Ray Lee

Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits A reading for your students

TEACHERS: If you're looking for a reading to assign, to help explain why you're banning AI from your classroom, here ya go.

There didn't seem to be one article that rounds up all the major issues. I tried to do that here, so it's a long read. Feel free to use/share as you like.

Can’t complain about all the ice melting if we don’t go measure the ice. 🤷‍♂️

Most Americans really have no clue how far the US is being left behind.

i can see this one is going to get a lot of use

Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce Food safety in America is under attack.

Really good advice from ⁦‪Nick Florko:

Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Sweet dreams 😘😴✨💤🌙💛

California pays about $78,000,000,000 more in federal taxes than it gets in federal spending and I doubt they're vacationing in Nebraska so ...

weekend on a bike
in the Polish Jura

summer abundance

#chamomiles
#cycling #Poland #nature #flowers #LandscapePhotography #scape #Stunday

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

I Don't Care if Democrats Are in the Epstein Files Hold them all accountable.

"I don’t care if Clinton is in the Epstein files. I don’t care if any Democrats are on the client list. I don’t care if any progressives are on the client list... You know why? Because I'm not in a cult."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/i-dont-car...

The cloud framed summit of Pahto (Mt Adams) looms above forested hillsides and farmland. Black and white photo.

Pahto Station

I stopped to take in the view of Pahto while riding my bicycle in the Cowlitz River Valley #bikesky

I’ve had to learn things the hard way so many times it’s basically my superpower.

I see you like using words. You know what else likes using words? LLMs! Therefore, I must conclude you are an LLM. Checkmate.

I wish private equity could buy climate change so it would stop
working

A view looking North from a hillside outside the town of Fes, Morocco 🇲🇦. Nearby there’s a few late season red and yellow flowers in bloom. Ancient ruins stand decaying in the foreground, against s green and brown grassy hillside. In the distance, gentle rolling hills are lit in a sun that has left the foreground behind. Trees in a rough orchard pattern dot the gray hills, as well as Mediterranean shrubberies. The only sign of modern civilization is a small ribbon of a paved road in the mid-distance, just below a grove if gravestones.

The tombs outside Fes, 2013

Good reporting *provides* context. The NYTimes tried to *hide* that context, knowing most readers are never going to google someone on Twitter.

This was a smear piece—and they knew it from the jump.

Never gonna find Mr. Darcy if I don’t start hanging out in misty fields at daybreak

To quote Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum: "Joy is an act of political and spiritual resistance."

A family hiking on the mountains

Glad we tried a new hiking trail today

Glorious pastel sky

“Be grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between.”
📷 Barry Butler Photography

It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right.

Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...

I’m so sorry you’re having to bear the brunt of people’s anger. Please take care.

Nature's Bridge, Punkaharju, Finland 🇫🇮

Photography by Tomi Castren

#travel #nature #green

NASA just won an Emmy for our live broadcast of the total solar eclipse last year. We produced a documentary film about the James Webb Space Telescope that's out in theaters and on Netflix. We have podcasts, we write feature stories. People wear the agency logo on t-shirts. We're still getting cut.

🔴 Live Now: New Volcanic Eruption at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii (Cam A) YouTube video by afarTV

Highly recommended timeline cleanse www.youtube.com/live/Omr3Fk-...

> Didn’t bother me really but I get why it bothered them.

I’m sure they can speak for themselves.

Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And-

Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

86 fucking years old.

The neighbor I share a yard with is moving out. I just overheard a conversation between her and her friends about the definition of a "silver fox". Before I could decide what to think about that, it quickly turned to a discussion whether bald people qualify.

An awful lot of people seem addicted to outrage.