heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

“Would you rather have $1000, or, anytime you eat a piece of fruit for the rest of your life, your hands don’t get sticky?” — the most perfect hypothetical question in history, invented by my 10yo.

Will no one spare a thought for the poor EdTech executives having a bummer week because they failed to properly secure their platform, exposing the sensitive data of millions of children to the dark web 😢

inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools"

I suspect that the Powers That Be looooove AI because it disengages your brain and softens your thinking. Your free thought, your imagination, gets unplugged and into the socket, the AI node goes. And they control that node. Which means they control your mind. So: they start with kids.

AI education in schools? Absolutely. Kids should know the risks of engaging with AI technology since we know they will be at some point. They should know how it interacts with delusional thinking, suicidal thinking, other kinds of mental illness. They should know it’s designed to be sycophantic.

What’s so brazen is that the subhead literally spells out the travesty. It says that tech industry lobbyists have convinced congress to pay for their products to be made a compulsory part of public education so that when the industry wreaks havoc on American workers it can be blamed on educators.

You won't pay teachers or ensure that schools are funded properly but you want money for this. You are a disgrace

Apparently theres a rumor that our fight against Big EdTech is being funded by Big Textbook, and to that I say… if any publishers would like to reimburse me for my out-of-pocket administrative costs, please contact me at schoolsbeyondscreens.com.

Happy May Day!

Look out, we’re coming for the Chromebooks!

This is achingly sad.

A lot of people don’t realize that the Big Tech companies are, in many cases, drafting district-wide tech policies, installing friendly administrators, and awarding themselves lucrative contracts.

Very proud to see the work of Schools Beyond Screens highlighted in this brilliant article. AI in the classroom is NOT inevitable, but it’s time for all of us to fight back.

Been a little busy overhauling the entire tech policy for the 2nd largest school district in the US 💅 www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

Has there ever been a more cursed meet cute?

Hmmm I wonder if there’s an AI bubble

Thursday, 4 pm, City Hall Park, NYC!*

10yo: Who’s that guy who invented marksmanship? Me: …? 10yo: You know, like Communism?

Bondi Beached

They never tell you that a hot crossed bun is just a cinnamon raisin bagel without the hole.

The stage of perimenopause I‘m in is, I just spent three days trying to remember what a golf club was called.

Well we no longer have a constitution, but thank god we still have Rob Schneider

A month after the LAUSD Superintendent's home & office were raided during an investigation into tech contract fraud, a former LAUSD employee was indicted on charges relating to tech contract fraud. www.dailynews.com/2026/03/26/e...

Hey @rweingarten.bsky.social, how’s that partnership with Open AI working out for you?

A British man just bragged to me that “we never had slavery in this country.”

The whole internet loves Claude, the official LLM of the Resistance! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you that Claude bombed an elementary school.

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

These are criminal acts, and there is no way to find the other side of this without meaningful accountability for this—like “in the dock at The Hague” accountability.

Schools Beyond Screens demands an emergency audit of all tech contracts awarded during Superintendent Carvalho’s tenure at LAUSD. Please sign & share: www.fournorms.com/campaigns/ge...

Two days ago, I was told that Superintendent Carvalho privately refers to me & my advocacy group as “those Schools Beyond Screens bitches.” Yesterday, he learned that karma’s a bitch, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

AI CEOs are like, “What if we reoriented the entire global economy around a massive version of the Wu-Tang name generator.”

Among the many nauseating aspects of this story, Google is using its philanthropic arm to foist its products into schools, with the intention of creating a “pipeline of future customers.”

My spouse is introducing the 10yo to I Think You Should Leave. Please circle back in 5 years to find out how badly we’ve messed up our kid.

Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

One of my most visceral childhood memories is seeing Jesse Jackson speak during his ‘88 presidential run at a pow wow in Arlee, Montana. Not a lot of other presidential candidates showed up in Arlee.

Man. Has anyone done a research on how so many of the people (intellectuals and otherwise) responsible for the sociotechnical project of AI were deeply entangled with Epstein? Cause it seems, um, not immaterial to kind of the whole thing?

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.

"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.