AI is theft. It's anti-Black. It's ableist. It's a wealth transfer from the poor and marginalized to the wealthiest corporations on earth. It destroys water tables and accelerates climate change.
The most likely way out of authoritarianism continues to be intense politicking followed by voting followed by taking power followed by using that power to repair our democracy.
Every step is fraught. Obstacles everywhere, including from our own side, but it’s the most likely way out.
Screenshot of a headline from politico that reads: fears over who can win in 2028 are already surfacing among democrats
Here's the thing: Democrats already know who can win. They know which policies are popular with voters and which candidates are vocally in support of those policies. They're going to throw a billion dollars into trying to prevent those candidates from becoming the nominee.
I’m very late (??) to the silence-most-notifications game but it has dramatically improved my quality of life.
So to answer the question: No.
I think a lot lately about how, from ages 16-27, my cellphone was a device that I sometimes forgot existed for a week or more. (Obviously posting this from a phone, I have no idea how to access Bluesky from anything other than the app.)
Having a dog is fun because you can sing songs to them about how gross they smell and they just love the attention
Follow up: I got a fundraising text this afternoon, & responded that I wouldn’t be giving because of this policy. I received a response stating that the policy has been paused. I appreciate the messenger (who I’m assuming is a student caller) taking the time to share that, as I’d not seen an update.
Today in 1977 began the 504 sit-ins by disabled people. The protest was the longest occupation of a federal building and a reminder that our human rights and access protections were not gifts from the ableds, but fought for by us, and in this instance with a big assist from the Black Panther party.
Wildly upsetting to me as a BPS teacher that I learned about this from fucking REDDIT.
leave me alone potion in a black cauldron with a white cartoon kitty stirring it in a witch’s hat artist @titsayy on ig
When my MLLs ask me what the names of Holy Week days are in English:
I told myself "AI Is going to be a bubble and the people who relied on it will be weaker for it. Like young people raised on ipads who don't know what disc drives are. Even if AI disrupts jobs now, my ability to think will make me wanted later." Pretty sure my prediction is going to hold up.
When someone says you'll get left behind if you don't embrace AI, they are probably saying if you don't use AI, I'll get left behind.
🚨New working paper alert! 🚨
The US spends huge $ on special education services for students with disabilities. Is that spending effective?
Today we released a working paper suggesting it is.
"Special Education Substantially Improves Learning: Evidence from Three States"
Let me explain...
Millennials are about to spend the rest of their lives hearing about how their parents AND children had to walk five miles uphill to school every day
We all know this is fascism.
Schools are NOT identical to what they were like 100 years. There are many areas of stability, and also areas of change.
ok here are more magical kid lit books off the top of my head that you can share w/ the kids in your lives instead of the one that supports a human trashbag who uses that support as proof her hatred is valid
(again, a push for the ENTIRE Rick Riordan Presents line: books.disney.com/character-se...)
There’s a major flaw in proposed all-party process — look at California I was surprised to read Danielle Allen’s full-throated endorsement of all-party primaries in Massachusetts at the very time when the fundamental flaw with that system is on full display in California (“All-party primaries would fix Massachusetts’ unproductive Legislature,” Opinion, March 20). Because of a crowded field of mostly Democratic candidates in this year’s all-party gubernatorial primary, there is a real risk that the top two vote getters will be conservative Republicans, even though collectively they would garner a small minority of the total vote. The majority vote would be split among eight Democrats. Overwhelmingly Democratic California is thus faced with the prospect of having to choose in the general election between two right-wing candidates who do not represent the views of the vast majority of the state’s residents. That makes the system less democratic than our current one, not more so. Get The Gavel A weekly SCOTUS explainer newsletter by columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Enter Email example@email.com Sign Up The real solution to uncompetitive elections in Massachusetts is ranked-choice voting, in which people can vote for multiple candidates in order of preference, and voters don’t have to guess which of their favored candidates is actually viable. Ranked-choice systems are more likely than Allen’s flawed proposal to produce competitive elections with winners who are acceptable to the majority of voters. Larry Kolodney Cambridge
"The real solution to uncompetitive elections in Massachusetts is ranked-choice voting, in which people can vote for multiple candidates in order of preference, and voters don’t have to guess which of their favored candidates is actually viable."
#mapoli
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I've been asked recently for something on Why Ed Markey / Why Not Seth Moulton, so I decided to do a stock-taking of Seth Moulton's record.
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Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric.
Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.
"This is the most essential technology ever created in all of human history. Don’t mercilessly ridicule it just because it steals the joy out of your hobbies and creates sexually explicit images of women without their consent. Seriously, please stop! It really hurts my feelings."
People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos
Guess I’ll actually be answering the alumni fundraising calls this year, so that I can (politely) inform the student callers that @bostonu.bsky.social isn’t getting a dime from me.
Having something called a “Free Expression Board” sounds like dystopian fiction, @bostonu.bsky.social
Thank you!
Yes please!
