This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.

Med student raises money by creating fake MAGA hot girl and the money from the suckers just pours in. Kind of amazing story. www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...

“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.”

A Big False Assumption About AI In Schools Over on the dead bird app, you can find the AI Being Dumb account, an invaluable source.

A Big False Assumption About AI In Schools. Can you plug in AI without changing anything else? open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...

Huh:

"Part of the problem is that Iowa's private schools have been raising their prices, according to research out of Princeton University. A new, unpublished update, which researchers shared with NPR, found that, by the program's third year, ESAs had led to a roughly 40% increase in tuition."

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

Who would expect such a thing from a guy who started his career trying to come up with a way to rate girls' attractiveness and distribute the results whether they liked it or not.

"Find me a guy with an over-inflated sense of his own smarts who knows how to really half-ass a job!"

Why Yale’s term paper on what’s wrong with college gets a ‘D-’ | Will Bunch An Ivy League university's report on the loss of faith in higher ed ignores what really killed the American Dream of college.

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech

How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

I'm trying to imagine what the job market is for people with degrees in a subject who don't know a damn thing about the subject.

Iowa went all-in on school choice. It's hurting this city's public schools With school choice programs ascendant not just in Iowa but across the U.S., Cedar Rapids offers a preview of who wins and who loses when education meets the free market.

With school choice programs ascendant not just in Iowa but across the U.S., Cedar Rapids offers a preview of who wins and who loses when education meets the free market.

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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Jamal is too nice to say "utter hypocrisy," but that's what this is.

Today's #SCOTUS treats *all* coercive relief against the executive branch as imposing irreparable harm on the government. For that proposition, they cite a 2014 opinion by ... Chief Justice Roberts.

Its absence here is deafening.

I am grateful to the BBC for interviewing me and Dr. Marc Succi regarding the unreliability of generative AI as a medical diagnostic tool. Interestingly, Dr. Succi reports LLM performance on this hasn't really improved in three years. Our segment starts at 28 minutes in.

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Is This The Most Bullshitty AI Product Bullshit So Far? The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.

Gee, I wonder how they're pulling that off... curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2026/02/is-t...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Newsmakers: “To be told a city-run grocery store is implausible, but $500 million a day to kill people in Iran and Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”

Accountability Is the Broccoli of Education Reform. States Must Eat More of It Bush: Sometimes the most important things are the least glamorous. Assessment and accountability rarely make headlines but are key to academic success.

What a joke. A call for eating broccoli from the state where private schools don't have to touch any veggies at all. "Accountability" only for public schools is just part of the grift. www.the74million.org/article/acco...

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Why are people making millions by betting on the next move in the Iran war? Do they have inside information?
httpsq://stocks.apple.com/ACz579cc4RsqqO30Wmgt1Yw

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."

"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...

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Senate Bill Proposes Rollback Of Federal School Vouchers Before federal vouchers can go into effect, a new Senate bill has been proposed that would undo them entirely.

Senate Bill Proposes Rollback Of Federal School Vouchers www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

Rabbi: Ten Commandments law is ‘distortion,’ ‘appropriation’ – op-ed It would be more obvious if it were named honestly: privilege of one particular Christian worldview in a public institution meant to serve everyone.

Rabbi: Ten Commandments law is ‘distortion,’ ‘appropriation’ – op-ed www.al.com/news/2026/04...

I have no tech loyalties. Only habits. It's hard to make choices in the tech world, where all choices are evil.

My Microsoft Edge is now unwilling to open links from Bluesky and Bing. Okay for most everything else. I can switch to other browsers, but I am a creature of habit. What is happening?

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.

This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.

Never doubt your power to change the system.

Ex-Chicago charter school network CEO accused of stealing thousands YouTube video by ABC 7 Chicago

The founder and ex-administrator of a charter school in Chicago is accused of stealing over $100,000 from the school’s funds. youtu.be/hk_LQQEN4bQ?... via @YouTube

EdChoice ESA voucher study does not back up its claims about misspending The study, conducted by pro-voucher nonprofit EdChoice, contradicts itself and makes unsupported claims, 12 News found.

The whole point of industry-funded research is to stand up industry priorities.

In the voucher case, that has meant war-rooming negative news and data just as much as it’s meant making a positive case.

It’s been that way from the beginning.

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Let’s Pay Teachers Overtime The title of the article made me laugh out loud: Should Teachers Get Overtime? Subtitle: EdWeek Readers have some thoughts. I’ll bet they do. Fortunately, the readers who responded to EdWeek&…

The title of the article (in EdWeek! really!) made me laugh out loud: Should Teachers Get Overtime? teacherinastrangeland.blog/2026/04/16/l...

bless Scaachi

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Schools Unpaid Labor Pains So this week, I was the asshat.

I just wrote this this afternoon. Must be something in the air
Schools Unpaid Labor Pains
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