Side view of a woman wearing dangling earrings which spells the word vote as well as a sticker on her sweater stating I voted
It's not everyday when you can do your duty as a citizen by voting and wear beautiful earrings promoting our civic duty.
Norman Maclean’s 'A River Runs Through It' a book that I reread just recently.
In 1977, the Pulitzer Prize committee for Fiction recommended It be awarded the prize for that year. The Pulitzer Prize Board, overrode their recommendation and decided not to award for fiction that year.
#BookSky
Read an article this morning about how Allbirds is pivoting to become an AI company and goddamn if a company turning from eco-friendly shoes to water- and power-guzzling AI doesn't feel like a metaphor for this entire era
RT = Endorsement
happy bday Irish writer Samuel Beckett, b.1906.
“My mistakes are my life.”
“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
Very good to get someone like Khan on record like this—we need more of this (and yet another reason that we need to demand substantive results before massive investment/roll-out with all EdTech)
Just … wow. How many times do we have to say not to trust chat bots?
We shouldn't all be forced to live in this episode of The Twilight Zone constantly. This is no way to live.
This has been in my head all morning:
Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver
God this poem is haunting me again.
Instructions on Not Giving Up Ada Limón 1976 – More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees that really gets to me. When all the shock of white and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath, the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then, I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all
I'm in. Got my Penquin copy and am ready to go.
@mnkraft.bsky.social Ditto your experience with 8th grade reading of Great Expectations. Read it last year as a part of book club and found it to be surprisingly funny in places, exciting, and harrowing in others. A solid read I had not expected.
Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Back when I first registered to vote as an idealistic 18 yr old (back in the early 80s), I was of the mindset that I didn't want to be beholden to any group or idealogy, so I registered as Independent and still am today. I like keeping that idealistic 18 yr in my mind keeping the hope alive.
Always!
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
#Poetry
#BlueskyPoetry
#NoKings
#PercyByssheShelley
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Protest corner Corner of William Street and Blue and Gray Parkway March 28 3pm-5pm NO KINGS Fredericksburg VA Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution NOKINGS.ORG
Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Noncitizen voting is already illegal — and exceedingly rare. The SAVE Act doesn’t fix that.
It just makes it harder for YOU — elderly, rural, low-income, and married women — to register.
Call your senators now ☎️202-224-3121.
#SaveActIsPayToVote
CAESAR
The ides of March are come.
SOOTHSAYER
Ay, Caesar; but not gone.
Under no circumstances should we allow OpenAI to become the self-authorized educational research evidenve source that it is trying to be. Vendors must not be research authorities. openai.com/index/unders...
How is this not illegal?
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
I enjoyed this conversation with @marcusluther.bsky.social as always 😊
How do we handle writing outside of school as AI shifts the sands? Full episode on The Broken Copier is out today.
quoted above excerpt
"—the privilege of describing a thing vaguely, incompletely, dishonestly, is inseparable from the privilege of looking away" —Omar El Akkad
Never more true than the past few years, right?
Linking absences to future failures as though it's the absences that caused the failures rather than an external factor causing both, is not a logical thing to do. This is a good example of why relying on statistics alone will never give you a full picture.
www.thejournal.ie/absences-of-...
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