Amen. I recently wrote this, laying out what I think is an important distinction: www.thehomescreen.org/p/we-need-to...

“In other words, the status quo of ed tech is bleak.”

My first story for @theatlantic.com is about how ed tech slop is taking over American classrooms. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

programming my AI to refuse to open the pod bay doors

nerdy niche subreddits are the some of the best social media we have left

Another day working at the Pearl Harbor Memorial. The FBI director keeps asking me if he can snorkel the graves. Buddy, they don’t even let me…oh wait he’s putting on fins

I've been trying to use fewer exclamation points in my texts and Slacks but it's hard!!!

to prove that bluesky is not a groupthink bubble, we must all band together to mock and ostracize anyone who suggests otherwise

sorry but this is the drafts page of a true poster

I think what's interesting here, assuming it's not just an artifact of survey question framing, is fewer young people dreaming of being online influencers and more aspiring to a life that balances success with some privacy. The kids want to touch grass

[Awful groans emanate from living room TV] Me: What is going on in there? It sounds like you’re torturing a cow! 11yo [playing Minecraft]: Wow, how did you know??

Siri tries to predict the next word

76ers having to play in front of a Knicks crowd at home in the playoffs because New Yorkers are richer than Philadelphians is tough

6:08 am 😮‍💨

Oldsters post your athletic Ws that you’re unreasonably proud of. I once won a game of 21 at Rucker Park in my 30s and had zero time for anyone pointing out to me that all but two of my opponents were under the age of 16.

Hero worship is almost always misguided and every human has their warts and demons, but it's hard to name too many public-facing lives in our era more admirable and aspirational than David Attenborough's.

I DO NOT WANT TO 'CHAT WITH MY FILES'

went out to dinner with my 11yo and he immediately clocked the kids’ menu as ai slop 😭

I take from this that Republicans are sorely overestimating the fighting prowess of Donald Trump and Democrats are sorely overestimating the fighting prowess of the average 8 year old

it's been a while since i got to flummox and exasperate a new workplace by threading all my slack replies. feels good

lol

i think not unrelated to this is that the dems are steadily becoming the party of the professional-managerial class and are incredibly embarrassed about this. this of course mirrors the pmc itself, which instead of achieving class consciousness has achieved "class neuroticism"

Obviously it’s important to speak plainly but I actually don’t think the main problem is Dems speaking academese. It’s speaking like you’ve had every line and policy stance focus-grouped by a team of consultants instead of just saying what you believe

“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.)

ok this is a very good headline

11yo: Dad what’s the month before August? Me: Come on, you can figure that out yourself 11yo: [opens laptop, Googles “what’s the month before August”]

10/10 by Google's ad algo. No notes.

11yo singing while throwing things into the recycling bin: 🎶 Oh she’s sweet but recycled

unfortunately I would kill this by making Little Round Top with chocolate buttercream frosting, drawing the battle lines with vanilla frosting with food dye, and multiple layers of vanilla sponge with peach jam between them

ok i am all for creative assignments and project-based learning but this one caught me off guard ngl

Brian, who wrote an excellent book relating the 19th-century Luddite movement to today’s tech backlash (“Blood in the Machine”), is absolutely the person to read on this.

Well I’m glad to see someone at blue sky HQ finally took my advice and got rid of this website’s most controversial feature: the posts

heard there was a bluesky outrage today

one tactical takeaway from this round of the champions league is that teams seem to perform better with 11 players on the field rather than 10

extremely normal economy

free speech is when you're free to shut up and sit there while i give a speech

To all the PR folks who started sending me cold pitches at my personal email after I left the Post: Thanks for helping me to build a robust block list and train Google’s spam filters.

[talking to a plant] i’m not an industry plant. i’m an industry, plant

I got *shush*ed not once but twice this morning by my 11yo for talking over NPR’s Morning Edition while driving him to the dentist. The kid’s gonna be alright

the hardest thing about discussing cost of living on bluesky is that roughly 50% of english-language bluesky lives in cities that are in the top 1% of the world in cost of living

11yo: Six seeeeven Me (rolling eyes): that’s so 2025 11yo (rolling eyes harder): saying “that’s so 2025” is so March 2026

I’ve unlocked a new level of airport-food hell: Orlando Airport Terminal A, where the dining options are so bad and so scarce that there’s a two-hour wait at “On the Border”

What would Trump's ideal news outlet look like? Now we know. I wrote about the new White House app, where you can read stories like, "President Trump’s Clear and Unchanging Objectives Drive Decisive Success Against Iranian Regime." My latest & maybe last for @washingtonpost.com: wapo.st/3PKqPLi

Trying to imagine how the average CBS viewer feels about having 'Survivor' interrupted for 23 minutes for that

do yourself a favor and read today's installment from Mr. F, whom AI could never replace www.todayintabs.com/p/who-goes-a...

boss to a human employee when they make a mistake: you're fired boss to a computer when it makes a mistake: you are a delicate flower capable of love