This is what we need to do, and it’s why it’s so vital for our schools to be at the forefront of *resisting* data politics by resisting AI intrusion, rather than advancing the aims of Big Tech. The battles lines are drawn.

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social when she writes that AI is "the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation” - and then teach about and against the technologies with the help of the books she cites:

Anthropic and OpenAI appear committed to the “hey we created a digital wild animal and look at the crazy shit it did when we failed to keep it caged!” theory of product marketing. We shall see how that works out. With real wild animals, we impose strict liability on their owners.

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 6d ago

Really important to note that in no way shape or form did Anthropic’s models in this incident “escape containment,” and not just in the word-policing sort of way. The model stumbled through an open, misconfigured gap. From Anthropic’s incident report:

While some continue to bloviate that Fauci and blue-states caused so much more harm to children (COVID learning loss?) by closing schools - compared to say - free and open Florida - take note that FL students dropped more during and after COVID in achievement

Reminder - despite puffery about Florida's miraculous economy and growing wealth - on economic measures (and education ones), Florida is still more like Alabama and Mississippi than it is like New York of Massachusetts

This is all a crazy effort to rewrite the past, yes. But what's really terrifying is hearing these people tell us how badly they're going to fuck up the *next* pandemic they're now creating without that nerd Fauci holding them back.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."

I keep telling you -- the kids are all right.

Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 2w ago

Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE

One good way to confirm that the president is, in fact, a narcissist is if a top military official is sacked for calling him a narcissist.

@cliffdubya.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s like living in Nazi Germany.

“The cruelty is the point”

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

A Supreme Court ruling stripped Haitian migrants of their temporary legal status. Those with U.S.-born children face an agonizing choice if deported: Should they take them to a still-dangerous Haiti? n.pr/4wkzbcZ

Florida continues to backslide on school funding adequacy - sliding from lower middle to lower and deeper into the low funding/low outcomes quadrant (left) - fall further and further below project adequacy targets (right)

The decimation of our federal agencies has upended the lives of thousands of workers. These are the people who oversee food safety, public health, and much more. The squalor of this moment is bringing us back to basics — and reminding us of what our priorities should be. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

Science!

How much we fart in a day, according to science — and which age group is the gassiest

Given how flatulence can give us insight into gut health, it’s surprising how little we know about the line between what’s good and what’s excessive, researchers say.

nypost.com

update on unequal educational opportunity in Connecticut

This NYT visual does a nice job showing both the power and the extreme frailty of "AI agents" in handling relatively mundane real-world work tasks. Many assume there'll be continued leaps in performance but what if we're approaching the top of the S-curve? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Could A.I. Do Your Job? We Put Agents to the Test.

In our experiment, we deployed A.I. “agents” to act as office workers, and found that they were capable of performing some of the tasks we assigned, but not all of them.

nytimes.com

Regarding the Brookings report which essentially claims that equity in school funding is a problem solved. Here are trends from regression models of "progressiveness" (high/low poverty spending ratios) and "adequacy" (spending as ratio to cost of national avg. outcomes)

schoolfinance101.com/2026/02/12/a...

All that hiring while enrollments plummet? Unsustainable!?

Preserving another thread from X and BlueSky: Just the facts (Public Use Graphs) Enrollments & StaffingDownload Another quick picture book story time – About those unsustainable “hu…

schoolfinance101.com

There is an interesting divergence right now between artificial agency aka "agentic AI" and how scientists are grappling with ways to conceive of human agency (and that of other living things). @philipcball.bsky.social covers the latter well in this essay. www.quantamagazine.org/is-life-just...

Is Life Just Different? | Quanta Magazine

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose?

quantamagazine.org

In a free country, failing to comply with law enforcement does not give the state license to murder you

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."

They made so few mistakes in Minnesota that two people were murdered, the ICE head was let go, and the agency has been sued numerous times for its crimes. Other than that? Flawless.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Homan: "All the mistakes they say happened in Minnesota -- the mistakes them claim in Minnesota, a lot of them I don't think were mistakes."

Fact Check: TRUE

'I just want 11,780 votes': Trump pressed Georgia to overturn Biden victory

Trump asked secretary of state Brad Raffensperger in hour-long phone call to recalculate vote

theguardian.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Ossoff: "If there is one person who committed election fraud in Georgia, it is Donald Trump"

Why the fuck is the Department of Homeland Security allowed anywhere near our election records? DHS was created specifically to protect against "terrorist acts." Even if the lies about China were true and they were meddling in our elections, the thugs of DHS and ICE have no role investigating it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Mullin claims DHS will “scrub all election records” and asserts that dead people are voting

This describes the bigger shifts in my own thinking about human cognition (with culture added as one of the biggest feedback loops). We need to break free from the algorithmic input-output paradigm and get much more dynamic.

Timothy O'Leary@timothyoleary.bsky.social · 3w ago

I think the difficulty of understanding feedback loops underlies many big debates in science: Origin of life: "genes first" vs "metabolism first" (neither, it's a feedback loop) Development: "nature vs nurture" (neither, it's a feedback loop) Neuroscience: "brain vs behaviour" (you guessed it!)

A few thoughts for Connecticut, on school funding 1. brief schoolfinance101.com/wp-content/u... 2. video blog: schoolfinance101.com/2026/05/19/t...

The good stuff continues from propublica www.propublica.org/article/priv...

Barns, Go-Karts and Strip Malls: The Wild West of Private Schools That Collect Taxpayer Dollars

As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter

propublica.org

"There's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth." Probably not a good sign when federal officials sound exactly like abusive husbands

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Tom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."

outstanding guide to researching private schools www.propublica.org/article/how-...

How to Research Private Schools Like an Investigative Reporter

It can be really hard to get transparent, comprehensive information about private schools. Our investigative reporters share some suggestions for parents and guardians who want to collect it themselve...

propublica.org

Putting a pin in Roza’s tortured and torturing Ed policy research, can we all agree how cringe the name Edunonics is? Sounds like the title of an airport book.

Bruce D. Baker@schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can we negate Edunomics and Roza from any serious education policy/finance conversations moving forward? Please!!!! I'm often criticized as just being mean to poor Marguerite. No. This is toxic bullshit of epic proportion - knowingly deceitful! Thank you for this!

DOGE Cut Off Small Town America’s 250th Birthday Money www.notus.org/agencies/dog...

DOGE Cut Off Small Town America’s 250th Birthday Money

Then Trump redirected the money for his own beautification projects.

notus.org

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This timely article references a report @schoolfinance101.bsky.social and I co-athored explaining how an enduring history of housing discrimination contributed to Hartford's present-day school segregation. share.google/Qt4JLkvNZjdD...

Officials know education in CT is segregated. The real question is whether it will be changed.

“What’s left for us is the will to actually accept the challenge to correct this,” said Rep. Corey Paris, co-chair of the General Assembly’s Education Committee.

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