Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

We would argue that humans, especially kids, are learning beings. But the structures and systems of schooling are not always compatible with what we know about learning and motivation, and rather than change kids, let's change systems. 😁

We sent 9 weeks reading Catcher in the Rye and 9 weeks reading The Outsider at my public High School in the mid-1980s. I can count on two hands the number of my classmates who regularly read books outside of school. Kids should be reading more, but be wary of overly nostalgic declension narratives.

I’m so happy that everyone is chatting about the public library every day on blue sky. I love the library and I love that everyone here loves the library.

What they're actually saying is, "If you consider a woman (which we all know are novel objects that talk rather than people) to be a person, then your personhood as a man is compromised by empathy with property." When you break it down like that it isn't remotely funny.

“Yall don’t want to hear me. Yall just want to dance.” -3000

Yes. Yes. Yes. Students use LLMs because they have never, not just now, had enough time & space for learning. And they are frequently missing knowledge about how the various resources work. We just skipped right over that to "they're going to use it anyway so we have to integrate it into pedagogy."

Having to identify oneself as disabled to access accommodations is, on its own, a huge barrier to getting many disabled people the accommodations they need.

we actually life in hell

Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.

It's also worth noting that romanticizing the rule of law means adopting a wholly false perspective around what the law is, who it targets, who it privileges, and how it functions—or I suppose it could just be an embrace of that hierarchy, which is also... a problem.

Lord I see what You’ve done for others

Attacking trans children is about attacking all children in the same way attacking trans autonomy is about attacking all bodily autonomy. Our actions are particularly powerful, autonomous and brave, and that means even well meaning ppl find us ideologically disturbing

They have to come for children because children are usually less willing to accept "thats just the way it is" as an explanation for why they cant do things. Adults all carry the trauma of having that "WHY?" beaten out of them, and so are often willing participants in passing that violence along

It’s just that almost everything is worse today than it was even a year ago. I hate it.

Also god damn would you be surprised how many things you for sure knew that you didn’t fully understand. Sometimes very obvious ones. Try it today

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

The culture of disposability around criminalized people set us up for this moment, and to fight fascism, we are going to have to rage against that culture of disposal. Submitting to it (or hiding behind it) is an egregious form of surrender.

this is actually a really common way of understanding the world among pundits where events can only be classified if they fit a strict definition and if they don’t fit that definition then they cannot be classified in that way. it is as if they see definitions as structuring reality.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

The absolute collapse of their stupid AI ruse — hopefully followed by a massive wave of tech regulation and imprisoning the politicians who enabled this — cannot come soon enough.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

She says parents organized presser, rally, and arranged legal rep for the woman taken. “Diana is a part of us, and we will not stay silent.” “We demand schools be treated as safe spaces… Federal agents need to be held accountable for entering this establishment illegally.”

Gonna see if I can grab a bottle of sparkling wine to drink at this launch. Not in a celebratory way, I just like bubbles. If anything, I’ll be champanicking,

And then remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks. It leaks.

we did it babes.... we're the opposite of cooked. what is that. we're ingredients

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!

Old Lady felt bad, and said "I'm so sorry" to the officer. She was then charged with resisting, with the state alleging she intended to harm the officer, and her apology was offered as evidence of "consciousness of guilt." That's why you say nothing about your case to ANYONE except your lawyer.

Oh this is a GOOD write-up. Basically some Christian Nationalist freaks need Israel to exist for their apocalypse to happen And so Tucker interviewing Fuentes (and Heritage defending it) is threatening to that because that prophecy cannot afford for Nazis to get their wish re: Jews

(2) People also don’t form impressions of the party based on canned answers, policy briefs or stump speeches. Their impressions come from stories they hear as background noise. If you want those stories to resonate, they have to be coherent, and you need to invest in media organization.

“Chicago is the future.“ @joseolivarez.bsky.social for @chicagomag.com

Chicago kids FTW Flyer: www.threads.com/@emily.gener...

“This is not a handout from the United States government, these are trust and treaty responsibilities to tribes like Caddo Nation, period,” Gonzalez said. “The United States government and the president have a trust obligation to continue funding these programs.”

For the first time in 60+ years, the Uncle Sam sign in Chehalis, Washington says something factual: "Native Land." www.facebook.com/thecentralia...

A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.

Great post here from @mikecaulfield.bsky.social on what this means. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/the-video-...

Or they're sidelined in token ways as Student Council homecoming dance party planners. How can the core student experience of school change without centering student voices and perspectives in the "data" informing school-based change or the change process itself?

It’s also really great because they have the most amazing technology anyone could ever ask for in the holodeck, they use it, but then they’ll also show up for their robot’s cat poetry night because they realize it’s important to be present with those you love and that technology isn’t a substitute

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Educators haven’t figured out yet how to account for corporate America wanting just good-enough work from its employees. They won’t even hire you if you’re too good 👇 So AI helps create that unchallenging-to-authority “mid-ness” that @tressiemcphd.bsky.social talks about. It’s hard to fight.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

But I was in the park last weekend. I witnessed the activities in question AND the noticeable absence of park rangers/staff. @protectparks.bsky.social confirmed that 50% of staff are furloughed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A group of far right assholes have showed up to protest at David Douglas high school after students allegedly pushed back at a formation of a turning point chapter. School is out & they are outnumbered by predominantly Black & Brown students roasting the fuck out of them.

Can’t get over the kid who checked in with the larger group of students to ask “would it be mean if I went over there and body shamed him?” The kids responded by saying yes, reminding them that there’s so much other material to use

Extremely important to understand how much the "Christianity" of certain groups is top-down and highly manipulated. It is simply not the case that each of these people has their own personal faith that they then bring to the group. The group's ideas are directed from the top & everyone adopts them.

If teachers are told using AI technologies creates time to spend developing relationships with students, and the report’s findings suggest AI technologies undermine these vital relationships, then it seems to me resistance and refusal of AI technologies is the most caring response.

"Everything has to scale, everything has to be revolutionary" , social media should have been turned into a public utility instead of a for profit mechanism.