Margaret Monteith

Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

This flyer announces a free farmers market at Loring Greenough House in Jamaica Plain (12 South Street) for people who lost SNAP benefits due to a government shutdown. The market offers: Free fresh produce and bread (grown by Allandale Farm, bread from Iggy's) Thursdays, 11AM - 1PM Dates: November 6, 13, 20 This is a mutual aid initiative providing food support during a period when SNAP benefits have been disrupted. Jamaica Plain has a strong history of community organizing and mutual aid networks.

(Boston) Free farmers market in JP including bread and produce, Thursdays 11-1, 12 South Street

#SNAP

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

If you’re worried about the food people get with SNAP, wait until you see the private jets and yachts billionaires get with Trump’s tax breaks.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

One would think it would give journalists at the NYT, CBS, and CNN pause that Teen Vogue & People Magazine offer better coverage of political news these days, but 🤷‍♂️

I’m so sorry for your loss. May his memory be a blessing.

For those fear mongering about Zohran Mamdani bringing “socialism” to NYC, can I introduce you to…

…the NYPD, FDNY, DSNY, libraries, schools, beaches, bridges, roads, parks, sewer and transit systems?

Some are mad because people are on SNAP and not working.

I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.

When people glorify ‘Tough On Crime’ they are just saying that they are gleefully punitive & nothing more.

Being tough on crime isn’t the same as addressing crime. We know that the largest predictor for reducing crime is addressing need.

Reducing benefits increases crime, endangering everyone.

Bring back the copy editors.

Good evening to all who remember Michelle Obama getting criticized for planting a vegetable garden at the White House.

And firing all the copy editors is pretty bad too 😬

Is removing Nazi tattoos too woke? We asked some Germans living in Argentina.

I, a French Jewel Thief, Refuse to Rob the Louvre Before Mid-Morning “Thieves in balaclavas broke into Paris’ Louvre museum on Sunday morning, using a crane to smash an upstairs window, then stealing priceless object...

"My typical heist morning routine goes like this: wake at leisure, cigarette, croissant and cafe au lait, read a chapter of Voltaire, stroll along the Seine, browse the Paris flea market, THEN robbery."

Obama wore a tan suit.

"Trump's willing to starve 40 million Americans while he focuses on building his ballroom"

Fixed the headline for you, @politico.com!

I often think about the lattes I ordered from a McDonald’s in Costa Rica one time and that I’m supposed to believe we have a better quality of life in the US

There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas.

There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.

There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.

There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.

100 percent.

There's a world where a president whose term overlaps with the 250th anniversary of independence announces that he wants a WH extension to celebrate. He goes to Congress and gets bipartisan buy-in. Maybe it's part of other big 250th projects with public-private funding. And it's popular. (1/2)

I note that the Roman Emperor Vespasian made himself immensely popular by completely burying Nero's Golden Palace and building the Colosseum and public gardens on top of it. He was also known for being able to laugh at himself.

French textbook La Famille Chat Le supermarché Latin textbook NUNTIUS TERRIBILIS EX GERMANIA

Stolen from the Latin teacher FB group.

It is middle school 101 that they will keep crossing and obliterating boundaries and norms until someone firmly maintains them. 😞

It is middle school 101 that they will keep crossing and obliterating boundaries and norms until someone firmly maintains them. 😞

It is middle school 101 that they will keep crossing and obliterating boundaries and norms until someone firmly maintains them. 😞

It is middle school 101 that they will keep crossing and obliterating boundaries and norms until someone firmly maintains them.

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Washington Post: White House begins destroying East wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.