Meredith has an op-ed in the Chronicle today. She opines that we are simply doing CTA's bidding, mischaracterizes the current state of negotiations, and proposes no more strikes because they're hard "parents like me" (...rich people who don't like their children?)

Oh so the centimillionaire who runs a billion-funded Astroturf group thinks teacher strikes should be illegal? Wow I'm shocked

No this is Wyden publicizing to the world that he wants the Tulsi Gabbard whistleblower report Clever tactic since this letter is unnecessary

I have something on my calendar that says "call Peter" at 10:30 I have no idea who Peter is or what it's about sorry to this man

It really brings me joy to cause a little ruckus. It's not going to change anything maybe but I like our unrepresented management to have to spend some time responding to press inquiries

@violintuner.bsky.social found the Open AI contract burying in the consent calendar of the draft agenda- and discovered the redacted price and retroactive date. Pretty shady of Maria to claim that this was free. 🤔

@jerquecousteau.bsky.social found the SBUSD contract that the SFUSD one referenced. The cost was probably around $228 a license (2.7m), but we pay $324 a license for Gemini so it could've been more! SFUSD remains remarkably spendthrift with everything but the people who do the work!

Oh no don't throw Pete under the bus, he's my favorite dunce in this confederacy of dunces. C'mon

At this point I won’t be surprised if we find out Epstein created Bitcoin to destroy the dollar. I hate it here lmfao.

give them to me give me the poptarts that make you jacked

i just,

After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting. But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Strangely enough they are not responding to comments about the OpenAI contract, which I'm sure is because it is extremely above-board and defensible and not because it raises questions like "Why didn't we bid this" and "Why Hotmail" and "Cost [REDACTED]??????"

How good is social media going for SFUSD, you ask? SO GOOD that over on Facebook they've actually waded into the comments. Idk man we pay our PR folks enough to know better, but I love this for them

Wow poor SFUSD. All they wanted was to hand [REDACTED] to OpenAI as a treat and now people are like "Wouldn't that money be better spent on the living, breathing humans working in your schools???" It's like we think they should focus on children and the people working with children, not rich dudes

Daniel lurie would replace anyone working in the public sector with AI if he could. it helps his big business friends and makes it so the city doesn't have to pay pensions. fuck the mayor

I'm sorry what? Why is SFUSD signing up to use the racist plagiarism, suicide encouragement, and wrong answer machine?

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #ICEOUT #fascism #terrorists

The Venn Diagram of Epstein clients and people affected by CA's future billionaire tax is a circle

naïve users (mislead by hype) often assume “intelligence” from these systems because their interfaces mimic human conversation.

careful context framing and prompt design is critical to getting accurate output.

i’m curious how much training these new Gemini users will get & where the budget is for that. getting value (valid, trustworthy returns) from AI as a technology requires non-trivial knowledge of its strengths & limitations; diligent fact checking of assumptions, interim decisions, and final output

Found the Google contract with SFUSD that includes users for Gemini (also? Holy fuck $324 per user??!?!?!) so SFUSD is already paying for an LLM

SFParents: Millionaires funded by billionaires demanding that teachers accept pennies "for the kids" Like, I am not being lectured by a generationally wealthy woman and her tiny group of wealthy white folks who couldn't do my job if they tried

All these people owe everything they have to the American tax payer and here they are hoarding shit and telling everyone they own everything and need us to pay respect to them.

Why should anyone care what a landlord thinks when we, the taxpayers subsidized your purchase? Landlords should care what we think, and tremble when they ask us about it.

They didn’t get Minneapolis to react with violence so now they’re trying to trigger Portland to go a little crazy being antagonized like this.

This video from last night shows how scared a bird got. Was really sad to see

People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:

SFUSD: We can only afford to give teachers a raise that's lower than COLA because we are so, so broke Also SFUSD: We need to redact the cost of our contract with OpenAI for totally normal reasons like not letting the public know we are spending millions on ChatGPT

A few of Jeffrey Epstein’s famous friends in tech (Elon may have been more of a frenemy)

The No Kings People VOTE! Leigh and Timmy and Matt and Tim and Beth and Mattie are scared shitless! Tarrant County is Blue! It’s the No Kings Era now! #NoKings is a political earthquake!

Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...

If ICE were arresting the "worst of the worst" they would be arresting themselves and their bosses

A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather.

Feel good story of the year 🥹🥹🥹

the epstein stuff is so gross it exceeds my capacity to process any of it while maintaining my ability to function. why are rich people so stupid and mean and gross.

Lots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.

Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album: “Before I say thanks to god, I’m going to say, ICE out. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are humans and we are Americans.”

“The fact ICE is using this app proves the indiscriminate nature of the agency's aggressive/violent incursions into our communities. The app allows ICE to find the closest person to arrest and disappear, using government & commercial data, with the help of Palantir and Trump's Big Brother databases"

SFUSD is too broke to fix special education caseloads, but they have $2.7m to pay for OpenAI licenses? WTF?

It's so cool they've redacted the cost of the contract. I love @jerquecousteau.bsky.social for being out here going through an entirely separate district's contract but it seems less than ideal in terms of, like, being a public school district

Found the contract for OpenAI with San Bernardino. This is for only 500 end users- and it’s 114K. SFUSD’s contract is for 12,000 users. They’ve redacted the cost. This is retroactive. go.boarddocs.com/ca/sbcusd/Bo...

Seems bad that SFUSD is slipping in a contract with OpenAI for a whopping 12,000 end users with a REDACTED price tag, way out at the end of the meeting between requests for field trips and heater upgrades… 🤔🤔

This is a RETROACTIVE AGREEMENT, Meaning it’s already done.