Joseph Rezek

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The real AI apocalypse is not about robots messing with the power grid it is AI destroying the minds of kids, who, with educators pushing these tools, are at real risk of loosing the ability to write independently.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

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J. Michelle Coghlan

@jmcoghlan.bsky.social

💯 Also, is this titan of science aware that literally all branches of modern mathematics & science are indebted to the mathematical breakthroughs developed by medieval Islamic mathematicians?

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social

First of all this is racist af. Second of all, it’s wildly untrue. And third of all, a group of people does not need to produce science or literature to be fully human or whatever!!! What is this, 1780??? (This is a topic in my book btw)

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH

@gavinyamey.bsky.social

Why has RFK Jr’s extreme racism, antisemitism, & anti-immigrant hatred been ignored for so long? I guess these qualities are *valued* by the MAHA/MAGA movements?

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social

He is so insanely racist it is wild

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Joel Brown

@jbnbpt.bsky.social

Kennedy might be the worst of them, and that's really saying something

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The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

I did not have “RFK Jr echoes David Hume” on my bingo card

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social

Alright fine here is my expertise! Cross-reference this Neanderthal’s comments with this footnote from David Hume, “of national characters” (1753):

The Hume footnote is much more racist than the portion I’ve quoted but why put that on the feed??? In this economy???

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

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Alright fine here is my expertise! Cross-reference this Neanderthal’s comments with this footnote from David Hume, “of national characters” (1753):

This worm from the racist enlightenment borrowed somewhere into RFK jr’s vile little brain, no doubt mediated by the 19th and 20th century racism all of these lunatics live and breathe

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

I hate to dignify this man with a response by an “expert” especially because I’m sure he has never read Hume, Kant, or Jefferson LOL

@kentremendous.bsky.social

He is so insanely racist it is wild

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Ken Tremendous

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

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Jared Holt

@jaredlholt.bsky.social

19h

I'm losing my mind over here, having inadvertently made headlines on tech blogs for having opened a fortune cookie that had a polymarket ad inside of it

11h

What is happening

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PT Pumpkins 🎃

@ptklein.com

Oh she’s like BIG big

14h

Trump messing with ALASKA, campaigning MISSISSIPPI. Red states are turning PURPLE. People are PISSED 👏👏👏👏👏

14h

I don’t trust the polls but I trust these signals. GOP is terrified

My dude! Exactly!!

Do they know what website this is!!!?!!!!!!!? Posting like this!!? LMAO

Springer Nature@springernature.com

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@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social

TELL US, DOCTOR!!!

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

El-Sayed on Trump's cognitive tests: "I went to medical school...In my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam...The only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong."

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Tobias Wilson-Bates

18h

Siri, what are three good qualities my child possesses? Siri, is this my beautiful house? Siri, is this my beautiful wife? Siri, how did I get here? Siri, is it the same as it ever was??????

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📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social

“I don’t want any of us to be or feel un-housed in our bodies our towns our movements ever again. This book is my prayer; if you need to use it as shelter, it’s yours.” My memoir HOME OUT THERE is available for preorder now! bookshop.org/p/books/home...

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Saeed Jones

@theferocity.bsky.social

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Woa not bad for an academic tome only in pre-orders!!!

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@aliciastoller.bsky.social

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I mean who’s counting tho!!! (🙋‍♂️)

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Professa Murray

@kalimurray.bsky.social

People don’t understand why I keep noting that BlueSky is not a bubble, it is a counterpublic. It serves its own organizational function: you can see in realtime in January 2025, on multiple types of social media, shouting that an executive order is instruction to an agency. This one stuck.

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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Alicia Stoller

As a teacher, when I've asked parents to describe their child, it's because I truly want to know what you think is important for me to understand about them. We’re not looking for perfect adjectives. We’re trying to build a relationship with you and with your child. Please be human. Like this. 👇🏻

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social

My kids are ten and I’ve done this exact exercise. Even if you can’t say everything, you get to think about your kid in each of their little areas. An image or memory of your kid comes up- oh, is this going in the answer? No wait, maybe this!!! And so on.

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When even CBS thinks you’re a lawless regime! 🤣🤣🤣

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BRENNAN: The DOJ lawsuit demands the Alaska result not be certified if voters are confused. The confusion is defined as Sen. Sullivan not winning. BLANCHE: That's not what it says BRENNAN: I'm quoting from it. You are telling them not to certify it. What right does the federal govt have?

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That story about a parent needing AI to answer questions about her child really hit a nerve with me apparently!

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Being human is too hard for some people. They seem to be giving up at the first opportunity.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

@damienveatch.bsky.social

I had a dream last night my farm burned down. I don’t have a farm!

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Damien Veatch

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This is a beautiful thread. To see a loving father gush about how much joy he gets from his children makes it all the more inexplicable that anyone would want to outsource this to AI.

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@karlaliliana.bsky.social

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Karla Monterroso

It’s because a parent is outsourcing their insight and empathy for their own kid. And it’s definitely not the only way that’s happening.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social

That story about a parent needing AI to answer questions about her child really hit a nerve with me apparently!

That story about a parent needing AI to answer questions about her child really hit a nerve with me apparently!

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Laura Vrana

@callmevrana.bsky.social

This whole thread.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social

I think this is what depresses me the most about AI. This person could not even think about her own child for five minutes without help

Being human is too hard for some people. They seem to be giving up at the first opportunity.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

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So you pick three of them, or maybe you pick four just because, like, surely four is fine - like if the child is funny, creative, a swimmer, and extroverted, then this damn teacher is getting all four! Sorry little worksheet my obsession over the child has overwhelmed your request!

And really all of this could take just five minutes or half an hour and you’ve come away feeling like what you have in your life so far exceeds the capacity of any possible answer to any question anyone could dare pose to you, and that is exactly what being alive is for, that is the whole purpose

Being human is too hard for some people. They seem to be giving up at the first opportunity.

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It’s like the little things they do and like audition for the silly question, and you can watch them in your minds eye be nice, talented, interested in the world, and then you are overcome with love and happiness and forget about the question in the first place

And then your like, oh no I have to choose three things! Okay, you realize, it doesn’t matter which three, it’s an impossible task, the kid is too miraculous in all of their activities and habits and interests and behaviors. Choosing which three things is arbitrary. There are five million things

Being human is too hard for some people. They seem to be giving up at the first opportunity.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

I think this is what depresses me the most about AI. This person could not even think about her own child for five minutes without help