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President George HW Bush ‘knew’ of 1964 alien contact with humans in New Mexico: documentary Watershed new UFO documentary "The Age of Disclosure" released to Amazon on Friday with dozens of former government officials detailing direct knowledge of alien bodies, crafts, and secret government ...

EXPLOSIVE: The late President George H.W. Bush told a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at Holloman Air Force Base in 1964, according to an explosive new documentary. Astrophysicist Eric Davis claimed Bush confirmed details of contact between the military and an alien creature.

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley Howard University AI Panel

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

Missouri court strikes down book ban law that pushed libraries to remove hundreds of titles A law creating a misdemeanor offense for school employees who supply ‘sexually explicit material’ to students is now void.

Huge win for Missouri and for all libraries. Thank you to MASL, MLA, the ACLU, and everyone involved! @la-cac.org #FReadom

www.stlpr.org/government-p...

The most widely used writing system in pre-colonial Africa was the ʿAjamī script

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/theajami-s...

YouTube video by Mary F. Rice Going Online: School Leadership During Asynchronous Learning Days

Here is the video presentation I made for the University Council of Educational Administrators about "Going Virtual" for Snow Days. youtu.be/j2RY0iOCEls

Experts warn environmental costs to powering AI technology is rising Experts say the electricity and water required to support modern AI systems are far greater than most people realize.

Experts warn environmental costs to powering AI technology is rising

David Shipley, founder of New Brunswick-based cybersecurity firm Beauceron Security, says the electricity and water required to support modern AI systems are far greater than most people realize.

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...

‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’ AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?

Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."

nymag.com/intelligence...

He may not have realized that Mary Shelley was saying modern Prometheus’ were selfish greedy emotionally vacuous unhinged unethical grave robbing misanthropic nihilists. With god complexes.

I have done academic job interviews in a hotel room with panels of folks while sitting near a bed. In 2017.

A new unifying issue: Just about everyone hates data centers Recent election results and evidence from states show misgivings about the growth of AI and the ramifications for energy costs and the environment. By � Dan Gearino �for Inside Climate ...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Ground Water Contamination of Pueblo Water by a lab facility. www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...

If children read books they might have thoughts…

AI's capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models.

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
According to the study, a significant number of top-tier benchmarks fail to define what exactly they aim to test, concerningly reuse data and testing methods from pre-existing benchmarks, and seldom use reliable statistical methods to compare results between models.

A BILLION CHILDREN have died past 75 years.

Terrible: in 1950 20 million children were dying annually before reaching 5 years.
Bad, but much less terrible: approx. 5 million children will die this year before turning 5 years.
Huge progress, but the number must be ZERO DEATHS.

The Validation Machines Humanity thrives on friction—so why are the tools of the future built to make everything seem so easy?

“We are replacing pluralism with personalization, and surrendering our information-gathering to validation machines that always tell us we’re right.“
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Scarlet Letter was not written for children at all, but I support the idea being advanced here.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

I voted sticker in gold letter with red flowers.

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week

The sheer volume of people showing signs of mania, psychosis, and suicidal ideation each and every week on ChatGPT is staggering, alarming, awful, all of it. from @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

Tech CEOs say the era of 'code by AI' is here. Some software engineers are skeptical While AI is increasingly used to write code, every line is still reviewed by humans. Some engineers complain about having to clean up AI-generated code.

While AI is increasingly used to write code, every line is still reviewed by humans. Some engineers complain about having to clean up AI-generated code. n.pr/4qmYRCS

Techno-capitalists think innovation can save the planet. But that same thinking is what got us here An upside-down mindset is emerging around the world. We have to rethink our relationship with the environment and the technology that has caused it harm

Having built a system that is destructive of the environment that surrounds and sustains us, we are now proposing to change … the environment!
Driving us towards this technological fix is the damage inflicted by existing technology.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yes. This is my experience.

Have plans on paper in case of cyber-attack, firms told Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.

love that this "resilience engineering" is basically: write things on paper www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.

Students, listen up! NPR's College Podcast Challenge is back for 2025 Our national podcasting contest for college students is now open for entries. Submit your story for a chance to win our $5,000 grand prize, and hear your podcast on NPR.

Our national podcasting contest for college students is now open for entries. Submit your story for a chance to win our $5,000 grand prize, and hear your podcast on NPR.

OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Yes folks, we're going to fry the planet for A.I. slop.

#aislop

Chart showing that AI-generated work causes people to think less of each other’s creativity, capability, reliability, trustworthiness, and intelligence

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Yet another way LLMs damage the social fabric
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

This is a really important read about how the current capitalist formations are shaping what books are available to readers and which writers get a chance to publish a book: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

#BookSky

The Humble Origins Of TikTok’s Almighty Algorithm An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge.

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge.

Launch day for this project I provided some assistance for with National Center on Accessible Digital Educational Materials and Instruction. ncademi.org/quality-indi...