Lila Byock

Lila Byock

@lbyock.bsky.social

Writer of television, hater of Big Tech in schools

4,218 Followers 809 Following 1,411 Posts Joined May 2023
1 week ago

The whole internet loves Claude, the official LLM of the Resistance! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you that Claude bombed an elementary school.

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WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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2 weeks ago

These are criminal acts, and there is no way to find the other side of this without meaningful accountability for this—like “in the dock at The Hague” accountability.

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2 weeks ago

Sorry if this is controversial, but it’s my opinion that Donald Trump sucks absolute shit.

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Get Big Tech Off Kids' Desks | Schools Beyond Screens | powered by Four Norms Four Norms makes collective action possible for parents — with the tools, language, and support to push back on tech's influence and rebuild what childhood should be.

Schools Beyond Screens demands an emergency audit of all tech contracts awarded during Superintendent Carvalho’s tenure at LAUSD. Please sign & share: www.fournorms.com/campaigns/ge...

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Get Big Tech Off Kids' Desks | Schools Beyond Screens | powered by Four Norms Four Norms makes collective action possible for parents — with the tools, language, and support to push back on tech's influence and rebuild what childhood should be.

Schools Beyond Screens demands an emergency audit of all tech contracts awarded during Superintendent Carvalho’s tenure at LAUSD. Please sign & share: www.fournorms.com/campaigns/ge...

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AI sexualized a California 4th grader's book report. Can the state safeguard students? An incident with Adobe AI software is raising question about whether the California Department of Education can effectively patrol a new technology.

calmatters.org/economy/tech...

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2 weeks ago

The investigation allegedly began under the Biden DOJ, and dates back to Carvalho’s time in Miami. The timing of the raid may be politically motivated, but this man is no leftist martyr. He’s an enemy of the unions who’s been selling off our schools to his Big Tech buddies for years.

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Two days ago, I was told that Superintendent Carvalho privately refers to me & my advocacy group as “those Schools Beyond Screens bitches.” Yesterday, he learned that karma’s a bitch, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

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Two days ago, I was told that Superintendent Carvalho privately refers to me & my advocacy group as “those Schools Beyond Screens bitches.” Yesterday, he learned that karma’s a bitch, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

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AI CEOs are like, “What if we reoriented the entire global economy around a massive version of the Wu-Tang name generator.”

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Among the many nauseating aspects of this story, Google is using its philanthropic arm to foist its products into schools, with the intention of creating a “pipeline of future customers.”

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2 weeks ago

Ha ha ha

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2 weeks ago

He… loves it?

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2 weeks ago

Apparently my husband couldn’t wait either!

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2 weeks ago

My spouse is introducing the 10yo to I Think You Should Leave. Please circle back in 5 years to find out how badly we’ve messed up our kid.

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The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

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3 weeks ago

One of my most visceral childhood memories is seeing Jesse Jackson speak during his ‘88 presidential run at a pow wow in Arlee, Montana. Not a lot of other presidential candidates showed up in Arlee.

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3 weeks ago

Man. Has anyone done a research on how so many of the people (intellectuals and otherwise) responsible for the sociotechnical project of AI were deeply entangled with Epstein? Cause it seems, um, not immaterial to kind of the whole thing?

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YES. Also, did you see this, from the latest Epstein dump?

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1 month ago

Imagine if a president had divided loyalties!

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1 month ago

Hollywood: call me 🤙

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1 month ago

What if… the American Pope… runs for President…

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Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...

Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans!

actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

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1 month ago
Long email from Jeffrey Epstein to Bobby Kotick, dated May 3, 2013, in which he explicitly articulates a desire to replace teachers with computers, and to replace traditional education with video games. “We have to keep the boobs and guns and profit. You see how much money video games are making these days? Fuck educational reform. We need educational subversion!”

Jeffrey Epstein was working to replace teachers with computers and subvert traditional education with video games. In case you needed further confirmation of the rot at the center of the EdTech industry.

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1 month ago

“The director Brett Ratner cozied up to the Trumps after spending years in movie-biz exile amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault.… For his comeback, he has summoned all the artistic ambition of a local Realtor who just got a drone.”

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1 month ago

The textbook industry has pivoted to embrace EdTech, so not actually that weird.

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1 month ago

I read this, and I almost regret it. What do you even do with the knowledge that Epstein wanted and was trying to engineer societal breakdown via far right populism bc he thought it would benefit his sex trafficking business?

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1 month ago

It’s amazing how quickly the entire discourse around AI has pivoted from “Look at this miraculous new technology!” to “Look, this is happening whether you want it or not.”

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1 month ago

Free product testing, and presumably a fresh source of free training data?

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