Amanda

We are in an era of deadweight loss - this stuff just won't happen. Even a country committed to filling the gap cannot possibly do it by an order of magnitude overnight - they would need to do something like double every year for a decade. And we'd need a lot of countries to do the same.

i made a helpful reference

they say stuff like this and you realize, they believe women just fine. they just don't care when we're hurt and think men should be allowed to paw at whomever they want without consequence.

Regarding the question “Well, what can I do?“ Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “Go into something that already exists, and do that work towards the end of helping to tip it away from reinforcing the system towards weakening the system. That’s infiltrating. Or innovate. If something doesn't exist, make it."

Open House New York weekend is so great and doubly so if you like infrastructure and/or are very nosey! Got to poke around the inside of Kings County Distillery and see both of their cats yesterday

Trump and his agenda *are* deeply unpopular. This doesn’t do anything on it’s own. It is a resource with which we can do things.

A man of fine tastes

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

I just read those! Loved, so good, such a rich universe. Felt like she gets a little out over her skis in the third but excited for the fourth one to come out.

I've wanted one of these creepy little cat clocks for YEARS and one is finally in my possession, the shape and sound are so deeply pleasing to me. A real small victory of delight in the midst of the Horrors.

NYC/BK pals- come eat my food and drink fun drinks and talk to cuties this Friday!

Screenshot of policy brief that reads: This delay (or outright refusal) to compile a robust COE weakens our nation’s ability to accurately assess the current condition of education and the progress we have made. Policy actors such as the Congressional Research Service use Digest tables. Scholars leverage the COE to explain in policy briefs the effects of K-12 class-size reduction policies or whether an “enrollment cliff” actually looms for higher education. The press also uses this data to help the public understand issues like the rise in total cost of attendance at colleges and universities or challenges in the teacher labor market in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Morning! I did a lil analysis and turns out that, when ED employees are illegally fired and contracts are canceled, ED is unable to fulfill its congressional mandate to publish national statistics on the condition of education.

Why does that matter? Well...

www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

a chicken in every pot and an all ages hardcore show in every neighborhood

saturdays are for servicemaxxing with the boys

Asking for help is good and normal and encouraged for everyone except for me in which case it's humiliating and potentially a war crime. Posting as self crit to remember how dumb this sounds, perhaps you too need to hear it.

And: data is not knowledge, knowledge requires a knower, which is only and ever a person or collection of persons.

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial : AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.

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#gapol

how to shed the yoke of near constant anxiety that everything good in your life will soon crumble to dust at your fingertips, turn to ash in your mouth, etc.

and a happy james dobson is dead day and congratulations to all who need it for outliving that fucker

Sitting on a train that is fully plastered in GLP-1 ads featuring women who look like all the women around me and thinking about how a culture of aspirational thinness is essential to both patriarchy and complacency in the face of fascism. You hate yourself and everyone around you, don’t you?

the time of "let people enjoy things", "reach across the aisle", "everyone is valid" is over. now is the time of the Hater

Opinion | A.I. Is Fueling a ‘Poverty of Imagination.’ Here’s How We Can Fix It.

"AI is not that novel. It is not that potentially revolutionary. It is in a long continuum of technologies that promise to transform education, starting with the TV, the typewriter, VCRs, tablets [and] Chromebooks."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

A grey cat smushes himself against his human's arm so he can lay his head on her pillow beside her.

Why pillow so big if not for Frank to share???

We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

orange cat lying on floor with square lights reflected on his flank that resembles lit windows

live action catbus looking pretty sweet