all the tools and strategies we are coming up with to combat AI errors and problems are starting to feel like epicycles in the ptolemaic system when we already had a copernican system.

It’s long, but it doesn’t just critique Roland Fryer. It’s a larger point about the neoliberalization. That process succeeds in no small part because “entrepreneurs” in the guise of educators and experts reduce the discourse to simple terms everyone can parrot but few can examine.

Harvard's grade cap is contrary to the educational mission in many ways. That mission would also be best served by doing away with grades altogether. open.substack.com/pub/jeffreyf...

Can a president legally, constitutionally or morally settle his own lawsuit — then use the money to compensate political allies? Trump’s new “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is triggering alarms. A law and political science scholar explains what’s going on: theconversation.com/when-a-presi...

Harvard, the thought-leader in producing leaders for the leader class, is capping As. Grade inflation is a problem if you think grades tell you much useful in the first place, less so if you don’t. Instead of making grades artificially harder to get, bullshit that incentivizes students in

Alpha School is completely full of shit, from their educational model to their employment model to their revenue model. jeffreyfisher.substack.com/p/alpha-scho...

I'm fascinated by these relatively smart people who anthropomorphize software despite being told repeatedly that the "sentience" and "personality" of "AI" are an algorithmic card trick

If you're a young leftist looking for an inspirational model for politics and can't come up with anyone better than Stalin or Mao I'm going to encourage you to read a second book.

Alexander Kustov's narrow (and exclusive) definition of academia in terms of knowledge production is a dead end and fatal to the idea of education. you should step back and think about what you’re saying, and to whom, and refine your language. jeffreyfisher.substack.com/p/homer-was-...

Here are the 7 senate democrats who voted to continue sending bombs to Netanyahu. Richard Blumenthal (CT) Chris Coons (DE) Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) John Fetterman (PA) Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) Jackie Rosen (NV) Chuck Schumer (NY)

very worth watching dont know if Tad Stoermer is on bsky www.tiktok.com/t/ZTk54Gv7P/

Can we have a moment of silence for Hampshire? :-( higher ed is not just dying. it's being actively killed off. the closure of Hampshire just drives more students to career-focused schools where it's harder to become a person you'll love but you haven't yet imagined.

LOL um

Commentary: Some Pennsylvania hospitals are being pushed beyond the brink of closure. The UNC Sheps Center has documented 195 rural hospitals that have closed or converted to outpatient facilities since January 2005. Six are in Pa. From @us.theconversation.com

The receipts: www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Weird. The evidence shows that it's ICE doing that, not the immigrants. Also, he mispronounced "Fuck ICE".

okay here’s a start. we need to let people in who used to be on the other side, and we need to do so without ensuring they have self-flagellated sufficiently to deserve our “trust” or whatever. if you don’t want to trust the dems, build a *viable* alternative open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

If a conservative racist like Magyar is willing to actually scour the Hungarian government of Orbán acolytes then I don't know how U.S. Democrats could possibly look much worse by comparison. Biden didn't even fire Louis DeJoy.

Energy policy think tanks keep putting out proposals like "give Mark Zuckerberg sole control over our utility rates by making him America's next grid czar" and the people in Everytown, America are like "go ahead and fuckin try"

Dear GOP: Please send Vance out to campaign for your candidates in the midterms.

i would really like to see more on this angle about international far-right coordination. if the lesson of all this work is just, hey, we can coordinate, too, well, this analysis does not seem necessary to reach that conclusion. i admit i recoil somewhat at the biological metaphor of contagion.

historic rejection of JD Vance

wow. f right off

this is a big win. let's see if it's indicative of anything broader. What could we do to build these connections and cross-border cooperation? the fascisti are supporting each other all over the world. what about the rest of us?

yay?

Well played, Mr Sarutobi.

this’ll go well

COVID-19 variant BA.3.2, quietly circulating since late 2024, is now spreading rapidly across the U.S. Current vaccines aren’t a close match, raising the risks, explains a pulmonary and critical care doctor, who reminds us to wash our hands. theconversation.com/covid-19-var...

why is it so unsurprising that Ferguson and people like him present themselves as reasonable and sensible until they get a platform like The Free Press, and then they show us who they were all along? rhetorical question, really. but they build their brand in phase one and then pull the switcheroo

I recall reading an article years and years ago in the NYT Magazine in which one of the teachers they talked to was quoted explaining that the most important thing a teacher brings to a group of students is their ability to hear the specific way in which a student is misunderstanding something and

Why would the US/Israelis bother striking a road bridge? The B1 road bridge was in the final stages of construction and not open to road traffic. Therefore, it had no military value. Conclusion? This was a punitive and disproportionate attack on civilian infrastructure: a potential war crime.

remember when Trump had Maduro kidnapped and lots of us on the left were accused of supporting dictators because we argued that it was a pointless exercise in US domination that would accomplish exactly ZERO LIBERATION of actual Venezuelans? apnews.com/article/vene...

I just made this for @jfisher.bsky.social, but I don’t understand how it hasn't been made a thousand times before

Tell Your State To Pass This Model Law to Protect Your Elections From ICE. NOW. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tell-...

Now that we're no longer arguing about whether or not to rescue Chomsky or condemn him, let's look at what this tells us about the political situation we find ourselves in.

This will lead to AI “rewrites” that are defamatory. I say this with certainty because Grammarly regularly advises me to remove adverbs like “allegedly” and “apparently.”

fwiw. maybe the left could put some thought into how we organize and how we understand and relate to allies, colleagues, and leaders. mainly on Kent but also Chavez and Harris

And in case you thought there weren't enough hot takes on sam altman's recent freudian slip, here's another one. but how many have you read that talk about Douglas Adams and Deep Thought? jeffreyfisher.substack.com/p/more-human...

one central reason student evals don’t work is that we don’t really have a clear, concrete, specific, universally applicable framework for identifying “quality instruction." I would argue that we not only can’t have one, we shouldn’t even want one and shouldn’t be trying to make one.

the demo you cultivated turns out to respond to the very things you cultivated them to respond to in you.

surely others on this platform remember the dark clippy meme about the suicide note. little did we know then substack.com/@jeremybney/...

a great fucking story, in case you haven’t read it. and relevant.

“forcefully throwing a sub-style sandwich.” good thing it wasn’t a hard roll? it’s always the tough guys who can’t take it. but i’m a bit surprised at how little i’m hearing people talk about trump’s new “you spit; we hit” rule.

Terry Cole, head of the DEA and named by Attorney General Pam Bondi as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” is a member of a right-wing MAGA group on LinkedIn — the group's 17,000+ members regularly post conspiracy theories and call for the arrest of Donald Trump's political opponents.

i don’t love it, but it’s got a lot going for it. i just would like us to undermine the idea that education is job training at all. and of course i love ted chiang. how can you not?

markwayne mullin, who challenged SOB to a fight in a senate hearing, is always ready to run away in the event of a carjacking. be prepared, kids! also good to know that he’s more worried about a carjacking than an accident that could kill him, because now we can be sure that he can’t do math.

some really good stuff in here. “Farmworkers want people to push back against ICE. It is a risk to come out and challenge ICE publicly, knowing that there is a high potential of being targeted, but at the same time we can’t let communities be terrorized.”

Aparna is both a tenant and labor organizer - need more of those people on city councils. check out the launch video

on value capture, from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s _elite capture_, as well as a subsequent page on excess value. i really don’t understand why this book has not gotten more attention.