Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦

Don’t those hoping for Armageddon need Israel to be destroyed as part of it?

OpenAI Is Opening the Door to Government Spying Whether it means to or not

New: @matteowong.bsky.social talked to a number of legal experts about OpenAI's contract with the Pentagon. It sure does look like mass surveillance of Americans through GPT and autonomous weapons are on the table... and it isn't really up to OpenAI, anyway.

OpenAI’s push to become crucial infrastructure in education should not and cannot be separated from its broader entanglements with the US military and mass surveillance that includes students and teachers.

Evangelicals love Donald Trump for many reasons, but one of them is especially terrifying End Times.

“If it brings the end of the world, it brings the end of the world. They’re ready. They can’t wait for the Rapture to happen."

If you want to understand the nuances of Trump's self-created crisis in Iran, revisit @smencimer.bsky.social's deep-dive into our End Times president.

Setting aside many things here, this doc is also full of arguable claims presented without evidence. Perhaps, for example, the best way for educators to help students "harness AI" is to make sure we teach them first to think/write/analyze/have ideas themselves. Then they can harness away.

A young boy sits at a small table, eating from a bowl with a spoon. There is a potted plant on the table next to him. The room has a simple decor.

6 March 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Willem Philip van Naarden, was born in Amsterdam.

In March 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/46ryjrT

You lovely BlueSky lot, eldest has spent the day HUGELY enjoying taking pictures at the British Museum and wants to start editing them on a computer/trying out a proper camera. Any advice for getting started? He’s 12, but very good at computers and etc & has immense focus when interested in things.

The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

Was AI used for the targeting that likely resulted in the bombing of the girls school?

We must have answers to that question and there is ZERO reason for delay because the Pentagon damn well already knows the answer.

How is this not regime change?

Oh, I laughed too hard. This is too real.

Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)

In the supposedly dumb, politically correct era we coordinated with our allies so they wouldn't get caught flat footed and warned American citizens abroad to evacuate BEFORE the country we attacked had a chance to bomb all of our foreign embassies.

Clip two from today for the trials.

OpenAI diagram about its educational research workflow.

Here is how OpenAI is reimagining educational research. It's basically GPT accesses all student records and "over-time signals" for constant tracking. It's total student surveillance for its model improvement.

New tools for understanding AI and learning outcomes OpenAI introduces the Learning Outcomes Measurement Suite to assess AI’s impact on student learning across diverse educational environments over time.

Under no circumstances should we allow OpenAI to become the self-authorized educational research evidenve source that it is trying to be. Vendors must not be research authorities. openai.com/index/unders...

Opening Up Education: A Conversation for Open Education Week - News As Open Education Week begins (March 2–6, 2026), Heather M. Ross from the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning (GMCTL) and DeDe Dawson from the University (USask) Library discuss what Open Edu...

It would have been nice if this had come out prior to the start of Open Week, but still ...

#oer #openeducationweek

news.usask.ca/articles/gen...

Trump says he must be involved in selecting Iran’s new leader, calls Khamenei's son "unacceptable" UK to send more jets to Qatar as Greece and Italy bolster Cyprus defenses and evacuation flights for Americans get underway. Follow for live updates.

"His comments came just one day after the White House suggested that regime change in Iran was not the primary objective of the president’s military campaign."

www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

One hundred accounts are behind the majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada Researchers analyzed more than 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada and found that 87 per cent of conspiratorial claims come from influencers, with just 100 users responsible for near...

“Conspiracy theories about globalist cabals, climate hoaxes and election fraud may seem ubiquitous on social media. But a report has found that they come from a tiny minority of users…
just 100 users were responsible for almost 70% of online conspiracy posts…”

Via @nationalobserver.com #UrbanTruth

Trump helps MAGA influencers flee Middle East war zone on private jet Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz, dogwalker Sarah Daither, former lobbyist Jay Footlik, and others managed to escape on a private plane thanks to the White House.

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

House intel member: There'll be an Iran investigation if Democrats win the midterms "There are things we have to look at that people don't even know about."

“There’s no way people should trust what the administration is saying. They’re trying to find facts on the ground to justify whatever goal they have.”

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Trump is lying.

I serve on the Intel & Armed Services Committees.

There’s no intelligence that Iran posed an imminent threat to the U.S. or the American people.

The Iran War Is God’s Plan, Say U.S. Military Leaders (Who Believe Trump Was Anointed by Jesus) Didn’t the Bible tell us to beware false prophets?

WHAT?????
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“A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,”

www.esquire.com/news-politic...

US commanders tell troops Iran war 'God’s divine plan,' Trump anointed to 'ignite Armageddon': Report Over 110 official complaints have been lodged by troops who say commanders are increasingly using crusade-style rhetoric

"The complaint is one of more than 110 logged within 48 hours, spanning over 40 units across at least 30 military installations, with soldiers telling the MRFF that commanders are describing the Iran campaign as divinely ordained and tied to the Book of Revelation."

thecradle.co/articles-id/...

Warnings to citizens to evacuate 3 days into this war, when airspace is closed, is a clear sign of ZERO strategy and planning by the Trump admin.

Now Americans have limited options to evacuate at an extremely dangerous moment with no government assistance. This admin is failing its citizens.

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

While I was born in the U.S., I’ve lived in Canada for almost my entire adult life, and am a Canadian citizen so don’t “you people” me. Besides, “You people“ or “those people“ is at the heart of what’s going on.

Sorry, accidentally deleted post you were responding to. “When the Soviets and Nazis invaded Poland, the Nazis went for the Jews and other "undesirables," while the Soviets went after the Polish officers and the "intellectuals." The U.S. administration is taking tips from the worst of the worst.”