Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Mexico’s fight for independence is the triumph of a people determined to shape their own future. Today, I was proud to be the first New York City Mayor to march in Sunset Park’s Mexican Independence Day Parade alongside a community that has fostered cultural pride across generations.

MC Lyte released her third studio album ‘Act Like You Know’ (1991) 35 years ago this week | Listen to the album + watch the official videos here: album.ink/MCLyteALYK

Former Canada Prime Minister Jean Chrétien: "I have message for American friends...never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness...We bow to no one." Jean Chrétien is an absolute gem 💎❤️🇨🇦

it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports

People get confused about the trans sports thing because at a glance it seems like a small issue that impacts a very small number of people and thus makes sense as a "reasonable" concession. But it isn't, because conceding that is accepting that a kid's trans identity is on some level fraudulent

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness

Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane

Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.

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There is absolutely no use for LLMs in teaching history. The entire notion of an LLM is antithetical to the study of history, in fact.

Rich Burroughs@somewhattolerable.com · last wk.

I can’t think of a single use case for LLMs in teaching history.

Absolutely this.

Odd Future Wolfgang Pauli@ofwp.bsky.social · last wk.

Every new "innovation" in teaching amounts to teachers doing twice as much work to track something that has nothing to do with their job and won't improve student learning

This is absolutely about punishing mothers who work outside the home

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last wk.

this sounds less like a plan to help stay-at-home parents and more like a one to punish working ones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...

The campaign to sell AI to the public is actually just the fourth iteration of the same campaign from big tech. First it was crypto, then it was nfts, then the metaverse, and they’ve finally succeeded.

On this night in 1995, Ontario Provincial Police open fire on Anishinaabe land defenders at Ipperwash, killing Dudley George. Warriors blockade the highway after forcing the cops to retreat. The cops' plan to clear the land reclamation camp is a failure. anticolonialhistory.com/event/234/

This is so important. AI may be sold to us as something that will "help" in the classroom, or as an "essential competency" we do students a disservice not to train them in, but in the end the goal is the scale and monetize.

Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · last wk.

"AI" is marketed to administrators as a cheat code that unlocks unlimited "scaling". The reality is that it decimates the educational value of huge classes, but reckoning with that financial reality is too scary. Much easier to circumvent shared governance and double down on parroting the marketing.

The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it.

This is an excellent browser. A* would recommend!

Vivaldi Browser@vivaldi.com · last mo.

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Oh and if you're new and coming from Chrome (or any other browser): 🇳🇴🇮🇸 We're Vivaldi, a European browser based in Norway and Iceland 🕵️ Your data is yours, we don't spy on you or track you ❌ No built-in AI slop ✊🏽 Owned by the employees 🔥 Built-in adblocker, mail, calendar, to do lists, feeds, VPN ++

Vivaldi Browser@vivaldi.com · last mo.

Psst, tired of AI being pushed into absolutely everything and Chrome watching you while you browse? Here's how to switch in just a few minutes. 💪

"I didn't think a full, 6-day-per-week, 14-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the 'generate' button, followed by the 'approve' button, thousands of times a day on SlurryHose. But experience has shown me that I was wrong." buff.ly/RbEQoJg

Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person

“I didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the ‘generate’ button, foll...

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the AI slop in food promotional images has got to be stopped

This Canadian says yesssss!

darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2w ago

RELEASE THE BEAVERS

School Board: Do NOT use your personal device for school business. Also the School Board: To log in to your school device and use your work account we need to send an authentication code to your cell phone.

I truly believe that the normalization of nighttime bookstores, museums, and libraries would change the world.

I know everyone has seen the Miyazaki clip of him saying that AI art is an insult to life itself and we humans are losing faith in ourselves but sometimes it still strikes me that he said that in 2016 and every single year the quote becomes more true and undeniable

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Paul Calandra’s response to his govt deal in which an 🇺🇸 company got $66M taken from public ed and is now price gouging teachers: “Don't just run to TikTok and say, ‘Oh my gosh, look what they're doing to us.’ Help me make it better,” Calandra said.” The govt getting feedback from #OntEd teachers:

TheTrillium.ca@thetrillium.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ontario teachers flag higher prices on Ford government's new Staples portal

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 4w ago

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

All I want is a cottage in the forest, a vintage copy of Lord of the Rings, a pouring rain, a crackling fire, a whistling kettle on the stove, an emotional support owl, and a basket of freshly-baked cinnamon rolls.