Today, Los Angeles Unified became the largest school district yet to move to scale back Ed tech in classrooms
YouTube will be blocked for students, PreK-1st grade won’t use iPads anymore, and the district is required to start tracking mins students spend on devices
www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
TODAY: @lindseyadler.bsky.social in conversation with @bencollins.bsky.social about The Onion's Infowars coup. "He’s just going to keep selling boner pills on the back of the worst tragedies in our country in perpetuity unless someone puts a check on this.” flaminghydra.com/r/e95b191b?m...
I need to get one of these European Weird Little Guy Fellowships.
“One of the assumptions about AI tutors is that once we replace the human with an AI agent, everyone will keep interacting with the AI as if they were still dealing with the human.
That’s a silly assumption, particularly in a school setting. Students do not even treat humans like other humans.”
America’s wealthiest men are spending more money than ever before, in a race against each other that’s leaving the rest of us in the dust.
By 2030, data centers will consume as much energy as 41 million US homes.
I really appreciate @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social's reflections on how she explored the social impacts of technology with her students by introducing them to the people - the ghost workers - whose labor makes “AI” systems possible.
Read this week’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social and find the lesson at:
I’m glad this issue is finally being taken seriously.
I hope people talk more about the very real sacrifices made by those in public office.
I hope those now working on this remember to think about the safety of past legislators as well.
I could go on and on with examples.
Colleagues who didn’t receive threats often seemed like they didn’t get it. It is not a uniform experience for all legislators. Just because one legislator manages to get by without receiving them, it doesn’t mean someone else doesn’t receive threats daily.
The first death threat I received was in 2017 following one of the first times I ever spoke on the House floor.
“Your kids are gonna get snatched from school”
“You’ll be dead and we’ll make it look like suicide”
I reported it but was told it was “probably just some guy in his parents basement”
I guarantee there were more than 19 threats against legislators in 2024. Please remember that prior to Melissa’s murder, many reports were not taken seriously and action was rarely taken.
It is of course possible threats have increased *and also* threats have been grossly under reported for years.
If you’re wondering why I worked for years to better protect student data privacy, now you know.
Over the years I was called a bitch and a cunt regularly in emails, that I should shut up and, as a Native person, that my people should have been eradicated already
People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience? www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
Would pay money to watch this.
Sports owners are using tech to build private surveillance states — while taking public money.
Which means that Knicks owner James Dolan is the future.
In a new collaboration with @wired.com, we go inside how MSG secretly watches fans, surveils kids, tracks players… youtu.be/yNZ3hJPN5Vc?...
A "pause AI" letter that I actually like (and signed)! Because it's not about imagined doomsday scenarios, but rather putting the brakes on the rush to impose synthetic text extruding machines in schools in particular:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
I bet almost nobody using apps that contain Startapp's tracking code has ever heard of the company, let alone consented to how it exploits their data.
Whether it has ever provided data to Webloc or not (we don't know), GDPR regulators, the FTC, Google and Apple must investigate its data practices.
In a nutshell, Startapp/start.io is a major third-party tracking vendor harvesting data from up to a billion smartphone users via mobile apps.
According to Exodus Privacy, its SDK is currently embedded in 4,266 mobile apps: reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/trackers/...
End to end encryption is essential both to human rights and to everyday life
With many people reliant on tech giants to provide encrypted services, companies have a responsibility to implement it in a secure, reliable way that puts people first.
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
Senator Wyden can’t say it plainly without losing his security clearance, but this raises the alarm that Kash & crew have decided they can illegally surveil Americans without a warrant.
A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads: I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.
I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about.
Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.
Pope Leo: “Woe to those who manipulate religion & the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain…The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/w...
Greetings all. I'm looking for a podcast producer to help do a (much) more regular BLOOD IN THE MACHINE show. I thought I'd start by reaching out here, and to the broader BITM community. If this sounds like it's up your alley, details are in the link below:
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
A federal jury on Wednesday found that Live Nation, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, has operated as a monopoly in violation of federal and state antitrust laws. Here are five takeaways from the seven-week trial.
I hope to make this month’s
As a sucker for a great manifesto, a book club recommendation! @charleswlogan.bsky.social @alliethrall.bsky.social @civicsoftech.bsky.social
attensity.net
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
