Carrie Muir

The work they are doing to normalize and universalize gAI use in schools and universities, to discredit any criticism, all to ensure they have a captive and uncritical customer base utterly dependent on them for generations

anisim apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1908

anisim apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1908

A quintet of young pearl oyster mushrooms grow like overlapping mollusks from the side of a moss speckled log. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

What’s your late winter look?

1. haunted cottage witch
2. cozy tea goblin
3. bleary eyed night owl
4. shambling darkness

A sepia toned photo of a woman with a stern, skeptical expression on her face. She’s wearing early 20th century clothing, sitting in a wooden chair, and lovingly cradling a dark tabby cat in her arms.

One of my favorites from my collection! Unfortunately I have no date or info about who she was.

film poster. black text on cream. black panther in the corner. poster reads: Power to the People Y'all. A tressie mcmillan cottom film.

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US public libraries, community centers, and schools are invited to host low-cost screenings of "Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani" and/or "Journeys of Black Mathematicians" documentary films as part of the 2026 Year of Math events: theyearofmath.org/programs/#fi...

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How a Small Welsh Town Tried to Save a Popular Sea Shanty Band from 'the Captain' When a scraggly band of folk musicians arrived to tour the UK, residents of a small Welsh town were enamored—until they learned that the band's leader ruled with an iron fist.

Remember shantytok? This followup is WILD.

"…a really bad definition of a triangle from Google…"
What.

I think we were subjected to the same outsourced modules. 😭

Having to do this every year makes me so, so cranky.

You bastards made the first five minutes of UP and you expect us to believe you’re worried about the audience needing therapy?

Medieval painting of Hildegard von Bingen sitting on a stool with a lyre in front of her, a sun with rays coming down to her. She's holding a paper scroll in one hand and a feather quill in the other.

For Women's Day, I don't want to slight anyone by omission, so let's take a look back at easily one of the most amazing women in history: Hildegard von Bingen.

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That's it for this month folks. Very interesting questions. If you missed the chance to ask a question, I run it back next month, you can also review the thread .The session is now officially closed.
Thank you all.

It is #InternationalWomensDay, which is a particularly good day to support this book! Yes the stories are in the U.S., but the concept resonates beyond; *how* do we talk about women, alive and dead? Who controls the narrative?

Dirty Data An ERC investigation looking into the cost of data center infrastructures powering AI and the people paying the price.

New to me: Dirty Data, a collaborative project featuring 40 journalists across Asia, Latin America, and Europe investigating data centers, their impacts, and how communities are fighting back against data center construction. The website includes original reporting and an interactive map.

The First Rainbow Coalition Film. Directed and produced by Ray Santisteban. Nantes Media LLC. 2019. 56 minutes. In this documentary, Chicago's Black Panther Party forms alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other com...

See film ⬇️ on how Chicago's BPP formed alliances across race & ethnicity with other groups to address policing, housing, & more.

For COINTELPRO & now anti-CRT, anti-DEI attackers, real concern isn't (as they claim) "white guilt," but "interracial solidarity."
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...

a small tree on the ledge at Bryce Canyon

332. #photography a tiny tree at Bryce Canyon

How many of the people screaming about how anti-vaccination parents should be tarred and feathered mask during surges in COVID? Or when they’re around vulnerable people?
Asking as someone whose mother passed away of Covid complications likely from infections contracted by unmasked visitors.

I’ve been reading a lot about accessibility for all sorts of reasons. Something that keeps coming up is ‘designing for cognitive load’.

What is the cognitive load of war, war, environmental catastrophe, political catastrophe, observation of near constant suffering, trying to teach/learn math?

A King Eider swimming away from me in royal blue, choppy water. His head is turned so that he's looking to the left, showing off his black-and-white plumage accented by a red-and-orange bill, pearl-blue crown, and spring-green cheek (thanks Cornell for this wonderful description!).

A King Eider in profile view, swimming away from me in royal blue, choppy water. He has black-and-white plumage accented by a red-and-orange bill, pearl-blue crown, and spring-green cheek (thanks Cornell for this wonderful description!). There are two tiny black "sails" projecting from his back.

A King Eider in profile view, looking towards the left, swimming in royal blue, choppy water. He has black-and-white plumage accented by a red-and-orange bill, pearl-blue crown, and spring-green cheek (thanks Cornell for this wonderful description!).

Hail to the king - the King Eider is a spectacular duck! #birds #birding #ducks

This sounds so cool!

I wonder how many people realize this is the norm.

“Households containing an adult w/a work-disability require, on average…an additional $17,690/year…to obtain the same standard of living as a comparable household w/o a member w/a disability.”

www.nationaldisabilityinstitute.org/reports/extr...

I'm doing my 2025 taxes & this year I had $19,984 in unreimbursed medical expenses. It is incredibly expensive for disabled people to stay alive in this country.

Stick with pale gray-green foliose lichen

Various fluffy lichens on windfall stick

Forked windfall branch with lots of lichen

Stick with some foliose lichen

Windfall sticks all nice & licheny ...

In case you missed it: recording of @yasser-tamer.bsky.social workshop with Alan Levine as part of #OEWeek titled: Designing With, Not Around, Disabled Learners.

See firsthand Yasser's experience with using a screenreader when material is inaccessible:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_g...
#A11Y
#Ed

March 7, 1965: Bloody Sunday To protest the police murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson and for voting rights, more than 600 people began a peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery.

#tdih 1965 Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.

While corporate media focused on the march, the violence against African Americans had a long history.

So did the organizing by Black sharecroppers, teachers, students, & more.

Read about the UNIA, DCVL, SNCC ⬇️.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bl...

The point is, LLMs aren't designed to be used critically. They are built to do exactly what this author/AI user says we shouldn't do.

The only way to make AI less harmful is to change its design, not to change the way users engage with it.