I got a masters in gifted education and by the end of the first semester it was clear that the two profs who ran the program didn’t think gifted programs as they exist should continue. But that’s super common in ed - the experts in the field are horrified by what is actually happening in schools.
One of the best way off Broadway show I ever saw was “The Kung-Fu Importance of Being Earnest” which was just the normal play but sometimes the characters would start fighting. And one action had gotten injured or sick so they had one of those inflatable punching bags as a stand in.
NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.
Truly a perfect news alert
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
The more requirements to vote, the less people vote. That’s the simple answer as to why the republicans are pushing for it. Lots of Americans don’t have any form of ID.
These states do not require any documentation to vote: California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.
I was pretty sure I never needed to show ID to vote before I moved to AZ so I checked. The three states I voted in before AZ do not require any kind of id verification. Here I have to show ID if I go to the polls, but I vote by mail.
We’ve been enjoying his seeming disdain for Terry, the non-skater commentator. Every time he says “yes, Terry,” we’re laughing. (Maybe he loves Terry, but that’s not how it seems to us.)
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Uw...
The Democrats prefer order to liberty they would rather you quietly sit back while the Gestapo takes your neighbors and then vote for them in November so they can make the Gestapo 18.3% less violent on average than see you fight and stop ICE's ethnic cleansing
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
A black and white dog with some brown sitting in a mini van seat. Her tongue is hanging out.
Our almost-not-a-puppy loves to go pick up the carpool of kids from school.
A picture of the Mary Tyler Moore statue in downtown Minneapolis, depicting the iconic moment from the show where she throws her hat in the air. But the hat has been covered over with a protesters cardboard sign, reading “FUCK ICE.”
On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
Lot of people just reading the headline and assuming that they’ve added in AI generated summaries or even articles. This is just getting the companies to pay for an API to cover some of the cost of their scraping of the site, which was already happening.
www.pcmag.com/news/wikiped...
If “inspire me” isn’t removed, I will stop using Libby. No one needs that. There are a thousand ways to get book suggestions that don’t use AI. We don’t need this.
Every single time someone says, “today’s AI is the worst you’ll ever use,” I want to scream and point to nearly every single aspect of the Internet that is clearly worse and also fueling the end of democracy, if not the Enlightenment. It can get so much worse.
(So let’s fight to stop it, yeah?)
I worked the ET ride at Universal Studios. Bob Saget was chaperoning a bunch of girls. He leaned down to my cubicle and whispered “I’m Bob.” (ET said everyone’s name at the end so you had to give your name.)
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
what if we lock these guys inside of a
museum until they develop some respect for art or the statues come alive at night and eat them. either way, just get this shit out of my face.
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
🚨 URGENT!!!!!! Congress is trying to ram through 18 massive censorship/surveillance laws TODAY 🚨
CALL THESE REPS NOW and tell them
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO to age verification laws
—NO to the SCREEN Act
—NO to digital ID laws (App Store Accountability Act)
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
I grew up just north of checkpoint and a high speed chase that started there ended with 5 dead outside the high school when I was in 4th grade. It’s one of my earliest memories of an event that didn’t happen to me, and I’ve hated the checkpoint and CBP ever since.
www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Sadly I don’t think reason is going to help much. “The kids are going to use it anyway so we have to teach them to use it responsibly” seems to be the line. Ed law groups are providing schools/districts with example AI policies, uni ed departments are writing AI guidance and it’s all trash.
I have been fighting with my kids’ school about their decision to allow AI use this year and it’s bleak. The super says they have to allow it because the student teachers are required by their program to teach how to use it and the board clearly knows very little about AI.
George Clooney, perhaps the nation's most pre-eminent Dapper Dan man, enjoying a bit of his favored pomade.
Because I think we need to ask the important questions, regardless of potential controversy, here is one for you: If you had lived at the time, and in the circumstances, in which it would have been relevant, would you have been a Dapper Dan man?
the worst star wars movie is easily "air force one." I'm supposed to believe han solo is the president of the united states? on earth? fuck out of here with that bullshit.
