Twomey
@2me2.bsky.social
HS Lit History Rhetoric Teacher. Here for news and...not sure anymore. WTF2025
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The universe speaks in mysterious ways.
February 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The universe speaks in mysterious ways.
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A guy with his mind fried by ketamine and a 24/7/365 diet of Nazi shitposts is inside the federal government’s general payments system canceling whatever he personally decides looks like fraud while taking legal advice from his own busted AI chatbot, that’s the status report?
February 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
A guy with his mind fried by ketamine and a 24/7/365 diet of Nazi shitposts is inside the federal government’s general payments system canceling whatever he personally decides looks like fraud while taking legal advice from his own busted AI chatbot, that’s the status report?
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@wired.com: “6 young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24 who have little to no government experience are now playing critical roles in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” & are heading up Musk’s hostile takeover of our government
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
@wired.com: “6 young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24 who have little to no government experience are now playing critical roles in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” & are heading up Musk’s hostile takeover of our government
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Hey. Here are the names of the unauthorized dudes who are creeping into government computers:
The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
These are the DOGE boys.
The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
These are the DOGE boys.
February 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Hey. Here are the names of the unauthorized dudes who are creeping into government computers:
The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
These are the DOGE boys.
The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
These are the DOGE boys.
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Thank you to the Biden/Harris Administration for yet another amazing benefit for all Americans:
“Medical debt will be removed from consumer credit reports for all Americans under a final rule announced Tuesday by Vice President Kamala Harris.”
(h/t @19thnews.bsky.social)
“Medical debt will be removed from consumer credit reports for all Americans under a final rule announced Tuesday by Vice President Kamala Harris.”
(h/t @19thnews.bsky.social)
January 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Thank you to the Biden/Harris Administration for yet another amazing benefit for all Americans:
“Medical debt will be removed from consumer credit reports for all Americans under a final rule announced Tuesday by Vice President Kamala Harris.”
(h/t @19thnews.bsky.social)
“Medical debt will be removed from consumer credit reports for all Americans under a final rule announced Tuesday by Vice President Kamala Harris.”
(h/t @19thnews.bsky.social)
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I had to go look this up in the Twitter archives to confirm it’s real...
...and it is.
Breathtaking.
...and it is.
Breathtaking.
January 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I had to go look this up in the Twitter archives to confirm it’s real...
...and it is.
Breathtaking.
...and it is.
Breathtaking.
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Why can’t Democrats understand this? We lost in November because Americans desperately wanted a slate of policy moves never discussed during the campaign that Trump somehow knew were what folks who publicly said everything was about the economy _really_ wanted: invading Greenland, Mexico, and Panama
January 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Why can’t Democrats understand this? We lost in November because Americans desperately wanted a slate of policy moves never discussed during the campaign that Trump somehow knew were what folks who publicly said everything was about the economy _really_ wanted: invading Greenland, Mexico, and Panama
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She does not have the jurisdiction to make this decision. The report should be released immediately.
Judge Cannon Blocks Release of Jack Smith’s Report on Trump Documents Investigation
Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee who dismissed the documents case in its entirety this summer, on Tuesday temporarily barred the special counsel, Jack Smith, from releasing the results of his...
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
She does not have the jurisdiction to make this decision. The report should be released immediately.
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If the 11th circuit overturns Cannon on the Jack Smith report, and Trump files for an emergency administrative stay with SCOTUS, guess which justice can issue the administrative stay unilaterally?
January 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
If the 11th circuit overturns Cannon on the Jack Smith report, and Trump files for an emergency administrative stay with SCOTUS, guess which justice can issue the administrative stay unilaterally?
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Watching live news coverage of the Pacific Palisades fire and Steve Guttenburg appears out of the smoke to provide a PSA.
January 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Watching live news coverage of the Pacific Palisades fire and Steve Guttenburg appears out of the smoke to provide a PSA.
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fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.
January 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.
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"When America sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with them. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. And some, I assume, are good people."
--Greenland
--Greenland
January 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"When America sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with them. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. And some, I assume, are good people."
--Greenland
--Greenland
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Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me.
I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc
I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc
November 19, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me.
I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc
I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc
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I understand why Republicans beat on Biden who was an extremely successful president. I DO NOT understand why Democrats beat on him as well, given the legacy he is leaving. The GOP, particularly the MAGA wing, is better at self promotion (and self protecting) which explains why they now have power!
December 3, 2024 at 1:10 AM
I understand why Republicans beat on Biden who was an extremely successful president. I DO NOT understand why Democrats beat on him as well, given the legacy he is leaving. The GOP, particularly the MAGA wing, is better at self promotion (and self protecting) which explains why they now have power!
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My mom was a teacher in the South and she described this kind of endless fad diet approach to education. Every few years they'd have some new scheme they'd have to follow and the response was usually "Make the bare minimum changes to keep admin happy and do whatever seems to work for your class"
Yep. This is one of the most radicalizing pieces I ever wrote, about my own high school.
Silver-bullet, top-down Bold New Ideas are never going to work. Effective approaches are slow, make significant investments and ask teachers what they need.
psmag.com/features/the...
bsky.app/profile/ogda...
Silver-bullet, top-down Bold New Ideas are never going to work. Effective approaches are slow, make significant investments and ask teachers what they need.
psmag.com/features/the...
bsky.app/profile/ogda...
January 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My mom was a teacher in the South and she described this kind of endless fad diet approach to education. Every few years they'd have some new scheme they'd have to follow and the response was usually "Make the bare minimum changes to keep admin happy and do whatever seems to work for your class"
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December 15, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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Hell, when I was a TA I also doubled as an unofficial remedial writing tutor because most of those kids (at Johns Hopkins!) couldn’t write at a college level. So yes, let’s replace actual teachers with more of the product that’s stunted their intellectual development in the first place
December 15, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Hell, when I was a TA I also doubled as an unofficial remedial writing tutor because most of those kids (at Johns Hopkins!) couldn’t write at a college level. So yes, let’s replace actual teachers with more of the product that’s stunted their intellectual development in the first place
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Watch @katieporter.bsky.social explain how Social Security contributes to the national debt.
Hold the GOP accountable no matter who you are. All Americans deserve better.
P.S. Social Security has
a surplus. If you want to make it more plentiful, tax those over $400,000 in a more meaningful way!
Hold the GOP accountable no matter who you are. All Americans deserve better.
P.S. Social Security has
a surplus. If you want to make it more plentiful, tax those over $400,000 in a more meaningful way!
December 14, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Watch @katieporter.bsky.social explain how Social Security contributes to the national debt.
Hold the GOP accountable no matter who you are. All Americans deserve better.
P.S. Social Security has
a surplus. If you want to make it more plentiful, tax those over $400,000 in a more meaningful way!
Hold the GOP accountable no matter who you are. All Americans deserve better.
P.S. Social Security has
a surplus. If you want to make it more plentiful, tax those over $400,000 in a more meaningful way!
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Perhaps every classroom should have a sign explaining to GenZ students—the generation most concerned with climate change—that AI is a huge (HUGE) consumer of energy, and together with crypto mining, will consume 8% of US energy by 2030. More energy production, more carbon (under Trump, for sure.)
December 15, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Perhaps every classroom should have a sign explaining to GenZ students—the generation most concerned with climate change—that AI is a huge (HUGE) consumer of energy, and together with crypto mining, will consume 8% of US energy by 2030. More energy production, more carbon (under Trump, for sure.)
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Some of the negative reactions come from people who have witnessed administrations take any excuse to defund whole schools and departments. If you can't see how this will be used by admins to erode TA budgets and how that will impact grad students, I don't know what to say.
This is the key fact about this tool: it seems built to complement and help human labor! The negative reactions seem to assume, rather depressingly, that AI can only replace humans, but that’s not necessarily the case.
(Btw, here in the real world, by using our AI tool to remove simpler tasks, I repurposed my human course assistants to exclusively tutor students who were really struggling after the midterm. More useful work for the humans, better help for the students! Productivity is good!)
December 15, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Some of the negative reactions come from people who have witnessed administrations take any excuse to defund whole schools and departments. If you can't see how this will be used by admins to erode TA budgets and how that will impact grad students, I don't know what to say.
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Makes so much sense
December 13, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Makes so much sense
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That Daniel Penny and Daniel Perry and Kyle Rittenhouse and George Zimmerman are all walking around free in the most carceral nation in the world is something that demands a reckoning.
December 9, 2024 at 5:32 PM
That Daniel Penny and Daniel Perry and Kyle Rittenhouse and George Zimmerman are all walking around free in the most carceral nation in the world is something that demands a reckoning.
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