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Green Dildo Coin. An amount spent on masked thugs and themed concentration camps that could house and feed every homeless person in America. Cage fights on a paved-over White House lawn. It really all boils down to losers who want to replace our society with a different one that just fucking sucks.

Just offering that up since everyone says I’m too glib about the whole thing. It’s mid. It’s also absolutely a man-made ecological monster that will probably successfully hollow out our institutional capacities in exchange for more emails (and admittedly some sped up gene research).

i just did a workshop with kids about making comics. emphasized that ANYONE can make comics. you don't have to be a "good" artist. you find a story that matches your art style and you do it and it's awesome. and a kid who NEVER PARTICIPATES got out from under a desk and PARTICIPATED and had a blast.

I still remember the first few lines of the General Prologue. It’s a fun party trick (at some parties).

At 38, I was part of the beginning of this acceleration toward hyper-competition to create a product out of young athletes. By the time I was 18, after 14 years of non-stop baseball, I was burnt out and wanted nothing to do with it, despite being recruited. The physical and emotional toll is real.

Everything we hate about 2025 hoops/baseball ailments (load mgmt, torn Achilles, pitchers’ arms falling off at 23 yrs old despite averaging five innings a start) is not rooted in today’s jocks being “soft”. It’s youth sports profiteering and kids in hyper-intense year round travel leagues from birth

“Could this be acceptable use of AI? Yes, if you write a whole other paper explaining its use.” 🙄

This piece lays out all the reasons AI is ill-suited for historical work — getting facts wrong, relying on existing sources only, churning out banal claims in bland prose, etc — and then asserts we’ll all just have to use it anyway.

Yeah, no.

I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

The confederates are so funny. The rest of us are out here being normal, and they’re like “remember that time we came in second place in a war?”

Grief is powerful, but there are survivors of this tragedy who have been doing this work for nearly 10 years. We don’t need algorithms to guide us. We have humans.

They say unicorns bow to virgin maidens, but they don’t say what happens after they kneel. They don’t say what the horn is for. They say they are gentle, but only in the way a trap is gentle when it waits.

I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware.

Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...

Love pretending that headlines like

“use AI to choose gifts for your friends/write your texts/etc”
and
“there’s a loneliness epidemic”

aren’t related

Really interesting. Also, as someone in education, what Ben says about ‘data being a poor driver’ really resonated with me. ‘Data-driven’ is, and has been, a favorite term in education. “I have found that data is a poor driver, as it is often short sighted, lacks context, and is overly reactive.”

People think that they are immune from internalizing nefarious/toxic ideas and framing. "I will use their term for this place and it will not impact how I think at all." But that's not how this works at all. Of course, you are spreading all of the associated ideas by using their terms.

In all seriousness, this is the existential issue facing the Dems right now: they very simply cannot conceive of a political order that is not MAGA Lite.

There is no vision. No imagination.

Just, "we need a Joe Rogan, but blue!"

"We need a Stephen Miller, but blue!"

No. We do not need blue Evil.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This is the best thing you'll see today, and I say that as a person who wrote something awesome today and does not lack for confidence.

we don't talk enough about censorship within journalism — eg. which stories are killed for political reasons, which style guide standard language is considered neutral when otg it's quite charged.

Just read some phenomenal weekly posts from students in my Summer Am Lit II course, on late 20C texts from Leslie Marmon Silko, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath, Sandra Cisneros, & more. Despite literally fucking everything, literary & cultural works have so much to tell us, & so do our students. 🗃️

Trans kids are not
•disposable
•the reason Dems lose
•a threat

Trans kids are
•deserving of basic human rights

Trans kids should be
•protected, always

the lesson people got from cyberpunk 2077:

1. wow wolf cuts are hot i wish a girl with one would beat the shit out of me

the lessons you should have pulled from cyberpunk 2077:

1. we REALLY need universal health care
2. we REALLY need UBI
3. wow corpos and ceos fucking suck
4. wow wolf cuts are-

Bove himself is a literal criminal. A man whose short time in the public eye is defined by his open contempt for the law and those responsible for enforcing it. And the only reason he was nominated is because of his slavish devotion to the president’s most lawless impulses.

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

This man looks like he was drawn by Rob Liefeld.

"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest

“Famine is unfolding.”

is it? Or is Israel deliberately starving people in Gaza with the help of the United States

This is amazing. All it cost was everything and the rest of us.