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Into education, data and society stuff, changing systems, and cool bugs.
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![Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreig43e2u4zzpifhq6fbf2iwplmva2lt5rokfg5uws5dysbe55up6wa@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:
Tech Policy Press: The Year in Books 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power.
www.techpolicy.press
December 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:
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But if the ai always does your work for you, you won't build the skills you need for when an 8yo walks up to your laptop and you get the chance to conspiratorially say "That's the game's console. Want to type in the words to make cake appear in your friend's inventory?"
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
But if the ai always does your work for you, you won't build the skills you need for when an 8yo walks up to your laptop and you get the chance to conspiratorially say "That's the game's console. Want to type in the words to make cake appear in your friend's inventory?"
If Minecraft, Roblox, and YouTube are where kids are motivated to practice spelling, I'm going to be next to them with the phonics and critical thinking questions for as long as they're logged on...
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If Minecraft, Roblox, and YouTube are where kids are motivated to practice spelling, I'm going to be next to them with the phonics and critical thinking questions for as long as they're logged on...
So many alternative ed. families are asking for cutting-edge, individualized AI school or for screen-free, outdoor programming. Today we chose to circle, Minecraft, run outside, cook lunch, Minecraft more, run again, YouTube karaoke, craft, write, clean, and try Duolingo chess. Aiming for balance!
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
So many alternative ed. families are asking for cutting-edge, individualized AI school or for screen-free, outdoor programming. Today we chose to circle, Minecraft, run outside, cook lunch, Minecraft more, run again, YouTube karaoke, craft, write, clean, and try Duolingo chess. Aiming for balance!
Preteens requested 2 days of hiking trips and Broadway soundtracks to sing with on the way. Then they edited my end-of-week newsletter to their families before approving it for sending.
Totally unprompted, and with computer time as available as anything else. Some days I'm still amazed...
Totally unprompted, and with computer time as available as anything else. Some days I'm still amazed...
September 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Preteens requested 2 days of hiking trips and Broadway soundtracks to sing with on the way. Then they edited my end-of-week newsletter to their families before approving it for sending.
Totally unprompted, and with computer time as available as anything else. Some days I'm still amazed...
Totally unprompted, and with computer time as available as anything else. Some days I'm still amazed...
Days in this school year has already had me fixing a toilet, battling some wasps, listening to tales of Luigi's Mansion, finding a Minecraft playlist for during craft time, and reading about eels with a kid who has classroom pet ideas.
August 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Days in this school year has already had me fixing a toilet, battling some wasps, listening to tales of Luigi's Mansion, finding a Minecraft playlist for during craft time, and reading about eels with a kid who has classroom pet ideas.
One tourist starts giving another wrong directions, and suddenly half the people in this subway car -- dutifully ignoring each other's existence moments ago -- are interjecting with corrections. If case you were wondering how to get New Yorker commuters to talk to each other...
July 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
One tourist starts giving another wrong directions, and suddenly half the people in this subway car -- dutifully ignoring each other's existence moments ago -- are interjecting with corrections. If case you were wondering how to get New Yorker commuters to talk to each other...
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"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...
CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure
Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox …
culturemachine.net
July 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...
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I just took a quiz on how much of my personal data DOGE can access. The results aren’t pretty. Take it now to discover how much of your sensitive info is now exposed. #HandsOffMyData www.newamerica.org/oti/briefs/q...
Quiz: What Does DOGE Know About You?
The Department of Government Efficiency has unauthorized access to millions of Americans’ data. Take New America’s quiz to see how much of your data is at risk.
www.newamerica.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I just took a quiz on how much of my personal data DOGE can access. The results aren’t pretty. Take it now to discover how much of your sensitive info is now exposed. #HandsOffMyData www.newamerica.org/oti/briefs/q...
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Not only is it ok to feel optimistic tonight; it’s a radical necessity
June 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Not only is it ok to feel optimistic tonight; it’s a radical necessity
Got a boring news app and set up notifications to stop anxiety-scrolling. Clicked "don't sell my data" and did their form.
First alert is about sports. Second is day-old news. Third is an email I don't have a right to not have my data sold, based on where I live.
Uninstalled. Scrolling it is.
First alert is about sports. Second is day-old news. Third is an email I don't have a right to not have my data sold, based on where I live.
Uninstalled. Scrolling it is.
June 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Got a boring news app and set up notifications to stop anxiety-scrolling. Clicked "don't sell my data" and did their form.
First alert is about sports. Second is day-old news. Third is an email I don't have a right to not have my data sold, based on where I live.
Uninstalled. Scrolling it is.
First alert is about sports. Second is day-old news. Third is an email I don't have a right to not have my data sold, based on where I live.
Uninstalled. Scrolling it is.
? on the way to park school this morning: How much patience will the 10yos have for untangling their fishing lines over and over?
? 3 hours in: How much patience can I have for quietly watching while they struggle them figure it out together again and again?
? 3 hours in: How much patience can I have for quietly watching while they struggle them figure it out together again and again?
June 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
? on the way to park school this morning: How much patience will the 10yos have for untangling their fishing lines over and over?
? 3 hours in: How much patience can I have for quietly watching while they struggle them figure it out together again and again?
? 3 hours in: How much patience can I have for quietly watching while they struggle them figure it out together again and again?
Friend's 10yo is writing profiles on neighborhood dogs for the community paper. Friend slipped in some lines about the dogs' humans, trying to encourage neighbors to talk to each other. Paper editor sent back revisions asking why there was content on the people if the pieces were about the dogs!
June 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Friend's 10yo is writing profiles on neighborhood dogs for the community paper. Friend slipped in some lines about the dogs' humans, trying to encourage neighbors to talk to each other. Paper editor sent back revisions asking why there was content on the people if the pieces were about the dogs!
No one signed up to care for the school cat in July, so I need to either turn him into my road trip buddy (ATL -> Philly) or rehome him. Cats aren't really my wheelhouse, but I get on with this one fine. He can learn to love adventure, right? The odds are... fine? Maybe?
May 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
No one signed up to care for the school cat in July, so I need to either turn him into my road trip buddy (ATL -> Philly) or rehome him. Cats aren't really my wheelhouse, but I get on with this one fine. He can learn to love adventure, right? The odds are... fine? Maybe?
Can you give yourself that appreciation you're looking for? Instead of agonizing over how to get validation from some distracted, disinterested other, what if you acknowledge yourself?
May 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Can you give yourself that appreciation you're looking for? Instead of agonizing over how to get validation from some distracted, disinterested other, what if you acknowledge yourself?
Doing outdoor adventure school this week while my co-director finds us a new building, and I'm so impressed with these kids. Adaptable af.
Also reaffirming that kids who have eaten and rested but are still struggling often just need outside air, water, and to feel like they matter, of course.
Also reaffirming that kids who have eaten and rested but are still struggling often just need outside air, water, and to feel like they matter, of course.
May 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Doing outdoor adventure school this week while my co-director finds us a new building, and I'm so impressed with these kids. Adaptable af.
Also reaffirming that kids who have eaten and rested but are still struggling often just need outside air, water, and to feel like they matter, of course.
Also reaffirming that kids who have eaten and rested but are still struggling often just need outside air, water, and to feel like they matter, of course.
2 weeks ago, while doing a community cleaning day before starting spring break, my school got word our building was unstable and we had to leave.
Today our fundraiser is at 70%, everything is packed, and we've checked dozens of potential new sites, including 2 promising ones. Go, team, go! 🤞
Today our fundraiser is at 70%, everything is packed, and we've checked dozens of potential new sites, including 2 promising ones. Go, team, go! 🤞
April 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
2 weeks ago, while doing a community cleaning day before starting spring break, my school got word our building was unstable and we had to leave.
Today our fundraiser is at 70%, everything is packed, and we've checked dozens of potential new sites, including 2 promising ones. Go, team, go! 🤞
Today our fundraiser is at 70%, everything is packed, and we've checked dozens of potential new sites, including 2 promising ones. Go, team, go! 🤞
Both schools I work with are facing huge changes in the next 18 months and I'm a co-designer for both and it seems like a hard time to ask people to do more things but maybe it's a good time because it will feel good for people to actually be able to answer calls and do real things?!
April 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Both schools I work with are facing huge changes in the next 18 months and I'm a co-designer for both and it seems like a hard time to ask people to do more things but maybe it's a good time because it will feel good for people to actually be able to answer calls and do real things?!
"...Though everyone bowed down before you,
Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way,
Striking gold medals in your honor,
Glad to have survived another day,
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers..."
Czeslaw Milosz
"You Who Wronged"
Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way,
Striking gold medals in your honor,
Glad to have survived another day,
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers..."
Czeslaw Milosz
"You Who Wronged"
April 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"...Though everyone bowed down before you,
Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way,
Striking gold medals in your honor,
Glad to have survived another day,
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers..."
Czeslaw Milosz
"You Who Wronged"
Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way,
Striking gold medals in your honor,
Glad to have survived another day,
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers..."
Czeslaw Milosz
"You Who Wronged"
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With a firehose of IRS data, it seems likely to me that this administration is seeking to create a knowledge graph that includes every person in the US. To anticipate the effects of that, we can look to people’s experiences with various cities’ gang databases. www.washlaw.org/targeted-lab...
Targeted, Labeled, Criminalized: Early Findings on the District of Columbia’s Gang Database - The Washington Lawyers' Committee
News release Civil Rights Groups Report: Secret DC Gang Database Criminalizes Predominantly Black and Latino Neighborhoods by Labelling Residents as “Gang Members” or “Gang Associates” The report’s au...
www.washlaw.org
April 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
With a firehose of IRS data, it seems likely to me that this administration is seeking to create a knowledge graph that includes every person in the US. To anticipate the effects of that, we can look to people’s experiences with various cities’ gang databases. www.washlaw.org/targeted-lab...
In other news, the children decided this week's makerspace project would be sewing snakes, because one of them found the snakes with hats subreddit.
April 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
In other news, the children decided this week's makerspace project would be sewing snakes, because one of them found the snakes with hats subreddit.