me: “The park board really must watch the charter commission. That group has always had a bias in favor of deeply centralized government.” This is a concern for all of us.

If food prices are making you do double-takes at the grocery store now...

Of course he's hungry, he's 128 pounds

RFK Jr. clears path for minors’ use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists www.latimes.com/science/stor...

I’m not sure what this means just yet, but it’s still important to be cautious and careful. Our neighbors are still under attack, and we cannot ever forget what our community is being put through. They may be adapting tactics, but so are we. Jason Chavez 2/

Two delights on my morning commute. A huge bike bus. And lost mittens blooming on west river road.

This article is an absolute masterclass in how to write an article debunking misinformation without platforming the misinformation one iota