Randolph Lee Welty

@randolphleewelty.bsky.social

That’s an old picture. I look much worse now. Smart enough to know I’m stupid. I really talk like this in real life. Apologies. FKA PorcupineEeyore

@rweingarten.bsky.social, this is a horror. Teachers cited in this article say they're using "A.i." to develop lesson plans for kids with disabilities and imply that they're feeding student data into LLMs. This is using untested, dangerous teach on vulnerable kids AND possibly violating privacy law.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h 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.”

“Having now seen it, my opinion is that if Martin Luther nailing his theses to that church door in Germany was the first domino that led to Assassin 33 AD, we should go back in time and kill him to prevent our present timeline from happening.” johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-christ...

The Christian Film Where They Shoot Jesus

Recapped and reviewed

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Randolph Lee Welty@randolphleewelty.bsky.social · 10h ago

Like a million times worse than the “time travel to kill Jesus” movie.

I think a lot of the vitriol against people insisting things have gotten better over the past 100 years or so is not people being mad at the bare assertion but being mad at the assumed conclusion that things are fine and we don't need drastic fixes. Which some of those people don't mean but some do

The "cancel Thanksgiving" stuff is bad b/c its at the intersection of something she has no control of (the Governor of WI does not determine Thanksgiving) while also being a talking point that low-information voters will remember. Should pivot to "I'll be the first Governor to cook the turkey."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Francesca Hong was asked last night by Kaitlin Collins if she still believes Thanksgiving should be canceled. Her answer was not 'no.'

Yes yes, who could have imagined that the promise to have a humanoid robot army on the Moon building satellites and yeeting them into orbit using a lunar catapult to create orbital data centres and make humanity a Kardashev Scale 2 civilization might have been oversold?

DJ Khaled: Congratulations, You Played Yourself

ALT: DJ Khaled: Congratulations, You Played Yourself

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The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2d ago

SpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.