“The Los Angeles Unified Board is banning student access to AI tools on district-provided laptops and tablets. The announcement comes after the Los Angeles Unified School District voted to limit screen time for students in June.”

LAUSD Bans Students From Using AI on School Devices

LAUSD has blocked about 378,000 students from accessing generative AI tools on district-issued laptops and tablets.

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@amnesty-usa.bsky.social My monthly donation has been stopped because you have to opt in to donation through @charitynav.bsky.social's Giving Basket program. Please do so so I can keep donating. www.givelively.org/resources/un...

I don't know if any company is as skilled at enraging its biggest fans than @mtgsecretlair.com

twinsen's odyssey, screenshot, pc (1997) ultimatewalrus.com/games/twinse...

Using an LLM for customer support seems like just flipping off your customers. I'm contacting you because I have an issue with your product, and your "rep" is lying to my face about its capabilities so I go down a rabbit hole trying to do something that it literally cannot do. Who does this help?

I appreciate Emanuel Congregation using their land to provide much-needed housing to the Edgewater community. The blowback is quintessential nimbyism.

Neighbors of Edgewater & Uptown@neuchicago.bsky.social · 2w ago

The JCUA (Jewish Council on Urban Affairs) is holding a counter-rally this Sunday to support Emanuel Congregation's redevelopment proposal with Fern Hill and condemn the anti-Semitic rhetoric being used to oppose the project. Please consider attending! secure.everyaction.com/zoMTxza9eEm0...

This was always going to be the next step. There are no trans players in the WNBA so instead they're going after cis women who are insufficiently feminine for them.

Heartland Signal@heartlandsignal.com · 2w ago

U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) claims the WNBA is "trying not to offend some of their players who ... [are] trying to live a male lifestyle": "They protect the lesbian structure that's inside the WNBA with a male quote-unquote female relationship that are two women."

"Neutral in the culture war" my ass. She was pro-LGBTQIA+, removed confederate theming from Dollywood immediately, and gave all the royalties to the Whitney version of "I Will Always Love You" to black run charities. She was woker than woke.

"Stayed neutral"? WTAF revisionist drivel are you selling, @cnn.com ? She was an avid LGBTQIA+ ally, she sang about deportees on the 9-5 album, she was pro literacy and social programs. Sit the fuck down if you're going to besmirch her legacy like this.

CNN@cnn.com · 2w ago

"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis

My full statement here. Again, I'll have more to say about the specific provisions, especially how the settlement is a raw deal for teen users who do not have an emotionally safe relationship with their parent or guardian www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

EFF Statement on Meta Settlement

The settlement enshrines Meta's harmful surveillance into law, and it will compromise users' privacy and anonymity while increasing their exposure to data breaches and government data requests.

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It seems that news of Dolly Parton’s death has resulted in a flood of joyous stories and clips and photos of her. For a brief moment, she has managed to erase the toxicity of social media. A parting gift, if ever there was one.

Dolly Parton: 'I'm Proud Of You'

Alt: Dolly Parton: 'I'm Proud Of You'

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Anyone who AIs Dolly Parton for any reason is going to hell

Disgusting

SFDB@sfdb.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The Log Cabin Republicans officially abandoned the transgender community, pulling the ladder of progress and support that benefited its members up behind themselves." The group's website now says "America's oldest and largest organization for LGB conservatives and our straight allies." No "T."

It's always a little irritating when people who are like, "Look, I'm an ally to trans people" and then immediately basically follow it up with, "And also, they're all men who are freaks who think they're something they're not." But also, what did he want the commissioner to do here?

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Unfortunately had to stop evangelizing @trmnl.com to people since this is its founder.

Inter-library loans are magic and make me feel good about humanity.

And I oof

Rural Indexing Project@ruralindexing.bsky.social · 3w ago

Independent Order of Odd Fellows Wentworth, SD

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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@the48thward.bsky.social does this film production need (and have) a permit to completely block the sidewalk and force pedestrians into the street?

@404media.co Zuckerberg, like so many founders, assume that everybody wants the same things they do, but aren’t smart enough to get them. They can’t fathom that somebody might not want to be an entrepreneur. It’s a lack of empathy. Some of us just like to do the work and not manage other people.

The excesses of the Woke 1 era mostly amount to cringe public statements, harmless vocabulary updates and loss of prestige for public figures. The backlash to Woke 1, on the other hand, is imprisoning dissidents, dismantling public education and eroding democracy. That's what needs reckoning

Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

Oh no whatever will we do

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 8mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

how exactly are @amnesty.org and @amnestyuk.bsky.social affiliated? Questioning my monthly support now due to their abandoning trans people. They not only removed the briefing JKR objected to, they removed their report about the anti-trans and anti-women movement in the UK as well.

They're not a Trump court, they're a Republican court, and the fact those two things align 80-90% of the time instead of literally 100% doesn't mean they're therefore admirably independent. To even describe them as ideologically conservative is too generous. They are partisan politicians.

Joe Patrice@joepatrice.bsky.social · last mo.

I think it says a lot about me as a person that I had already browsed through a lot of the NYPL’s collection of historic restaurant menus long before this article came out. pudding.cool/2026/06/menu...

A History of Menus is a Menu of History

What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?

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“AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations” pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s...

The U and S Bahn in Berlin have amazing headways but also are surprisingly slow? The U3 in particular seems to crawl along at like 20 mph.

A key Chicago City Council committee advanced a package of proposals on Tuesday designed to build more housing along Broadway in Edgewater and Uptown in an effort to make it more affordable to live along the CTA’s Red Line. https://to.wttw.com/495eDfv

Key City Panel OKs Plan Designed to Build More Housing in Edgewater

Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th Ward) said the proposals will revitalize Broadway, which has not seen any new housing built on its west side for two decades, by making the commercial district more a...

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