Violistpm
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Absolutely astounding how:
-trivial most of the benefits of AI to teachers discussed here are (a few minutes here, a different way to do an old or "fun" thing there)
-vague the nods to ethics are
-common the pushes to use it are (FOMO, "don't be left behind," "need to learn about it," save time)
-trivial most of the benefits of AI to teachers discussed here are (a few minutes here, a different way to do an old or "fun" thing there)
-vague the nods to ethics are
-common the pushes to use it are (FOMO, "don't be left behind," "need to learn about it," save time)
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
www.nbcnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Absolutely astounding how:
-trivial most of the benefits of AI to teachers discussed here are (a few minutes here, a different way to do an old or "fun" thing there)
-vague the nods to ethics are
-common the pushes to use it are (FOMO, "don't be left behind," "need to learn about it," save time)
-trivial most of the benefits of AI to teachers discussed here are (a few minutes here, a different way to do an old or "fun" thing there)
-vague the nods to ethics are
-common the pushes to use it are (FOMO, "don't be left behind," "need to learn about it," save time)
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I’ve made a copy of the 60 Minutes INSIDE CECOT segment. If Substack takes it down, I’ll put it up on my website. I know there are cleaner copies out there, but I kinda like the punk rock bootlegged version. The link is in my pinned post if you haven’t seen it yet.
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I’ve made a copy of the 60 Minutes INSIDE CECOT segment. If Substack takes it down, I’ll put it up on my website. I know there are cleaner copies out there, but I kinda like the punk rock bootlegged version. The link is in my pinned post if you haven’t seen it yet.
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I forget if I mentioned this before but the funniest thing about the David Brooks thing is it would not have been hard to put it in his column: turn it into an interesting reported first person scene in which you’ve seen the man up close and personal during his failed post conviction rehab tour in…
December 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I forget if I mentioned this before but the funniest thing about the David Brooks thing is it would not have been hard to put it in his column: turn it into an interesting reported first person scene in which you’ve seen the man up close and personal during his failed post conviction rehab tour in…
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
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So honored to wear art by incredible kids in Gaza.
I told everyone their names, their stories and showed their pictures.
I told everyone their names, their stories and showed their pictures.
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
So honored to wear art by incredible kids in Gaza.
I told everyone their names, their stories and showed their pictures.
I told everyone their names, their stories and showed their pictures.
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the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
October 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
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It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.
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Please fill this out, and consider noting that you don't really care what a government program costs. They will absolutely use those innocent little questions like I only want this if it's cheap for the government to Nix the program. Every dollar we spend on the IRS gets multiple dollars back!
The IRS wants Americans to weigh in on Direct File, the agency's free tax filing program.
We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful.
The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs.
www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...
We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful.
The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs.
www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...
IRS asks for public input on free tax filing options to inform congressional report | Internal Revenue Service
IR-2025-85, Aug. 21, 2025 — The IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.
www.irs.gov
August 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Please fill this out, and consider noting that you don't really care what a government program costs. They will absolutely use those innocent little questions like I only want this if it's cheap for the government to Nix the program. Every dollar we spend on the IRS gets multiple dollars back!
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Not everybody needs to be a strawberry. There’s room for cranberries in this world too. You can be weird and sour and only tolerated by people around the holidays because they grew up with you. I know you can. You can be fun when mixed with enough vodka. I believe in you. You can live in a bog.
August 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Not everybody needs to be a strawberry. There’s room for cranberries in this world too. You can be weird and sour and only tolerated by people around the holidays because they grew up with you. I know you can. You can be fun when mixed with enough vodka. I believe in you. You can live in a bog.
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that’s like saying “yes, fairies are real 🧚! I took a ferry over the river just a few days ago”
the “AI” in pacman and modern day generative “AI” happen to use the same word, but they have absolutely nothing to do with each other
one is a hand written decision tree the other is machine learning
the “AI” in pacman and modern day generative “AI” happen to use the same word, but they have absolutely nothing to do with each other
one is a hand written decision tree the other is machine learning
July 29, 2025 at 6:53 AM
that’s like saying “yes, fairies are real 🧚! I took a ferry over the river just a few days ago”
the “AI” in pacman and modern day generative “AI” happen to use the same word, but they have absolutely nothing to do with each other
one is a hand written decision tree the other is machine learning
the “AI” in pacman and modern day generative “AI” happen to use the same word, but they have absolutely nothing to do with each other
one is a hand written decision tree the other is machine learning
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i'm so tired. i'm just so tired all the time
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July 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
i'm so tired. i'm just so tired all the time
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As we head into a new week, please remember that your best is good enough. Try to not compare yourself to others, and don’t be misguided by other people’s material things or status. Those things matter not. If you can live each day with kindness, you are the richest soul. Rest well, my friends. 😊
July 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
As we head into a new week, please remember that your best is good enough. Try to not compare yourself to others, and don’t be misguided by other people’s material things or status. Those things matter not. If you can live each day with kindness, you are the richest soul. Rest well, my friends. 😊
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law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called yesterday's decision about nationwide injunctions "an existential threat to the rule of law."
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Supreme Court Put Nationwide Injunctions to the Torch
That isn’t the disaster for birthright citizenship that some fear.
www.theatlantic.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen
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“I feel like people mistook my 250k for enthusiasm” is something I’ve often found myself saying out loud
Here's a fun thing that a top donor to Andrew Cuomo's super PAC just told me.
June 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“I feel like people mistook my 250k for enthusiasm” is something I’ve often found myself saying out loud
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Women are lagging behind on going bankrupt on DraftKings, drinking themselves to death, and fist-fighting anyone who looks at them funny on the subway but they can catch up.
June 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Women are lagging behind on going bankrupt on DraftKings, drinking themselves to death, and fist-fighting anyone who looks at them funny on the subway but they can catch up.
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"Again and again, I arrived at the same conclusion without fail: no, my eyes did not deceive me and my standards are not too high and I’m not being unfair. That was, hands down, the worst military parade I’ve ever seen."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
The Worst Military Parade I've Ever Seen
Hands down.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"Again and again, I arrived at the same conclusion without fail: no, my eyes did not deceive me and my standards are not too high and I’m not being unfair. That was, hands down, the worst military parade I’ve ever seen."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
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FYI...
"The woman said of the “refugees”: “They were understanding that they would be arriving here for complete assistance. People thought they would be arriving at a house, a job, medical insurance, and other things. It isn’t that way at all."
www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/af...
"The woman said of the “refugees”: “They were understanding that they would be arriving here for complete assistance. People thought they would be arriving at a house, a job, medical insurance, and other things. It isn’t that way at all."
www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/af...
'No food, job or phones': Afrikaner 'refugee' family 'stranded' in US
American Dream? An Afrikaner 'refugee' family has been left without assistance, including food, after arriving in the US...
www.thesouthafrican.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
FYI...
"The woman said of the “refugees”: “They were understanding that they would be arriving here for complete assistance. People thought they would be arriving at a house, a job, medical insurance, and other things. It isn’t that way at all."
www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/af...
"The woman said of the “refugees”: “They were understanding that they would be arriving here for complete assistance. People thought they would be arriving at a house, a job, medical insurance, and other things. It isn’t that way at all."
www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/af...
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If you want a distraction here’s a video I made about how I felt hearing the Bluey music for the first time
June 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
If you want a distraction here’s a video I made about how I felt hearing the Bluey music for the first time
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Tim is just so great at this. He did the best he could
Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.
May 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Tim is just so great at this. He did the best he could