Michael McDaniel

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

Annie and Lakeesha struggle in school. AI teacher assistants treated them very differently. A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of tea...

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...

Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

"stick to menswear"

At my institution we all talk in circles around each other because the AI boosters and the AI critics aren't even speaking the same language and don't have the same worldviews. And none of the conversations matter because admin has already decided that the AI critics are cranks

With Trump about to try to fake economic stats, it's not very helpful for leftists to say they were already cooked. They're not. I follow this stuff very closely and have for years. They're very good and assembled by civil servants who take their jobs very seriously.

Someone needs to teach them about academic library stacks, I suggest the E section.

Well, when you put it that way, here’s a 20 minute researched Toulminean reply: go f*ck yourself.

Long live the Scots.

If you are ever passing through Fresno….

For me, the idea that a convicted sex offender pardoning a convicted sex offender to avoid being implicated for yet another sex crime involving adolescents serves as a bulwark to fascism is magical thinking.

We have had labor camps in the US since the 13th Amendment was passed. After Reconstruction states instituted Black incarceration policies to reestablish forced labor , but they rent out prison labor to companies too.

The song chain gang was about this forced labor.

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There is no way to communicate the horror I feel in today’s world. One of the few things that keeps me going is to remember that outside the media spotlight, there are kind, gentle people all over doing good things for others, in big and small ways. Let’s be like them as much as possible.

Look at the gam on those ones.

GAM. NOUN—A social meeting of two (or more) Whaleships

Taking the “Black Like Me” concept to another level.

Hmmm, you don’t say.

I jerked him now

Was on a fully booked Southwest 5:45am departure flight the other morning and the crew chief attendant was slamming cans of diet coke and had clearly had it with those of us unable to comprehend they were not going to be sitting together.

When was the last time the Brewers had the best record in baseball this late in the season, Randy Travis?

Randy Travis:

He has come out of the break on fire. Small sample size but his new stance at the plate has him squaring it up.

Salary cap? We don’t need no stinkin’ salary cap.

Nice work, Rowdy.

The more I see of him the more he reminds me of Altuve.

"Q: Every successful person? Mother Teresa? Jesus Christ?

A: 'Far greater egos than you will ever understand.'"

The US problem is we have been "outegotized"?

An oldie but goodie:

“Regeneration Through Violence: the Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860” — Richard Slotkin

I would like to hear from the eyewitness who is currently in lockup at FCI Tallahassee.

a group of people are sitting at desks in a classroom with the words oooh oooh written on the screen . ALT: a group of people are sitting at desks in a classroom with the words oooh oooh written on the screen .

Deep cut.

Fun Futures Game scene:

Jesús Made steps in the box with Chipper Jones and Andruw Jones on either side of him. Two hacks in, the Braves legends look at each other and silently nod approvingly.

A pic from later in the BP session:

If they really respected the sanctity of this event they’d have asked Andrew Vaughn to participate.

@adammccalvy.bsky.social draft picks, all-stars and home runs are fun but I am jonesing for a Frelick update….