Rumors-gossip-cattiness-back stabbing- occasionally positive-all part of being on social media unfortunately! What happens when a small group of students start posting fake content to prove a point? Gotta love how author @barbaradee.bsky.social thinks!!
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Looking for a book for Earth Day? Checkout these titles shortlisted for the Green Earth Book Award
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Thanks again. It's great having your updates on this platform.
Thanks, I just saw it on BCWS, I think Richter used to be the old Barriere Lakes Road until it washed out. It's closer to town than the Lakes.
Yikes! Do you know how close to town?
News: a leading NSF supported University of Oklahoma atmospheric science summer undergraduate research program that has mentored hundreds of top atmospheric scientists over two decades has been canceled for 2026 due to funding loss. (repost w/correct link) More: tinyurl.com/3zjzf7vu
"Balls to the walls" derives from the Old English "Manparts to the ramparts".
BREAKING: The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down off the coast of San Diego after a history-making journey around the moon. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4voPKEg
Loved this space growing, never from this angle though.
“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV
New #bcfire a few kilometers north of #stumplake #kamloops #bcws zone
Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.
"The downside of adult offloading is people get less sharp. The downside of adolescents growing up delegating to AI is a generation that was never sharp to begin with. Protecting the space our children need to develop the foundational skills of thinking is now a non-negotiable." -Timothy Cook
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -MLK
Kid: What’s the hardest part about being an author?
Me: To write fiction, you need to be a sensitive person, bc you need to be hyper aware of people’s feelings, including yr own. But you also need to be tough, bc an author’s life is full of rejection & criticism. And that combo is hard to pull off.
The obvious problem with AI is that it will never innovate any fiction. There will never be anything new that it writes. It’s autocorrect on a macro scale. I want to read new things. I want to read fresh things seen with fresh eyes. Not a remix of literally everything I’ve read before.
The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."
FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."
hmm
@jamiedodd.bsky.social I am so shocked by this hockey game but devastated by the damage to The Reverse 2011.
I was glad the launch was after school for just that reason. Now I know how to talk about it with my class.
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.
With oil prices skyrocketing, take a moment to remember all the renewable energy and electric vehicle initiatives this administration tore up.
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"Data centers...are creating 'heat islands,' warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people."
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53 years ago today, the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam, ending America’s direct role in the Vietnam War.
I remember seeing this anti-war PSA back then. Its message is sadly still very relevant today as Trump drags us into another unpopular war.
Learning can be uncomfortable because thinking through hard concepts is, well, hard. What I am starting to see is that students that rely on AI have a lower tolerance for the discomfort and patience that learning requires.
Essential
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
Thanks for this, it's incredible. It sent me down a rabbit hole of reading her other essays. I hadn't read this one, but Why Children's Books is essential for me as a teacher and librarian and I just read that one again. I love her children's books but haven't read her other works enough.
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
A rate freeze is a terrible policy response to rising electricity rates.
A rent freeze is a terrible policy response to rising rents.
A data center moratorium is a terrible policy response to rising grid pressures.
All for the same basic reason: it doesn't solve the problem.
