Parents, we need to organize. Find your people. We cannot continue to allow our kids to be nothing more than data sold to Ed tech companies. If you’re in NYC check out @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

Great week to be visiting London 💚💚💚

@mayor.nyc.gov @nycdoe.bsky.social - listen to the kids. No AI in their schools!

"Gen Z Is Turning Against AI": 100+ New Yorkers testified against the DOE's AI policies at marathon meeting

Students across New York couldn’t log into state math exams Wednesday morning, raising fresh questions about the transition to computer-based testing.

My son is taking the NY state math test today. First time they’re having them on a computer. Naturally schools were told to train the kids to use laptops all year so they could do well on the tests. We just learned there is some outage and they have to reschedule the exam 🫠

This article frames tech as a battleground between parents and schools. But I was chatting the other day with a school official who's leading an effort to shift her district away from device-based learning, and she told me--every teacher she's talked to is on board. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/t...

Some great quotes in this article, and yes @mayor.nyc.gov we are waiting for you to weigh in here

Glad Randi is starting to listen but this was her stance mere months ago. Our actions are working, we just need to continue to be loud.

HUGE win for NYC organizers - no AI-themed high school will open this fall. Momentum is on our side! This is incredible. Come to the PEP on Wednesday and tell them: no AI for our kids. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...

Not only is every aspect of this insane, all of the talking heads on MSNOW are in formal wear. What fucking movie am I in

he looks like he's doing loss prevention in the local cvs

the reason a lot of women who are critics of gAI understand very clearly the rhetoric of AI pushers who want to defang critiques ("hysterical," "angry," "hysterical", "irrational") is because some of us at least encounter these descriptors any time we have an opinion, no matter how measured it is.

To put it bluntly, community advocacy is the only thing standing between Big Tech and your child. Students, educators, caregivers and advocates devoting countless hours rummaging through contracts, board minutes, and legislative records to hold the powerful accountable for AI abuses against kids

A great piece that mentions two groups I am proud to work with, including @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social So far NYCPS, our district 14 superintendent, our chancellor, and even @mayor.nyc.gov haven’t listened to us, so maybe more press will help! www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

This is totally working. I’m in a few parent/school-related group chats and suddenly last week some moms started worrying they would be “left behind” if they didn’t “learn AI.” Asking how they can “get educated.” I had to make sure they weren’t bots; it was bizarre. Thanks, Reese!

I would sit in the glider reading this like the Bible

Hey, NYC! Sick of "A.i." getting pushed into everything? Here's a rally for an A.I. Moratorium for NYC Schools, Thursday April 16, 4 pm, City Hall Park! High five to @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social @comradeswkids.bsky.social and others for organizing!

@audreywatters.bsky.social nails it today - no one wants AI in schools, no one needs AI in schools, companies keep trying to force it down the throats of kids.

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

Yes! And Thursday April 16 is a beautiful day to come to a rally!

Hey, NYC! Here's something you go to TODAY if you're horrified by Trump's threat of genocide! Thank you, @handsoffnycfams.bsky.social @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social @comradeswkids.bsky.social !

This final definitely needs a Guster is for Lovers laptop sticker.

I present to y'all - the logos of the Eastern Arizona Gila Monsters.

If this disgusts/enrages/upsets you, please check out @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social and sign our petition if you’re in NYC!

If you love the Bryant Park woodcock, you can help them, and other migratory birds, reach their destinations safely by turning out your lights and drawing your curtains at night. www.audubon.org/our-work/cit...

Three things made me a democratic socialist: low-wage jobs, the labor movement, and the presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders. His political revolution changed my life — and showed millions of Americans what's possible when working people organize. I am so grateful for his support.

I stand with the socialists in office, including Zohran Mamdani, in supporting endorsing AOC for Congress! I've already signed, please sign too if you're in NYC. (Re tweet because of the new post)

On trans day of visibility, I always want to acknowledge those who can't be visible. Because it's not safe, they're not ready, or they're still figuring it out. Whatever the reason, whatever amount of visibility: you are valid, you deserve joy, you are loved. <3

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Books should take forever to write. They should torture you your entire life and the things you could have said slightly better should haunt you forever. This is what art is for, transferring the discomfort of being human into something relatable to the other humans

It doesn’t even smell like hot piss yet!

Breaking🚨: Parents and caregivers just blocked traffic in front of @governor.ny.gov’s office to protest her climate law rollbacks. We won’t stand by while she sacrifices our children for her corporate donors.

ICYMI, I got to talk to dynamic duo @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social for the 404 Media podcast. we get into what keeps us hopeful, why Emily is done with the word "democratizing" in AI, and ridicule as praxis. listen wherever you get your pods! www.404media.co/ridicule-as-...

No Kings DC, saw this inflatable Trump taking a bloody shit on the Constitution in front of the Washington monument

Duke loses in humiliating fashion but Dan Hurley gets to celebrate another Final Four appearance.

Raise the flag

Congrats to Outright Big East Regular Season Second Place and Big East Tourney runner up #uconn huskies on making the final four. The UConn whistle neutralized the Duke whistle and the Big East reigns supreme.

ok that was the funniest way for duke to go

I am cheering for the Big East, to be clear.

Watching other schools play in the NCAA Tournament: “This is so fun and exciting. I love the tournament!” Watching my school play: “This is awful. Why do I do this. Victory will not bring relief, but rather a brief respite from this feeling before it returns in the next game.”

Tough way to end the season, but Zuby Ejiofor is going out with a hell of a game to end his college career. 17/8/6 against Top 5 pick Cameron Boozer & the Blue Devils. Appreciate everything he brought to Jamaica & the excitement he & Rick Pitino brought to the team. #StJohns

Same

It was a good season. But this sums it up right now. #sjubb

But really who decides this shit?! It’s so dumb

Currently reading Dragonborn by Struan Murray with my 8 year old. Magic, dragons, misunderstood kids at a magical school, and a plot ripe with metaphors for discovering yourself. Also, the author doesn’t openly hate trans kids! bookshop.org/p/books/drag...

Personally, I think it's important that children be taught about all the early Saddle Creek bands. Not just Cursive, but Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo Kiley, and even The Good Life. Hear hear!