Jamie
@itsthejam.bsky.social
Middle school US history teacher, lover of public schools, proud union member, expert in Real Housewives and the extended 90 Day Universe and also I do like some other stuff I just don’t talk about it as much.
Today I explained to the children that everyone my age used to believe that quicksand was an imminent threat in our lives, and spontaneous combustion was a real possibility.
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Today I explained to the children that everyone my age used to believe that quicksand was an imminent threat in our lives, and spontaneous combustion was a real possibility.
Started my day with a survey about “teachers’ views on AI in education” and let me tell you, that felt good. People should ask my opinion more often instead of me just shouting it into the void. Or maybe not. Whatever. I’m still going to tell you.
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Started my day with a survey about “teachers’ views on AI in education” and let me tell you, that felt good. People should ask my opinion more often instead of me just shouting it into the void. Or maybe not. Whatever. I’m still going to tell you.
Just realized that I subconsciously used “like for example you have the right to get married if you want to” quite a few times today.
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Just realized that I subconsciously used “like for example you have the right to get married if you want to” quite a few times today.
Played my class both Under Pressure and Ice Ice Baby as part of a discussion about fair use and copyright and they were decidedly on Vanilla Ice’s side.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Played my class both Under Pressure and Ice Ice Baby as part of a discussion about fair use and copyright and they were decidedly on Vanilla Ice’s side.
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For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
“The study’s “privacy-preserving analysis of 1.5 million conversations…..”
Lololol sure Jan. I cannot even fathom the kind of wild personal things people are feeding into this garbage machine and how bad it’s going to be when it all leaks.
Lololol sure Jan. I cannot even fathom the kind of wild personal things people are feeding into this garbage machine and how bad it’s going to be when it all leaks.
AI was supposed to take over our jobs. Now it just wants our fun — and people in escape rooms, trivia teams, and book clubs are giving in.
The People Using ChatGPT to Cheat at Their Hobbies
Why are so many of us letting AI have all the fun?
www.thecut.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“The study’s “privacy-preserving analysis of 1.5 million conversations…..”
Lololol sure Jan. I cannot even fathom the kind of wild personal things people are feeding into this garbage machine and how bad it’s going to be when it all leaks.
Lololol sure Jan. I cannot even fathom the kind of wild personal things people are feeding into this garbage machine and how bad it’s going to be when it all leaks.
I don’t know if I can watch this OC reunion because the red dresses on one couch vs the pink and purple on the other is really visually jarring.
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I don’t know if I can watch this OC reunion because the red dresses on one couch vs the pink and purple on the other is really visually jarring.
On every interview podcast I listen to, I keep hearing celebrities talk about their “conversations” with ChatGPT and I genuinely find it shocking. You can pay real human assistants if you don’t have friends! Are you not embarrassed? I’m embarrassed for you. Why is everyone voluntarily doing this?
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
On every interview podcast I listen to, I keep hearing celebrities talk about their “conversations” with ChatGPT and I genuinely find it shocking. You can pay real human assistants if you don’t have friends! Are you not embarrassed? I’m embarrassed for you. Why is everyone voluntarily doing this?
I literally cannot believe we are going to give this to high schoolers, on purpose. What is anyone thinking? Is anyone thinking?
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I literally cannot believe we are going to give this to high schoolers, on purpose. What is anyone thinking? Is anyone thinking?
No one has ever laughed harder than my students did when I played the AOL dial up tone for them, including “you’ve got mail”.
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
No one has ever laughed harder than my students did when I played the AOL dial up tone for them, including “you’ve got mail”.
Showed a video on YouTube that had an ad for some kind of AI garbage first and I led the class in booing the ad. One girl argued because the product claimed to be “a smarter AI”
“You know what’s smarter than ai? Your brain!”- my new favorite student (jk no favorites but I was so proud)
“You know what’s smarter than ai? Your brain!”- my new favorite student (jk no favorites but I was so proud)
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Showed a video on YouTube that had an ad for some kind of AI garbage first and I led the class in booing the ad. One girl argued because the product claimed to be “a smarter AI”
“You know what’s smarter than ai? Your brain!”- my new favorite student (jk no favorites but I was so proud)
“You know what’s smarter than ai? Your brain!”- my new favorite student (jk no favorites but I was so proud)
Feeling inspired by/excited about all of attention and effort that went into winning small local races yesterday. Every race, every office matters, and maybe we’re finally getting that?
November 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Feeling inspired by/excited about all of attention and effort that went into winning small local races yesterday. Every race, every office matters, and maybe we’re finally getting that?
So one of the lessons from last night seems to be that you can still quote The Office and get elected and I would call that a win for millennial cringe
November 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
So one of the lessons from last night seems to be that you can still quote The Office and get elected and I would call that a win for millennial cringe
Today seems like a day where I’m going to go to work and the next time I check social media it will feel like seven days worth of events have happened instead of a few hours.
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Today seems like a day where I’m going to go to work and the next time I check social media it will feel like seven days worth of events have happened instead of a few hours.
How do you politely ask someone not to feed your work to ai to “improve” it?
November 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
How do you politely ask someone not to feed your work to ai to “improve” it?
Why should corporations have all the fun of making Christmas two full months long? Go ahead neighbors, put up your lights today, there are no rules.
November 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Why should corporations have all the fun of making Christmas two full months long? Go ahead neighbors, put up your lights today, there are no rules.
Deeply fascinated by the photoshop requests Reddit. Why are so many people interested in creating false memories? I get cutting out a bad ex from an otherwise good pic. But make us look like we’re someplace else? Changing the way family members look? Do I misunderstand the purpose of pictures?
November 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Deeply fascinated by the photoshop requests Reddit. Why are so many people interested in creating false memories? I get cutting out a bad ex from an otherwise good pic. But make us look like we’re someplace else? Changing the way family members look? Do I misunderstand the purpose of pictures?
Yesterday I got guilted by a cashier who wanted me to add a donation to the food bank with my purchase and I’m still annoyed about it. Not at the cashier, it’s just what he’s been told to do. I have and I do donate to what I can, when I can. But I don’t donate so corporations can get tax breaks.
November 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Yesterday I got guilted by a cashier who wanted me to add a donation to the food bank with my purchase and I’m still annoyed about it. Not at the cashier, it’s just what he’s been told to do. I have and I do donate to what I can, when I can. But I don’t donate so corporations can get tax breaks.
Honestly, 6 7 doesn’t bother me and I actually think it’s pretty funny, but everybody’s parents just killed it with their Halloween costumes, so on to the next one.
November 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Honestly, 6 7 doesn’t bother me and I actually think it’s pretty funny, but everybody’s parents just killed it with their Halloween costumes, so on to the next one.
I told my students that I like those little weird twizzlers, if they happened to get any while trick or treating that they didn’t want, and they acted like I told them I like black licorice! “Ew, you probably like candy corn too.”
I mean. It’s fine? No strong feelings
I mean. It’s fine? No strong feelings
October 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I told my students that I like those little weird twizzlers, if they happened to get any while trick or treating that they didn’t want, and they acted like I told them I like black licorice! “Ew, you probably like candy corn too.”
I mean. It’s fine? No strong feelings
I mean. It’s fine? No strong feelings
“Ms._______, is my y2k outfit historically accurate?”
(Evaluates Henley with layered tank tops, flare jeans tucked into uggs and large belt over shirt)
“Well done.”
(Evaluates Henley with layered tank tops, flare jeans tucked into uggs and large belt over shirt)
“Well done.”
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
“Ms._______, is my y2k outfit historically accurate?”
(Evaluates Henley with layered tank tops, flare jeans tucked into uggs and large belt over shirt)
“Well done.”
(Evaluates Henley with layered tank tops, flare jeans tucked into uggs and large belt over shirt)
“Well done.”
Respectfully, no.
1. Using generative AI to “roleplay” as dead historical figures is unethical, full stop.
You do not have the right to put words in their mouth. It doesn’t matter that it’s a famous historical figure. They did not consent to this. It’s beyond a slippery slope.
1. Using generative AI to “roleplay” as dead historical figures is unethical, full stop.
You do not have the right to put words in their mouth. It doesn’t matter that it’s a famous historical figure. They did not consent to this. It’s beyond a slippery slope.
“My students understand that for teachers, using AI is different,” David Cutler says.
“This distinction guides my policy. With my high school history students, I am upfront about how and why I use generative AI, and I cannot stress enough the importance of that transparency.”
#EduSkyAI #EduSky
“This distinction guides my policy. With my high school history students, I am upfront about how and why I use generative AI, and I cannot stress enough the importance of that transparency.”
#EduSkyAI #EduSky
Why Using AI Is Fine for Teachers but Not for Students
A high school teacher shares how he explains to students that using AI will hinder their ability to build strong writing skills.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Respectfully, no.
1. Using generative AI to “roleplay” as dead historical figures is unethical, full stop.
You do not have the right to put words in their mouth. It doesn’t matter that it’s a famous historical figure. They did not consent to this. It’s beyond a slippery slope.
1. Using generative AI to “roleplay” as dead historical figures is unethical, full stop.
You do not have the right to put words in their mouth. It doesn’t matter that it’s a famous historical figure. They did not consent to this. It’s beyond a slippery slope.
Every day I find out more and more of my coworkers are using ChatGPT for things. The number one use they admit to? “Making my email sound better.”
When did we all start believing that we weren’t good enough to do our jobs? You’re a professional. You are qualified to write that email.
When did we all start believing that we weren’t good enough to do our jobs? You’re a professional. You are qualified to write that email.
October 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Every day I find out more and more of my coworkers are using ChatGPT for things. The number one use they admit to? “Making my email sound better.”
When did we all start believing that we weren’t good enough to do our jobs? You’re a professional. You are qualified to write that email.
When did we all start believing that we weren’t good enough to do our jobs? You’re a professional. You are qualified to write that email.
Some high schoolers came back to say hi this afternoon.
“We’re so glad your class was hard because now it’s so much easier to do well in high school!”
Literally the best thing anyone could say to me.
“We’re so glad your class was hard because now it’s so much easier to do well in high school!”
Literally the best thing anyone could say to me.
October 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Some high schoolers came back to say hi this afternoon.
“We’re so glad your class was hard because now it’s so much easier to do well in high school!”
Literally the best thing anyone could say to me.
“We’re so glad your class was hard because now it’s so much easier to do well in high school!”
Literally the best thing anyone could say to me.
From the bottom of my heart, I don’t understand how anyone who works with young people, anywhere, but particularly in education, justifies giving them access to something this dangerous. Not only allowing it, but giving it to them and encouraging it. What is wrong with us?
Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
From the bottom of my heart, I don’t understand how anyone who works with young people, anywhere, but particularly in education, justifies giving them access to something this dangerous. Not only allowing it, but giving it to them and encouraging it. What is wrong with us?