I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.

The teaching part isn't just getting a student an answer, it's helping them think critically about what they are trying to figure out and how to ask the Qs that will get them to the correct answer or relevant resource. The journey is as important as the destination. You can't outsource that.

This is such a great photo. Probably the best of all the #ArtemisII photos. Diversity, international collaboration, humanities, science, art, engineering, the desire for exploring, the drive of human curiosity, the reward of years of dedicated hard work, and just pure joy. It's all in there.

The entire Republican Party still supports him.

And get them from Bookshop instead!

he's such a piece of shit on just absolutely every level.

Why do right wingers love to keep guns right above their genitals so much?

Appropriate since snakes do not have arms.

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

helloooo, I am a space traveler

You see? Humans can do good

The perfect millenial phishing scheme does not exi-

well this is nice at least

Everyone is forgetting these marine workers trapped around the strait.

1/x Just over one day to go untill #ArtemisII splashes down near the California coast. Here is a map showing the ground-projected approach trajectory which I created using HORIZONS State Vector data and (for the very last bit) a Tudat ballistic continuation of the last State Vector

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out my homie Chantal if you like Black Southern Gothic writing!

That spot — where the union of the figs main branches formed a flat platform — was a multi-species latrine. Never before has such a latrine been reported. This discovery changes our understanding of life in the canopy. planetficus.substack.com/p/seventeen-...

Idk what Arthurian enthusiast needs to hear this but Avignon comes from the Latin “Avenio.” It does NOT have a relationship to the word “Avalon” which is thought to come from the Proto-Brythonic “aβaln,”for “apple tree”

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Like "giant ground sloths are why we have avocados" or "opossums significantly keep tick populations down". Both are untrue, but you still get lots of people repeating them. I used to share both of those "facts" before thinking "you know, I've never actually looked up the source for that."

Sometimes I really like being wrong, because finding out how I'm wrong can be so much more entertaining than being right.

Evergreen.

The Iran war went so horribly that Donald Trump now has his wife Melania hold a press conference to discuss Jeffrey Epstein. Trump is now using the Epstein files to distract from Iran war--which was started to distract from Epstein. Clearly we all died during Covid and this is hell!

The best thing about JD Vance is that everyone hates him

"JD Vance is historically the least popular vice president at this point in their vice presidency." More unpopular than Dick Cheney. 😬

1/ I’m frankly tired of everyone failing to do their job thoroughly and properly. Dems in office need to be way louder, way more demanding, far more savvy, and actual leaders. Their bodies carry every constituent they represent. Their demand that the Constitution is upheld needs to be relentless.

Fascinating stuff. I hope my friends & colleagues working in Kanyawara (both Ngogo & Kibale) don't lose research opportunities due to the bad funding priorities of this administration. 😢

Came home today and saw a monarch on the ground, then quickly realized it was two monarchs making more monarchs. Btw, in pic1 you can see one easy way of telling males from females: males have a black spot on each hind wing, made of thickened specialized scales which produce pheromones. #Bugsky 🐙🌿

Everyone else: Everyone else: Everyone else: Me, at a sudden press conference: I would like to clarify that the dump truck full of bodies is not registered to me.

Oh, we're about to learn about something horrible, aren't we

Today, House Democrats tried to bring another War Powers Resolution to the floor. Republicans blocked us. As gas prices soar and troops are put in harm’s way, the GOP continues to be complicit in this reckless war.

The fuck is this shit? What is she getting out ahead of?

On Confederate Surrender Day, remember that Pete Hegseth keeps incororating Confederate Christianity into the Department of Defense (look up CREC pastor Doug Wilson, I'm not being snarky), and we need a much better Reconstruction 2.0 if this country is going to survive.

I love looking at these photos. They make it clear how vibrant the moon really is. Not just some static rock, but a vast history with each texture that’s still be written today. These photos make that salient.

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world. In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear. Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error. Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

Q: what does “thought leadership” even mean? Is it as well-defined as “excellence”? 🤔

I gotta be real that this is probably for the best considering how often their toilet is not working

Something I'm sure someone will make soon is a list of how many of these canceled missions are *already flying* - meaning the vast majority of the monetary investment has already taken place, and cancelation is just destroying value the American taxpayer has already paid for.

The freaky thing about the world's worst analogy here is: he's comparing Iran to his wife, but Iran has demonstrated it is not defeated and does not obey the Trump Admin.; Vance seems unable to comprehend this. May his wife get some ideas, and may he realize he's skydiving w/out parachute.

Trying to hide these cancelations shows that the administration knows how unpopular this is - with Congress and with the public - but they're still trying to cut NASA in half while the crew of Artemis hasn't even returned to Earth.

Just reconnected with a House Dem aide I haven't talked to in months (years?) and asked how things are going: "I've moved from the basement of purgatory to the lobby of hell." 😂

I was just thinking this 25th Amendment push was a little too coordinated to be coincidence. This is a classic “look at the bunny” tactic to turn everyone’s head the other direction while they avoid doing their jobs just a little bit longer.

Resign already, John. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

I’ve been really appreciating all of @swapnakrishna.com’s insights on the #Artemis II mission — I definitely recommend following her and reading/watching all her coverage!

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

“‘They threw away all my drawings,’ said 15-year-old Cariexis Quintero on a video chat w/Terrazas … Her mother, displaying a pile of colorful paper scraps, detailed how the guards ‘stormed into her room looking for drawings and letters’ and then ‘destroyed what they found,’ Terrazas reports.”

The students protesting the war in Iran are asking "Why is the media not covering our campus protests?" and I think I figured it out — the media is too busy writing thinkpieces on "Where are the campus protests?" to actually cover the campus protests.

For Asian #kidlit writers: not sure if you saw this picture book contest coming up next month? This is for unpublished authors (self-pub'd can apply) go.teachercreatedmaterials.com/free-spirit/...

where are all the dipshits complaining about how this generation of students are 'weak' and asking why they aren't protesting Trump as opposed to anti-genocide protests