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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 2d

Formula is the greatest invention of all time!! Use it without shame or guilt!!

Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 3d

I think anyone who graduated high school more than 15 years ago and doesn’t have kids simply has no idea the extent to which Big Tech has enshittified public education, and what an existential threat it is to American democracy.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re a parent, please watch this with your kids. If you’re a teacher, please share this with you administrators. We’re all trapped in the biggest pyramid scheme in history. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aByW...

How Big Tech Uses YOUR Kids’ Classrooms To Sell THEIR Products

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

m.youtube.com

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 5d

Ivanka… that’s a name you don’t hear much anymore.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 6d

Wtf

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 8d

Frankly I think the flag should be pledging allegiance to me.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 8d

If the Klein be Abel, let’s dance on the table!

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 8d

If the Klein be Naomi, hell yeah, homie!
If the Klein be Ezra… oof, nah.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 9d

In other news, I will be publishing a novel called Pale Fire unless the Vladimir Nabokov estate explicitly opts out.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 9d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 9d

Parents & teachers are beginning to fight back against the tech-centered classroom, which serves the interests of CEOs, not kids. Anyone in the LA area should join us at schoolsbeyondscreens.com.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 9d

The objectives of tech companies like Open AI (your partner) are fundamentally incompatible with public education. nepc.colorado.edu/publication/...

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

nepc.colorado.edu

Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 9d

If you have kids in K-12, please forward this research paper to your school / district administrators and ask for their thoughts.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 9d

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

nepc.colorado.edu

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 10d

The CVS websites are not updated, but if you call they may have it.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 10d

Good luck! I got mine today at the CVS on Vine. Super easy.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10d

hero of the fucking week

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 10d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 10d

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10d

I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.

matt94250.bsky.social @matt94250.bsky.social · 10d

If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 10d

Novavax now available at Costco and some CVS locations in LA!

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Meghan O'Keefe @megsokay.bsky.social · 10d

"But doctor...Pagliacci is booked at the Riyadh Comedy Festival."

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 10d

Yes it was actually weirdly validating to hear her say it’s as bad as I think it is!

Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 10d

I asked an exiled Russian friend what feels different about America’s slide into authoritarianism. She said, “In Russia, they boiled the frog. Here, the frog died a long time ago.”

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 12d

It’s ongoing! Gonna be a long fight.

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 12d

AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers buff.ly/OlGwaFP

AI models are using material from retracted scientific papers

Some companies are working to remedy the issue.

buff.ly

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 12d

You’re old?

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 12d

So many parents stress about how they’re managing their kids’ screen time at home, but rarely consider how much their kids are getting at school. I promise, it’s a lot more than you think!

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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 12d

“Well, but the box office numbers show —“ SHUT UP

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 15d

if you're a person who doesn't see the unalloyed good in Warner Bros spending $150 million on a loose Pynchon adaptation by Paul Thomas Anderson, we simply do not occupy the same reality

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