New in Honest Names for LLMs: "Fact-Flavoured Processed Text-Food Product" - Josh Giesbrecht @ thoughtlost.org (h/t @karencampe.bsky.social )

Farrell has been teasing this for months and it’s fantastic

The paperback has finally been published! If Cognitive Load Theory tells us how to avoid overwhelming students, what comes next? Perfectly clear explanations don't guarantee deep understanding. Teaching Meaning, explores what works when telling isn't enough. mybook.to/teachingmean...

Relieved for many reasons today that I’m no longer in higher ed IT. The high wire act of self-hosting a super high-volume LMS (2002-12) gave way to the trust questions of the cloud … I don’t envy them. 😬

Another great Honest Name for LLMs: “glorified Clippy” 📎 via @eclesis.bsky.social

Andreesson understanding LLMs pretty much the way my retired boomer dad does. Great. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[email protected] (citizenmath.com) just did something wild. The entire library -- every one of their thoughtfully, beautifully crafted lessons -- is now free.

Reminder: it’s always a good time to re-watch A League of Their Own. ⚾️🧡

Ok, so the Habs and Sabres tied this year, 2-2. Monty and Fowler each took a loss. Dobeš got both of the wins. 70 shots faced, 66 saves. .943 save %. I like those odds. #GoHabsGo 🚨

New Post: ● The Transmission Trap: What information theory tells us about teaching Shannon's information theory was groundbreaking. As a fundamental theory of communication, it can also tell us something crucial about teaching. #EduSky #UKEd christianmooreanderson.com/the-transmis...

I'm at the Claude w/ Code event in San Francisco, and I'll be live blogging the keynote here: simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/c...

What is it that makes some people spell "technical" words in all caps? Asking in preparation for a ZOOM meeting. 🤔

To whoever is hacking Scratch, a web-based visual coding program for kids, to insert a virus that deletes the projects your kids are working on, you are a supreme asshole. muffin.ink/blog/scratch...

There’s a famous Usenet story about a programmer (Mel) who refused higher level abstractions.

 It was the late 1950s, and even in that era, Mel was…well today we’d call him a boomer.

 Mel only wrote in raw hexadecimal. He didn’t approve of compilers, and refused to use optimizing assemblers.

Last day for free streaming! www.democracyundersiegedoc.org

I launched an indie webcomic hosting platform several months ago that offered a free and a $4/mo paid plan. This was purely to cover the cost of the infrastructure. But in seeing it grow, I'm no longer worried about the cost. So yeah Webcomic Studio is now free. webcomic.studio

New #SlowRevealGraph: Impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on Black Representation in the US House of Representatives

"Talking about problems matters, but so does sharing our good stories—if and when we can." Going into Teacher Appreciation Week, I wanted to lean into the value of sharing the good things that happen in the classroom (even in really difficult months like April) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The crazy part is that the LLM illusion comes for us all. If your instincts and theory of mind have helped you get where you are--"successful" or even just an everyday smart person--you're susceptible to it. You gotta learn, then *constantly* remind yourself, the right way to think about LLMs.

"Yes, this worked. That does not mean that it's ALL that works." ... nicely put in a recent teacher youtube short by @hashtagjrupp.bsky.social. Narrowness-of-focus + self-certainty = claims that are more broad than they have the right to be. Don't fall into the trap.

Another Honest Name for LLMs: “improv machines” H/t: @amyhoy.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/amy....

Fun activity to try with students, after reading @nsrnicek.bsky.social’s Platform Capitalism: ask them to draw the “water cycle” of platform capitalism

The pre-formulated questions are a perfect example of why this shit is so annoying. Those are *exactly* the wrong questions for the purpose for which I want to share the article.

Just seen: online ad for a rice cooker "✨ with fuzzy logic✨". So ... it's back to the 90s now, and we DON'T call things "AI"? 🤣

We hope you'll join us at the OAME conference in London, ON from April 30 - May 1.

New, in Honest Names for LLMs: “Human expertise laundering machine” -Jon Stewart on the @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social

As an old-school software dev, brought up on detailed code reviews, exacting standards, and precise documentation, seeing the new world of vibecoding is completely baffling. That it also doesn't work makes it double baffling. I'm used to "stupid but it works" but "stupid and also crap" is 🤯

Deep breath. Just took the snow shovels in off the front porch. #montreal #hubris

for white supremacists the paradox they are *constantly* wrestling with is "if we're so superior why are we losing" for male supremacists it's the same: "if men are so naturally superior where did all the patriarchy go" one way out is this desperate reinscription of the natural

Release day! The ebook & hardback are live. The first book for teachers based on *enactive* cognitive science, please consider leaving a review when you're done (it really helps). (Paperback readers: Amazon is having a glitch, so it's slightly delayed.) mybook.to/teachingmean...

The WaPo editorial board when Republicans gerrymander in Texas versus when Democrats gerrymander in Virginia.

@mrtomrad.bsky.social quoting the one properly-reticent executive on an AI panel a year ago: “We can only transfer a portion of reality into computational language.” Pretty sure that take is still a good one. mrtomrad.medium.com/i-went-to-30...

Yes, I’m settling in at my desk for a day of writing. But this is today’s coffee mug, a gift from that store. It’s diner-perfect. 😌 Can you blame me for thinking about buying companion dishes?

omg. I just nostalgia'd so hard. 🥹 www.fishseddy.com/collections/...

Another #MathRoutineCollab today, and a chance to hang out online with ma' math buds! 🤓 Super thanks to @sneffleupagus.bsky.social and @fawnnguyen.substack.com. ❤️✨ ... and @karencampe.bsky.social @saravanderwerf.bsky.social fun to see you too! ... /

Pet peeve: when actors in a movie pronounce a main character's name differently. Nothing breaks the illusion for me faster. 🙄

Hi hi! It's been a while. I'm excited to share how I facilitate a 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 routine! Hope to learn from you also. 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟵, 𝗮𝘁 𝟭:𝟬𝟬 𝗣𝗠 𝗣𝗦𝗧 Register for the Math Routine Collaborative at strongermath.com/mrc @sneffleupagus.bsky.social @mfannie.bsky.social @ralphpantozzi.bsky.social

Update: Success. A delicious little cross-breeze is indeed going. Happy spring, Montreal. ☺️🏡🌷

Current status: seeing if we can get a cross-breeze going here.

[brain break during thesis writing] Let's play Math Education Scrabble. I'm coming at you with KAZEMI and HINTZ. Who ya got? #iteachmath #nicheskeet

Next in Honest Names for LLMs: “Dunning-Kruger-Driven Tech Debt Machine” 😱

Today’s the day! Just a few hours left to register and attend OAME2026 in-person. Visit mcis.oame.on.ca #letstalkmath

Lrp I am once again humbly recommending everyone to read these two novels.

His talk is simultaneously grave and calculated, loose and cheap. This is his trick. It's well beyond time to put an end to it.

I wish I could say this loud enough, hard enough, viral enough that no one else would ever have to be terminal to realize it deep in their bones: This is what you get. These days. Screaming will not get you a refund or replacement. Your job is to *make* what you can out of it while you're here.

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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