Yeah. When I was teaching on a reservation, the biggest fights were between the pueblo kids and the Navajo kids. In Santa Fe, the biggest fights at my school are always between the kids who trace their Spanish ancestry back hundreds of years, and the recent immigrants from Mexico/Venezuela/etc.

A teacher just shared this in our group chat, and I'm glad to hear kids are skeptical of AI, but the article's takeaway? "Get [kids] using AI — now. It's a vital tool for every job at every level. Encourage them to pay $20 per month for Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini." No. NO. NOOOO. KILL IT WITH FIRE!

The new Massive Attack x Tom Waits track and video are worth a listen and watch.

Applying for jobs, and this one application has a required question asking for my high school GPA. Y'all. I'm in my 40s with a Master's degree and decades of work experience. What possible relevance could that have?

Yes please - there are a few of these in NM, and they should be absolutely everywhere.

People building and painting stuff from their hoards instead of going out and buying new models.

Can confirm

A/C is broken in my classroom, but at least we’re in a cold snap so I can open the windows. I hope they get this fixed before next week when it’s supposed to warm up. 30 machines in my lab running at full tilt because we’re doing our game design unit really pushes up the temperature.

I swear, 90% of the news today can just be summed up as: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

In case you need any more reasons to boycott Target:

When we clean house, put this guy in charge of restocking the immigration courts with actual human beings.

“It's common for people to believe Everything happens for a reason I'm sorry that's false, and it's poison Even if there is no purpose To the things that you have gone through An ordeal can reveal an airfield” Sometimes you don’t discover a favorite band until you’re 40. youtu.be/TnGGiUkAosY?...

They need to redesign band-aid boxes. That waxed thin cardboard has given me more small cuts when going to try to patch up small cuts on way too many occasions.

Jared get off the screen. You spent the past 4 weeks talking about how this program sucks and should be canceled.

GOOD 3 MAIN CHUTES!!!

Woo! Voice coms are back!

They just said a P3 had visual - that’s what my brother used to fly!

Whole family is watching the Artemis re-entry stream.

Billionaires have their brains broken by the fact that they can surround themselves w/ people who just flatter & tell them they are brilliant & wonderful all the time, w/ no one to call them on their bullshit. Imagine everyone on the planet having that sycophantic enabler in their pocket. Seems bad.

Think about how many brains are being absolutely COOKED by sycophancy right now

I’m curious about how people would rank the relative insanity of the circuits. I worry my off-the-cuff response was not correct (should I have said the 4th?)

Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.

I have seen one good example of this plate

It's the annual Ask a Manager salary survey! Every year, vastly fewer men fill this out than women. Men, please share your salary info (anonymously) so we have concrete salary comparisons to inform pay negotiations and fight the pay gap

“You must have been tired,” said Toad. “I was tired,” said Frog, “and it started to rain.”

Ultimately what's awful about AI is it actively hurts our children, it makes people dull and incurious, it could crash the economy, and it's being sold as a magic trick to dummies to help keep overleveraged companies afloat. Haven't even mentioned the environmental damage yet

Oooh - the perfect day to post this video: youtu.be/rOgduwX2TV0?...

Mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EW-...

Oh no - this is making me actually want to do something with all the space marines I have lying around.

Guys, I love so many of you. Today of all days, I suggest you take Agent Dale Cooper’s advice - advice that sounds suspiciously like it came from the lips of David Lynch himself. Give yourself a present today. After all, tomorrow could be even less normal than today. Love y’all.

I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.

Like… We cannot go ahead and have the World Cup now like nothing is going on. Regardless of what does or doesn’t happen tonight. Countries should simply refuse to send teams. The rest of the world cannot treat us as a remotely normal country after this

Welp. This is what we get when we elect a bunch of guys who saw Dr. Strangelove and thought the hero was Buck Turgidson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpO...

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

I mean, this seems more like a "take over the House floor and get arrested" moment, but at least a move toward impeachment would be *something.*

I have had some version of "he wants all of us to be buried with him" in stuff I've written about Trump in the past and usually but not always taken it out. It didn't like looking at it, mostly, but over time it just became one of those things that was too obvious to bother with. It's all sickening.

No matter how you feel about heroin, its use is growing more widespread and it’s important that educators understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their classrooms. Hear from three educators who have been experimenting with heroin in this article… See how fucking stupid that sounds?

Holy wow, the moon has color!

New shot of the Moon taken only a few hours ago by the Artemis II crew! More of the lunar far side coming into view :-D flic.kr/p/2s676GN

Anyone know of a *free* option to post from RSS to Bluesky in the same way Mastofeed does for Mastodon?

Watched the new Mario Galaxy movie this weekend with the kids. We all had a good time, kids loved it. Good silly fun, and basically “fan service: the movie”. Big cheers in the audience whenever some other Nintendo character popped up. Musical nods to many Mario games sprinkled throughout the score.

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

Seeing that enthusiasm and joy, and how his face lit up from being able to talk about it with someone, and with *someone who gets it*, changed my mood instantly. I walked out of that shop with a smile on my face. If you can't find your own joy today, just share someone else's. Trust me, it works.

Mini of the month - Synth When? Entry 11 by @beerandrockets.bsky.social To me, there is only one '80s #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

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