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I should be less surprised at how flamboyantly and consistently Randi Weingarten has failed the challenges of leading one of the teachers' union in the US in age of gAI. Deeply uncritical, incredibly short-sighted, but most of all, pusillanimous.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h ago“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.”
My husband once rode around looking for our kid's bike, found the guy, and convinced him to give it back. Only YOU etc etc (because the cops laugh if you report a stolen bike)
Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief@katie.bzky.team · 15h agoi fucking hate bike thieves. while i was leaving a place i was watching a guy obviously case the bike racks and start trying to take one when he thought no one was looking. i shouted at him and he quickly ran off, but a conveniently located person is not exactly reliable crime deterrent.
“This line of argument can appear sound—why shouldn’t the poorest New Yorkers get sole access to rent-stabilized apartments?—but it is ultimately a distraction from the real dynamics at play in the rental housing market.” citylimits.org/opinion-rent...
Opinion: Rent Stabilization Isn't Means Tested—And It Shouldn't Be - City Limits
"This line of argument can appear sound—why shouldn’t the poorest New Yorkers get sole access to rent-stabilized apartments?—but it is ultimately a distraction from the real dynamics at play in the re...
citylimits.org
Our kids love both these songs, so after I shared the quote post with @jinglesboiler.bsky.social, he made a mashup of "Washington" by @bradneely.bsky.social and "Get Him Back" as performed by Olivia: theinfringements.bandcamp.com/track/georgi... Hope you like it, @kellylink.bsky.social!
Georgie Got Back, by The Infringements
track by The Infringements
theinfringements.bandcamp.com
Will Not Standstil@kellylink.bsky.social · last mo.washington washington six feet tall weighs a fucking ton (please, someone, make a mashup)
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
My picky eater also loves pesto! I thought this was a hard earned compliment to my cooking (that child would sooner die than intentionally compliment me). We toss in some frozen peas at the end since that is an approved veg and it goes surprisingly well with the pesto. Every safe food is a win.
Micah@rincewind.run · 5d agothe nine year old will live entirely on pesto pasta if we allow him to he is, truly, my son
Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.
At our municipal grocery stores, New Yorkers will get a 30% discount on eggs, milk, chicken, produce and other everyday essentials. In the wealthiest city in the richest country in the world, no one should have to wonder how they’ll afford the food they need to feed themselves or their families.
Today Zohran is announcing that the New York City-owned grocery stores his administration is piloting will discount staple items 30%. Core groceries like produce, meat, seafood, pasta, bread, yogurt, butter, nuts, rice and beans will all receive this price cut.
Totally got me, but I understood that this was not that story (no matter how much we would all LOVE to read about the Ooioiaa's water bureaucrats and hydrologists bumping heads)
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · last wk.The number of posts I see of folks reading Radiant Star and going "But I actually DO want to know about the city's water purification and reclamation system!" is giving me life. Y'all were the reason I put that sentence in. It was just for you, my gift. I was thinking of you as I wrote!
Google reset my phone's time zone, affecting my alarms and emails and chats. It won't budge, even after resetting my phone's clock and turning on location services and making sure I have the correct time zone selected. Apparently this was happening to others a few months ago, too, but no word on why
"Advocates said the deaths were unacceptable, and called on the city to act quickly to improve pedestrian safety." "All three incidents occurred on roads designated as Vision Zero Priority Corridors due to high rates of pedestrian fatalities" www.brooklynpaper.com/drivers-kill...
Drivers kill three Brooklyn pedestrians over the course of two days • Brooklyn Paper
Brooklyn drivers killed three pedestrians in separate crashes over the course of just two days last week, in the midst of a historically-safe year for traffic
brooklynpaper.com
The other day I was nearly hit by a car blowing a red, and as I shrieked in protest I noticed the driver was texting
Warren Wells, AICP@warrenjwells.bsky.social · 3w agoIn the last two days, I've had two instances of drivers straight up *not seeing me.* Me, a 5'11" guy riding a 9-ft long, tomato-red cargo bike, with two kids in the bucket wearing hi-viz helmets. I'm beginning to think the "cyclist came out of nowhere" problem is on the drivers' end.
Yes, I didn't post about it because the description sounds insane, but the performances in DTF St Louis are incredible, just a totally weird and riveting show
Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social · 4w agoDTF St Louis is sublime? Why didn’t it break through more? It’s NOT what I thought it was. Beautifully crafted. Much artier and weirder than I thought it would be. Highly recommend. Need to know about why the police station is unnecessarily wonderful - like a theatre set for a Kafka adaptation. Love
if there's one thing I learned from English countryside murder, it's that you that you won't get caught until you commit the second murder to cover up the first
sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3w agostarted watching midsomer murders and i'm like. is the point that this nice man is a terrible cop? every episode seems to have a body count of 4+, most of whom were killed while he was actively investigating. baltimore homicide rate has nothing on the english countryside
NYC to babysit 500 kids for ‘Parents’ Night Out’ gothamist.com/news/nyc-to-...
NYC to babysit 500 kids for ‘Parents’ Night Out’
Registration for the Aug. 16 event opens at 8 a.m. on Monday, July 13.
gothamist.com
NK Jemisin RF Kuang Silvia Moreno-Garcia Jeff VanderMeer Kazuo Ishiguro The "living" bit makes it trickier without delving into my comfort reads like Tana French, Belinda Bauer, Adrian McGinty, and Blake Crouch. Thank goodness for prolific writers!
Paz Pardo@pazsays.bsky.social · 4w agofive living writers that you've read five books by each N.K. Jemisin Colson Whitehead Malka Older Nghi Vo Robin Hobb
Descriptivism is the way, yes, but I do not want to see corporate speak in anything law related. "what does our legal spend cost" sounds like baby talk and reads like a transcript of a melted record
ICE says agent shot and killed Houston driver, FBI investigating
ICE says agent shot and killed Houston driver, FBI investigating
The man refused multiple commands and tried running over an ICE officer, according to the agency.
houstonchronicle.com
I've avoided reading Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (for mom reasons), but I'm glad I overcame my reticence. It is staggering, beautiful, and shockingly relatable (for mom reasons). Anything Hamlet-related is especially freighted for me, but it doesn't require any special Shakespeare knowledge to enjoy
If you're an artist of any kind in NYC, take a second this 4th to sign this letter from the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social telling @mayor.nyc.gov to institute a moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools! @comixaction.com supports this! www.climatefamiliesnyc.org/aim-artists-...
NYC Artists Call for a Moratorium on AI in Public Schools — Climate Families NYC
climatefamiliesnyc.org
Massive sandstorm down the shore just as the fireworks started. OH from a local child: Best New Years ever!
Since this happened to us earlier this year, nyc outlawed anonymous complaints, recognizing them as tools for abuse. The rest of the country should follow suit. But we also have to dramatically rethink this entire system, which is designed to see families as innocent until proven guilty.
Not directly the point, but people have had their parental rights suspended for less egregious conduct than repeatedly texting and driving with their kids in the car
Dan Nguyen@dancow.bsky.social · last mo.worse new form of "don't you know who I am???" just dropped
Here is a rather approachable essay on the subject just published.
The AI Chemist: To be trustworthy, LLMs need to show their work
Good scientists reveal how they do their experiments and report their results; so should any machine-driven research
cen.acs.org
Some bosses say full-time, in-person work boosts productivity or collaboration. “Our new research reveals that the objection to any work from home is more likely to be driven by something else entirely: ego,” write Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell and Courtney Elliott.
Opinion | The Real Reason Bosses Want You Back in the Office Full Time (It’s Not Productivity)
It’s all about them.
nyti.ms
A cop drove his squad car into the Schermerhorn Street protected bike lane in downtown Brooklyn last week and injured a cyclist who had the light and was clearly in the well-demarcated cycle track.
To Protect and Unnerve: Cop Hits Cyclist With Squad Car ... In a Protected Bike Lane! - Streetsblog New York City
The officer injured a cyclist who had the light and was clearly in the well-demarcated cycle track. And then he didn't really care.
buff.ly
