I'm not crying, you're crying 😭 (Lovell passed away last August but the crew and mission were determined before that.)

What’s Wrong with AI in Schools In the next 10 years the AI education market is projected to reach between $112 billion and $127 billion — more than double the federal government’s entire K–12 education budget. […]

"In the next 10 years the AI education market is projected to reach between $112 billion & $127 billion — more than double the federal govt’s entire K–12 ed budget."

Sign up for @rethinkingschools.bsky.social's "What’s Wrong with AI in Schools" on April 9.
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The Artemis II crew proposed naming a moon crater after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife Carroll, who lost her life to cancer 😭

Poet Jodie Foster GIF Alt: Jodie Foster from Contact saying "It's So Beautiful, they should've sent a poet"

I couldn't shift from my task fast enough to get his official quote and exchange, but it was Victor Glover on comms, sometime shortly before my 3:49 pm post.

I've been listening to the Artemis II livestream since 1pm - we just had a "they should have sent a poet" moment with a description of islands of lit terrain right near the terminator, the edge of where the moon's surface is no longer in sunlight (the day/night boundary). Love it!

All I'm saying is if your Ivy League students are regularly spending hours on Google trying to find basic info about course requirements, maybe that's really an indication that you should make better investments in student support, academic advising, and communication design

If you're following along today for the #ArtemisII flyby, here's some notes on what to expect. 🧪🔭🚀🌘

Tree heavy with Pink flowers

The Kwanzan cherry trees are in full bloom #bloomscrolling

And the wall that keeps the world out and scared of us also keeps everyone from getting in to help us.

If you want to keep a Trump from happening again, defunding the police isn't optional. We have to be anticarceral. The prison industrial complex must be eliminated.

The fact that NONE of the reporting on Artemis II has mentioned and analyzed the Trump 1 space directives that are governing why and how Artemis is happening and to what purpose is an extraordinary #scicomm failure and a sign of how bad journalism about policy and science has gotten

I refuse to use AI for many reasons, but importantly because I have self-respect and enjoy thinking and learning. It's just embarrassing and I cringe when I see my colleagues have used it to draft glib emails.

"We could replace a great deal of CEOs with AI at this moment, if we are ready to be honest about their shared tendency towards truth-agnostic bullshit claims," said most critical thinkers.

Looks just like my yard over here in West Michigan! :)

A detailed image of the planet Earth taken by Commander Reid Wiseman of Artemis II, showing the very thin atmosphere that protects us from space, with Earth's South Pole at the top of the image. Shine from sunset illuminates the lower right, and aurora can be seen in the upper right and lower left of the image.

5) April 3, 2026: Hello World, taken by Astronaut Reid Wiseman on Artemis II. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

I love this photo, and I love the overview effect that it might inspire in a few minds that view it. Thanks for reading through this thread, I hope one or more of these photos sparked joy!

A huge composite mosaic of the planet Saturn taken from the far side so that it is illuminated by the Sun behind it. A faint blue dot is hard to make out in the lower right of the image, near Saturn's ring system; that faint blue dot is the planet Earth.

4) July 19, 2013: The Day The Earth Smiled, taken by Cassini Spacecraft. (Composite mosaic is shown here, link brings you to a zoom in with Earth annotated!) www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

A photograph of a small part of space taken from the outer solar system looking back toward Earth. Earth appears as a small speck, a "pale blue dot" in a beam of dusty light.

3) Feb. 14, 1990: Pale Blue Dot, taken by Voyager 1 spacecraft. science.nasa.gov/mission/voya...

A full view of our planet taken by a human, the second human photograph of our planet. The Earth appears in the lower right quarter of the shot and is a gibbous shape as part of its night side is facing the camera.

2) December 7, 1972: The Blue Marble, taken by Astronaut Harrison Schmitt on Apollo 17. tothemoon.im-ldi.com/gallery/Apol...

In honor of Artemis II's newest image of our planet, let me collect a small thread of highlighted "family photos" of all or nearly all of humanity.

1) December 24, 1968: Earthrise, taken by Astronaut Bill Anders on Apollo 8. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

An excellent read so far, @rboyle31.bsky.social !

"From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch."

― Edgar Mitchell

Hello, World - NASA NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window after completing the translunar injection

the new earth photo is giving me heart palpitations (negative, existential)
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In a November conversation at the Urban Consulate in Detroit, the great writer and thinker Tressie McMillan Cottom was asked by host Orlando P. Bailey, “Do you have a daring idea for us to ponder and sit with for our collective future?” McMillan Cottom replied with this: “When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it’s because it is deeply unsettled. I think that this promise of an artificial intelligent future is really just a collective anxiety that very wealthy, powerful people have about how well they’re gonna be able to control us in the future. If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled—AI is already here, the end is already here—then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” Today, I refuse.

Today (and every day) I refuse AI (and the "it's inevitable" tech industry narrative).
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The earth, half illuminated, "rises" above the surface of the Moon in the foreground

Speaking of context, here is Earthrise 1968, taken by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders. He said, "We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth." Learn more about Earthrise and its legacy, especially as a symbol for the enivronmental movement here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise

There are parts of the essay I disagree with (especially a complete ignoring of the environmental and political layers of why AI and data centers are bad), but I appreciate the overall messaging. This was written for my field of astrophysics but it works for education more broadly, too.

What an excellent post it is. I'm pleased to already be a paid subscriber, as this would have convinced me to join!

"You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose."

https://www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe?ref=W7aLepJw4I

kinda wanna make a series on radical imaginaries and building them, like i think we've done valuable work critiquing all the terrible things that exist (and god there are a lot of them), but i'd love to find a space where we can imagine differently and imagine better

This is why I keep it out of my classrooms.
This is why I teach my students to be careful/critical in their consumption of gAI.
This is why universities shouldn't be so bloody ridiculously uncritical in forcing gAI on faculty, staff and students.
We're inculcating dependence on a catastrophic scale

But you added the moon artificially to it. It's such a great photo on its own, why falsify it and add to misconception/misinformation/distrust?

StoryGraph data for the book "Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are" by Rebecca Boyle. The description at the bottom begins with the text "An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth–from the primordial soup to the Artemis launches–from an acclaimed Scientific American and Atlantic contributor"

With Artemis II fueling up (again), seemed like a good day to start reading this book from my TBR shelf: Our Moon by Rebecca Boyle.

Live updates on the lunar fly-by at this link: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/0...

Great episode 🙂‍↕️

I saw the paper is out too!

doi.org/10.22554/v0c...