the thing is that there are lots of modest, tedious, repetitive tasks in many of our jobs and lives where we might be happy to pay a fee for an ethically developed standalone tool to do only that task. but we can’t have that because it won’t make people rich enough

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

AI is not inevitable. If we had sane people in government that were not in thrall to billionaire tech CEOs, LLMs could be regulated, forced to obey existing copyright laws, and banned from places where their use is inappropriate, such as college classes. This should be a moderate position.

To help unpack the linguistics behind Heated Rivalry, we talked to the hit TV show’s Russian dialect coach, Kate Yablunovsky, on Science Quickly. spklr.io/6046DZbdq 🎤: Kate Yablunovsky ✏️: Allison Parshall, Kendra Pierre-Louis 🎞️: Kylie Murphy 🎵: TripleScoop Footage from Heated Rivalry (HBO/Crave)

"Over half of students now use computers for one to four hours daily in school; a full quarter spend more than four hours on screens during a typical seven-hour school day." ...with zero evidence that this is good for student learning. www.educationnext.org/latter-day-l...

AI is built on stolen labor and powered by data centers that are and will be placed in Black communities to poison us. It's really clear.

Scoop: The Interior Department directed all its bureaus and offices to delete non-English content from their websites by the end of the day Tuesday, according to an internal notice from its IT shop. federalnewsnetwork.com/technology-m...

huh.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

If only there were a newspaper in Washington, perhaps one owned by a person of considerable wealth, that still employed “metro” reporters who could cover a story of such intense local interest and importance

I cannot say this enough: there is NO middle ground when it comes to writing and AI. Anyone who uses AI to write and admits it should be loudly shamed, hideously embarrassed, paraded through the streets of shun until they flee writing forever

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

I'm going to say this again in case you haven't heard this one: I was a talented writer and it did *nothing whatsoever* because I hadn't put in the work, and I put in the work for ten years (subtracting the bit where I had to quit for my mental health) to write Witchmark talent alone could *never*

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

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Grief has a point, even as gut wrenching and consuming as it feels. I cannot think of anything unhealthier for me right now, as I grapple with my mother's loss, than engaging with a chabot of her--neither human nor real in any meaningful way. Not to mention, she would haunt me if I tried this.

I’m gonna name it. This isn’t a case of “legitimately differing opinions.” It is blatant professorial malpractice to adopt/allow genAI (or really *any* new edtech) just b/c we are told that we must. Especially in the humanities classroom, the only “ethical use” or reasonable stance is to keep it out

Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak. But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.

Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...

Setting aside elementary curriculum & instruction for the moment, we've known for decades much of what it takes to encourage reading in and out of school by secondary students regardless of gender, and instead of doing this, we've plied them with edtech, apps, test prep, and devices they carry 24/7.

There is definitely a belief that we aren’t working hard enough, but the really harmful obsession is that student learning must always be measurable. Everything must be quantified and observed. In that mindset, independent reading is a waste of time.

This might well become a thread. I am calling it 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?'

So in sum: Google put a result at the top of the page that (1) did not seem to actually come from where they claimed to have gotten it and (2) was wrong. What worked in the end was good old-fashioned close attention, logic and patience. (/fin)

This thread really gets at something important in writing/lit classrooms.

look im a text based life form, im too old to adapt to getting my information from a video or a podcast, please provide transcripts that i can speed read and copy paste

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

It’s meeeeeeeee! Let me know what you think.

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

After the Boston Massacre, the soldiers responsible were arrested and received fair trials. King George recalled the regiment to England, and then American leaders were like “good, that was enough, we’ll remain your loyal subjects forever…” wait, that’s not right…

Newly updated today: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is awful and another chilling story and also this looks like a still from Ironic by Alanis Morissette and I got so confused.

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

"Terrible things are happening outside ... poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." — Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

The more I hear about new ed tech tools - AI or non AI - the more I'm struck by the fact that many of them mimic actions that can easily be done without any tech at all. I don't include, though, a fair number (though not, by any stretch, most) tools designed for English Language Learners

Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.

Hear, hear.

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

"The sweeping study... found that using AI in education can 'undermine children's foundational development' and that 'the damages it has already caused are daunting.'" They include limiting kids' cognitive, social, and emotional developmen, and increasing inequity. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.

been thinking a lot about James Baldwin recently - from a 1970 documentary

this, driving a person to suicide because they had the temerity to want to work in public service, is what russ vought hoped to accomplish

Still a few years in and waiting to be convinced about how AI helps deepen student learning, btw

Hannah Natanson is an exceptional reporter and should never have been subjected to this type of extraordinary intimidation tactic. We have few details now, but it’s hard to interpret this as anything other than an attempt to squash the freedom of the press.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2680: Don’t be afraid of failure. Failure means you tried something. No one ever succeeds without trying and failing - often, many times.

The article that enraged the govt enough to raid the home of Washington Post reporter @hannahnatanson.bsky.social ⤵️ Natanson's experience covering the way the administration was dismantling the govt was so intense that it "nearly broke her."' She's 29 years old. Gift link: wapo.st/49BQBrh

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'