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I have some mutuals with this person , hope you'll consider correcting that !

I think we need to keep calling out shit like this because as always the veneer of being moderate or centrist and clever is used to elide the fact that this is fucking nazi ideology

yeah this is a right wing opinion because it ascribes value only to the end product of an artistic process based on its perceived quality or provenance (which is by nature informed culturally and by power relationships). if you believe this you're a nazi, hope this helps

The Appendix on an AI policy is actually quite bad. Having an AI deliver a summary before reading has major implications in terms of the experience of student learning. What we want students to do and how they do it is the question. The experience of reading is not the same as reading a summary.

The assumption that generative AI could be a "valuable partner" is unevidenced and the example activity is critical thinking work that could better be done in the absence of AI. It's thinking of something you COULD do with AI. Rather than what students SHOULD do to learn.

This is not outright horrible, but it's not great either. It makes the same error a lot of these guidance documents do in that it puts the presence of AI at the center, rather than the foundations of the experiences of learning. There's a lot of examples to illustrate, but I'll stick with two...

my dad (RIP) would agree

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

unable to immediately remove the means of literacy and information exchange, they settled on capturing the means and ensuring that the information we receive and the things we read are as alarmingly resistant to popular influence as possible. a fully commodified information and expression economy!

this dovetails nicely with something that occurred to me last night while i was scooping cat litter - i think literacy and free exchange of information ultimately became a problem for 21st century american capitalism to solve

actively living in a city with a potentially rich infrastructure of decades- or centuries-old public services that are being intentionally defunded before my eyes while most democratic party politicians stand by helplessly, ahead of two major global-visibility events, is possibly making me insane

we can extol the virtues of public transit all day long but at the end of the day they just want to kill us. if the 2026 celebrations and world cup go badly they're just going to point and say "look at how philadelphia is failing" and use it as a justification for whatever it is they want to do

this is all true, but i think the harsher reality at play here is that pennsylvania state republican legislators actively want philadelphia to suffer and look bad because it is an extremely diverse city. an immiserated population with reduced mobility will be easier to round up.

if tim blake nelson did a whole album of cowboy/hillbilly/western swing songs i would buy it

Speaker Mike Johnson Calls Occupied West Bank an “Integral Part” of Israel Johnson is reportedly the highest-ranking American official to visit an illegal Israeli settlement.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday led a high-level Republican delegation on a visit to the occupied West Bank, where the second-in-line to the U.S. presidency told a rapt audience in an illegal Jewish settler colony that they are the rightful owners of the Palestinian territory.

For the overwhelming majority of people who practice it, sports is not about competition. It's about social belonging. Once you understand that, the reason why transphobes want to ban trans women from it even outside of competition and even in disciplines like darts is pretty obvious.

There is no adult in the room, no one in charge. Turns out a semi-rationalistic elite was, maximum, a 50 year conscious project that was abandoned and can't be taken as an "ideal type" for a ruling class under capitalism.

when you have made two of your mains KIND OF unlikable but strangely lovable for 2.5 seasons, and you put them through this shit (and pull it off) - it illustrates a commitment to long-term television character development that you don't often see - before or since

wow @ season 3 of ER making Carter and Benton look like ASSHOLES re: Gant - this is also the second time that Carter has kind of directly neglected someone's well being immediately before that person attempted to end their own life. concerning !

next up on the jim acosta show, we're interviewing ai versions of the dead sandy hook children, who would be in college now. let's hear what they think about free speech on campus

i should see how fast i can transcribe for other people. i hate listening to my voice so transcribing my own interviews was always VERY hard, but i'm still pretty quick. that ratio is nuts tho!!!

makes sense! i have zero understanding of baseball ticket pricing. in the NHL, i saw the penguins on the road more than i saw them at home when i was a fan, and when the penguins were in that heady championship era, you could see the prices jump significantly for their road games in multiple cities

is that because tickets are cheaper than contending teams?

one of the funniest jokes to me is that PNC Park is the "best" ballpark in america.

it's the *prettiest* ballpark in america, but it's very hard not to notice that the whole thing is obviously run by a bunch of penny-pinchers.

A Blueprint for a New Party With the rise of Donald Trump, we need to think seriously about what it would take to form a democratic organization rooted in the working class.

we basically have privatized elections in this country - each state is responsible for its own voting infrastructure, overseen by partisan agencies (!). this piece explains it very well. this was entirely new information to me when it was published in 2016: jacobin.com/2016/11/bern...

i don't think it can be overstated how american federalism has created complex systems that actually make corruption and takeover by bad actors much, much easier. our current elections aren't great. they are going to become worse.

yep, and also when they buy tickets and can be present in crowd photos or whatever which they will then selectively deploy, and that probably won't last very long either

they're both doing so well