Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

gat dammit

This entire story has the whiff of “Kash Patel writing antifa fan fiction with ChatGPT while zonked on cocaine.”

This is very good and also filled me with despair!! substack.com/@solarshades...

Ah, the holiday season... a perfect time of year to stand paralyzed in front of the supermarket display, trying to decide which corporate gift card I can give to my kids' teachers while incurring the least severe moral injury.

Beep beep! The oxymoron truck is here!

The @bsky.app app will no longer allow me to log in due to the new age verification restrictions. I'm flattered! But seriously what's happening.

If I were a company that was being sued because a child committed suicide after sharing secrets with my chatbot, I simply would not make billboards featuring children sharing secrets with my chatbot.

ChatGPT cuts the crusts off my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I'm a big business boy.

I had the *most* LA day (saw Tyler the Creator at Max & Helen’s) 😎

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

How long are we going to let this go on?

Parents & teachers should know that I-Ready lessons are NOT mandated, no matter what your principal may be telling you. And there is NO independent research to support the educational value of this app.

I'm here for the growing caregiver resistance to ed-tech, a movement pushing back against scenes like this: "it’s now normal to walk into a classroom and see all the students staring at devices with headphones on [while completing i-Ready lessons] and no direct teaching or conversation occurring."

What I’ve been up to! www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Tom Cotton is like the Wario version of a Jimmy Stewart character.

A lot of ChatGPT power users are guys who watched Weird Science when they were 8, and thought, “What if I could do that *without* being smart?”

As a busy mom with a demanding full-time job, sometimes I like to treat myself to my children’s half-eaten breakfast leftovers.

I can’t be the only perimenopausal woman in America who hears “strong floor” and automatically starts doing Kegels.

Thankful for all my fellow luddites today. Hammers up 🤖🔨❤️

Podcast I pay for now offering advice on talking politics at the Thanksgiving table from EZRA KLEIN

The real losers in this saga are the network execs who passed on my paranoia thriller about a New Yorker fact checker engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with a nefarious “Olivia Nuzzi type”.

Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. Read more from @benjaminriley.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

If we could convince Brett Ratner to offer Trump a role in a new Rush Hour movie, maybe we could buy enough time to save American democracy???

Weird that the magician can’t just make this whole story disappear.

96% of EdTech apps used by schools are harvesting student data and selling it to third parties. (Is that a fun fact?)

LAUSD: Now’s your chance to tell the district we want AI slop & Big Tech out of our schools. EdTech listening sessions today & tomorrow at 5pm. Show up! www.schoolsbeyondscreens.com/important-ev...

Matthew Rhys already under contract for the inevitable Apple limited series about the AI hype bubble collapse.

I, for one, am shocked that an AI teddy bear named “Kumma” was providing detailed descriptions of sexual kinks.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

ChatGLP

I just came from a memorial where a guy was vaping a scrolling Instagram reels *with the sound on* throughout the service. Then he abruptly stood up and walked out in the middle of the sister’s eulogy???

Saving this as my auto reply to every round of network notes.

This photo is giving “Step inside the upstate retreat of these globetrotting empty-nesters!”

This is our community's letter!! It was written by Josie Morway, a local artist and parent. After we started asking questions, the district slowed way down and starting holding forums, creating workgroups, and taking student privacy more seriously. Talk to us if you want to do the same!

You know it’s been a big news week when “DNA sequencing proves Hitler had a micropenis” doesn’t even rank.

Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

It’s always the ones you most suspect. (Cough Larry Summers)

Last night I heard a man who’d fled the Salvadoran civil war describe ICE as a paramilitary army aligned with an authoritarian government, and I thought… oh.

Trying to imagine a less cool combination of words than “Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday party at Jeff Bezos’s house.”

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

LAUSD, the second-largest school district in the country, has enabled chatbots on student devices without even notifying parents or providing any means of opting out.

LAUSD, the second-largest school district in the country, has enabled chatbots on student devices without even notifying parents or providing any means of opting out.

It’s an Interesting Time to cancel your @nytimes.com subscription!

My 12yo is already gaming out ‘28: “AOC, Bernie, Warren, and Zohran should all run for president, and at a certain point, three of them should just drop out and support whoever’s ahead.”

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.