Something I think about a great deal is that the use of digital tools (even down to word processing) now assumes that students are engaging a portal overflowing with distractions and prominently platformed aids and shortcuts to their work.
As an IT professional, one of my hard rules is that you never, ever do something that makes your users feel surveilled. It breaks the trust that's needed for a functional organization.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
also worth remembering that ending a Lyme disease (borreliosis) vaccine was one of the first victories of the American anti-vaccination movement that's since captured the federal government.
The day each fall that this arrived was very special to me.
Seeing a lot of discussion regarding where the crisis of the university came from. You cannot, in any way, shape, or form, talk about this without also focusing on administrators as both a corrupting force and a group that laid the foundation for and was rabidly starving for authoritarianism.
Oooooooh, I really like that framing! I agree!
That’s a good point—it’s so easy to slip into those scripts but important to be genuine. Do I mean it, or did I take longer to reply because I feel annoyed at the request?!
Genuine question: What do you think about "Thanks for your patience with my delayed reply"? I always feel like I need... something to fill the time gap.
My new thing is omitting the phrase “catching up” from my vocabulary. “Oh I was out and I’m still catching up.” No. This isn’t a biz where you ever catch up. You prioritize and juggle and all the things that really need to get done get done in time.
Speaking just as a regular person who follows you, when I see the reposts, I think, "A real person decided to repost that because they wanted to make sure I saw it." I'd think that has more reach than reposts by an account where the personhood is more obscured.
“Move fast and break things” as an ethos was always going to run into “laws are a hinderance to xyz” and while people may cheekily call it ‘cyberpunk’ or such the reality is it’s nothing more than white collar criminality and should be prosecuted as such
"The city values the revenue generated from a single parking spot over what that space can mean to the people who live here."
#washingtondc @51st.news
A difficult concept to navigate properly is that *testing* is itself a major problem in education (most exemplified by the No Child Left Behind testing regimes. This can mean that the very tests revealing declines in learning are themselves part of what is causing the decline.
“How do we say Go Blue in Amharic but make it MEAN Go Blue,” a real and heated office debate
Hell yeah!
I've gotten more emails from my kids' teachers, principals, etc. about last week's standardized tests (good night's sleep! good breakfast! spirit wear for the kindergartener to show support for the 3-5th graders!) than literally anything else all year.
It makes me really upset.
Hear hear!
Or, and hear me out, write how you want. Don't be cowed by LLMs. We do not have to cede territory to the Theft and Murder Machine. We don't write like LLMs; LLMs generate content that is a simulacrum of our work.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
There are simply hard limits as to what one instructor is capable of doing. If you truly value students learning to write reasonable class sizes are non-negotiable.
FYI ⬇️
This was very relatable. And you just know that every nurse in that building can do it in 3 seconds and make it look easy.
“The time stolen from me by the U.S. government belongs not just to me, but to the children and youth I have dedicated my life to advocating for.”
It's extremely sad that we are forcing people like Rümeysa out of our country. She represents so much of what should be great about the United States.
the wild thing is that the big news story in AI in the last week has been that Claude users are struggling because of a lack of available compute
at least right now we're actually using the compute they're building
Kenyon McDuffie is running for DC mayor as the NIMBY candidate! He wants more "community input" on development projects, more "historic districts" that freeze out new housing, fewer bake lanes, more slopulist tax breaks for current property owners. I am frustrated that putative YIMBYs support him!
Send them to jail
The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.
That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.
(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).
That’s so cool!
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
oh goody this one is gendered female
and named after the history of science’s Patron Saint of Having Your Work Ripped Off and Unrecognized By Dudes