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@atp.fm Why are you blaming Apple instead of ISP caching? Why are you so sure sure?

@atp.fm just because I have a discount code for the store does not mean I have to use a discount code for the store. As a member, I am allowed to give you more money than I am required to give you. #ActuallyByChoice

Can we count the number of ways in which every single Republican mocks Jesus, openly. Cutting taxes on the rich. Not feeding the poor. Turning away refugees. Sucking up to the the money changers. It's the core of the Republican Party. versus the core of Jesus's teachings. Love versus hate

... from carefully curated data and documents - where that curation requires greater niche/field expertise than might be required if NOT using Claude. The user has a greater burden to also curate the products of AI, which requires deeper knowledge than doing it without AI.

I'm in a deep personal exploration of how to responsibly, effectively and efficiently use the capabilities of some AI tools (subscription Claude). Most importantly, one can never offload the "intellectual work." But one can develop heuristics for guiding Claude to produce quality output...

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

1) Costco does not sell 50-pound boxes of spaghetti 2) If you throw a 50-pound box of spaghetti at the wall, nothing should stick. Boxes of spaghetti are full of dry pasta. @npr.org

@jennbinis.bsky.social you'd love this keynote, methinks. Lots of warning about how AI undermines learning and the importance of metacognition. #AIME-Con

The first rule of Overexplaining Club is you do not talk about Overexplaining Club because this is a secret club and we want it to stay a secret, but if you talk about it then people will know it exists, thus ruining the secrecy.

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THIS!!!!!

It's not just a matter of dropping some state-wide exams (two of which they'll need to keep for ESSA purposes) - it's an entire restructuring of assessment, standards, and curriculum across the state. That they haven't figured out yet.

NYS is a non-textbook adoption state. Section 701 of NYS Education (EDN) Law Chapter 16, Title 1, Article 15 explicitly says NYSED can't mandate textbooks (which has come to mean curriculum resources writ large.) So the way the state has ensured consistency against Standards has been the Regents.

I rarely, rarely say or believe that "you don't get it unless you've experienced it" but when it comes to NYS Regents, unless you've gone through NYS HSs or taught at the HS level, it's hard to understand what this shift means. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/n...

Getting rid of the Regents exams is a mistake. And I say this as someone who is 100% a fan and advocate for the Consortium Schools (who have been mostly Regents free for almost two decades.) They, though, have an entire infrastructure to ensure students are held to the NYS Learning Standards.

Maybe the most important study that I will read this year. Read this thread about it. This has serious implications for one of our basic approaches for judging the genetic component of various things.

New paper alert! “Heritability and social interaction in labor market outcomes: Evidence from the population of twins in the United States,” with David Card and Moises Yi, out today in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Column by Shane O’Neill: Dolly Parton should be the subject of the next exhibition at the Met’s Costume Institute and the theme of the 2027 Met Gala. I’m not the first to say it. I hope I won’t be the last. https://wapo.st/3UAC5fA

Something grim about how the macho men who renamed it “the department of war” also won’t admit they’re fighting a war with Iran.

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AskHistorians turns 15 today! To celebrate, we're all sharing our favourite My Chemical Romance lyrics in a darkened room. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Guess which ones are the American apples and which are Canadian. We're not fucking around 🇨🇦 #Dropthegloves

Another great description "probabilistic next-token generators with adjustable (and watermarkable) weights."

Teaching elementary school is a very physical job. What is appropriate dress for someone who squats down a lot, sits on the floor cross legged a lot and bends over a lot? What if they also spend time literally running around outside with children?

Anti-trans activists are in uproar in North Carolina. Why? Because an elementary school has hired a trans teacher. Anti-trans activists and Republican elected officials are demanding gendered dress codes for school employees, and for the teacher to be fired. Subscribe to support our journalism.

It has always been a mistake to focus on funding as the defining trait of public school schools. The question is whether the community that funds the schools has control over those schools through with Democratic processes. If not, the school is just as private as a military defense contractor.

You are missing the fact that most people suck: don't want to think hard; don't want to emotionally commit; don't wanna challenge their preconceptions; expect others to come up with easy answers and give them solutions on a platter. Most people just don't care to know shit

Methinks you underestimate the sheer mass of voters who know little and always looking for the next promise of change. Persuading them enough of them to vote for us is the only way to a trifecta—even as ~25-30% of the public are not targets for such efforts.

And when they see those people succeed in ways that they don’t they’re not afraid, they’re angry. Men are not afraid of women succeeding, they’re angry about it. And if they think people who aren’t white are inferior they think they cheated to get ahead

Yeah, but John Ashcroft lost to a dead man. He literally lost an election to a man who had literally died. And so he turned the justice department to investigate pornography, rather than Al-Qaeda's terrorism. We got 9/11 (in part) because John Ashcroft could not defeat a dead man.

Laypeople can't distinguish expert analysis from something merely expert-analysis shaped, and LLM providers exploit this. It's their whole business model, in fact. For those illiterate in the discipline, a list of bullet points cuts off thinking as surely as an actual bullet to the temple.

For those who wish to argue that I'm just being mean or hypercritical. First, no! this graph and related products are intentionally deceitful. Second, the purpose of that well funded deceit is to save wealthy taxpayers $$ while endorsing continued harm/deprivation of low income & minority children.