It’s the True Believer into Strange Fruit for meeee 🧡

@deliaistyping.bsky.social has done it again 🙌🏾

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Happy October! 🎃🍂🕯️

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Assata. 💜

May you rest well. May your spirit continue to guide us as your words and actions have in this life. May we perform the duties given lovingly and beautifully. May we yet win.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.

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Please don’t stop the conversations about the different ways to access your favorite media and which media you can simply do without.

Our dollars can be powerful but I promise you our habits our even more so.

A boycott without a vision for other realities is simply a standoff that returns us to the status quo. Exactly what’s happening this week.

We need to be able to build and support systems we won’t have to boycott. And that starts with understanding how we shape systems in the first place.

We can do the same with media.

How can convos around which media is accessible through libraries extend to convos about protecting them?

How can our convos about the challenges of accessing sports outside of subscriptions motivate us to change how we collectively engage?

Keep asking questions.

People paused scrolling or stopping by just to see what Target had at the same time economic uncertainty started rising and I do think together it shifted folks casual spending habits.

Some may have shifted to other stores but, for many, the habit was built around the place. The model on the habit.

Please don’t stop the conversations about the different ways to access your favorite media and which media you can simply do without.

Our dollars can be powerful but I promise you our habits our even more so.

Honestly, bring it on. Let’s go ahead and wrap the experiment up

Me between lessons: surely they’ve covered it all

Me observing lessons: oh this is a brilliant extension of the core skills 😂

My kids having access to certain experiences I didn’t is such an interesting learning experience. I see new complexities in seemingly simple things. They’ve been in swim lessons for almost 3 years and I think “surely you’ve learned all there is to know” but each practice really is a whole new skill.

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

I've been asking "What if today was the freest you'd ever get to be for the rest of your life?" all year long and I really wish more people would engage with that.

Resisting AI in K-12 schools is an extension of the fight against the failures of NCLB, excessive standardized testing, and the ranking of students and of RTTT and its attempt to evaluate teachers through "datafication, measurement and automation."
If you were in one fight, you must be in the other.

I’d be wanting to do my own look into the organizers. Thank you for this and I’m so sorry for all the ways the groups that proclaim to care about these issues continue to fail Eritrea

This is all really bad.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

“So, the rise of these industrial-scale computing facilities that are needed for A.I. and other Internet applications is certainly one of the factors driving up prices.”

“And I think there’s a chance that A.I. is going to drive our bills even higher in the future.”

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The response to this piece has been incredible. Huge thanks to all the translators and localizers who shared their stories.

I'm now planning the next two editions: First, if you're a healthcare worker—a nurse, therapist, tech, admin, doctor—and AI has impacted your job, I'd love to hear from you.

LLM companies are beta testing experimental products our children, and educators are facilitating it.

Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.

The first and third make a near perfect circle really