Thomas P
@tpshea.bsky.social
Music, education, bicycles, live band karaoke, existential dread. thomaspshea on Discord in case bsky becomes untenable and you want to stay in touch
Me: AI is built on IP theft, centers Whiteness, destroys the environment and shared notions of reality, deskills learners and teachers alike, and leaks sensitive private data like a sieve.
My admin team: of course you are right, Tom. Here's a cool way you can use it to generate lesson plans! 🙃
My admin team: of course you are right, Tom. Here's a cool way you can use it to generate lesson plans! 🙃
January 29, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Me: AI is built on IP theft, centers Whiteness, destroys the environment and shared notions of reality, deskills learners and teachers alike, and leaks sensitive private data like a sieve.
My admin team: of course you are right, Tom. Here's a cool way you can use it to generate lesson plans! 🙃
My admin team: of course you are right, Tom. Here's a cool way you can use it to generate lesson plans! 🙃
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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Reposting for all my friends in public education.
It has been a truly upsetting revelation how many people who I thought cared about disinformation, advocating for science, etc just flipped in 0.002 microseconds after a tech company programmed a chatbot to tell them how great their questions are
January 28, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Reposting for all my friends in public education.
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just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
January 1, 2026 at 7:11 AM
just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
"The Kill Line metaphor suggests something else: a society optimized for efficiency and growth, but stripped of redundancy, forgiveness, and slack. In engineering terms, it is a system without safety factors."
jscaff.medium.com/the-kill-lin...
jscaff.medium.com/the-kill-lin...
The Kill Line: What America looks like on Chinese social media
by Julian Scaff
jscaff.medium.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:13 PM
"The Kill Line metaphor suggests something else: a society optimized for efficiency and growth, but stripped of redundancy, forgiveness, and slack. In engineering terms, it is a system without safety factors."
jscaff.medium.com/the-kill-lin...
jscaff.medium.com/the-kill-lin...
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I hope all the AI boosters understand that they’re training their kids that only chumps do things the hard way—by working diligently and going through the discomfort and hassle of learning and acquiring skills.
And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
January 27, 2026 at 11:31 AM
I hope all the AI boosters understand that they’re training their kids that only chumps do things the hard way—by working diligently and going through the discomfort and hassle of learning and acquiring skills.
And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
And also teaching them that a 30% error rate is good enough.
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time to re-up this again i guess
June 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
time to re-up this again i guess
Fianllt started reading Paul Lynch's "Prophet Song" this morning and i dunno man they told me it was fiction but it feels realler than real right now. Gut-wrenching. epicbooks.ca/item/wLu_br6...
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch | Epic Books
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 • INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace PrizeFinalist for the 2024 Kirkus PrizeShortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary AwardOne of The Ir...
epicbooks.ca
January 26, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Fianllt started reading Paul Lynch's "Prophet Song" this morning and i dunno man they told me it was fiction but it feels realler than real right now. Gut-wrenching. epicbooks.ca/item/wLu_br6...
Is it UBI? IS IT UBI?!
It isn't UBI...
It isn't UBI...
Canadian PM Carney unveils multibillion-dollar push to lower food costs https://aje.news/ddfj3x
January 26, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Is it UBI? IS IT UBI?!
It isn't UBI...
It isn't UBI...
Lol Nobody's persecuting Potter; kids are just consigning the series to the dustbin of history like every other young generation has done with every other aged thing.
The do think Rowling is transphobic trash tho.
The do think Rowling is transphobic trash tho.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Opinion | Why Gen Z Doesn’t Love ‘Harry Potter’
The wizarding worldview is naïve.
nyti.ms
January 26, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Lol Nobody's persecuting Potter; kids are just consigning the series to the dustbin of history like every other young generation has done with every other aged thing.
The do think Rowling is transphobic trash tho.
The do think Rowling is transphobic trash tho.
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And here again is my favourite ever Batman poem...
April 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
And here again is my favourite ever Batman poem...
I've already watched the first 2 of the #LoTR movies today.
It's 9 pm and tomorrow's a snow day.
Do I start the 3rd one now or save it for tomorrow?
It's 9 pm and tomorrow's a snow day.
Do I start the 3rd one now or save it for tomorrow?
January 26, 2026 at 2:03 AM
I've already watched the first 2 of the #LoTR movies today.
It's 9 pm and tomorrow's a snow day.
Do I start the 3rd one now or save it for tomorrow?
It's 9 pm and tomorrow's a snow day.
Do I start the 3rd one now or save it for tomorrow?
This guy thinks Canada bears no responsibility for selling arms to ICE because they just would have bought domestic weapons of war if we hadn't made them cheaper and better. gtfo, all arms manufacturers are equally to blame, I'm just calling my people out.
Are you seriously blaming Canada for American activity when they would be using Oshkosh machines? Is this seriously where we are at
Oh look, Canadian military hardware being used by ICE. Lots of blood on Canadian hands, around the world and right next door.
January 25, 2026 at 8:56 PM
This guy thinks Canada bears no responsibility for selling arms to ICE because they just would have bought domestic weapons of war if we hadn't made them cheaper and better. gtfo, all arms manufacturers are equally to blame, I'm just calling my people out.
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Canadian-made Roshel Senator spotted in the wild slowly ramming through protestors (and sandwich boards) @nolore.bsky.social @rachelgilmore.bsky.social noraloreto.substack.com/p/canadian-b...
January 25, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Canadian-made Roshel Senator spotted in the wild slowly ramming through protestors (and sandwich boards) @nolore.bsky.social @rachelgilmore.bsky.social noraloreto.substack.com/p/canadian-b...
Oh look, Canadian military hardware being used by ICE. Lots of blood on Canadian hands, around the world and right next door.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Oh look, Canadian military hardware being used by ICE. Lots of blood on Canadian hands, around the world and right next door.
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hobbits are some country ass mutherfuckers man. getting all hopped up on reefer setting off fireworks and shit. the central theory of this story is that the greatest and cruelest army in all history can be defeated by a passel of pothead hillbillies
January 25, 2026 at 2:45 PM
hobbits are some country ass mutherfuckers man. getting all hopped up on reefer setting off fireworks and shit. the central theory of this story is that the greatest and cruelest army in all history can be defeated by a passel of pothead hillbillies
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snow day today yall know what that means (watching all three lord of the rings extended edition movies in a row)
January 25, 2026 at 2:28 PM
snow day today yall know what that means (watching all three lord of the rings extended edition movies in a row)
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again. even if you think a violent resistance is right in this circumstance (I absolutely don’t), a violent resistance would (1) cost *more* innocent lives; (2) take decades to even erode the coercive capacity of the federal government; (3) make pathways to a stable and just democracy much harder
January 25, 2026 at 2:33 PM
again. even if you think a violent resistance is right in this circumstance (I absolutely don’t), a violent resistance would (1) cost *more* innocent lives; (2) take decades to even erode the coercive capacity of the federal government; (3) make pathways to a stable and just democracy much harder
January 25, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Just the right read for a January snowstorm with <gestures at the world> all the goings on that are currently going on.
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social speaks to the moment. The essay "Breaking Bread Together" in the anthology The City of Our Dreaming, is so lucid, so moving, so compassionate.
January 25, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Just the right read for a January snowstorm with <gestures at the world> all the goings on that are currently going on.
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social speaks to the moment. The essay "Breaking Bread Together" in the anthology The City of Our Dreaming, is so lucid, so moving, so compassionate.
January 25, 2026 at 4:07 PM
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social speaks to the moment. The essay "Breaking Bread Together" in the anthology The City of Our Dreaming, is so lucid, so moving, so compassionate.
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Snow is nature's urban planner: It can show us what parts of the roadway drivers don't use — and what can be reclaimed for pedestrians.
Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!
Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!
January 25, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Snow is nature's urban planner: It can show us what parts of the roadway drivers don't use — and what can be reclaimed for pedestrians.
Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!
Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!
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"In 2025, many U.S. educators got the first look at what forced adoption backstopped by state coercion is like..." Great essay on AI coercion and look out for the full text of this single sparkling sentence which is 370 characters too long to quote in full.
I watched a bunch of AI sessions at the WEF so you wouldn’t have to.
But you should read this.
But you should read this.
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:00 PM
"In 2025, many U.S. educators got the first look at what forced adoption backstopped by state coercion is like..." Great essay on AI coercion and look out for the full text of this single sparkling sentence which is 370 characters too long to quote in full.
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Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.
January 24, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.