Rachel Barton

Mending our government institutions instead of dismantling them.

In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.

As someone who's battling AI all the time in the classroom, fighting for students to see the value in their own slow growth rather than the easy "efficiency" of eg using a chatbot to summarize a reading - I find myself arguing more and more that there is no way to replace slow and even tedious work

I have missed @danhon.com ‘s threads. This one is a must-read

Addiction treatment often overlooks trauma. That's a major hurdle in stopping the overdose crisis Trauma is one of the biggest risk factors for addiction — but trauma-centered treatments are lacking

“We have this whole false idea that most addiction is about seeking excess pleasure but in fact most addiction is about trying to be okay,” @maiasz.bsky.social said. “If we want to have less addiction & less harm associated with it, we have to improve people's lives.”
www.salon.com/2025/01/27/a...

The broligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term. It’s darker than you think. The real reason Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos are supporting Trump.

Besides giving the world the term “broligarchy,” this is a good read on the stories shaping the imaginations of the folks with power right now:

Science fiction meets transhumanism meets unfettered, unending power:

www.vox.com/future-perfe...