Top notch name…

Jake Mangum spots kid in the crowd, tosses the ball, and her brother catches it and gives it to her. Dudes rock.

You just type into ChatGPT "how do I become certified AI proficient?" and then cut and paste its answer into a Word doc and turn that in to your teacher.

Martin Luther King's Last Speech: "I've Been To The Mountaintop" YouTube video by Screen Prism

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his final speech 58 years ago tonight (Apr. 3, 1968) in Memphis. It’s widely known as the “mountaintop speech.” This is a powerful excerpt of that speech. It’s still meaningful and very applicable to the current moment.

“Do not taunt Super Happy Fun Ball…”

Cartoon depicting a "history" factory, with the quote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" from George Santayana. A student thinks: "Why does this look familiar?" while thinking about the Palmer Raids and Japanese-American Incarcerations, and the cogs of "Bureaucracy" and "Loopholes" stand next to an "ICE" conveyor belt with "Unidentified Agents," "Detentions Without Charge," "Militarized PResence," and "Limited Transparency" on the assembly line. Beneath the conveyor belt, spilled water from a pipe, labeled: "the cracks are showing", and a graph showing "public trust" in the red.

Officials at an Omaha-area high school ordered the student newspaper to remove this editorial cartoon criticizing ICE, then demanded prior review of articles about their censorship. Via @splc.org, which is advocating for the students: splc.org/2026/03/nebr...

Great article.

Let's talk about Afroman and Section 230. 🧵

A Thousand Words Leaders of the civil rights movement called their protests "demonstrations" because they aimed to make visible the systems of political repression and physical violence that were all too often hidden ...

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on protests and photos:

Olympic Figure Skaters Are on Thin Ice Over Copyright Rules

Figure Skaters at Milan Olympics quickly learn a working knowledge of music copyright laws is as vital as perfect routines for the medal hopes.

Story on how Olympians have been caught short as don’t ask don’t tell comes to an end

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...

Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

"The ability of everyday citizens to hold government agents to account, by observing them and advocating for change, is what has distinguished the American experiment with democracy from authoritarian regimes around the world," says litigation director @alexabdo.bsky.social in @nbcnews.com.

Linfield vs. Treasure Valley CC wrestling dual meet at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville. Hands down one of the best sporting experiences in Oregon.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

What a simple question about My Cousin Vinny taught me about LLMs If you want to see an LLM really malfunction, ask it to reconstruct a story from pieces. Also: Should this be a benchmark?

I heard what everyone has been clamoring for is 6,000 words on what a simple question about the 1990s comedy My Cousin Vinny can teach us about the capabilities and surprising weaknesses of current LLMs. Well, I hate to disappoint people, so I went and wrote it. open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...

There’s college football on tonight!

The Stagg Bowl (D3 title game) between North Central (IL) and UW-River Falls kicks at 7pm central on ESPN.

The D-III underdogs running college football’s fastest offense and trying to topple a dynasty UW-River Falls is the smallest school in its conference. It's also led by the fastest and most prolific offense in all of college football.

✍️ Down in Division III, Wisconsin-River Falls is a comeback story as impressive as Indiana.

After 19 straight losing seasons, they created the most prolific offense in all of CFB.

Now they're in the national title game against juggernaut North Central:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/693...

Welcome to the public domain, THE SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK (1930), the first appearance of Nancy Drew 🔎🕰️

👧 It’s no mystery why people are excited — the first four Nancy Drew Mystery Stories are now in the public domain!

Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

In 1993, I sold a movie ticket in Bellevue, WA to Bill Gates and his then girlfriend Melinda.

It almost looks like he killed the Stanford tree and skinned it and is wearing it as a pelt

Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.

Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.

Class of 2025: Growing up in Oregon schools resource guide A quick summary of issues and conclusions from Class of 2025: Growing up in Oregon schools, as well as links to learn more about the issues and students in the project.

'Class of 2025: Growing up in Oregon schools' follows seven students on their 13-year journey through Oregon’s public schools. For a quick summary of issues and conclusions from the Class of 2025, watch a 10-minute “short cut” here:

The first breaking news info is often incomplete or inaccurate. Scanner chatter is watching the sausage being made. Social media is risky for Hot News.

People with a reputation for mis/disinformation should be regarded as such.

Wait for actual official announcements.

Follow the local media.

Learning about poetry also makes you a better writer and communicator. I suspect that’s valuable for a victim advocate even if you aren’t writing in iambic pentameter. Bonus: It also makes you a more interesting person.

I want jobs for humanities experts to kill AI systems.

When I was a production assistant on The Office, the only writing of mine that anyone read was the catering menu I typed up each day for the crew. But I realized the menu was my chance to impress the writers. So here’s a quick #Scriptsky #Screenwriting thread on HIDDEN OPPORTUNITIES.
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Terrifying the same high school students 2x, no arrests. Plus the baristas who locked themselves in the bathroom and called 911. No consequences for the perpetrators and no answer about it from them.

Video shows armed immigration agents surround Oregon high schoolers at coffee shop “They just came out of nowhere and just started, like, swarming,” one terrified barista told a 911 dispatcher.

Video shows armed immigration agents surround Oregon high schoolers at coffee shop
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

“As part of the update, the company said the Apple Intelligence summaries, which users must opt into, will more explicitly emphasize that the information has been produced by AI, signaling that it may sometimes produce inaccurate results.” So, AI = might be wrong. That is tremendous marketing.

Hunt continues for thieves after priceless jewels stolen in heist at Louvre museum in Paris - live updates France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati says the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

So this is apparently a very low tech theft, but a good reminder thats how most of the world works. An amusing story from PDX … 1/

www.bbc.com/news/live/c6...