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We probably should have investigated and prosecuted the politicians and DOJ lawyers that signed off on WOT torture instead of trying to move on.

OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50¢

DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun

Your phone has a mute button for a reason!

This is right. Or, for another example, the amount of waste generated by medical settings is overwhelming. But so is the waste generated by random shit no one actually needs! We can talk about how to balance infection control with monumental medical waste sometime after we deal w consumer packaging

*who WORK the blue line

This experience was a couple of years ago, so I don't know what things are like now (I don't take the green line much), but it really drove home how differently MetroTransit treats blue line and green line users.

I used it in the first place because the security officers who use the blue line aren't cops and, while they're a mixed bag, generally treat people humanely in my experience and observation.

After that experience, I vowed I would never use the text line again, and I haven't.

The one time I used the text complaint system, it led to cops boarding the green line and harassing every Black man on the train (none of whom were the people I had texted about) until they listened to me, the white person in the vicinity, that those guys hadn't done anything, shrugged, and left

And make the rest of us eligible already!!

I want to know how this feedback loop compares with the air conditioning and climate change feedback loop

Inhaler-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the US This cross-sectional study estimates greenhouse gas emissions from all inhalers approved for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using aggregated dispensing data across the US outpa...

What?! Absolutely wild

"Inhalers approved for asthma and COPD generated approximately 25 million mtCO2e from 2014 to 2024 in the US. Average annual inhaler-related emissions were akin to the approximate electricity requirements of 470 000 homes or 530 000 gas-powered cars on the road each year."

A homemade “do not obey in advance” sign attached to an overpass height sign.

Here in Chicago I even see it on signs that you SHOULD obey in advance.

Thank you for reading it!

Thank you!

Oh, cool! Thanks for telling me

Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...

Realized I should update that this is now ungated. Everyone can now read, without subscription, the article that one reader described as having "about as close to a plot twist as one will ever see in a review essay." (I loved that comment, which has been making me smile since I read it.)

This is sure to go well!

(1) Agree (2) Also note how argument has publicly shifted from US needs to send in military PROTECT the CIVILIANS from crime (supposedly committed by immigrants), to US needs to send in military to protect ICE officers FROM the CIVILIANS (so they can safely commit crimes against immigrants).

Condolences for your evening

Oh gotcha

Because he was undocumented? But he was also, apparently, a great school superintendent. So did “ICE get the right guy” or were the people of Des Moines better off not enforcing immigration restrictions that kept them from having a great superintendent?

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close.

They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say.

Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

“Because if we accurately call out rising fascism … we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war.”

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Totally agree with all of this

That makes sense to me because that’s what the U does at its daycare! I hope she’s having a good experience in the master’s program

But @amyk1025.bsky.social I realized my reply probably seems more polemical than I intended; what I mostly want is to clarity what I am and am not criticizing. Interested in your take, especially as an educator!

questions abt, say, why some animals eat other animals, or why sometimes things can go in a hole but get stuck coming out, or god knows what

My point is just that this is *content* that increases what else she can read & what she can understand in the world, & it’s a mistake to reduce that to vocab

In the best preschool my kid has been in, they followed up on kids’ interests or seasonal classroom activities with tons of activities designed to teach them new things that were related. This is also what I observe happening when I read to her—almost regardless of the type of book, it opens

often that kids don’t fully internalize them,

What are the facts they are learning?

(FWIW I don’t fully get what common core math does but I have an impression of it as a huge improvement over much of what existed prior, so please don’t misread that as my target)

If there is hardly any time for science, social studies, or art because everything is only reading and math;

If the reading is disconnected passages designed to learn “skills” that involves rapid switching between topics but never sustaining focus on anything;

And if the math topics also switch so

Hypothesis based on reading to my kid:

Exactly analogously to how US elementary education now radically deemphasizes learning facts, we talk about the value of reading to kids in terms of vocabulary & enjoyment… but not the wide exposure to facts kids can’t get any other way

& both are mistakes