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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month.
He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
Mississippi Governor Declares April Confederate Heritage Month
Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 32-year-old tradition that began in 1993.
www.mississippifreepress.org
April 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month.
He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
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No, they actually do suck and aren’t useful.
There are a lot of critiques of LLMs that I agree with but "they suck and aren't useful" doesn't really hold water.
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
April 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
No, they actually do suck and aren’t useful.
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The gobsmacking grift of the $239M slush fund that Team Trump created around the inauguration should have been Page 1 news, but too many are too numb to such corruption
Join me on a tour of sold ambassadorships, sleazy corporate favors, and more! My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Join me on a tour of sold ambassadorships, sleazy corporate favors, and more! My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The stunning grift of Trump’s inaugural fund | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, why young people aren’t out protesting
www.inquirer.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The gobsmacking grift of the $239M slush fund that Team Trump created around the inauguration should have been Page 1 news, but too many are too numb to such corruption
Join me on a tour of sold ambassadorships, sleazy corporate favors, and more! My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Join me on a tour of sold ambassadorships, sleazy corporate favors, and more! My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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Just a reminder that Trump/DOJ continuing to let Abrego Garcia sit in CECOT is *a crime*. Deprivation of rights under color of law is a crime. Was it an "error" at first? Maybe. But once they were aware of the error, and ordered by a judge to return him, and then refusing, it's willful 1/
April 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Just a reminder that Trump/DOJ continuing to let Abrego Garcia sit in CECOT is *a crime*. Deprivation of rights under color of law is a crime. Was it an "error" at first? Maybe. But once they were aware of the error, and ordered by a judge to return him, and then refusing, it's willful 1/
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Sometimes it is important to say things very clearly and directly, so I wrote this.
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Trump Is Sending People To The Camps
“More than a prison, El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Sometimes it is important to say things very clearly and directly, so I wrote this.
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker
Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker
WASHINGTON—As the Trump administration continues to alter the version of American history that appears in government publications, sources confirmed Monday that a page on the National Parks website ha...
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April 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker
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“And are we to have a Censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?” Thomas Jefferson, 1814 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library
The office of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the college to adhere to an executive order from President Trump banning educational material related to diversity, equity and inclusion topics.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“And are we to have a Censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?” Thomas Jefferson, 1814 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
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Glenn Youngkin’s father was 11 when the first Black student enrolled at Mr. Jefferson’s university. Youngkin’s father attended Duke when it was still an all-white university. This is not ancient history. uvamagazine.org/articles/des...
Desegregating UVA: Alumni reflect on groundbreaking era
Alumni reflect on a groundbreaking era that began with Gregory Swanson, UVA’s first black student, in 1950.
uvamagazine.org
March 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Glenn Youngkin’s father was 11 when the first Black student enrolled at Mr. Jefferson’s university. Youngkin’s father attended Duke when it was still an all-white university. This is not ancient history. uvamagazine.org/articles/des...
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On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
January 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
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can’t pay teens for sex and become attorney general anymore on account of woke
December 23, 2024 at 4:19 PM
can’t pay teens for sex and become attorney general anymore on account of woke
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Trump saying that he never really knew Gaetz and him being AG was someone else's idea in 3, 2, 1 . . .
December 23, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Trump saying that he never really knew Gaetz and him being AG was someone else's idea in 3, 2, 1 . . .
Disgusting.
"The Committee Found that Representative Gaetz Violated Florida’s Statutory Rape Law"
December 23, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Disgusting.
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Musk's Twitter is not the first time the nation's richest person (who also is a terrified reactionary with a childlike understanding of history, culture, & political science) devoted a big chunk of his fortune to creating a right wing propaganda machine. americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-...
NET Journal; H. L. Hunt: The Richest and the Rightest
Haroldson LaFayette Hunt is the American success, a grandfatherly Horatio
Alger with a Dallas drawl. He was born in Illinois, son of a Confederate war
veteran. Later he drifted west, worked at odd job...
americanarchive.org
December 18, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Musk's Twitter is not the first time the nation's richest person (who also is a terrified reactionary with a childlike understanding of history, culture, & political science) devoted a big chunk of his fortune to creating a right wing propaganda machine. americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-...
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Nothing says “anti-establishment populist outsider” more loudly than a billionaire POTUS, assisted by the world’s richest man with a VP handpicked by venture capitalist P Thiel, who will implement the plans of the Heritage Foundation, a 50 year old DC institution funded by the nation’s plutocrats.
December 15, 2024 at 5:11 AM
Nothing says “anti-establishment populist outsider” more loudly than a billionaire POTUS, assisted by the world’s richest man with a VP handpicked by venture capitalist P Thiel, who will implement the plans of the Heritage Foundation, a 50 year old DC institution funded by the nation’s plutocrats.
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I still think this could explain a great deal about our timeline
December 13, 2024 at 10:26 AM
I still think this could explain a great deal about our timeline
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A thread on democracy and "memory work" inspired by this excellent 2-part podcast on a Marine involved in January 6. Nations are defined, to a great extent, by the stories they tell themselves about their past. How we remember (or forget) Jan 6 will shape our future. www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...
www.npr.org
November 29, 2024 at 9:24 PM
A thread on democracy and "memory work" inspired by this excellent 2-part podcast on a Marine involved in January 6. Nations are defined, to a great extent, by the stories they tell themselves about their past. How we remember (or forget) Jan 6 will shape our future. www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...
I guess it's time for everyone to re-learn the word kakistocracy.
November 13, 2024 at 11:27 AM
I guess it's time for everyone to re-learn the word kakistocracy.
15 years of learning on Twitter down the drain. Ready for BlueSky. Let's do this.
November 9, 2024 at 6:28 AM
15 years of learning on Twitter down the drain. Ready for BlueSky. Let's do this.