What if… the American Pope… runs for President…

Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

Jeffrey Epstein was working to replace teachers with computers and subvert traditional education with video games. In case you needed further confirmation of the rot at the center of the EdTech industry.

“The director Brett Ratner cozied up to the Trumps after spending years in movie-biz exile amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault.… For his comeback, he has summoned all the artistic ambition of a local Realtor who just got a drone.”

I read this, and I almost regret it. What do you even do with the knowledge that Epstein wanted and was trying to engineer societal breakdown via far right populism bc he thought it would benefit his sex trafficking business?

It’s amazing how quickly the entire discourse around AI has pivoted from “Look at this miraculous new technology!” to “Look, this is happening whether you want it or not.”

Jeffrey Epstein was working to replace teachers with computers and subvert traditional education with video games. In case you needed further confirmation of the rot at the center of the EdTech industry.

The last four words you hear before you die: “David Brooks video podcast.”

Our elementary school booster club has stricter bylaws around budget appropriations.

Endeavor to lead a life that will not prompt Bruce Springsteen to record a soaring anthem about how much you suck.

Here's hoping that Sam Altman continues praising Donald Trump, that his remarks are widely disseminated, and that all those using or considering using ChatGPT hear them.

"Take a second and think about it. Would you rather really grow from an experience of actually doing some work and critically thinking about the things you're writing or talking about, or just taking nothing away from it and just use a robot?" Listen to the students, not the tech companies.

I never thought the leopards would start eating faces, say employees at the face-eating-leopard factory

hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading

Did... did Brett Ratner write this?

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

Insane headline

Schrödinger’s Air Force One

Students know what’s up. This sharp seventh grader raises the obvious question about what teacher use of AI implies for student usage.

This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING wat CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I do wish that the media would pick up on the harms of edtech too. We occasionally see it but the screen free phone ban groups won’t touch it- and that’s telling. The entire edtech ecosystem is surveillance and people need to know that. And refuse it. Schools are catalysts for data rights abuse

To create future customers and to monetize children’s data.

I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time *sets up school for raccoons against racism*

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.

Let’s not lose sight of the fact that schools are using Grok as an AI tutor.

Top story on BBC vs top story on NYT:

Rethinking Schools published my article about pushing back on some of the arguments made by those seeking to rush AI tools into schools.

Trump’s foreign policy doctrine: Fyre Fest Destiny

With news of Grok generating csam on X, I’m once again asking @lausdsup.bsky.social to answer for the fact that LAUSD students are being exposed to sexually explicit AI slop at school.

Shot / chaser

The techbros producing AI products are not doing so responsibly. The politicians funded by techbros are not regulating them responsibly. But sure, the teachers can figure out how to get children to use it responsibly.

So much to say here but it's yet another reminder that it is kind of a sick joke to suggest that the kids can be taught to "use AI responsibly" when the adults are and can not.

here’s a gift link to the piece wapo.st/49uy2q1

oh no what will we do without Peter Thiel

If @whoweekly.bsky.social designed the LSATs

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.