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Giving everyone what they want isn’t “democratizing “

Just saw a Meta AI ad and the theme song they chose was David Bowie Five Years. It’s all just a doomsday cult.

I mean it’s all out there in the open. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):

Today is the anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Not only did the law literally open doors to countless students with disabilities (myself included), it also had the unintended consequence of creating the moral panic around an autism "epidemic." 🧵 1/

@kenwhite.bsky.social ok, that display name made me laugh out loud! 🤣

@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social So is AI the final death blow to public education? Will it be used as a tool to separate the general public from educational resources resulting in extreme class division? Is this the goal of tech-utopia proponents? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

How refreshing it would be to read something like this in a major newspaper! presswatchers.org/2025/05/the-...

Your regular reminder that Elon Musk has no authority to cut Congress's budgets nor to fire people.

@mollymckew.bsky.social Wife and I waking through the market today when NOOOOS!

Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94. His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.