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.
Scrolling the Ulta app, as one does and I am absolutely flabbergasted at the multiple “SmartAppGuided” overpriced AI products for sloughing dead skin off your body. There’s also a $78 “touchless magnetic peeling mask” and something that appears to use ai to mist water on your face for just $46.95!
December 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Scrolling the Ulta app, as one does and I am absolutely flabbergasted at the multiple “SmartAppGuided” overpriced AI products for sloughing dead skin off your body. There’s also a $78 “touchless magnetic peeling mask” and something that appears to use ai to mist water on your face for just $46.95!
To whom it make concern: I have seen every single celebrity and influencer’s attempt to sell me gummies to make me poop. I would like to be done with this ad cycle. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
December 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To whom it make concern: I have seen every single celebrity and influencer’s attempt to sell me gummies to make me poop. I would like to be done with this ad cycle. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
These kids at the park are yelling at their toy car that it’s gay because it keeps running into things. So since we’re currently bringing back everything from 2003-2008, can someone find Hilary Duff and ask her how she feels about getting back into PSAs?
December 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
These kids at the park are yelling at their toy car that it’s gay because it keeps running into things. So since we’re currently bringing back everything from 2003-2008, can someone find Hilary Duff and ask her how she feels about getting back into PSAs?
I know this isn’t like a new social media thing or whatever but everyone making AI Christmas pictures really feels like the final turning point from taking photos to capture memories to using photos to convince other people you have the best most amazing beautiful life. It feels really sad.
December 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I know this isn’t like a new social media thing or whatever but everyone making AI Christmas pictures really feels like the final turning point from taking photos to capture memories to using photos to convince other people you have the best most amazing beautiful life. It feels really sad.
Lying to a person with dementia about fake life experiences because they don’t/can’t actually keep their memories straight is genuinely evil. Like actually disgusting. AI is monstrous and people using it for such cruelty truly need to sit with themselves and consider what they’re doing.
December 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Lying to a person with dementia about fake life experiences because they don’t/can’t actually keep their memories straight is genuinely evil. Like actually disgusting. AI is monstrous and people using it for such cruelty truly need to sit with themselves and consider what they’re doing.
Marty Supreme and scammer Amanda from RHOBH have the same philosophy on making money.
December 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Marty Supreme and scammer Amanda from RHOBH have the same philosophy on making money.
How many years in a row do you need to see a Chalamet movie on Christmas before it’s officially a tradition?
December 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
How many years in a row do you need to see a Chalamet movie on Christmas before it’s officially a tradition?
There’s nothing like the thrill of racing Libby to finish a book. Due in four days and I haven’t actually started reading it? Challenge accepted.
December 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
There’s nothing like the thrill of racing Libby to finish a book. Due in four days and I haven’t actually started reading it? Challenge accepted.
I think we do ourselves a disservice by even calling them tools. Tool implies usefulness. There is zero proven usefulness and significant proven harm. I don’t need to learn how to use something that is hurting all of us, I need support and help stopping it from fully infiltrating our schools.
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
www.nbcnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I think we do ourselves a disservice by even calling them tools. Tool implies usefulness. There is zero proven usefulness and significant proven harm. I don’t need to learn how to use something that is hurting all of us, I need support and help stopping it from fully infiltrating our schools.
I just saw an ad that I thought was going to be for a Star Search documentary, but it’s actually a Netflix Star Search reboot. I wish it was a documentary instead.
December 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I just saw an ad that I thought was going to be for a Star Search documentary, but it’s actually a Netflix Star Search reboot. I wish it was a documentary instead.
Me, going to work today.
December 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Me, going to work today.
Thanks for lighting the lights with me again this year. Happy Chanukkah!
December 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Thanks for lighting the lights with me again this year. Happy Chanukkah!
I have lived in my house for over ten years and every December I still get Christmas cards in the mail for the last family that lived here. I have so many questions about that, starting with why are you sending a card to someone that you don’t know moved ten years ago?
December 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I have lived in my house for over ten years and every December I still get Christmas cards in the mail for the last family that lived here. I have so many questions about that, starting with why are you sending a card to someone that you don’t know moved ten years ago?
There are two things I’m sick of. I can’t say one of them because you’ll all get mad. The second is AI. If it was actually good they wouldn’t have to be shoving it down our throats all the time. How do we make this stop?
December 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
There are two things I’m sick of. I can’t say one of them because you’ll all get mad. The second is AI. If it was actually good they wouldn’t have to be shoving it down our throats all the time. How do we make this stop?
Someone I work with went from ai curious (“it has some good uses”) to passionately anti all ai in just the span of time from the end of last school year to now and I am both delighted and secretly taking a little bit of credit for bringing them over to the side of sanity.
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Someone I work with went from ai curious (“it has some good uses”) to passionately anti all ai in just the span of time from the end of last school year to now and I am both delighted and secretly taking a little bit of credit for bringing them over to the side of sanity.
Four possibilities. I really hope my 2026 does not involve dying of scarlet fever. And also hopefully there isn’t a civil war.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Four possibilities. I really hope my 2026 does not involve dying of scarlet fever. And also hopefully there isn’t a civil war.
Congratulations to those of you having your last day before break today. Please keep the rest of us (teachers who have to teach Monday and Tuesday) in your thoughts.
December 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Congratulations to those of you having your last day before break today. Please keep the rest of us (teachers who have to teach Monday and Tuesday) in your thoughts.
An educator I used to follow posted something antisemitic on instagram. I sent her a message and haven’t gotten a response. I checked the post and see she is allowing quite a bit of antisemitic garbage to remain in the comments, and seems to be doubling down. So that sucks.
December 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
An educator I used to follow posted something antisemitic on instagram. I sent her a message and haven’t gotten a response. I checked the post and see she is allowing quite a bit of antisemitic garbage to remain in the comments, and seems to be doubling down. So that sucks.
And on the fifth night, it gets dangerous.
December 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
And on the fifth night, it gets dangerous.
A felony ban on trans healthcare for youth makes me think about all the children I have known who would literally be dead if their parents had not listened to them and gotten them the care they need to live life as themselves. Call your senators and make sure they know the terror this would unleash.
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
A felony ban on trans healthcare for youth makes me think about all the children I have known who would literally be dead if their parents had not listened to them and gotten them the care they need to live life as themselves. Call your senators and make sure they know the terror this would unleash.
Every single story about AI in schools is about the problems it creates. Plagiarism, conflict between students and teachers over AI checkers, AI detecting “weapons” that aren’t weapons, privacy concerns….and yet the solution never seems to be doing something ABOUT THE AI.
December 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Every single story about AI in schools is about the problems it creates. Plagiarism, conflict between students and teachers over AI checkers, AI detecting “weapons” that aren’t weapons, privacy concerns….and yet the solution never seems to be doing something ABOUT THE AI.
When kids were at home doing virtual learning because it was the best we could do in that moment while trying to keep them safe, we understood that it was not ideal instruction.
So why now are we fully accepting a model that is just kids alone on computers?
So why now are we fully accepting a model that is just kids alone on computers?
AI tutors are often held up as an ideal, but prioritizing individualized teaching can detract from the benefits of learning in social environments.
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The ‘one chatbot per child’ model for AI in classrooms conflicts with what research shows: Learning is a social process
AI tutors are often held up as an ideal, but prioritizing individualized teaching can detract from the benefits of learning in social environments.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
When kids were at home doing virtual learning because it was the best we could do in that moment while trying to keep them safe, we understood that it was not ideal instruction.
So why now are we fully accepting a model that is just kids alone on computers?
So why now are we fully accepting a model that is just kids alone on computers?