callie lowenstein
@callielowenstein.bsky.social
bilingual public school teacher & now founder acuarelacurriculum.org (share w your dual language/multilingual learner educator peeps!) also bikes & gardens & swimming in nature. #LessDoomscrollingMoreAction #FreePalestine #StopCopCity. callielowenstein.com
“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew: Internal tension at the Associated Press over use of AI. One of the AP newsroom leaders leading the company's AI initiatives told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and told them when it comes to using AI in the newsroom "resistance is futile."
Sometimes walking out of your history class is the best way to demonstrate that you learned something in your history class. wapo.st/4aF0iqG
Abolish ICE is merely the starting position. This below is the correct one.
Dr. DaShanne Stokes@dashannestokes.com · 5mo agoEvery ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders
SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.
thehandbasket.co
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
I have some suggestions on who should replace David Brooks, but only after reminding everyone how terrible he is at his supposed job. biblioracle.substack.com/p/david-broo...
David Brooks Sucks. This is Who Should Replace Him
David Brooks is heading to a sinecure at Yale. Thank goodness.
biblioracle.substack.com
“History shows that wars can be lost [quickly] if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle.”
Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 6mo agoI've said it before, but the first school that promotes itself as "AI-free" is going to corner the market on folks committed to learning. (gift link)
AI is so inherently popular that companies are paying influencers up to $600,000 to tell people how awesome it is: aftermath.site/ai-influencer-...
“at no point do they seriously contemplate the structural causes of academic dishonesty:the alienation of students from meaningful intellectual labor, the reduction of education to skill building and credential accumulation,and the pervasive distrust that suffuses increasingly surveilled classrooms”
Dr. Heather Leslie@heatherleslie.bsky.social · 7mo agoOne of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Ending immigration agents’ abuses requires reckoning with a long history of cruelty at the border.
ICE Is Not the Only Problem. Border Patrol Has Acted With Impunity for Decades.
Ending immigration agents’ abuses requires reckoning with a long history of cruelty at the border.
buff.ly
A candidate for political office SHOULD run on an “Abolish and Hunt ICE” platform. Reallocate ALL DHS funding for healthcare for all. Public trials that hold them accountable with Nuremberg punishments. Repealing the Patriot Act would be icing on the cake.
Mickey Kuhns@mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 6mo agoICE agents tried to quietly get Mexican food in Minneapolis, local neighbors and protesters found out and shamed then out of the neighborhood!
yet again it seems like the ones who are *most trained* are also *most likely* to draw their weapons & fire on civilians, almost as if the training exists to desensitize them to killing or its consequences & moreover to convince them of the necessity & desirability of pulling the trigger
Emma Berquist@emmaberquist.bsky.social · 6mo agodo not listen to anyone who says they need more training
Khalidi argues that the rise of Hamas was basically a predictable consequence of Israel stringing the PLO along for decades in a “peace process” that continuously resulted in zero meaningful concessions to Palestinian interests. Essentially burning away any sense that diplomacy could work.
Mezentine@mezentine.bsky.social · 7mo agoNow reading:
It is past time for other senate leaders to demand Schumer resign. From the absolute disgrace of a Dem proposal responding to the fascist ICE thugs terrorizing our neighbors to these inexcusable comments… Senator Murray, you must take a stand. We deserve so much better. @murray.senate.gov
Schumer must resign. There is no path forward with this deeply ineffectual and out of touch man at the helm of the opposition party. #StepAsideSchumer
Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota
Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas
standwithminnesota.com
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
BOISE: courage is wearing a Mexican flag cape to the pro-ICE demo
I live on the ride route and I cannot emphasize enough that the ride started passing my house 50 minutes ago and is 👏🏻 still 👏🏻 going 👏🏻. ICE OUT.
MisterMPLS@mistermpls.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny! I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti
The answer is for WA to become the anti-MAGA. Invest in higher ed, not cut it as Gov. Ferguson wants. Fund the research and health care that Trump and DOGE cut. Hire all the scientists and experts looking for a good job in a good place. Build a lot more housing so people can afford to move here.
Seattle’s ‘prosperity bomb’ may finally be fizzling. So now what?
It’s the awkward thing about the affordability debate. Nothing makes a city cheaper faster than an economic bust.
seattletimes.com