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Joe Yerdon @joeyerdon.bsky.social · 2d

Love to my Canadian pals - that’s brutal

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 8d

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 8d

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 8d

Reading this paragraph--written by the editors of Wired, the most well-known tech publication--at BOE meetings in districts rushing AI seems like a good idea.

Ask why they are treating children like guinea pigs while pretending they can predict a future those most knowledgable about tech cannot.

Hundreds of millions of people use it. Trillions of dollars fuel it.

In 2025, the conversation around AI turned from what it could be to what it is: Large language models are now everywhere, in our schools and our homes, on therapist couches and government computers. We feed it our data, and tell it our secrets.

The world is collectively engaged in a live experiment, with few controls and almost no regulation; the best-case and the worst-case scenarios all seem to end with our planet being forever transformed.

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Tim Monreal @timmonreal.bsky.social · 10d

"which typically do at least gesture towards building students' cognitive capabilities. "AI," to the contrary, serves to undermine these – undermine cognition, autonomy, and agency."

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Tim Monreal @timmonreal.bsky.social · 10d

"So it's more than a little embarrassing to see schools – primary, secondary, higher education alike – embracing "AI," parroting the industry's marketing at the expense of their actual mission statements..."

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Now Is the Time of Monsters

"AI slop is winning," writes The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel. By volume alone, slop may be the most visible and successful by-product of the generative-AI era to date. It is also a hallmark of what I’v...

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Josh Kluever @joshkluever.bsky.social · 12d

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: India Walton is a New York politician and the former Democratic nominee in the Buffalo mayoral race. Walton is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and defeated Democratic Incumbent Mayor Byron Brown during New York’s primary in June 2021.

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DonDeLion @dondelion.bsky.social · 16d

#MusicSky #Music #ReggaeSky #Reggae
#PlayList_Week_2025_10_12
Al & The Vibrators - Cool Water
youtube.com/watch?v=Sil_...

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 16d

literally me in every faculty meeting 😭

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 17d

“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

🎥 Vanity Fair

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you @bravesgoms.bsky.social · 17d

Geno got someone on the bench raptured with that grand slam

Geno watches as God raptures a teammate after hitting a grand slam

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 21d

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet

Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Oct 2

The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do.

It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.

Always punching down

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Tim Monreal @timmonreal.bsky.social · Sep 30

Just like Jesus taught...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30

Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Sep 29

Too often, tech creates logistical problems that disrupt learning.

My 6th grader's school, for ex, uses Chromebooks for everything. But the kids haven't learned typing, so work takes longer than by hand. And they often forget to charge the devices at home, so class gets wasted trying to plug in.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Sep 29

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

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Tim Monreal @timmonreal.bsky.social · Sep 26

Go team euro

Tim Monreal @timmonreal.bsky.social · Sep 20

The Best of the Texas Tornadoes

Carlos Estrada @ctothelos77.bsky.social · Sep 18

What is Dad playing?

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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · Sep 16

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · Sep 16

The UN report makes plain what so many families in Gaza have been living through: the deliberate destruction of Palestinians.

We have a moral responsibility to stop enabling this genocide and hold Israel accountable.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Sep 16

BREAKING: UN inquiry finds Israel’s war on Gaza to be genocide aje.io/2h84g2

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · Sep 15

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · Sep 12

So we're like MASK OFF levels of mask off now, huh? lmao

The Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, just said, "For the last 33 hours, I had been praying that this person (who murdered Charlie Kirk) was from another country. That he was not one of us because we are not like that. But it was one of us."

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Supreme Court bans affirmative action in university admissions but is okay with racial profiling on American streets. That pretty much sums up white supremacy--heads I win, tails you lose, all legal.

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · Jul 12

This is really important. As with so many other things, the solution can't be robustly funded public higher education, because that would benefit *others* too (see Heather McGhee’s The Sum of Us). so the answer has to lie in the fact that *too many* people are getting education

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 12

I'm a professor at the flagship university for the fourth whitest state in the US. Over 80% of our students are white.

The biggest barrier to access here is that due to lack of state funding, we have top 10 highest tuition per capita of public unis in the country.

We also have a food pantry.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jul 12

oh, we have some straightforward gutter racism. “the blacks and the browns are the reason white people can’t get ahead” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · Jul 12

You can tolerate a low national bar for education etc. as long as your kid is getting “the best” of it, and is most likely to get into the school that gives them the “best” chances. Think how different that is than fighting for better, more affordable schools for everyone

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Sep 5

People aren't relenting. Two tents have appeared. Pastor David here helping folks set up.

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