This is [singing, but not on MTV] ageless and ever... evergreen

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

As Bowie would say to Mark Goodman two years later: “.. Having watched MTV over the past few months, .. I’m just floored that by the fact that there’s so few black artists featured on it. Why IS that?”

1/ “I’m glad I had that training. It is incredibly valuable. I hope other students can learn news literary from a young age." - Mirudulaa Yamini, who won NLP's Gwen Ifill Student of the Year award at age 13 🧪 Now a sophomore in college, she uses news literacy in research for her engineering major 👇🏾

News literacy skills help college student excel

College student Mirudulaa Suginathan Yamini uses the news literacy skills she acquired in middle school to navigate her coursework and biomedical engineering research as well as her personal life.

go.newslit.org

I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...

We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector

In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...

defector.com

Separately, I was wondering yesterday if I should go ahead and read The Filter Bubble (Pariser, 2011), which never quite rose to the top of my TBR. I guess that's a yes. Cc: @edufuturist.bsky.social

Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 21h ago

BOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This is REAL. I have two hair stylists in the family and they will do a total takedown over hair. They will DERAIL a viewing over a minor (to me) hair continuity problem. Oscar film classic or TV sitcom, same same they do not care.

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 23h ago

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

#California budget clarifies teacher credentialing requirement, increases fee edsource.org?page_id=763378

UPDATE: California budget clarifies teacher credentialing requirement, increases fee

The latest education news updates from EdSource.

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1. This is bullsh*t & an epically stupid policy completely detached from any empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2. We could simply avoid this entire issue by <all together now> Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

When we don't adequately fund public universities, and instead force students to take out loans, what we as a society are really doing is borrowing money from the younger generation—their hard-earned future income—to fund a necessary project that benefits us all: building an educated society.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d ago

1. This is bullsh*t & an epically stupid policy completely detached from any empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2. We could simply avoid this entire issue by <all together now> Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I'm sorry, the what problem?

“…the researchers found that opening up to chatbots about personal issues made some people feel not better but worse.”

AI companions may worsen loneliness for vulnerable users

Stanford research finds that users with limited social networks who seek emotional support from AI chatbots experience lower well-being.

news.stanford.edu

I think about this finding a lot: "Students whose school uses AI for many reasons are more likely to report that they or a friend of theirs has had a back-and-forth conversation with AI, like chatbots, in potentially troubling ways." From @cdt.org's report:

Hand in Hand: Schools’ Embrace of AI Connected to Increased Risks to Students

Artificial intelligence (AI) has continued to alter the educational experiences of teachers, students, and parents during the 2024-25 school year. The frequency and variety of AI uses continues to gro...

cdt.org

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h ago

“…the researchers found that opening up to chatbots about personal issues made some people feel not better but worse.”

@faineg.bsky.social, they’re starting them on Bluesky earlier and earlier (poster from a middle school classroom door)

I love Forbes—they keep posting fun stuff with left-of-center bias, but somehow keep their right-of-center rep. Or did I move my own Overton Window 🙃

Lady with an opinion@ladymitopinion.bsky.social · yesterday

Judge Box of Wine is definitely out on her ass after this: www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...

wisconsinwatch.org/2026/08/wisc...

A $10 billion data center proposal vanished after a local official told the developer the process would have to unfold in public

A Columbia County town chair said he refused to have one-on-one discussions with a developer.

wisconsinwatch.org

A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks

public libraries ftw

Dredging up this old chestnut because I just found out that Bluesky has a Hermione Gingold account (but no Hermione Baddeley! Not yet anyway). (For the record, Google AI Overview is WRONG AGAIN, claims they only appeared in one film together.) #AltText needed: QP shows 2 pages of a Gingold book.

David Benedict@eggsbened.bsky.social · last yr.

See also Hermione Gingold and Hermione Baddeley.

Today's "Wait, what?" thought

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · yesterday

As a writer I try to remember that the fact that something annoys me personally does not necessarily make that thing important enough to write about

The limited music training of my youth never got to the wolf interval. (I knew something was up, but didn't know what it was.) I don't regret it, but can imagine an alt-history. What if I'd learned a few more things like that along the way? What metaphors might have emerged earlier, or differently?

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · yesterday

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_in... I think Tom Bombadil is basically like a wolf interval: your fantasy worldbuilding can't be both coherent and complete, you can either spread the unknown around or shove it all into one place. Tom Bombadil is all the unknown shoved into yellow boots.

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" day to all who celebrate

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Looking up reference material for a project and found an AI made “medical chart” where someone had **bodily organs in their feet** (not even joking) and now I hate everything

#VotingRights #elections

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 2d ago

Almost two dozen Democratic-led states asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to uphold a block on President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting, saying it poses “extraordinary threats to our democracy.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“If your degree doesn’t make enough money” will be impossible to suss out amid #AI #labor disruption. But we’ll see campuses try. #HigherEd #academia #StudentDebt

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Any decent one-liners and snark are happening elsewhere. I just want to draw the analogy with "football star ends up as car salesman," which was more of a 20th-Century trope. While you're here, let me also recommend Tressie's latest NYT (Aug. 3) on our technocratic world. #DataCenters #politics

Jessy Edwards@jessyedwards.bsky.social · 2d ago

A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.

Interesting site to share with colleagues and students, probably to include the site’s own privacy policy. (I do a Terms of Service activity with classes every semester.) #ALPR #Flock #cameras #surveillance

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you live in the US, you want to know about this website.

I've admired Priya Parker's work on gathering, conversation, and human connection for many years. Her response to Artificial Intimacy is especially meaningful because my book is, at its heart, about protecting those very qualities. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sherr...

Jon Kabat-Zinn has spent decades encouraging us to become more present, with ourselves and with one another. I'm happy that he sees Artificial Intimacy as part of that larger conversation about presence, trust and what it means to live fully as human beings. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sherr...

i don't want to "grow my account" or "strengthen my personal brand", i want to frolic unburdened through verdant fields. and shitpost