Future Serious
@willbo24.bsky.social
Educator, provocateur, capacity builder, dad.
I mean... He's a parody of himself.
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I mean... He's a parody of himself.
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Merkley had a pretty effective day.
Or will have, if you make this go viral.
Or will have, if you make this go viral.
MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs?
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
June 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Merkley had a pretty effective day.
Or will have, if you make this go viral.
Or will have, if you make this go viral.
The end of the world is nigh... I mean seriously, how disconnected can you get?
April 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The end of the world is nigh... I mean seriously, how disconnected can you get?
I wish I'd had this example when I was teaching journalism to high school kids. It's not living up to it's "Fourth Estate" calling much these days...
The pushback Trump should have gotten from Time presswatchers.org/2025/04/the-... by @froomkin.bsky.social
The pushback Trump should have gotten from Time | Press Watch
Journalists should confront Trump with the truth and see how he reacts
presswatchers.org
April 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I wish I'd had this example when I was teaching journalism to high school kids. It's not living up to it's "Fourth Estate" calling much these days...
Seriously, can someone, anyone please tell me why you know who can just order up all of these executive orders without any, zero, nada oversight? I mean, wtaf? I thought we had, ahem, "checks and balances"...
April 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Seriously, can someone, anyone please tell me why you know who can just order up all of these executive orders without any, zero, nada oversight? I mean, wtaf? I thought we had, ahem, "checks and balances"...
Anyone who thinks that these "rebounds" in the market are not market manipulation isn't paying attention. Send the Treasury Secretary out after a down day to suggest that talks with China are "progressing," but don't forget to grab some oversolds before you do. Brazen.
April 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Anyone who thinks that these "rebounds" in the market are not market manipulation isn't paying attention. Send the Treasury Secretary out after a down day to suggest that talks with China are "progressing," but don't forget to grab some oversolds before you do. Brazen.
"I'm pissed" needs to be the rallying cry. T-shirts. Bumper stickers. Tattoos...
edition.cnn.com/2025/04/15/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/04/15/p...
‘I’m pissed!’: Town hall erupts in anger at Republican lawmaker | CNN Politics
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) faced criticism of the Trump administration for mistakenly deporting a Maryland man to El Salvador during a town hall in Fort Madison, Iowa.
edition.cnn.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"I'm pissed" needs to be the rallying cry. T-shirts. Bumper stickers. Tattoos...
edition.cnn.com/2025/04/15/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/04/15/p...
Idiots.
As reported last week, Trump is going to kill Head Start, utterly screwing 750,000 children who rely on it for child care and preschool and a million parents who count on it to stay in the workforce.
April 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Idiots.
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@chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down each layer of the "sheer lawlessness" of the Trump deportation case. (1/2)
April 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
@chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down each layer of the "sheer lawlessness" of the Trump deportation case. (1/2)
Jesus.
Here's a first look at sea surface temperature data from the new NOAA ERSSTv6 dataset... this animation shows the yearly anomalies over the last 100 years.
Data available at www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb...
Data available at www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb...
April 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Jesus.
Signs of our times.
US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18.
Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky
Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky
US Applicant Week
www.grad.ubc.ca
April 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Signs of our times.
One thing you can do right now to push back against the oligarchs: Stop buying their products. Hell, stop buying new stuff in general. We need an army of non-consumers of all that crap we "want" but don't "need." #justsayin
March 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
One thing you can do right now to push back against the oligarchs: Stop buying their products. Hell, stop buying new stuff in general. We need an army of non-consumers of all that crap we "want" but don't "need." #justsayin
I had an amazing interview with seven students and a head of school in Bangalore where kids are actually being told the truth about what's happening in the world and give the space and support to attack those challenges in meaninful and engaging ways. What a concept.
A School That's Facing Reality and Imagining Harder (Part 1)
A hard yet joyful conversation
open.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I had an amazing interview with seven students and a head of school in Bangalore where kids are actually being told the truth about what's happening in the world and give the space and support to attack those challenges in meaninful and engaging ways. What a concept.
I thought someone was taking care of this...
The Georgia-based company says that an unprecedented rise in egg prices is forcing a surcharge on its most popular item. via @wabe.org
Waffle House now charging extra 50 cents per egg due to rising prices
Georgia-based Waffle House has issued a temporary surcharge of 50 cents per egg due to rising prices of eggs nationwide.
www.wabe.org
February 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I thought someone was taking care of this...
Here's what's lighting me up the last couple of days: I've found a couple schools, one in Bangalore and one in Compton, where students are being told the harsh truths about the world and are encouraged to work on meaningful projects to address those challenges.
What a concept.
Film at 11.
What a concept.
Film at 11.
February 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Here's what's lighting me up the last couple of days: I've found a couple schools, one in Bangalore and one in Compton, where students are being told the harsh truths about the world and are encouraged to work on meaningful projects to address those challenges.
What a concept.
Film at 11.
What a concept.
Film at 11.
My latest on Substack:
"Here's the point: it’s ok to feel 'woo-wee.' In fact, it may be required. Feeling yourself as land, or sensing all other life as kin, or allowing it all to “dream through us” is language that’s asking us to go into spaces we aren’t used to going...that's a good thing."
"Here's the point: it’s ok to feel 'woo-wee.' In fact, it may be required. Feeling yourself as land, or sensing all other life as kin, or allowing it all to “dream through us” is language that’s asking us to go into spaces we aren’t used to going...that's a good thing."
We Need More "Woo-Wee"
Provocation #6: Getting comfortable with caring
futureserious.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
My latest on Substack:
"Here's the point: it’s ok to feel 'woo-wee.' In fact, it may be required. Feeling yourself as land, or sensing all other life as kin, or allowing it all to “dream through us” is language that’s asking us to go into spaces we aren’t used to going...that's a good thing."
"Here's the point: it’s ok to feel 'woo-wee.' In fact, it may be required. Feeling yourself as land, or sensing all other life as kin, or allowing it all to “dream through us” is language that’s asking us to go into spaces we aren’t used to going...that's a good thing."
Dear Whoever Will Listen,
Eliminating the US Department of Ed and opening up school choice and giving public funds to private schools and enacting whatever the next move is to kill public education is will not improve the outcomes you are in a panic about and will likely lead to worse results. 1/
Eliminating the US Department of Ed and opening up school choice and giving public funds to private schools and enacting whatever the next move is to kill public education is will not improve the outcomes you are in a panic about and will likely lead to worse results. 1/
February 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Dear Whoever Will Listen,
Eliminating the US Department of Ed and opening up school choice and giving public funds to private schools and enacting whatever the next move is to kill public education is will not improve the outcomes you are in a panic about and will likely lead to worse results. 1/
Eliminating the US Department of Ed and opening up school choice and giving public funds to private schools and enacting whatever the next move is to kill public education is will not improve the outcomes you are in a panic about and will likely lead to worse results. 1/
“Climate change is upending the basic assumption that Americans can continue to build wealth and financial security by owning their own home. In a sense, it is upending the American dream.”
Opinion | The New Evidence Climate Change Will Upend American Homeownership (Gift Article)
A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"More wealth = more ecosystem destruction."
We get this, right?
We get this, right?
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCVII–‘Renewable’ Energy: See, Hear, and Speak No Evil, Part 3
In attempting to bolster the mass rollout of supposed ‘clean/green/sustainable’ ‘renewable’ energy technologies (and the necessary ‘investments’, particularly in terms of finite resources–especially…
buff.ly
February 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"More wealth = more ecosystem destruction."
We get this, right?
We get this, right?
"Rather then expect tech, the market and the state to "fix" healthcare, we're better off accepting the system has no solutions because the profit streams and power structure are sacrosanct and cannot be touched, even though they're the source of the problem."
Amen.
We teaching this?
Amen.
We teaching this?
Of Two Minds - What If Tech, the Market and the State Are No Longer Solutions?
buff.ly
February 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Rather then expect tech, the market and the state to "fix" healthcare, we're better off accepting the system has no solutions because the profit streams and power structure are sacrosanct and cannot be touched, even though they're the source of the problem."
Amen.
We teaching this?
Amen.
We teaching this?
If you're in #education and you haven't started thinking about how to best serve the climate migrant children that are almost certainly in your future, now might be a good time...
Will Richardson on LinkedIn: I'm not sure how many of us have done the type of thinking about the…
I'm not sure how many of us have done the type of thinking about the impacts of climate weirdness on the way we do school as Michael Hernandez. I mean, he has…
www.linkedin.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If you're in #education and you haven't started thinking about how to best serve the climate migrant children that are almost certainly in your future, now might be a good time...
For all of you going gaga over J. Haidt's #1 bestseller "The Anxious Generation," take deep breath.
He's wrong.
#thatisall
He's wrong.
#thatisall
All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
Is screen use really sapping our ability to focus and lowering our IQs? The scientists who have actually analysed the data give their verdict
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
For all of you going gaga over J. Haidt's #1 bestseller "The Anxious Generation," take deep breath.
He's wrong.
#thatisall
He's wrong.
#thatisall
Not sure when I’ve been so profoundly impacted by works of art as these: “Parallel Universes of War and Peace”
Just a warning…some of these are pretty disturbing. But we can’t turn away.
instagram.com/ugurgallen
Just a warning…some of these are pretty disturbing. But we can’t turn away.
instagram.com/ugurgallen
January 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Not sure when I’ve been so profoundly impacted by works of art as these: “Parallel Universes of War and Peace”
Just a warning…some of these are pretty disturbing. But we can’t turn away.
instagram.com/ugurgallen
Just a warning…some of these are pretty disturbing. But we can’t turn away.
instagram.com/ugurgallen
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results” – Albert Einstein
I mean, just look at the picture associated with this story.
Attention #education: This is not how young humans #learn best.
But, yeah, let's just keep tweaking...
I mean, just look at the picture associated with this story.
Attention #education: This is not how young humans #learn best.
But, yeah, let's just keep tweaking...
There's some good news in math, mostly bad news in reading and lots of questions about why students are still struggling.
Nearly 5 years after schools closed, the nation gets a new report card
There's some good news in math, mostly bad news in reading and lots of questions about why students are still struggling.
www.npr.org
January 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results” – Albert Einstein
I mean, just look at the picture associated with this story.
Attention #education: This is not how young humans #learn best.
But, yeah, let's just keep tweaking...
I mean, just look at the picture associated with this story.
Attention #education: This is not how young humans #learn best.
But, yeah, let's just keep tweaking...
I actually talked to a #school founder from Bangalore and one of her Year 10 students this morning, and it's made me more hopeful that we can face the realities of the world with kids, and imagine harder how to prepare them to navigate the shit that's coming their way. #future #education 1/4
January 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I actually talked to a #school founder from Bangalore and one of her Year 10 students this morning, and it's made me more hopeful that we can face the realities of the world with kids, and imagine harder how to prepare them to navigate the shit that's coming their way. #future #education 1/4