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Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51 Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.

I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.

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But it will still tell you to kill yourself...

I tried to do the same as well for my game writing class; my students were the most engaged when I streamed via Twitch... the ones who still attended, at least. 😪 What a rough end to the school year for them, especially the seniors.

"When I talk to teachers and students alike, I hear such grief as well: grief about what AI threatens to do education, what it's already done to the work of teaching and the work of learning, the work of research and reading and writing."

"And this, among other reasons, is why I am against the word “grief,” which in contemporary culture seems to indicate a process that has an end point."

And for those of us who have experienced it, its many masks and costumes, we know it does not end.

Ibuprofen calls JD Vance "useless human" and implies he's not "necessary, safe and effective."

(Fixed it)

Ty ty 🖤

Photographer: Sam Turchin 🖤

Alert: I have incoming wedding photos 😍

It's beautiful 😍

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 12: However good your work is, there will be people who hate it. This is an inescapable part of having readers. Live with it. Accept it. And know that for every person who doesn’t like your work, there may be another whose life has been changed by something you wrote.

Civics of Technology The Civics of Technology Project shares research and curriculum and offers professional development that encourages teachers and students to critically inquire into the effects of technology on our in...

If you're an educator in search of an antidote to AI hype and technosolutionism writ large, may I suggest @civicsoftech.bsky.social? Here's more about our community and our work. 🧵 #EduSky

Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025 A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.

Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions.

bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...

And removes the legal requirement (in states that have it) to pay out any unused PTO when an employee leaves the company 🙃

A commodore computer

Why is there a late 70s era computer at the WW2 museum lol

The image shows a paperback copy of The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling, propped against a black and white print showing two skeletons dancing around a bottle bearing the label Death. The upper half of a leather plague doctor mask is visible in the lower left corner of the frame. The wall behind the print and the book is red

A dark, frightening and visceral read that treats the body as a haunted house that the protagonist can't leave. If you're looking for some truly unsettling horror, I highly recommend The Graceview Patient by @caitlinstarling.com!

"OpenAI said it was studying the details of the case and continuing to work with mental health professionals to strengthen protections in its chatbot."

If those "protections" are other than an immediate reply with a suicide hotline number, to talk to an actual human, they won't be good enough.

I'm proud to be included alongside so many great contributors to this much-needed book. Mine is a short essay on what ordinary people and activists can do to resist AI and big tech. I hope you'll check it out.

Sharing this with my best friend, who is a librarian 😊

libraries are closer to what the early internet was all about than what it is today. unsurprising, given the web's academic origins.

they are data centers built for and around people instead of severs. a physical network offering so much more than books.

How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out o...

PSA from 404 Media: you can opt-out of a data broker selling your flight travel data to the government to be searched without a warrant. Here's how I did it. This is ARC, the data broker owned by major U.S. airlines like United, Delta, American, etc

www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

Guillermo del Toro did Mary Shelley proud and set the bar increadibly high for anyone who attempts a Frankenstein adaptation in the future.

*insert Fallout meme*

Sweet, thank you! Haven't read that one yet.

The Cal State University system signed a deal with OpenAI before the start of the fall term, which has been... not great. At least there is some pushback in K-12, but my school, an art school, wants to figure out how to integrate it into the classroom. 🙃

Taught my class of zoomers how to download and copy files to a thumb drive today. Most of them had never used one before.

JPMorgan Alerted U.S. to Epstein Transfers Involving Wall St. Figures

Newly unsealed documents show that JPMorgan alerted federal regulators to potentially suspicious transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein and top Wall Street figures.

[These documents were unsealed because @nytimes.com and @wsj.com fought together in court.] 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his mouth open ALT: a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his mouth open

Me, a high school teacher:

The Importance Of Growing Up With Halloween Alright, right off the bat, I want to make a disclaimer. This article will primarily pertain to countries where the holiday is more prominent.  While I understand it’s grown in popularity outside of t...

Finally, the last thing I want to share is my #HorrorFacts article talking about my earliest Halloween memory as well as explaining why I think the All Hallows Eve practice of trick-or-treating helps children develop important skills.

horrorfacts.com/the-importan...