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Lono's Crab Shack @lonoxiii.bsky.social · Jan 21
Google Chrome
-Settings
-Search Engine
-Manage search engines
-Click "Add" at Site search
-Name/Shortcut don't matter, only address
-Address = www.google.com/search?q=%s&...
-Save
-Click three dots and Make default

Now, when you search from address bar, it won't use AI & will only search verbatim!
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Essentially it is this, yes.
Jason Kander posts: “Dems: We’ll vote for a budget if you let sick people go to the doctor. Republicans: Let us take doctors away from sick people or we’re gonna take food away from poor families.” He ends with the hashtag #shutdown2025.
October 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
lonoxiii.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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September 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
lonoxiii.bsky.social
Beautifully done, DragonCon. Bravo.
September 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
lonoxiii.bsky.social
"The left is just as biased..."

Nah, fam. REALITY is biased against your made-up bullshit propaganda and fallacious rhetoric.
September 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
lonoxiii.bsky.social
Lovecraft and Tolkien also come to mind….
August 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
“We won’t go back.”
‘View from the entrance to the Rohwer Internment Camp where my family and I were sent. Circa 1943.’
August 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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pbs.org
An update from us here at PBS 💙
August 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Same scare tactics, different century.
July 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
lonoxiii.bsky.social
If you see this, post a vampire
July 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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goodaaron.bsky.social
I can confirm the PBS Passport is a very good deal for $5/month or $2.50/month if you do yearly.

Thousands of hours of top notch content. NOVA is great. The new Ken Burns doc on Leonardo da Vinci is excellent.

You can sign up at the link below!

www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
July 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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vanhollen.senate.gov
While children are starving, the Trump Admin is literally setting food on fire — destroying 500 
tons of US taxpayer-funded food that could feed 1.5 million starving children for a week.

Destroying the food alone will cost $130K. This is heartless cruelty, not efficiency.
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
A primer for the civically ill-informed.
July 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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upbeachbum.bsky.social
This is shameful. The party that used to claim to be pro military are just despicable. I'm embarrassed for this country.

Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S. www.npr.org/2025/06/24/g...
Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.
Sae Joon Park left for South Korea on Monday. His removal order was the result of drug possession and bail jumping charges from over 15 years ago — offenses that, he said, stemmed from untreated PTSD.
www.npr.org
June 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
There’s a mass shooting and Trump says to get over it.

The GOP strips away Medicaid and McConnell says we’ll get over it.

You know what? We won’t get over it.

It took 43 years to get an apology for what they did to the Japanese American community. But we got one.

We will persist. Count on it.
June 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
lonoxiii.bsky.social
Using AI is not the issue - relying on AI makes us dumb, gullible, and lazy. I teach my students that AI is never a replacement for hard work, diligent research, and critical thought.
lutzfernandez.bsky.social Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Jun 24
I put together a short document for those wary of the AI mania in schools. Four of the main arguments for teachers using AI tools and introducing kids to AI as early as kindergarten are addressed--with thoughts and rebuttals and links to sources. Hope it's helpful.

drive.google.com/file/d/1urCM...
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by many purveyors and boosters.) Even those who envision benefits to schools of this fast-evolving category of tech should approach the well-funded AI-in-education campaign with skepticism and caution. Some of the primary arguments for teachers actively using AI tools and introducing students to AI as early as kindergarten, however, are questionable or fallacious. What follows are four of the most common arguments and rebuttals with links to sources. I have not attempted balance, in part because so much pro-AI messaging is out there and discussion of risks and costs is often minimized in favor of hope or resignation. -ALF Argument: “Schools need to prepare students for the jobs of the future.” The skills employers seek haven’t changed much over the decades—and include a lot of “soft skills” like initiative, problem-solving, communication, and critical thinking. Early research is showing that using generative AI can degrade these key skills: An MIT study showed adults using chatGPT to help write an essay “had the lowest brain engagement and ‘consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.’” Critically, “ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.” A business school found those who used AI tools often had worse critical thinking skills “mediated by increased cognitive offloading. Younger participants exhibited higher dependence on AI tools and lower critical thinking scores.” Another study revealed those using “ChatGPT engaged less in metacognitive activities…For instance, learners in the AI group frequently looped back to ChatGPT for feedback rather than reflecting independently. This dependency not only undermines critical thinking but also risks long-term skill stagnation.” … Argument: “AI is a tool, just like a calculator.” Calculators don’t provide factually wrong answers, but AI tools have. Last year, Google’s AI search returned, among other falsehoods, that cats have gone to the moon, that Barack Obama is Muslim, and that glue goes on pizza. Even though AI tools have and are expected to improve, children in schools shouldn’t be used as tech firms’ guinea pigs for undertested, unregulated products while AI firms engage elected officials in actively resisting regulation. Calculators don’t provide dangerous, even deadly feedback. In one study, a ”chatbot recommended that a user, who said they were recovering from addiction, take a ‘small hit’ of methamphetamine” because, it said, it’s “‘what makes you able to do your job to the best of your ability.’" Users have received threatening messages from chatbots. Calculators don’t pose mental health risks because they aren’t potentially addictive or designed to encourage repeated use. They don’t flatter, direct, or manipulate. Chatbots have been designed this way—and this has led to dreadful mental health outcomes for some, including users in a New York Times report. Alleging a chatbot encouraged their teen to die by suicide, parents in Florida filed a lawsuit against its maker. Calculators don’t lie. Chatbots, however, have misled users. Writer Amanda Guinzberg shared screenshots of interactions with one that she asked to describe several of her essays. It spewed out invented material, showing the chatbot hadn’t actually accessed and processed the essays. After much prodding, it “admitted” it had only acted as though it had done that requested work, spit out mea culpas—and went on to invent or “lie” again. Calculators can’t be used to spread propaganda. AI tools, though, including those meant for schools, should worry us. Law professor Eric Muller’s back-and-forth with SchoolAI’s “Anne Frank” character showed his “helluva time trying to get her to say a bad word about Nazis.” In this er… Argument: “AI won’t replace teachers, but it will save them time and improve their effectiveness.” Adding edtech does not necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that learning management systems sold to schools over the past decade-plus as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier. Instead, they found this tech (e.g. Google Classroom, Canvas) is often burdensome and contributes to burnout. As one teacher put it, it “just adds layers to tasks.” “Extra time” is rarely returned to teachers. AI proponents argue that if teachers use AI tools to grade, prepare lessons, or differentiate materials, they’ll have more time to work with students. But there are always new initiatives, duties, or committee assignments—the unpaid work districts rely on—to suck up that time. In a culture of austerity and with a USDOE that is cutting spending, teachers are likely to be assigned more students. When class sizes grow, students get less attention, and positions can be cut. AI can’t replace what teachers do, but that doesn’t mean teachers won’t be replaced. Schools are already doing it: Arizona approved a charter school in which students spend mornings working with AI and the role of teacher is reduced to “guide.” Ed tech expert Neil Selwyn argues those in “industry and policy circles…hostile to the idea of expensively trained expert professional educators who have [tenure], pension rights and union protection… [welcome] AI replacement as a way of undermining the status of the professional teacher.” Tech firms have been selling schools on untested products for years. Technophilia has led to students being on screens for hours in school each week even when their phones are banned. Writer Jess Grose explains, “Companies never had to prove that devices or software, broadly speaking, helped students learn before those devices had wormed their way into America’s public schools.” AI products appear to be no different. Efficiency is not effectiveness. “Speed a… Argument: “Students are already using AI, so we have to teach them ethical use. If schools want ethical students, teach ethics. More students are using AI tools to cheat, an age-old problem they make much easier. This won’t be addressed by showing students how to use this minute’s AI, an argument implying students don’t know what plagiarism is (solved by teaching about plagiarism) or understand academic integrity (solved by teaching and enforcing its bounds)—or that teachers create weak assignments or don’t convey purpose. The latter aren’t solved by attempting to redirect students motivated and able to cheat. Students can be educated on the ethics of AI without encouraging use of AI tools. They can be taught, as part of media literacy and social media safety programs, about AI’s potential and applications as well as how it can enable predation, perpetuate bias, and spread disinformation. They should be taught about the risks of AI and its various social, economic, and environmental costs. Giving a nod to these issues while integrating AI throughout schools sends a strong message: the schools don’t really care and neither should students. Children can’t be expected to use AI responsibly when adults aren’t. Many pushing schools to embrace AI don’t know much about it. One example: Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who said kindergartners should be taught A1 (a steak sauce). The LA Times introduced a biased and likely politically-motivated AI feature. The Chicago Sun-Times published a summer reading list including nonexistent books—yet teachers are told to use the same tools to do similar work. Educators using AI to cut corners can strike students as hypocritical. The many costs of AI call into question the possibility of ethical AI use. These include: Energy - AI data centers need huge amounts of water as coolant as well as electricity, pulling these resources from their communities—which tend to be lower-income—straining the grid, and raising household costs. Thi…
June 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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vanhollen.senate.gov
It's been three years since the Trump-packed Supreme Court overturned Roe — stripping millions of women of their rights and upending reproductive care across America.

Today I spoke with a doctor about the untenable reality now facing women and their doctors⬇️
I spoke with a doctor about the untenable reality facing women and doctors in post-Roe America
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
June 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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tommorelloofficial.bsky.social
My new single ‘PRETEND YOU REMEMBER ME’ is coming soon. This song is dedicated to all the families torn apart by state violence and injustice. Stay tuned.

Pre-save now: tommorello.lnk.to/PretendYouRe...
June 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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vanhollen.senate.gov
Look, Republicans are trying all sorts of tricks to pretend their billionaire tax giveaway doesn't blow up the deficit.

The fact is, their bill would add $4.2T to the deficit over 10 years—even AFTER the cuts they made to kick 16M off their health care.

This bill is a disaster.
Senate GOP’s tax cuts projected to cost $4.2T — with costly SALT deal pending
The price tag by the Joint Committee on Taxation is substantially higher than one calculated under an accounting method favored by Republicans.
www.politico.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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esqueer.net
The FBI has launched politically motivated criminal investigations into 3 children's hospitals over providing gender affirming care to trans youth by absurdly citing an inapplicable female genital mutilation statute.

archive.ph/FqpS0
June 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
lonoxiii.bsky.social
When the courts won’t let you continue your fascism, you use your fascism to attack the courts
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Jun 25
JUST IN: Never seen this before — the Justice Department is suing ... the entire federal district court bench in Maryland over its standing order requiring an automatic two-day stay in habeas cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
June 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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realdanodowd.bsky.social
Tesla's Supervised Robotaxi launch was a pathetic flop.

Tesla's Supervised Robotaxi launched yesterday to much acclaim from the Tesla Cult. Since nobody who was at the event has properly summarized the first day, we thought we would do it.

Below are our findings. 🧵
June 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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teaberryblue.net
8.258 million. Over 150 countries represented. Over 300 languages. That’s the most real America can get.
keezyyoung.bsky.social Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · Jun 25
anybody who's about to say NYC doesn't count because it's not "real America" (read: rural, conservative, just as fucked over as everybody else by this admin): as somebody from "real America" 8.258 million absolutely counts more than 8 or 5 or 2 thousand. sorry. welcome to the real world folks
June 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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chuckdpe.bsky.social
Florence Italy BringTheNoise
June 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM