Gillian Lynn Ryan

Donald Trump's theory of regime change is underpants gnomes logic

1) Kidnap/kill current leaders, blow stuff up
2) ?
3) Profit! (literally, because Trump and his allies seek personal gain from all of this)

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both

congresscalllist.com

I deeply resent having to live in the absolutely most stupid of timelines

Trump has launched a war of “fury,” to “raze” and “annihilate,” that has already killed dozens of Iranian girls, reportedly cost the lives of U.S. servicemembers, and will kill many more of both. He is acting without authorization by Congress and flouting international law.

Call your reps about this. Every time a book ban has been overturned or shut down, it's because the vast majority of people who believe in the freedom to read spoke up.
Find your reps' info at reps.fyi.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

Einstein - Your AI Personal Tutor Einstein connects to your Canvas and guides you step by step through every assignment — the best personal tutor you'll ever have.

"You can upload your own study materials — lecture slides, PDFs, notes, textbook chapters — and Einstein will help you understand them, create interactive learning tools, and guide you through the material step by step."

Um, no you can't because it is intellectual property

companion.ai/einstein

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

An analogy I use with my students that seems to land:

At the gym, you could use a forklift to move all the weights around. But you don’t actually get any benefits unless you lift them yourself.

I shifted almost everything in my fall course into in-class blue book evaluations, with no internet, and I’m glad I did

The students liked it as well

There is more to be done as AI advances but this is the way

New theory for low response to alumni outreach unlocked...

We're doing this again, because of course we are. Open AI is the new Facebook.

That drop is more than the entire NSF budget.

Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.

They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

I would be a lot more comfortable if these guys didn’t sound like supervillains all the time.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

😂😂😂

Now I’m off to try to compose a list of some closed door romance novels that are likely to be nibbling-safe before the poor kid is banned from reading…

Trying to be a supportive auntie, but reminding her that we read flowers in the attic in middle school and so far don’t seem too damaged is apparently ‘not helpful.’ Seriously dying here.

She was so excited her kid was finally reading voraciously after being grounded from their phone and now is so distraught, and all I can do is wheeze. She came dangerously close to recommending the series that made her kid a reader to other parents, at least she was spared that embarrassment!

I just learned that one of my niblings read a romance book series that, despite having teenage main characters, is definitely meant for an 18+ audience. (Apparently the series all over booktok.) My sister is freaking out, and I’m struggling to breathe from laughter.

Antibiotics are one of the greatest discoveries of the modern medical age (along with vaccines)

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

She's with the Banned: Texas librarian shares battle over book bans in PBS documentary Documentary The Librarians shows public servants on the front line of a national battle against conservative groups fighting to ban books from public schools.

“Removing the books, rather it denies them access to materials that promote empathy and serve as a guide for their own lives during challenging and confusing times.”

#ITeachPhysics another relative velocity video for you

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

A headline about evolution of land vertebrates saying “It Started Out as a Fish. How Did It End Up Like This?” which a person on Tumblr turns into an epic “Mr Brightside” parody.