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Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

AI in education centres entrepreneurs as experts in teaching and learning

AI in education is based mostly on technical potential not educational needs

AI in education locks learning into models that afford summarization instead of archives of knowledge

RFKJr decides that he shutdown provides perfect cover to simply put the CDC out of business, permanently. Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs, starting with disease detectives.

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

Philip Morris to provide free cases of cigarettes to area schools amid debates over effects of tobacco on health.

For more of our reporting on the FDA’s gamble on American drugs, see our “Rx Roulette” series here: www.propublica.org/series/rx-ro...

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

Imagine being able to get caught doing fraud and simply clean up the evidence, avoid reputational harm, keep most of the money, and continue to influence government in a way that most honest actors could only dream of.

These are my favorite kinds of AI search results. I'd like to think that one percent of Lake Erie vanishes with each return like this.

Seems like a bad idea to fire air traffic controllers when there's already a shortage but what do I know

A similar dish was referred to in The Last Continent (Pratchett).
“I'm not so think as you drunk I am,” said Ridcully. “And anyway, I'm not drunk enough to eat one of those.”
And then there's the Pie Floater...

Mentioned on the risk side regarding LLM summarisations "When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind." by René Maatman, Daniella Melis, Bart Oldenkamp and Alfred Slager.

Reminds me of a saying about the hierarchy of intention:
Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity
Never attribute to stupidity what you can attribute to ignorance
Never attribute to ignorance what you can attribute to laziness

I've realized that a whole lot of smart and well-informed people are overestimating the value and potential of "AI" tools because they underestimate how smart and well-informed they themselves are and how much expertise they bring to the interaction.

It's the curse of knowledge all the way down.

“The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.”

- H.P. Lovecraft

You should really post that with the picture most commonly associated.

I only pay attention to the massive failures.

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

The ruling class has correctly assessed public schools as a threat to them. Two reasons:
1. An educated working class is their worst nightmare
2. Public schools are one of the last places where working-class families mix across racial and ethnic lines

While all of my friends & acquaintances know that Portland, Oregon is not in fact on fire, I have had several conversations with friends asking why anyone would THINK it is in the first place.

A thread —

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Could absolutely put a loft with 8 foot ceiling in there.

With alt text!