Trillions have been invested into AI and I find myself absolutely bored reading AI generated answers. I prefer reading students writing with all those errors and mistakes. Humans learning, failing, and struggling is interesting. Trillions spent and it's still not anywhere near as good as you.

Governor appointed Senators and Representatives should not be able to run for office for the seat they filled. It's especially undemocratic for a lame duck governor to appoint a replacement elected official. This gives an appointee a huge advantage over the rest of the field in an election.

I am listening to the Fairbanks Borough Assembly meeting tonight. I am interested in this ordinance.

University of Alaska President Pat Pitney plans to retire at the end of the school year in May, she said Thursday. She spent nearly 30 years working in various roles with the university.

I cannot believe the Pearl Creek charter APC submitted a letter like this. It is over the top accusatory and antagonistic to the school board and district administration.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

If you are against larger class sizes, opening a school only the well off can attend, or AI slop then please take the time to write both the DEED commisioner and state board in opposition of the Pearl Creek charter application appeal. [email protected] [email protected]

Not only did Mayor Grier attend Pearl Creek, but so did his wife and her siblings. His sister-in-law is on the PCSC APC. Mayor Grier also lives just up the hill from the former Pearl Creek school and clearly intends to have the school available for his own child…

Mayor Grier Hopkins is quoted in the Pearl Creek Charter appeal that they filed yesterday from a News-Miner article published two days ago. How involved is our borough mayor in this effort to defund our school district? bsky.app/profile/worm...

Here's Pearl Creek STEAM Charter appeal application to DEED commissioner Bishop www.pearlcreeksteamschool.com/_files/ugd/0...

If you are against larger class sizes, opening a school only the well off can attend, or AI slop then please take the time to write both the DEED commisioner and state board in opposition of the Pearl Creek charter application appeal. [email protected] [email protected]

A guy in Kodiak shot himself in the groin after attempting to stack a loaded shotgun on top of another gun. Genius.

Mayor Grier Hopkins is relying on the Pearl Creek charter's appeal to be successful. He plans on locking the borough into a long term lease that has yet to be negotiated to save his neighborhood school that he attended as a kid. www.newsminer.com/news/local_n...

This will definitely fix MLB's gambling problem. No way will addicts attempt to circumvent this.

Humans, in aggregate, are pretty amazing.

Dan Sullivan’s choice for Alaska District Court Judge is disbarred, the sex pest Joshua Kindred. Now Dan Sullivan is picking more Alaska District Court nominees in a secret process that doesn’t include Lisa Murkowski.

A blast from the past by @matt.akmemo.com I wonder how Tammie Wilson feels about jury nullification today? www.newsminer.com/news/local_n...

"I think we all actually have a necessity to answer the question, what would be the way that you personally or people that you talk to, people in your circles, would choose to fund these additional elements" Ruffridge Easy! Cut corrections and state troopers. Fund teachers and schools.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Anchorage and Seattle-Tacoma airports are among 40 across the U.S. that will see flights cut starting Friday due to the government shutdown.

She's become Lora Reinbold

There it is. Every aspect of commercial airspace in this country is built on another. The ripple effect from 10% reduction goes everywhere. (Like how a blizzard shutting down JFK impacts Atlanta & Miami.) Now, call your reps & tell them to get their lazy selves back to work. The House must open.

The Speaker of the House is getting paid not to work while the NTSB team heading to the crash site in Kentucky is not. Mike Johnson needs to call the House back in session or get his ass down there and shift some wreckage. He needs to experience what dedicated federal employees do for a living.

A Pope once dug up the body of another Pope, put the dead Pope on trial, and then desecrated the corpse by cutting off the fingers the dead Pope used for blessings. I wouldn't piss off the Pope.

The Carter Foundations work to eradicate Guinea worm is remarkable. I use Guinea worm to teach about disease in developing countries and disease eradication efforts.

Thank you, Georgia Public Broadcasting, for airing tonight the heroic story of the “Guinea worm warriors” who have brought one of the world’s largest parasites affecting humans to the brink of eradication.

option 1: high deductible w hsa. the cost share has gone up from 25% iirc option 2: the default silver plan which… that was not the deductible last year

Happy Halloween!

A few years ago, I got a terrible haircut. It was one of those Richard Spencer fascist haircuts. I was mad. I haven't even gotten a haircut since although I'll trim it eventually. That was a haircut so I'm not really buying keeping a Nazi tattoo.

I just realized that Mike Shower will be resigning from the seat that Mike Dunleavy resigned from. Dunleavy will have picked both his replacement and his replacement's replacement. Democracy!

"We wish to acknowledge that this school resides on the ancestral land of the Dena’ina and Ahtna people who have stewarded this area for thousands of years. Our community thrives thanks to their continued sharing of vision, wisdom, values, and leadership"

Alaska prosecutors charge Knights of Ni with significant Medicaid fraud, writes @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alask...

Alaska Watchman wrote "Do you know what the queers are doing to the soil?"

Pearl Creek STEAM Charter is calling for folks to write in to support their appeal. Only 7 legislators are listed, not all 9 that represent Fairbanks. They left Sen Mike Cronk and Rep Rebecca Schwanke off their list. SD R and HD 36 both fall within the former Pearl Creek attendance boundaries.

Just saw something like this in Ester. A giant log stacker driving down the Parks.

Grapevine reports of suspected roofying, or date rape drugging, at the bars in Juneau this weekend, please be aware this Halloween. Sadly, this predatory behavior is nothing new in Alaska. I wrote about it in 2023 - watch out, and call out the creeps if you see them. www.kbbi.org/local-news/2...

As of this morning, still no decision from Mary Peltola as to what her plans are for 2026. (LONG THREAD) In her defense, it's a BIG decision, with the understandable concern for her political future coming into conflict with the need to save democracy itself!

Taking a moment for the destruction of the peoples’ house. #Anchorage

Great editorials on Pearl Creek by school board member Morgan Dulian and @bikewritedave.bsky.social www.newsminer.com/opinion/comm...

It's bad we are using state school dollars to prop up a weird, creepy sports focused christian "school". www.adn.com/sports/2025/...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy's administration has signed a contract with a national law firm to review a commitment by his former Department of Revenue to invest tens of millions of dollars from state savings in a digital infrastructure firm.

Press release just went out...

Fairbanks Urology offers this service. I think urologist like to sell everyone on testosterone therapy these days. fairbanksurology.com/treatment/te...

Here's the News-Miner's coverage of last night. "None of the APC members were present in the board room for the vote.... Like a teacher grading a paper, the board found the APC’s charter application riddled with errors." Great reporting. www.newsminer.com/news/educati...

No one testified in support of the charter tonight. Look, if you believe in your application you should support it. Instead, they didn't show up because they think DEED or Deena Bishop will approve it anyways so they can skip this meeting. This is not how the public process should work.

A map of how Alaska voted and a map of SNAP households, both by region. Go be an incurious moose nugget somewhere else.

The Fairbanks school board meeting just started. They'll be voting on the Pearl Creek STEAM Charter application tonight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSfm...

Just remember when we can't afford to increase school funding or capital improvement projects or road maintenance. I hope someone will run on a platform to defund AIDEA. #akleg

The News-Miner write up on Pearl Creek mentions the attempt this spring to keep "$4.5 million [in] funding earmarked for improving the school’s parking lot and traffic circulation after the school was selected for closure" Here's minutes from that meeting www.newsminer.com/news/local_n...