Brian Baron

Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Not the rapture.
Just human trafficking by a degenerate, vicious government.

How it started // How it’s going

Bentley University allows ICE agents to use their campus as a staging area. If you or a family member goes there or works there, you might want to make a fuss about that.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Mourning a country--its land, ideals, and people--is like mourning the deaths of family, except no one comes to tell you they are sorry they are gone. There is no food, no memorial. I did not know I loved so many things. I did not know they were so vulnerable.

Broken link

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

Skipper out there?

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

One on one on Penei.

Veronica Burton isn’t just the Valkyries' heartbeat. She’s making WNBA history A year ago, Golden State Valkyries guard Veronica Burton didn’t know if she had a WNBA future. Now she’s leading a playoff push — and she might be the league’s most improved player ever.

"She’s our leader and best player."

How Veronica Burton went from being waived to putting up historic numbers for the Golden State Valkyries | @sfchronicle.com

www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...

Valkyries’ jigsaw-puzzle roster comes together to get past league-worst Dallas The Golden State Valkyries got a double-double from Veronica Burton and a career-high-tying 16 points from newcomer Kaila Charles to beat lowly Wings 90-81 on Sunday afternoon.

“This was a full-circle moment.”

Both Veronica Burton and Kaila Charles have been cut by Dallas midseason in the past two years. They led the Valkyries to a victory in Dallas on Sunday | @sfchronicle.com

www.sfchronicle.com/sports/artic...

How to end the gerrymandering wars: FairVote celebrates reintroduction of the Fair Representation Act - FairVote The Fair Representation Act would stop gerrymandering with ranked choice voting and multi-member districts, & make Congress work better.

fairvote.org/press/fair-r...

Opinion | The easiest way to end district gerrymandering? Eliminating districts. Save democracy by holding a single, winners-take-all vote for congressional seats in every state.

Here’s an idea worth pursuing even if both major parties would oppose it now:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Neurodivergence and Alternative Grading, Part 2 Some existing discourse

If you are interested in how neurodivergent students experience alternative grading, Emily and I have attempting to summarize some of the existing discourse here - we have included a works cited if you are interested to see all the sources we consulted.

beyondthescope.substack.com/p/neurodiver...

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

It's interesting to talk with school leaders & districts about the sort of terminal condition of school data today. Ironically, they have more data than they've ever had before but lack the processes & resources to make sense of it in ways that are timely, actionable, AND meaningful...

it’s really depressing how a bunch of reactionary motorists are trying to recall Joel Engardio because he made the Great Highway car-free… and a bunch of braindead left-NIMBY activists are working with them

San Francisco politics stays cursed

Fair Representation Act - FairVote The Fair Representation Act is the bold solution that solves the problems of gerrymandering and uncompetitive elections for U.S. House.

fairvote.org/our-reforms/...

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

Yep. It’s the only way to stop the gerrymandering arms race, in my view. Find a different way to ensure fair representation.

If you use multi-member districts you don’t need maps, or at least the ones you do need are easier. The fact that RCV is still catching on says nothing about its effectiveness.

Homepage - FairVote FairVote is a nonpartisan organization working for better elections for all. We research and advance voting reforms that make democracy more functional and representative for every American, with a fo...

fairvote.org

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.

IG nytimes

Homepage - FairVote FairVote is a nonpartisan organization working for better elections for all. We research and advance voting reforms that make democracy more functional and representative for every American, with a fo...

Support the Fair Representation Act to end gerrymandering— multi-member districts, ranked-choice voting: fairvote.org/our-reforms/...

All of this, yes. Adding: teachers (contra stereotype) are naturally charitable, credulous and (often wrongly, alas) assume the tech industry shares their essentially non-profit core mission about education, which they, very much for-profit, do not.

Never enough "Cui bono?" asked.

What it is going to take is one university after another simply saying, we will not deal. This is not a legitimate way for the executive branch to interact with universities and we will not do it. Full stop.

A Kennedy Toils in Mississippi, Tracing His Grandfather’s Path

interesting update on what Joe Kennedy III is up to, and he has thoughts on what his uncle is doing to the family legacy, under Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/u...