Between this and the Talarcio stuff, there's a lot of "legitimate claim to participation in political life is earned through correct performance of a highly specific vision of heterosexuality that only we get to define" coming from MAGA lately.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Uh, I don’t know if your definition of sad, unhappy would hold up in a court of law

In a very good, very casual writing group for the first time in a long time and I've been trying to figure out why it's better than all the ones I've been part of before, and honestly I think it's that we're all middle-aged and/or largely immune to shame.

you ever think about the minutes of living you’ve wasted contemplating the appropriate emoji?

Based on my own experience, I suspect that many parents give more weight to high grades than they should because they think of them, at some level, not as a measure of learning but as a credential or a transaction www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/o...

Opinion | It’s Becoming Impossible to Know How Your Kid Is Doing in School

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I loved Transcription and have lots of thoughts about it but mostly it’s such a joy to read something so smart and riveting and idea-rich without an ounce of didacticism. Why is this so rare.

I’d dunno I’d just like to find a way to exist so that my every action and need aren’t somehow mined for profit

You’re gonna utterly despise what the second largest school district, under a hostile state takeover, is doing with AI then in Houston. Should be a much larger story but hasn’t become one yet.

These findings confirm studies on chatbots and the recent US presidential election that my lab conducted with @proofnews.bsky.social apnews.com/article/ai-c...

Chatbots' inaccurate, misleading responses about US elections threaten to keep voters from polls

Chatbots are spitting out fabricated and misleading information that risks disenfranchising voters leading up to the 2024 U.S. election.

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Juliet E McKenna@julietemckenna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"ChatGPT, the most heavily used AI service, gave wrong information in 46% of its answers, including making up an expenses scandal, giving inaccurate replies on voter eligibility rules and getting the date of the election wrong by two months." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Best novels/shows w/ characters who are the unwitting cause of their own hardship? Think false bildung: characters who, despite seeking personal improvement, only end up making different versions of the same mistake? Enlightenment was so good here—wanting other similar things.

It would be interesting/cool if LLM “writing“ resulted in a renewal of engagement w/ literary biography, writer as auteur?—the real minds who made, shaped, invented real works—how, why, to what ends… these questions feel newly urgent

Probably a good day to recommend The Long Form. Briggs is brilliant, covering incredible narrative & conceptual distances in the few turns around the living room it takes to soothe her baby. It's quiet in some ways, explosive in others. #BookSky #MothersDay

The Long Form

From the award-winning author of the book-length essay This Little Art, a debut novel that reaches back to the start of the novel tradition and outward to the complexities of contemporary life.Kate Br...

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Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.

Gotta say, I did have ”LMS apocalypse“ on my proverbial bingo card

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Tita Chico@titachico.bsky.social · 3mo ago

who could have imagined that it wasn't a good idea to have a nearly ubiquitous educational platform run by for-profit tech? @mattseybold.bsky.social is who! (yep, Canvas is down, hacked, stick a fork in it)

What is up with this novel House of Leaves? I have have had several intellectually ambitious but non-literary professional people ask me about it and talk about it as though it is a difficult masterpiece on par with Ulysses or Infinite Jest or something…

ah yes, spring. The flowers, the sun, the academics on end-of-semester posting sprees…

I suspect that if we actually had to *watch* the Met Gala without our many forms of digital mediation/condensation it would be basically intolerable

I would like to assign the @ifbookspod.bsky.social ep about “grit” to every school administrator who, in 2026, still operates on the principle that everything one needs to know about education can be found in TED talks and airport books

It’s actually the law that 30 Rock must reboot if were memeing Fey and Chalamet.

What’s up with “learnings” as a noun? As in, “we ran this experiment and here are some learnings.” I do not like it. I do not like the idea of learning as a matter of discrete bits rather than a *process.* I will now retreat back into my book-filled lair of anachronism.

It’s depressing to me that “reading“ is now framed as a hobby instead of, you know, a default activity for leisure and edification practiced generally by a literate populace.

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

The thing is that most of the ai stuff being pushed to schools is not novel. It’s merely the latest version of the gamified “adaptive learning“ shlock that has been pushed to them for over a decade, built on the foundational grift that success on assessment = learning.

“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes…you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?

“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...

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Reading unpublished empirical research on AI in UK schools from a project I'm involved in, and I'm sorry but anyone who thinks AI is simply improving teaching and learning is just wrong. It is interfering in classroom practices and relationships in complex ways that need documenting then addressing.

The Christophers is my kind of escapist fantasy (most pompous and oblivious of men is compelled into a glimmer of self-awareness through the crafty brilliance of someone he has thoughtlessly wronged)

The thing about Victorian studies: you read the best of novels, you read the worst of novels. It is the subfield of wisdom, it is the subfield of foolishness…

Schools are choosing this in large part because many parents think reading novels amounts to “literary appreciation.”

Keep thinking that cruel optimism has shifted toward something like cruel inertia—feeling the enshitification of everything but repeatedly choosing the wan comfort of stasis over the minor inconveniences of salutary change

Just read “lifts the blockade on Iranian ports” as “lifts the blockade on Iranian poets” and what’s weird is it felt a little plausible