David Knuffke
@davidknuffke.bsky.social
American Teacher well away from America. Worker Bee.
Pretty sure that I’m both imperfect and doing mostly the right things.
Pretty sure that I’m both imperfect and doing mostly the right things.
Paintball industry, too!
Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Paintball industry, too!
This week’s piece is about how to handle making mistakes, illustrated by a somewhat-larger-than-normal mistake I made last week: davidknuffke.medium.com/carrying-the...
Carrying the Weight
On making mistakes and putting them down
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December 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This week’s piece is about how to handle making mistakes, illustrated by a somewhat-larger-than-normal mistake I made last week: davidknuffke.medium.com/carrying-the...
How is ASML less valued than NVIDIA? This is why I don’t understand markets.
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
How is ASML less valued than NVIDIA? This is why I don’t understand markets.
Murder is murder, and is never not murder: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Pete Hegseth’s order to ‘kill everybody’ included alleged drug boat survivors: report
More than 80 people killed in campaign that law-of-war experts have labeled extrajudicial murder
www.independent.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Murder is murder, and is never not murder: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
So...for-profit textbooks are basically dead now, right? As much as I am sympathetic to ethical AI concerns, my heart is having a hard time weeping for this particular thing.
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
So...for-profit textbooks are basically dead now, right? As much as I am sympathetic to ethical AI concerns, my heart is having a hard time weeping for this particular thing.
So…have we just decided that we’re all cool with 3-4 companies destroying the ability to tell reality from fiction?
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
So…have we just decided that we’re all cool with 3-4 companies destroying the ability to tell reality from fiction?
I'm doing my part, @inaturalist.bsky.social!
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I'm doing my part, @inaturalist.bsky.social!
The constant stupidity of “governance” by the worst Americans alive is exhausting.
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The constant stupidity of “governance” by the worst Americans alive is exhausting.
I dig this and it jives with my own sense of but I definitely see a possible (probable?) future where a strong in-person, human element to an education is a product of privilege. I doubt a school like mine will ever not have humans at the forefront. A public system in a red state…not so much.
"Responding to AI by doubling down on the humanity of the humanities appears to be working...[O]ur ever-greater reliance on nonhuman interlocutors and assistants has given new value to the very fact of face-to-face exchange between humans."
AI improves education by forcing human resistance.
AI improves education by forcing human resistance.
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I dig this and it jives with my own sense of but I definitely see a possible (probable?) future where a strong in-person, human element to an education is a product of privilege. I doubt a school like mine will ever not have humans at the forefront. A public system in a red state…not so much.
I mean, how much more do you need to stay off any Meta platform you can possibly avoid?
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I mean, how much more do you need to stay off any Meta platform you can possibly avoid?
What’s that you say? A”setback?” 🙄🤢🤮@nytimes.com really excels at the fascism soft-pedal in a way that seems unique among the news I regularly see.
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
What’s that you say? A”setback?” 🙄🤢🤮@nytimes.com really excels at the fascism soft-pedal in a way that seems unique among the news I regularly see.
This week’s piece looks at using an LLM to solve an educational problem of practice in a way that I’d argue is actually useful ethical. Your feedback/counterpoint are both welcome and necessary: davidknuffke.medium.com/ethical-ai-e...
Ethical AI Examples: Group Randomizer
Vibe-coding for automated equity
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November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
This week’s piece looks at using an LLM to solve an educational problem of practice in a way that I’d argue is actually useful ethical. Your feedback/counterpoint are both welcome and necessary: davidknuffke.medium.com/ethical-ai-e...
I feel like much of the discourse around the recent decision of a specific, fringe-right congresswoman to retire is not focused on how she will do so two days after she qualifies for the lifetime pension. It might also have to do with a trump rift, but it’s much more likely just plain grift.
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I feel like much of the discourse around the recent decision of a specific, fringe-right congresswoman to retire is not focused on how she will do so two days after she qualifies for the lifetime pension. It might also have to do with a trump rift, but it’s much more likely just plain grift.
Sorry to be controversial, friends, but I’m going to go on record here and note that I, too, believe that members of the American military have a duty under the law to disobey illegal orders.
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Sorry to be controversial, friends, but I’m going to go on record here and note that I, too, believe that members of the American military have a duty under the law to disobey illegal orders.
Do not give meta your eyes. It’s the Volkswagen of the internet.
Not a “gamble,” but rather instagram working as intended.
Mark Zuckerberg’s hate-speech gamble fuels Gen Z radicalization on Instagram as millions watch Hitler speeches and Holocaust denial clips | Fortune
The hottest far-right influencer right now isn’t Nick Fuentes—it’s Hitler. And his videos are appearing next to JPMorgan and U.S. Army ads
fortune.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Do not give meta your eyes. It’s the Volkswagen of the internet.
Every day brings new debasements.
The official CDC website on autism and vaccines is now a screed of cherry-picked data and conspiratorial thinking claiming that actually vaccines *might* cause autism.
This is where we’re at folks…
This is where we’re at folks…
November 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Every day brings new debasements.
Sure reads like the American regime is complicit in crimes against humanity…
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Sure reads like the American regime is complicit in crimes against humanity…
Doesn’t feel like the kind of move a company is looking to make unless it’s got money problems.
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Doesn’t feel like the kind of move a company is looking to make unless it’s got money problems.
Just want to note that the ADL endangers the lives of Jews everywhere with its heinous, fascist-accommodating posturing. It’s a gross organization.
The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up.
I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.
I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Just want to note that the ADL endangers the lives of Jews everywhere with its heinous, fascist-accommodating posturing. It’s a gross organization.
“So honored, in fact, that we have fired our politics team.”
We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v
November 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“So honored, in fact, that we have fired our politics team.”
This entire administration is a War Crime. Why should this be any different? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
This entire administration is a War Crime. Why should this be any different? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
Oh man! I just realized how absolutely horrific and petty trump is going to be if the #BlueJays win the series and that alone makes me root for them.
October 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Oh man! I just realized how absolutely horrific and petty trump is going to be if the #BlueJays win the series and that alone makes me root for them.
Reposted by David Knuffke
in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them
It is totally reasonable and acceptable to expect landlords to abide by safe housing practices and zoning laws. Absent that being a concern, anyone should be able to live anywhere. vance is too dumb and racist to be in charge of anything.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It is totally reasonable and acceptable to expect landlords to abide by safe housing practices and zoning laws. Absent that being a concern, anyone should be able to live anywhere. vance is too dumb and racist to be in charge of anything.
Putting down the ethical AI considerations for a while and thinking about why the new Principal of my school is doing things in an agreeable way: davidknuffke.medium.com/tending-the-...
Tending the Garden
Emergence of Lasting Institutional Change
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October 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Putting down the ethical AI considerations for a while and thinking about why the new Principal of my school is doing things in an agreeable way: davidknuffke.medium.com/tending-the-...