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Be Careful What You Ask For: The Parental Rights Trap and the Cost to Children Professor Nila Bala Explains How Expansive Parental Sovereignty Becomes Liability, Isolation, and Organized Abandonment — and Why Children Pay the Price

Be Careful What You Ask For: The Parental Rights Trap and the Cost to Children brucelesley.substack.com/p/be-careful...

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social.

I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI.

A few thoughts for your consideration...

Good point - also quite possible!

This agreement reads to me as Microsoft belatedly realizing that OpenAI is not a reliable authority on the status of AGI and wanting to claw back OpenAI’s exclusive ability to end their business partnership via the “it’s alive!” clause.

(Agreed that the panel is absurd.)

Really appreciate your reflections here, but AOC is using the term correctly and in alignment with your point. Stochastic refers to a non-deterministic system: One statement doesn’t directly cause violence. But a statement can raise the overall risk of violence, which plays out over time.

We listened to this on the drive through Glacier and wow.

Haha I was scrolling and the image got my attention. Before seeing who posted it I thought, ooo I bet B will go to that

This is great reporting. Thank you for pushing back on such misleading claims.

As a cognitive scientist, I was so frustrated that my field leaned into saying brain regions “light up.” That's not only a misleading confusion of data visualization with actual neural activity; it also obscures that the visualization reflects analyses that subtract the (extensive) baseline activity

ooo, thanks for the tip! I had not seen this, but I dig indeed. Nice to see the collaboration with Youth/Martin Glover continue.

Chart titled "Under Trump, Kids are Stuck in Immigration Custody" Subtitle "Average legnth of stay of children in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement" Chart depicts the average length in days of 55 in Jan 2021 staying somewhat steady until Jan 2025 where it jumps up to over 160 days.

Under Trump, the average length of time a child spends in immigration custody has increased dramatically.

In December 2024, the stay for a child in ORR custody was about two months.

By March of this year, it had nearly tripled.

Thanks! Excited to check these out

This sounds great. Where would you suggest to start exploring?

I stood up in court today and explained why little kids shouldn’t face a deportation system alone, while the federal government tried to block me at every turn. Here’s why this win matters: 🧵

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

This doesn’t work, as @tabouchadi.bsky.social wrote about again this weekend in re: 🇪🇺 mainstream parties & immigration: verfassungsblog.de/aus-dem-abse.... It backfires & makes the far right stronger. Democrats in 🇺🇸 need to get it together & stop defaulting to this bad strategy.

It’s so gooood! Also, I can’t stop queuing up Skinny Puppy’s Knowhere? to play after Pazuzu’s Valotus. I think you’ll enjoy the pairing!

This, like their last, is pure ear candy to me! Enjoying these new sounds, too

woah! super duper stoked

Herndon engages directly with ethical considerations of AI use, but the NBHS company also has a product that scrapes the web for music, separates audio stems, and uses that in a generative AI music production application. So...

I'd love to learn more and am not sure what I think. I also dug around -- the AI sound company also contributed to Holly Herndon's voice model, and the "modelled on" credit mentions both the cuckoo voice actor and Herndon. So maybe ran the actor's voice through the Herndon model?

This resonates strongly with me. Well put!