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As a Long Island native, I can definitely attest that this is exactly how obnoxious and insufferable Lee Zeldin is all the time. He is the pits.

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There’s an astonishing level of credulousness around any mainstream reporting about “AI”. Every tech CEO gets a huge pass for their various, ridiculous, claims. It’s not even hard to do something slightly more involved than buying what they are selling, unexamined.

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I can not tell you how much I appreciate the little joy of being an @inaturalist.bsky.social user: inaturalist.nz/people/mrknu...

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Season 2 of “Andor” is mostly about Cassian dealing with really stupid people.

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Neil is always happy to take a poop on schools, even when he’s ostensibly defending them.

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This week’s piece is on the way in which LLM discourse in education tends to veer into anti-student sentiments about how the tech is ruining their brains, even among many people who don’t see themselves as anti-student: davidknuffke.medium.com/not-kids-fau...

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It’s amazing that someone can be this wrong about education and still willing to air their opinion as if they know what they are talking about. www.businessinsider.com/duolingo-ceo...

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The comments on this thread don’t leave me feeling great. I really struggle with this kind of anti-student discourse in so much LLM-in-education conversation these days. I’m not sure “this tech is rotting kids brains” really sets us up for useful conversations.

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@michaelcralph.bsky.social your recent episode discussion about fidelity and “posting the learning objective” reminded me of one of my main heuristics as an educator: davidknuffke.medium.com/ethics-over-...

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Atrocities are hilarious, pals. Saying things like this really should be grounds for being unelectable for the rest of time.

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It should not be incumbent upon the members of marginalized communities to have to defend themselves, but here we are. Heroic work.

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I’m more interested in ways that various structures cause inadvertent harms than I am in people deliberately acting poorly. This week’s piece is a good example, considering how power hoarding dynamics can emerge from asymmetrical information: davidknuffke.medium.com/unintentiona...

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Exactly the kind of thing that one would expect to see if the hype is way out in front of the tech… fortune.com/2025/05/09/k...

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I just devoured this book and thought it was excellent. Nice to see someone advancing my preferred “Billionaire’s should not exist” policy in print.

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This was quite the sentence to read this morning. Has any other artist ever exploded themselves and their art this completely?

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Woof, @kevinroose.com wondering out loud if resource extraction from the developing world in exchange for free GPT Pro access on this week’s “Hard Fork” is brutal.

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Secret of all of my success.

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It feels like @propublica.org should be aggressively pro-union. That it isn’t is…puzzling.

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Geeze, what awful news. PhET should have more money, not less. They are doing great work and are a credit to every funding source they have.

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Today’s piece seems to have arrived in tandem with news that the latest LLM models hallucinate more than they used to. Which does not seem to disprove my working hypothesis on inherent limits to this technology: davidknuffke.medium.com/boundaries-o...

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My operating hypothesis about the current era in American politics has only gotten stronger since I wrote it down in January: davidknuffke.medium.com/the-age-of-d...

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What even is this world anymore, pals? apple.news/AP087rwpRQge...

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Read this thread and tell me it reflects a coherent “conservative” ideology that is even remotely recognizable.

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Americans are about to do a 180 on Soviet-style production concerns.

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we need more humanists talking about ed policy

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In Canada, the leader of the Conservative Party lost his seat in parliament. Meanwhile, in my country we re-elected a failed insurrectionist and decided that co-equal branches of government are not a thing we need to worry about…

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This week’s piece is considering some emergent properties that have developed out of changing policies in who can access our advanced-level science courses. A good reminder that every change you make in a complex system has a variety of impacts: davidknuffke.medium.com/stuff-comes-... #ITeachScience

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Why is the fundamental reasoning that “more intelligence” == “better thinking and action” not more widely questioned? Is it just deference to perceived expertise that allows TESCREAList thought/business leaders to get away with this kind of first-principles hand-waving?

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It would be remarkable how casual his eugenics is, were it not also for his equally casual racism, misogyny, anti-semitism, etc., etc. The idea that humans continue to develop and refine their thinking over their lives is by no means a foregone conclusion. I just wish it were true for presidents.

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Just an addled, horrifically ignorant, human being.

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This kind of absolute horseshit, from an addled eugenicist, should be absolutely infuriating to anyone with a modicum of actual science literacy. Everyone should note what a disgusting, stupid and inhuman thing he is.

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