Rachel Schneider
@rschneide.bsky.social
Educator. Texas Ex and UVA alum. Missourian. Former politician, almost vegan. Caring about culture, politics, zines, comics, rhetoric, sports, and Samuel Richardson. Opinions all mine.
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I will argue that Elon is insouciantly doing a good thing here. He is proving incontrovertibly that "AIs" can and will lie for the people who created them. He is exposing the human agency behind "AI," whose success depends on that human agency being hidden.
the thread just keeps getting better from here
this is easily the funniest way Elon has ever broken Grok, you can get it to choose him over anyone for anything in a hypothetical scenario
*anything*
this is easily the funniest way Elon has ever broken Grok, you can get it to choose him over anyone for anything in a hypothetical scenario
*anything*
oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I will argue that Elon is insouciantly doing a good thing here. He is proving incontrovertibly that "AIs" can and will lie for the people who created them. He is exposing the human agency behind "AI," whose success depends on that human agency being hidden.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I did it. I made the zine.
Empty Inside is a perzine exploring what it's like to be autistic in small, everyday moments.
Volume 1 focuses on interoceptive hyposensitivity, which is a sensory processing difference where a person has reduced or muted awareness of their body's internal signals.
Empty Inside is a perzine exploring what it's like to be autistic in small, everyday moments.
Volume 1 focuses on interoceptive hyposensitivity, which is a sensory processing difference where a person has reduced or muted awareness of their body's internal signals.
Empty Inside: An Autistic Zine, Vol. 1: Interoceptive Hyposensitivity | Ephemeral Record | Nico Mara-McKay
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November 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I did it. I made the zine.
Empty Inside is a perzine exploring what it's like to be autistic in small, everyday moments.
Volume 1 focuses on interoceptive hyposensitivity, which is a sensory processing difference where a person has reduced or muted awareness of their body's internal signals.
Empty Inside is a perzine exploring what it's like to be autistic in small, everyday moments.
Volume 1 focuses on interoceptive hyposensitivity, which is a sensory processing difference where a person has reduced or muted awareness of their body's internal signals.
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts
Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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lmao they demonized halford and ozzy and d&d. dee snider testified before congress!
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
lmao they demonized halford and ozzy and d&d. dee snider testified before congress!
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Boy, do I have specific opinions about the use of the term advocacy here.
NEH, where I worked for several years, was prohibited by institutional policy from funding projects of political or social advocacy. Staff saw first-hand how this policy plays out when wielded by political actors.
NEH, where I worked for several years, was prohibited by institutional policy from funding projects of political or social advocacy. Staff saw first-hand how this policy plays out when wielded by political actors.
'Courses that “advocate race or gender ideology, sexual orientation, or gender identity” now require presidential approval at Texas A&M system campuses, the system Board of Regents decided Thursday.'
Much will rest on interpretations of 'advocate' and 'ideology'. Or will it? 1/4
Much will rest on interpretations of 'advocate' and 'ideology'. Or will it? 1/4
Texas A&M Requires Approval for Courses That “Advocate” Certain Ideologies
Many faculty members decried the new restrictions on race- and gender-related courses as an assault on academic freedom. Meanwhile, the board also discussed a once-per-semester systemwide course revie...
www.insidehighered.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Boy, do I have specific opinions about the use of the term advocacy here.
NEH, where I worked for several years, was prohibited by institutional policy from funding projects of political or social advocacy. Staff saw first-hand how this policy plays out when wielded by political actors.
NEH, where I worked for several years, was prohibited by institutional policy from funding projects of political or social advocacy. Staff saw first-hand how this policy plays out when wielded by political actors.
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An important question for the Bluesky generation: what’s the best Nelly song?
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
An important question for the Bluesky generation: what’s the best Nelly song?
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they're going after holocaust survivors
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
they're going after holocaust survivors
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It's funny when a something gets called out for using AI and the culprits claim it was a localized, one-time use only.
If you replace "AI" with "cheating," it follows that they wouldn't have cheated just the once, because cheaters who cheat do it early and often once they cross that threshold
If you replace "AI" with "cheating," it follows that they wouldn't have cheated just the once, because cheaters who cheat do it early and often once they cross that threshold
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It's funny when a something gets called out for using AI and the culprits claim it was a localized, one-time use only.
If you replace "AI" with "cheating," it follows that they wouldn't have cheated just the once, because cheaters who cheat do it early and often once they cross that threshold
If you replace "AI" with "cheating," it follows that they wouldn't have cheated just the once, because cheaters who cheat do it early and often once they cross that threshold
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tag urself im slump/grunt
okay. so there are often a few dessert recipes that share things (type of dish; fruit) in common but this is really kicked up for fall. just about everything that isn’t pumpkin is apple or pear & one of the variety of “baked fruit w/ starch on top”, to the point where they offer a guide to the types
November 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
tag urself im slump/grunt
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some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
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This kinda thing didn't happen for 5 years. It just doesn't happen with Medicare, Medcaid/CHIP, or employer coverage.
I don't think it's a good idea for it to happen to people that have to buy their own insurance.
I don't think it's a good idea for it to happen to people that have to buy their own insurance.
It means that if we earn even $1 more than 400% FPL next year ($106,600), our premium would jump from $755/month to $2,184/month....PLUS an $8K deductible & a $19K max out of pocket ceiling.
That's nearly 3x as much...or nearly 25% of our GROSS income just for the premiums.
That's nearly 3x as much...or nearly 25% of our GROSS income just for the premiums.
November 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This kinda thing didn't happen for 5 years. It just doesn't happen with Medicare, Medcaid/CHIP, or employer coverage.
I don't think it's a good idea for it to happen to people that have to buy their own insurance.
I don't think it's a good idea for it to happen to people that have to buy their own insurance.
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Remember that study where kids and teachers both felt like calling on girls 30% of the time was gender parity and ~48% was only girls ever getting to talk?
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Remember that study where kids and teachers both felt like calling on girls 30% of the time was gender parity and ~48% was only girls ever getting to talk?
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They asked a Google AI for Ed engineer “how he planned to enact his vision of the future, one where AI filled classrooms rather than emptied them. ‘The professors themselves,’ he said, would be responsible for figuring that out.”
They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.
They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
They asked a Google AI for Ed engineer “how he planned to enact his vision of the future, one where AI filled classrooms rather than emptied them. ‘The professors themselves,’ he said, would be responsible for figuring that out.”
They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.
They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.
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[Bane voice]
I don’t have ADHD, I *am* ADHD
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
[Bane voice]
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November 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
An amazing find for reporting and happily a new subscriber.
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
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Frankenstein (2025)
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Frankenstein (2025)
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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Herein lies the lesson 👇👇👇👇
There is a not insignificant chancr the people running any given media outlet appear in these emails or are close personal friends of someone who appears in these emails.
Like, the rot is *deep*.
Like, the rot is *deep*.
Like it’s sex trafficking, you don’t get to say it’s not a big deal
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Herein lies the lesson 👇👇👇👇
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"On the first question, several jury members struggled to stifle laughter as Lairmore expanded on the hoagie’s alleged explosive properties. 'It was like, Oh, you poor baby,' the juror told me." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury Deliberations
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
www.theatlantic.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"On the first question, several jury members struggled to stifle laughter as Lairmore expanded on the hoagie’s alleged explosive properties. 'It was like, Oh, you poor baby,' the juror told me." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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This is excellent. I could imagine it making an outstanding writing prompt, and I mean that as a compliment. Highly recommended. blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is excellent. I could imagine it making an outstanding writing prompt, and I mean that as a compliment. Highly recommended. blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...
Love the ending of this: "Because there are better and worse ways to feel 'just a pinch.'"
When medical providers can underestimate the pain of forcibly dilating the cervix and sticking a T-shaped device into the uterus, patients fear IUD insertion. Writer Catherine Work got an IUD in 3 different countries and has some advice for American OB-GYNs.
I Got Birth Control in Three Different Countries—Here’s How the U.S. Stacks Up
Analysis: Intrauterine devices, or IUDs, are an increasingly popular, long-acting contraception. But pain management and cost inhibit many patients in the U.S. and abroad.
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Love the ending of this: "Because there are better and worse ways to feel 'just a pinch.'"