Jen Dick
@jendick.bsky.social
learning & teaching & books & writing & art & music & games • geek, nerd & dork • Channeler of Cosmic Angst, Lover of Genre Trash • she/her • caring & doing & being Too Much • Pls mask: vulnerable people are everywhere • typical atypical autistic
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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COVID-19 levels through mid-November remain much lower than what we see during surges, but are starting to increase in parts of the U.S.
More outbreaks are likely to follow the holiday this week, but it will be weeks before they show up in future data updates. bit.ly/3LSXrAC
More outbreaks are likely to follow the holiday this week, but it will be weeks before they show up in future data updates. bit.ly/3LSXrAC
National COVID-19 trends, November 25 - The Sick Times
CDC data continue to come back online following the end of the government shutdown. Those data indicate that COVID-19 levels through mid-November remain much lower than what we see during surges, but ...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
COVID-19 levels through mid-November remain much lower than what we see during surges, but are starting to increase in parts of the U.S.
More outbreaks are likely to follow the holiday this week, but it will be weeks before they show up in future data updates. bit.ly/3LSXrAC
More outbreaks are likely to follow the holiday this week, but it will be weeks before they show up in future data updates. bit.ly/3LSXrAC
These anodyne obituaries of Alice Wong from the very institutions that fought her tooth and nail are infuriating
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
These anodyne obituaries of Alice Wong from the very institutions that fought her tooth and nail are infuriating
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This is the context you have to keep in mind when you see these people hyperventilating about addressing this system. This is what they are demanding we preserve literally at any and every cost.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is the context you have to keep in mind when you see these people hyperventilating about addressing this system. This is what they are demanding we preserve literally at any and every cost.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/n...
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This week is the super bowl for green bean casserole...
now we gotta question the values of the 🤬'ing soup people
now we gotta question the values of the 🤬'ing soup people
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This week is the super bowl for green bean casserole...
now we gotta question the values of the 🤬'ing soup people
now we gotta question the values of the 🤬'ing soup people
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"People don't dress up to fly anymore"
I've been reading about air transportation for the Olympic horses, or as one service bills themselves: AIR HORSE ONE.
They use these handy individual stalls that can be loaded on carts and slid into place. Water and hay are provided, and a in-flight groom replaces all food/water every 2 hrs.
They use these handy individual stalls that can be loaded on carts and slid into place. Water and hay are provided, and a in-flight groom replaces all food/water every 2 hrs.
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"People don't dress up to fly anymore"
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“I never tried to be racist” is the most bull💩 apology. Even *if* I believed he’s never intentionally been racist, if you accidentally hurt someone, you say “I messed up and I‘m sorry” if you actually cared about the people you hurt.
Tapping the @theradr.bsky.social ’s 5 steps sign
Tapping the @theradr.bsky.social ’s 5 steps sign
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“I never tried to be racist” is the most bull💩 apology. Even *if* I believed he’s never intentionally been racist, if you accidentally hurt someone, you say “I messed up and I‘m sorry” if you actually cared about the people you hurt.
Tapping the @theradr.bsky.social ’s 5 steps sign
Tapping the @theradr.bsky.social ’s 5 steps sign
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
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Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Art by @raafaye, insta
Art by @raafaye, insta
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Are you looking for a christmas present for a creative person? Hoo boy do we have the auction for you. Hundreds of creatives from 20 countries are raising funds for people fleeing Genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan. Huge names, huge items! Bid here! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Art by @raafaye, insta
Art by @raafaye, insta
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The thing about DOGE is it accomplished neither its ostensible nor actual goals but did manage to cause a couple of holocausts worth of deaths internationally.
And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.
And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The thing about DOGE is it accomplished neither its ostensible nor actual goals but did manage to cause a couple of holocausts worth of deaths internationally.
And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.
And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.
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It is interesting to me how many of the “deprofessionalized” professions on the Dept of Education lists are people in the position to encounter evidence of abuse - especially for children- and are mandated reporters.
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It is interesting to me how many of the “deprofessionalized” professions on the Dept of Education lists are people in the position to encounter evidence of abuse - especially for children- and are mandated reporters.
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need-a-penny, take-a-penny
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
need-a-penny, take-a-penny
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This interview is a snapshot into where tech companies are with online harassment right now.
They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.
They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This interview is a snapshot into where tech companies are with online harassment right now.
They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.
They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.
Green curry is perfect
November 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Green curry is perfect
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I know people think I’m too woo-woo about theory and capitalism and markets. But I sincerely believe this kind of degradation of micro-trust is the real social and economic rot. We constantly feel scammed and then we start reacting like marks instead of mutually reliant humans.
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I know people think I’m too woo-woo about theory and capitalism and markets. But I sincerely believe this kind of degradation of micro-trust is the real social and economic rot. We constantly feel scammed and then we start reacting like marks instead of mutually reliant humans.
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The grok stuff is pathetic but it’s also a perfect and undeniable illustration of chatbots as ideology. It’s no less true for chatgpt or other bots, but sometimes not as visible.
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The grok stuff is pathetic but it’s also a perfect and undeniable illustration of chatbots as ideology. It’s no less true for chatgpt or other bots, but sometimes not as visible.
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And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.
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Important work. The impact of mass incarceration is under-studied.
How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Important work. The impact of mass incarceration is under-studied.
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They're trying to arrest "around 5,000 people in the two states" to feed their money machine.
Agents will arrive in New Orleans on Friday and spread out across neighborhoods & commercial hubs from N.O. thru Jefferson, St. Bernard and St. Tammany parishes, and north to Baton Rouge.
It's sickening.
Agents will arrive in New Orleans on Friday and spread out across neighborhoods & commercial hubs from N.O. thru Jefferson, St. Bernard and St. Tammany parishes, and north to Baton Rouge.
It's sickening.
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
They're trying to arrest "around 5,000 people in the two states" to feed their money machine.
Agents will arrive in New Orleans on Friday and spread out across neighborhoods & commercial hubs from N.O. thru Jefferson, St. Bernard and St. Tammany parishes, and north to Baton Rouge.
It's sickening.
Agents will arrive in New Orleans on Friday and spread out across neighborhoods & commercial hubs from N.O. thru Jefferson, St. Bernard and St. Tammany parishes, and north to Baton Rouge.
It's sickening.
Do what you can where you can
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Do what you can where you can
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There's another weird wrinkle here: if the federal government can sue states for legislating AI, then I imagine it becomes possible for the government (or another federal actor) to sue states for regulating other kinds of technologies.
This could possibly lead somewhere very bad.
This could possibly lead somewhere very bad.
1) There is no legal basis on which such an executive order against state-level "AI" regulation could possibly be enforced. No state or institution should comply w/ this in advance. Many will, obviously, because every EO this man puts out is a set of marching orders for his cronies; but none should.
NEW: Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order
All the deets + more w/ @mzeff.bsky.social (it's his first WIRED byline yay!!!!)
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
All the deets + more w/ @mzeff.bsky.social (it's his first WIRED byline yay!!!!)
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
There's another weird wrinkle here: if the federal government can sue states for legislating AI, then I imagine it becomes possible for the government (or another federal actor) to sue states for regulating other kinds of technologies.
This could possibly lead somewhere very bad.
This could possibly lead somewhere very bad.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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One of the most liberating truths I’ve learned, and the one that white folx, particularly white men, still struggle to face, is this:
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
November 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
One of the most liberating truths I’ve learned, and the one that white folx, particularly white men, still struggle to face, is this:
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.