The ‘ai issue’ in school reflects the larger issue of our technocratic education system. If we’re reliant on achievable metrics and standardization rather than cultivating intrinsic curiosity, people will view learning as finding the most efficient means to an ends.

worth a read (@ my four followers 🙏)
newrepublic.com/article/1935...

No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham:
"The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."

Last night I heard democracy described as an antiviolence system — a means of making decisions about how the world works without deploying any force. This simple abstracted vision seems important to not be disillusioned with, even if our current iteration of democracy fails in practice

The US government has been turned over to a group of extraordinarily ignorant people, and they are working to destroy science in this country. Cutting over half the NSF budget would save < 0.1% of the federal budget, but do incalculable harm. Simply heartbreaking.

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Is it absurd to wonder if dark matter could be related to the growing information dimension ? that interacts with known matter but isn’t easily detectable by physical substrates below its level of complexity ?

I love to speculate but I dislike armchair philosophers … my speculation is just a means of wondering for play and stimulation… not a means for positing theories

Watching amazing lecture on emergent information physics by Daniel Boyd. I came across it randomly, it feels like stumbling upon universe gemstone secrets when I learn more about emergence and complexity

I wanted my first skeet(?) to say I am on Bluesky WEEEE so that in 2035 I can reminisce on the pleasure of sharing inconsequential updates of my actions

I am on Bluesky WEEEEEE