There are other reasons I don't want to move up to teaching high school, but suspecting that the AI pressure will be greater than it is in middle school is a big one

Bodes fuckin ill, man

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · yesterday

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

Every song in Dazed and Confused but especially The Hurricane

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2d ago

Name your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.

Self portrait, by my almost four year old

Lord of the Rings

David Weiskopf believes in you@dave.bzky.team · 10mo ago

What is your favorite English-language novel? (Free spaces for Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, and Moby Dick -- what else you got?)

One thing I won't forget about the pandemic was how the government prioritized people living and working in high risk areas, and designated downtown first, but did not exclude the hundreds (more?) of government and university workers who were all working for home

I remember that the province refused to prioritize teachers so when a colleague got a hot tip that a clinic was taking appointments without asking for proof you lived in a "high risk area" we called the clinic and walked around with my phone to everyone's classroom so they could make appointments

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12mo ago

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

Last year camping in the Redwoods we were next to a mother and her daughter who said they lived in a beautiful neighbourhood in Spokane right up next to the forest (she worked for the Forest Service). I hope they and everyone else is safe 🙏

*listening to Loveshack by the B-52s* Almost four year, tilting head and listening carefully: "this song is called Baby Lunch Snack"

Just watched a Blue Jays in 30 versus the Nationals and I'm here to say: Jorbit Vivas

David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · 6d ago

The only creative industry that is inarguably both doing well and doing great work right now is "new baseball guy names."

Looks like I'm voting for the least bad option. I think Jeff is fine, he came into the hardware store I used to work at and was nice, and drives a sweet camper van. Good enough.

Looking up the two guys running in my ward this fall. This guy seems to be a "tough on crime, yes to developers" finance guy from Vancouver, so no thanks BUT I do need to know what he means by this. Beaches?? On the Red River???

Niche Winnipeg post but: hearing that Sherri Rollins is not running for councillor in my ward this round, please Lord let her not be running for the NDP federally for my riding

taylor swift is the eagles for millennials

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 6d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

Honestly, our society is standing on the ruins of great publically funded kids TV shows from 1970-1999. I've seen a few newer ones that are ok? But nothing that can touch Magic School Bus or OG Sesame Street

Typing into the YouTube Kids search bar Me: "p..." YT Kids: "Punjabi songs?" "po..." "positive affirmations?" "Postm..." "POST MALONE!?" "Postman Pat!" It's literally just Postman Pat, every time

My crafting-as-a-parent secret is one part lucking out having a chill kiddo and one part downloading all of the OG Magic School Bus episodes

It's *almost* worth it to go back on FB to see if someone in the neighbourhood grows bearded irises and would be willing to share a rhizome or two with me, but not quite

I've been slowly transforming half of the backyard from garden boxes back to grass (for kiddo playing) and through a combination of too-wet-then-too-hot weather and going on a roadtrip it has stalled out at overgrown weed patch with volunteer plants

Logging in BC or teaching in Scotland

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

It's revolting out right

What's the toughest watch you can get that's not crazy expensive? I got a Timex Ironman watch from Poshmark and it is NOT standing up to the rigours of gardening and chasing a pre-schooler around splash pads

MLB was open to women until some of them started getting onto teams. It's why softball was created, keeps women out of the baseball development streams

Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 2w ago

The last time I researched this, I discovered the timeline "sport is open to all; woman wins; sport is immediately closed off to women; women's league is eventually formed years later" is almost universal. Women's leagues were overwhelmingly created *strictly* to protect the egos of men.

If I won the lottery but wanted to keep myself busy I'd start a salvage operation for old houses, specifically the old growth wood timbers that don't usually get salvaged. Hardware and windows do, sometimes flooring, but bigger pieces just get trashed usually

At this point the "Winnipeg Special" is stealing the fancy bikes of charity Trans-Canada cyclists who go through every other city with nary an issue

CBC Manitoba owes these guys new bikes for not telling them to bring their bikes inside the building lol, they know better

I didn't see him but my partner said there was a guy at the Icefields glacier centre wearing a Shell hat

We had to leave Jasper a few days early, but we got a very special treat while we were there. We saw this mama Grizz and her cubs, another grizzly, and either a cub or a small brown black bear. We stayed in our car and left when the Parks guy asked us to, unlike some other folks

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts