Lila Byock

Do you have any more information? My kid goes to JB and I’ve heard nothing. Very concerned about our community there.

I never thought the leopards would start eating faces, say employees at the face-eating-leopard factory

hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading

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Los Angeles Times headline: "How once-exiled filmmaker Brett Ratner staged a Hollywood comeback with 'Melania'"

Did... did Brett Ratner write this?

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless Independent research identifies few learning gains

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com.

‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’
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From the NYTimes: “Latin Americans Love the Right. Can You Blame Them?”

Insane headline

Schrödinger’s Air Force One

Students know what’s up. This sharp seventh grader raises the obvious question about what teacher use of AI implies for student usage.

For example, an Amazon delivery driver, who sits in a cabin surrounded by AI cameras that monitor the driver’s eyes and take points off if the driver looks in a proscribed direction, and monitors the driver’s mouth because singing is not allowed on the job, and rats the driver out to the boss if they do not make quota.

This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING

wat

CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining

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Dunno, Smartphone-Free Childhood and Fairplay both have groups working on EdTech issues with people I would consider the leaders in the field. But we’ll see what happens…

I actually feel like those groups are starting to amplify the EdTech issues now. The tide is turning.

I do wish that the media would pick up on the harms of edtech too. We occasionally see it but the screen free phone ban groups won’t touch it- and that’s telling. The entire edtech ecosystem is surveillance and people need to know that. And refuse it. Schools are catalysts for data rights abuse

To create future customers and to monetize children’s data.

My 12yo son recently did the Red Cross babysitting class!

Man 'trains' crows to attack MAGA hats after saying there's 'no longer a moral option A man has gone viral after training a murder of crows to swoop down and snatch MAGA hats from unsuspecting Trump supporters, documenting his months-long experiment Source: Daily Star https://share.google/VB2AOuDvmhM2wn9QH

I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*

I keep saying, “Abundance” is just sewer socialism for centrists.

Last night I heard a man who’d fled the Salvadoran civil war describe ICE as a paramilitary army aligned with an authoritarian government, and I thought… oh.

Let’s not lose sight of the fact that schools are using Grok as an AI tutor.

BBC homepage screenshot shows a headline about ICE shooting a woman in Minnesota

NYT top headline: “When It Comes to Russia, Trump Navigates Conflicting Goals”

Top story on BBC vs top story on NYT:

👏👏👏

Resisting AI Mania in Schools A former English teacher takes on many of the arguments of AI promoters.

Rethinking Schools published my article about pushing back on some of the arguments made by those seeking to rush AI tools into schools.

Trump’s foreign policy doctrine: Fyre Fest Destiny

With news of Grok generating csam on X, I’m once again asking @lausdsup.bsky.social to answer for the fact that LAUSD students are being exposed to sexually explicit AI slop at school.

Paragraph from a NYT article about a Grok-powered chatbot being deployed as a digital tutor to more than a million students in El Salvador.

“Apology” from Grok on X regarding an incident in which the chatbot generated sexual images of girls in response to a user prompt.

Shot / chaser

Asking Students to Use AI Responsibly When The Adults Aren't Kids can't be expected to learn what adults haven't — or can't — learn

The techbros producing AI products are not doing so responsibly.

The politicians funded by techbros are not regulating them responsibly.

But sure, the teachers can figure out how to get children to use it responsibly.

'Do Not Look': Netizens Warn Grok's X Profile Is Saturated With AI-Generated Nude Images Social media users are issuing an urgent plea to stay away from the official Grok account on X as the platform struggles to contain a surge of graphic, synthetic imagery.

So much to say here but it's yet another reminder that it is kind of a sick joke to suggest that the kids can be taught to "use AI responsibly" when the adults are and can not.

74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen Analysis of high-schooler Adam Raine’s ChatGPT account by attorneys for his parents shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.

here’s a gift link to the piece wapo.st/49uy2q1

To the people informing me that he won’t actually leave the state… thank you. Until now, I’ve always taken billionaires at their word.