I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. "Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”

A nation of heroes, a Senate of cowards | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, Cheney didn’t save us from Trump. He created him.

In Chicago, the courage of good, everyday folks getting in the face of ICE/BP and fighting back is restoring my faith in America

In DC, the cowardice of Senate Democrats has undermined it, again

America needs a government as good as its people. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

A strong effective leader would have ensured that the Senate Democrats stayed strong and held the line. Schumer is either weak or complicit. In either case, he must be removed from leadership immediately. Do you have the courage to do what’s right in this moment? I hope you do.

A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.

Nearly 90,000 join Seattle’s ‘No Kings’ march Rep. Pramila Jayapal called the moment a test of whether America can keep its republic.

1/ We need to have a chat about Seattle Police and how they're handling the No Kings protests. They've been really… good. It's a marked departure in both tone and tactics from SPD's approach to protests in the past, and I think it could be a model for police forces nationwide.
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Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.

My friends, they have lost the flag.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Massive amount of people.

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A completely full Chicago on Michigan Avenue protesting Donald Trump.

Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.

With the Trump Administration about to roll its ugly occupation into Chicago, I wanted to write a little lyrical love letter to the city. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Sign at rally with picture of Malort bottle reading Go Ahead...Chicago Drinks Tear Gas By The Ounce.

A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.

Jesus—and I can't stress the next part enough—FUCKING CHRIST.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

The best art makes an immediate difference in the world. The book banners are LOSING THEIR MINDS about these because they have no way to ban or stop them. So print and share away!

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time.

When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs

My least favorite part of the school year. 😩

Five well-lit panelists sitting on a dark stage at a table with microphones

Alrighty. I old-school blogged about my #Worldcon experience. Yeah, it was not perfect. But there were some real highlights and nothing beats gathering with my rabble-rousing writer pals.
#SeattleWorldcon www.ceciliatan.com/a...

On Saturday, August 16, hundreds of Latinx punks gathered at MacArthur Park for an evening of anti-authoritarian cumbia and hardcore ska punk as one of the venue’s 10 free summer concerts.

By @jwhendricks.bsky.social

Full story: lataco.com/ska-punk-mac...

A picture of the book Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anderson on a table.

I got the last copy at my local indie bookstore at 5 pm Seattle time today. I loved your reading at Worldcon and everything you shared about writing as resistance. 💕

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Scythe by Neil Shusterman

Iron Widow

Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

The book cover of Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoffer

The book cover of Nyxia by Scott Reintger

The book cover of Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer

There are so many brilliant contemporary sci-fi books for young readers. As other commenters have pointed out, just ask a librarian. We love readers’ advisory. When a student asks for a recommendation, my heart sings. Here are some of my go to recommendations.

Satire and ridicule are important tools for a civil society working to stave off authoritarianism.

From Stephen Colbert's Late Show:

I keep saying this but... if you live in a big city and want to fight fascism, questioning what your mayor and cops are doing to unhoused people is an *excellent* start.

Criminalizing people who have nothing is how nice urban liberals do fascism.

We're like 2/3 of the way through the poem at this point

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽