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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5d

EXPLOSIVE: The late President George H.W. Bush told a federal official that an alien made contact with humans at Holloman Air Force Base in 1964, according to an explosive new documentary. Astrophysicist Eric Davis claimed Bush confirmed details of contact between the military and an alien creature.

President George HW Bush ‘knew’ of 1964 alien contact with humans in New Mexico: documentary

Watershed new UFO documentary "The Age of Disclosure" released to Amazon on Friday with dozens of former government officials detailing direct knowledge of alien bodies, crafts, and secret government ...

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 5d

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

Howard University AI Panel

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley

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Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 8d

Here is the video presentation I made for the University Council of Educational Administrators about "Going Virtual" for Snow Days. youtu.be/j2RY0iOCEls

Going Online: School Leadership During Asynchronous Learning Days

YouTube video by Mary F. Rice

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 8d

The most widely used writing system in pre-colonial Africa was the ʿAjamī script

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/theajami-s...

That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 8d

Huge win for Missouri and for all libraries. Thank you to MASL, MLA, the ACLU, and everyone involved! @la-cac.org #FReadom

www.stlpr.org/government-p...

Missouri court strikes down book ban law that pushed libraries to remove hundreds of titles

A law creating a misdemeanor offense for school employees who supply ‘sexually explicit material’ to students is now void.

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Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 10d

He may not have realized that Mary Shelley was saying modern Prometheus’ were selfish greedy emotionally vacuous unhinged unethical grave robbing misanthropic nihilists. With god complexes.

Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 10d

Literally the subtitle to Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”

Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. StartUp Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.
Listen to this article • 5:36 min Learn more

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 10d

Experts warn environmental costs to powering AI technology is rising

David Shipley, founder of New Brunswick-based cybersecurity firm Beauceron Security, says the electricity and water required to support modern AI systems are far greater than most people realize.

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...

Experts warn environmental costs to powering AI technology is rising

Experts say the electricity and water required to support modern AI systems are far greater than most people realize.

www.ctvnews.ca

Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 10d

I have done academic job interviews in a hotel room with panels of folks while sitting near a bed. In 2017.

Sarah Trembanis @strembanis.bsky.social · 11d

Yes!! I never experienced this, but friends did and women professors warned us— especially about the beds.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 11d

If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.

Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social · 10d

Literally the subtitle to Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 10d

Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."

nymag.com/intelligence...

‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’

AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?

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Charles @kemet2000.bsky.social · 11d

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

A new unifying issue: Just about everyone hates data centers

Recent election results and evidence from states show misgivings about the growth of AI and the ramifications for energy costs and the environment. By � Dan Gearino �for Inside Climate ...

www.dailykos.com

Sarah Trembanis @strembanis.bsky.social · 11d

Yes!! I never experienced this, but friends did and women professors warned us— especially about the beds.

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 11d

If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.

Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 11d

I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts

Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 13d

Ground Water Contamination of Pueblo Water by a lab facility. www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...

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Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 18d

If children read books they might have thoughts…

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 19d

there are too few arguments out there about why 10th graders ought to read literature at all

if no particular books matter, why bother?

Matt Henry, EdD @justmatthenry.bsky.social · 19d

Many districts in my area are going AP seminar (for all) in place of English 10 and not one book will be read. I teach elective AP seminar and there is no time for books. Some I have talked to mentioned maybe one short novella. It’s depressing. I teach 5-7 books with my 10th graders.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 19d

there are too few arguments out there about why 10th graders ought to read literature at all

if no particular books matter, why bother?

Matt Henry, EdD @justmatthenry.bsky.social · 19d

Many districts in my area are going AP seminar (for all) in place of English 10 and not one book will be read. I teach elective AP seminar and there is no time for books. Some I have talked to mentioned maybe one short novella. It’s depressing. I teach 5-7 books with my 10th graders.

Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 19d

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
According to the study, a significant number of top-tier benchmarks fail to define what exactly they aim to test, concerningly reuse data and testing methods from pre-existing benchmarks, and seldom use reliable statistical methods to compare results between models.

AI's capabilities may be exaggerated by flawed tests, according to new study

A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models.

www.nbcnews.com

Gil Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social · 22d

A BILLION CHILDREN have died past 75 years.

Terrible: in 1950 20 million children were dying annually before reaching 5 years.
Bad, but much less terrible: approx. 5 million children will die this year before turning 5 years.
Huge progress, but the number must be ZERO DEATHS.

Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · 24d

The Scarlet Letter was not written for children at all, but I support the idea being advanced here.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 25d

one nice thing about the scarlet letter is that it's not a story by an algorithm specifically for one child

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 25d

one nice thing about the scarlet letter is that it's not a story by an algorithm specifically for one child

Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 25d

“We are replacing pluralism with personalization, and surrendering our information-gathering to validation machines that always tell us we’re right.“
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Validation Machines

Humanity thrives on friction—so why are the tools of the future built to make everything seem so easy?

www.theatlantic.com

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27d

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · Oct 27

The sheer volume of people showing signs of mania, psychosis, and suicidal ideation each and every week on ChatGPT is staggering, alarming, awful, all of it. from @lmatsakis.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week

www.wired.com

NPR @npr.org · Oct 21

While AI is increasingly used to write code, every line is still reviewed by humans. Some engineers complain about having to clean up AI-generated code. n.pr/4qmYRCS

Tech CEOs say the era of 'code by AI' is here. Some software engineers are skeptical

While AI is increasingly used to write code, every line is still reviewed by humans. Some engineers complain about having to clean up AI-generated code.

n.pr

David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · Oct 20

Having built a system that is destructive of the environment that surrounds and sustains us, we are now proposing to change … the environment!
Driving us towards this technological fix is the damage inflicted by existing technology.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Techno-capitalists think innovation can save the planet. But that same thinking is what got us here

An upside-down mindset is emerging around the world. We have to rethink our relationship with the environment and the technology that has caused it harm

www.theguardian.com

Mary Rice @digitalliterate.bsky.social · Oct 17

Yes. This is my experience.

Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · Oct 16

Maybe I'm a bit rusty, but my impression today is that google scholar has gotten worse (returning many irrelevant records), as have the various search engines for the research article aggregators. And then there's the un-beckoned "summary" inserted ahead of the results . . .

Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · Oct 16

Maybe I'm a bit rusty, but my impression today is that google scholar has gotten worse (returning many irrelevant records), as have the various search engines for the research article aggregators. And then there's the un-beckoned "summary" inserted ahead of the results . . .

Muppet Ewa Island @ewacat.bsky.social · Oct 14

love that this "resilience engineering" is basically: write things on paper www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Have plans on paper in case of cyber-attack, firms told

Prepare to switch to offline systems in the event of a cyber-attack, firms are being advised.

www.bbc.co.uk

Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · Oct 13

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...

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NPR @npr.org · Oct 1

Our national podcasting contest for college students is now open for entries. Submit your story for a chance to win our $5,000 grand prize, and hear your podcast on NPR.

Students, listen up! NPR's College Podcast Challenge is back for 2025

Our national podcasting contest for college students is now open for entries. Submit your story for a chance to win our $5,000 grand prize, and hear your podcast on NPR.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 29

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Yet another way LLMs damage the social fabric
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Chart showing that AI-generated work causes people to think less of each other’s creativity, capability, reliability, trustworthiness, and intelligence

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