Daphna

Our school celebrated on Monday, and my first grader had a blast! They did things like see how many times you can write your name in 67 seconds, some good basic math, etc.

1. tear down the schembechler statue
2. rename the football building
3. take ron weiser's name off the crisler tunnel
4. take the wilpon name off the baseball/softball field
5. this...

The thing that really scares me about the Disney/Sora news is that there’s yet another huge player who has something to lose if OpenAI fails, so they’re gonna do everything they can to prop it up

The Children of New York City Deserve Universal Daylighting - Streetsblog New York City Daylighting is common sense: drivers and pedestrians shouldn’t be invisible to one another. And in most other places, they aren’t.

"As mothers, our worst nightmare is a car killing a child just for trying to cross the street," write @powers4queens.bsky.social and @cmjuliewon.bsky.social . "Kids are the city’s most vulnerable residents, and the status quo endangers them ... They deserve universal daylighting." buff.ly/yUjASQ0

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The metro store popup at the MLK library downtown. Can’t speak for these specifically, but the merch from these often makes its way to dcmetrostore.com, too. Popup info is here: www.wmata.com/rider-guide/...

The Disney dress rules are an amazing document: disneyworld.disney.go.com/faq/parks/dr...

Van Nes gadol haya sham? Is this anything?

college should, in the US, be free. college is not - nor has it ever been, despite the protestations of our trade school colleagues (business, engineering, etc.) and administrators - simply job training.

the US educational system became the light of the world because of its liberal arts foundation

Yes! And as you’re very aware, the frustration from staff sometimes comes from not having the same flexibility even though we work in the same environment and sometimes have similar credentials.

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.

I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"

when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter

it's diagnostic

Hell yeah Ann Arbor library, a true gem.

Julianne Moore was a parent at the school where I taught, and same, even in the breakfast line. We both wore Danskos and had literally nothing else in common. She glowed at a time of day when I was barely sentient.

It makes me really sad that we have to just like, talk about our bodies all the time in the open like this — shout out to Danielle who is brave — because men won't read a book.

Giddy-up, jingle horse, pick up your feet Jingle around the clock

jingle horses need a union

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For the kids in your life (not just toddlers), busytoddler.com and TKSST: thekidshouldseethis.com/giftguide

Formula is one of the many miracles of modern science that literally saves lives.

Fuck this guy.

WPA everything but particularly the arts and journalism

It's the same problem as "childcare is insanely expensive and childcare providers are woefully underpaid" and the solutions on both counts are systemic not individual

As someone who left Michigan for DC,
I think you’re absolutely right. Add trains and buses and give everyone a light therapy lamp and you’d add a million people.

Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway - Wikipedia

Ooh, there’s a detailed Wikipedia entry about it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Arb...

I did some archival research with old copies of the Daily a while back and was shocked to find out that this existed! In the 1920s or so, iirc. People would take the train to Ypsi to go out on Saturdays!

You can also insert swear words, which is at least somewhat emotionally satisfying.

Really hoping someone can step in here…

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Something I’ve encountered a lot lately is misperception of Luddites as technophobic reactionaries motivated by ignorance & resentment, rather than what they were, part of a well-informed labor movement seeking to seize control of means of production.

The more time I’ve spent studying political systems and personally finding rules and loopholes to exploit the less I’m impressed with politics being solvable by system design.

There are certain values that need to be held by the ruling class. If they aren’t held, that’s your problem.

Hello, world! We are DC's cargo bike lending library, a
@waba.org project inspired by @mplscargobikelibrary.com
and @communitypedalpower.org

Borrow a cargo bike - free! #bikedc

More information coming soon....

One thing that has become crystal clear to me over the course of co-teaching the vaccine course with @bachynski.bsky.social is just how hard thousands of people have worked since the time of Edward Jenner to improve vaccine technology & safety. It's a crime that we are just throwing all of this away

Please know, there are people on the "AI Leadership Group," including me, whose research relates to harms of generative AI, AI literacy in the sense of negative impacts & critical media studies. We spend tremendous amounts of time pushing back and advocating for faculty & students who are concerned.