The state leader to tech bro pipeline. Eric Adams is well on his way too.

Yowch.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Chatbots are explicitly being designed “to elicit intimacy and emotional engagement in order to increase our trust in and dependency on them” (me in Wired magazine 🤭). This designed intimacy combined with AI sycophancy creates serious risks for delusional thinking

www.wired.com/story/ai-psy...

“The more ways that a student reports that their school uses AI, the more likely they are to report things like 'I know someone who considers AI to be a friend,' 'I know someone who considers AI to be a romantic partner.'"

"Why would OpenAI and Microsoft spend $23 million to give 'free training' on how to use AI to teachers? Because they love teachers? No. Because they want to get their products into public schools in an attempt to cultivate the education market." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

“The Luddite Club, a nonprofit group that supports taking smartphone breaks, has 26 chapters, nearly all of them at high schools or colleges.”

"Too many people are busily promoting a version of "‘AI’ literacy” that is simply training students how to use and consume 'AI' 'properly' – whatever that means – and refusing to admit that there may be no ethical usage of a fundamentally unethical, abusive technology," writes Audrey Watters.

I need Cal Raleigh to hit a second home run directly to this man to see how committed he is to the bit

He said he was "just trolling."

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process.

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“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.”

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"Believe me when I say: the things that ChatGPT has been telling users are probably worse than you think."

Private equity companies are the bane of society.

I searched "vibe learning" for fun recently and found exactly what I expected and let out the kind of sound you'd expect from someone realizing the end of their time in this world was just minutes away basescripts.com/what-is-vibe...

Ok nevermind miss rev in an eye patch ags by a million

U-Houston is rocking Oilers inspired unis and they’re tight as shit

But private equity is looking for efficiency above all else, which is why it loves edtech:

"Continued investment in technologies that can scale educational access and improve outcomes while reducing costs"

Reducing costs for whom? Not the institutions paying millions for PE-owned edtech platforms

So what does private equity look for from education?

"Greater emphasis on measurable educational outcomes as a driver of valuation and investment decisions"

Good grades, good performance metrics - what is measurable is good for valuation and investment, rather than what is valuable educationally

Private equity discourse about education is ramping up again:

"education has become a compelling asset class offering strong returns, long-term stability, and global scalability"

PE investors are desperate to turn education into financial assets with long-term ROI huntscanlon.com/private-equi...

“More than 140,000 children — over 15 percent of students — lack permanent housing. The city’s population of homeless students is larger than the entire enrollment of the Dallas public school system.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...