Lila Byock

:(

Weird that the magician can’t just make this whole story disappear.

Okay but how about parents? (We hate it, and schools are shoving it down our kids’ throats!)

Picturing Ben waiting at home like Penelope.

I wish you were in charge of the LAUSD budget 😭 We need you!

96% of EdTech apps used by schools are harvesting student data and selling it to third parties. (Is that a fun fact?)

It’s amazing to hear school district administrators claim it’s a bold act of social justice to give chatbots to underprivileged children on their school-issued Chromebooks, because otherwise how will they compete with the rich kids in the brain-cooking competition?

LAUSD: Now’s your chance to tell the district we want AI slop & Big Tech out of our schools. EdTech listening sessions today & tomorrow at 5pm. Show up! www.schoolsbeyondscreens.com/important-ev...

CBS News still of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

Matthew Rhys already under contract for the inevitable Apple limited series about the AI hype bubble collapse.

Literally blinking white guy gif

I, for one, am shocked that an AI teddy bear named “Kumma” was providing detailed descriptions of sexual kinks.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

ChatGLP

I just came from a memorial where a guy was vaping a scrolling Instagram reels *with the sound on* throughout the service. Then he abruptly stood up and walked out in the middle of the sister’s eulogy???

Saving this as my auto reply to every round of network notes.

This photo is giving “Step inside the upstate retreat of these globetrotting empty-nesters!”

This is our community's letter!! It was written by Josie Morway, a local artist and parent. After we started asking questions, the district slowed way down and starting holding forums, creating workgroups, and taking student privacy more seriously. Talk to us if you want to do the same!

You know it’s been a big news week when “DNA sequencing proves Hitler had a micropenis” doesn’t even rank.

A panel from Watchmen no. 4 drawn by Dave Gibbons. Script by Alan Moore.

Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!

dammit I shoulda checked the replies first

Oreoboros

Yikes!!

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

It’s always the ones you most suspect. (Cough Larry Summers)

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.

Trying to imagine a less cool combination of words than “Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday party at Jeff Bezos’s house.”

I watched it with my kids last year and we were all, like, “WTF???” It’s very sad! The filmmaking in the beginning is kind of extraordinary.

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

LAUSD, the second-largest school district in the country, has enabled chatbots on student devices without even notifying parents or providing any means of opting out.

LAUSD, the second-largest school district in the country, has enabled chatbots on student devices without even notifying parents or providing any means of opting out.