cofax
@cofax.bsky.social
Runner, climber, environmentalist, preservationist, bureaucrat, writer, baker, fan. BOFQ.
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Broad use of AI in schools will prevent people from developing and exercising the discretion required to use AI as a potentially helpful tool.
But the only hope of monetizing AI for AI distributors is to push as hard as they can to stop those skills from forming.
But the only hope of monetizing AI for AI distributors is to push as hard as they can to stop those skills from forming.
I continue to think LLMs are absurdly powerful for learning, and I'm using them more often for it.
The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism.
You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.
The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism.
You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.
December 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Broad use of AI in schools will prevent people from developing and exercising the discretion required to use AI as a potentially helpful tool.
But the only hope of monetizing AI for AI distributors is to push as hard as they can to stop those skills from forming.
But the only hope of monetizing AI for AI distributors is to push as hard as they can to stop those skills from forming.
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Holy fucking shit Carlson just called out people for discriminating against millions of Muslims Americans
Listening to Tucker Carlson is such a fucking rollercoafter every single time
Listening to Tucker Carlson is such a fucking rollercoafter every single time
December 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Holy fucking shit Carlson just called out people for discriminating against millions of Muslims Americans
Listening to Tucker Carlson is such a fucking rollercoafter every single time
Listening to Tucker Carlson is such a fucking rollercoafter every single time
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I just gave my 20yo a rundown of the day's news, and he said, "It's all so dumb, it's hard to take seriously and so it's hard to fight. We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians!"
"We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians" is going to stick with me.
"We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians" is going to stick with me.
December 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I just gave my 20yo a rundown of the day's news, and he said, "It's all so dumb, it's hard to take seriously and so it's hard to fight. We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians!"
"We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians" is going to stick with me.
"We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians" is going to stick with me.
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"We were at home in South Philly, and he told me to put my stockings on because the night’s getting cold. I thought we were going on a date, but the next thing I knew, we were on that Coast City bus, and he revealed he was a mob associate. Like, are you serious right now?"
MARY: I slammed the screen door, and the first thing he said was he hated being alone, and we weren’t that young anymore. I said, “Get off my porch.” Then he said, “You ain’t a beauty, but hey, you’re all right.” I said, “Get out of my driveway.”
Bruce Springsteen’s Exes Grab Brunch
Several women share bottomless mimosas somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. MARY 1: I slammed the screen door, and the first thing he said was he hat...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"We were at home in South Philly, and he told me to put my stockings on because the night’s getting cold. I thought we were going on a date, but the next thing I knew, we were on that Coast City bus, and he revealed he was a mob associate. Like, are you serious right now?"
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what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know:
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know:
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
you are loved
you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
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because democrats are driven by polls. and polling goes against transgender people because americans arent familiar. but it also went against black rights and gay rights but fucking LEADERS did the right thing and fought anyways and now those things are in the majority.
FUCKING.
LEAD.
FUCKING.
LEAD.
What I don't understand about this fixation some Dems have is that I thought the platform was Rights for All. Medicare for All. Justice for All. The idea that "All" should mean "All except for the ones that are problematic because it will offend some bigot and cost us a vote" is a very GOP position.
December 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
because democrats are driven by polls. and polling goes against transgender people because americans arent familiar. but it also went against black rights and gay rights but fucking LEADERS did the right thing and fought anyways and now those things are in the majority.
FUCKING.
LEAD.
FUCKING.
LEAD.
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They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.
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These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
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This is the statute establishing the Kennedy Center for the performing arts as a “living memorial to John Fitzgerald Kennedy.” I don’t think it can just be renamed by some stooges.
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...
uscode.house.gov
December 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is the statute establishing the Kennedy Center for the performing arts as a “living memorial to John Fitzgerald Kennedy.” I don’t think it can just be renamed by some stooges.
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...
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Cool cool now we’re at the dystopian YA phase of the republic
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
December 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Cool cool now we’re at the dystopian YA phase of the republic
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MAKE ETHICS A THING AGAIN
December 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
MAKE ETHICS A THING AGAIN
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We should never have stopped yelling “Weirdo!” at them.
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We should never have stopped yelling “Weirdo!” at them.
Holy crap
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Holy crap
Oh my God
The Dems have a new batch of Epstein estate photos - not the stuff DOJ is supposed to release by tomorrow - and it includes photos of lines from Lolita written on a girl’s body.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cl62l...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cl62l...
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Oh my God
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Reading top 5 things bankrupting Americans are:
1. Housing
2. Cars
3. Healthcare
4. Childcare
5. College
Y'all. Instead of having billionaires we could easily afford all of these things w/policy changes (subsidized housing, public transit, universal healthcare, subsidized childcare, free college)
1. Housing
2. Cars
3. Healthcare
4. Childcare
5. College
Y'all. Instead of having billionaires we could easily afford all of these things w/policy changes (subsidized housing, public transit, universal healthcare, subsidized childcare, free college)
December 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Reading top 5 things bankrupting Americans are:
1. Housing
2. Cars
3. Healthcare
4. Childcare
5. College
Y'all. Instead of having billionaires we could easily afford all of these things w/policy changes (subsidized housing, public transit, universal healthcare, subsidized childcare, free college)
1. Housing
2. Cars
3. Healthcare
4. Childcare
5. College
Y'all. Instead of having billionaires we could easily afford all of these things w/policy changes (subsidized housing, public transit, universal healthcare, subsidized childcare, free college)
what an astonishing story. Makes me mourn the country we used to be.
A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
what an astonishing story. Makes me mourn the country we used to be.
FFS
Border patrol under command of Greg Bovino running a checkpoint at the exit to the Uber lot at O’Hare airport in Chicago, asking drivers for proof of valid residency in this country
December 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
FFS
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Republicans voting against the felony national trans youth healthcare ban were Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Gabe Evans (CO), Michael Lawler (NY), Mike Kennedy (UT).
Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
3 NVs on both sides.
Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
3 NVs on both sides.
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Republicans voting against the felony national trans youth healthcare ban were Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Gabe Evans (CO), Michael Lawler (NY), Mike Kennedy (UT).
Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
3 NVs on both sides.
Dems voting FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
3 NVs on both sides.
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This AI cycle is as if automakers spent three years telling everyone they'd built the flying, fusion-powered Delorean from "Back to the Future," but only built...a gasoline-powered Delorean.
It's nuts! AI rhetoric is so obviously false.
It's nuts! AI rhetoric is so obviously false.
It's amazing how much of this was just marketing. Marketing with a side of influence ops I suspect. Those pesky EA people played a part in that as well.
December 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This AI cycle is as if automakers spent three years telling everyone they'd built the flying, fusion-powered Delorean from "Back to the Future," but only built...a gasoline-powered Delorean.
It's nuts! AI rhetoric is so obviously false.
It's nuts! AI rhetoric is so obviously false.
Thread worth reading
I've now made it my life's mission to explain to all and sundry that "AI" in 2025 is GENERATIVE AI.
Generative AI uses machine-learning algorithms to put together new content based on patterns learned from their training data.
GenAI is not a search engine. GenAI knows nothing. It makes up stuff.
Generative AI uses machine-learning algorithms to put together new content based on patterns learned from their training data.
GenAI is not a search engine. GenAI knows nothing. It makes up stuff.
December 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Thread worth reading
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Support workers, not slop. bsky.app/profile/prop...
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Support workers, not slop. bsky.app/profile/prop...
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I unironically and wholeheartedly agree. The boomers cannot handle AI.
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I unironically and wholeheartedly agree. The boomers cannot handle AI.
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every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice
this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society
this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice
this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society
this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society