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ju5tje55.bsky.social
Just Jess
@ju5tje55.bsky.social
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Food Dude, Food Dood, Fude Dude; AKA culinarian, I eat.
Lifelong learner, teacher,
and bon vivant.
According to an expert I am an expert.
Working class.
I like politics, sports, food, and human rights.
Anarchist, but pragmatically.
He/him
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ju5tje55.bsky.social
If you're gonna be in an accident you may as well be in the most fun type of accident. I'm guessing there's glitter.
mobydickatsea.bsky.social Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4h
all at once a queer accident happened
December 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
Make a band food:

The Rolling Scones
jakevig.bsky.social Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · Aug 17
Make a band food:

Flan Halen
August 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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jakevig.bsky.social
People who say "don't drink the Kool-Aid" have obviously never tasted Kool-Aid, shit is delicious.
August 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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moma.bsky.social
Joan Brown, Thanksgiving Turkey, 1959 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134766
Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund
August 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
Cleaning out some old sports memorabilia. This is a cool set.
Jackie Joyner Kersee McDonald's cards from 1990
Complete set of 2, 4 card sheets of uncut Jackie Joyner Kersee McDonalds cards from 1990 on a stack of collectible sports cards.
July 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
Humans in the US get so focused on unimportant stuff. Whatever Pete Buttigieg says is unimportant. He's not a serious candidate for any elected position.

Find the ones that are, support them. Ignore the rest. A politician that gives you something to vote for ya know?
July 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
The biggest issue with the United States is that most citizens probably don't care about roughly 30-40 of the other ones. And for good reason, what the hell should I care about Nebraska for?

Nice people, I'm sure, but it may as well be Denmark.
July 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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moma.bsky.social
Pablo Picasso, The Kitchen, Paris, November 1948 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135423
Acquired through the Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest
July 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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thenatewolf.bsky.social
*Steve pushes 7*

Steve: whoever pushes the button is the captain of the elevator.

Me: I don’t think that’s tru-

*Captain Steve slaps me with his glove so hard I immediately accept the chain of command*
July 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
Eating. So good.
July 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
A burger like this is a special, special thing. Good number list too though.
electrolemon.bsky.social demi adejuyigbe @electrolemon.bsky.social · Jul 23
here’s just a list of numbers
July 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
Birdie resting between sets. Training to become an Instagram kettlebell influencer.
A small, calico cat named birdie laying on a rug in front a 10 pound kettlebell.
July 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
National ice cream day. That's it. That's the skeet/post.
July 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
Sorry I'm late, I was getting all lost in the supermarket.
sicburns2.bsky.social Same Auld [Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.social · Jul 20
Sorry I’m late, I was getting lost in your eyes
brusowrites.bsky.social ChefBruso ❄️💨🌀 @brusowrites.bsky.social · Jul 20
Sorry I’m late, I was getting lost in love.
July 20, 2025 at 3:46 AM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
I've met a lot of Scotts in my life. Not one of them was anything special, let alone Great.
July 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
The moral of the story is; if a person orders steaks well done and hates pets? Do NOT elect that person president.
July 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
Everyone's dunking on the obvious lies.
Everyone missed the truth that there is, indeed, very little difference between a madman and a genius.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 15
"Do you know who Kaczynski was? There's very little difference between a madman and a genius. But Kaczynski... I said, what kind of a student was he, Uncle John, Dr. John Trump? [...] He said, seriously, good. He said he'd go around correcting everybody, but it didn't work out too well for him."
July 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
We can never actually bust a move because it's always what comes next. This is known in scientific circles as the Young MC paradox.
sicburns2.bsky.social Same Auld [Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.social · Jul 6
We’d all feel a lot better if we busted a move
July 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Just got an al pastor from the stand on the corner and The Knack was on the radio and the grill guy was singing "Miiiiiii Cabronaaaaa!" anyway that guy rules
June 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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lutzfernandez.bsky.social
I put together a 4-page doc for those wary of the rush to integrate in K-12 schools (though much applies beyond).

Four of the main arguments for teachers using AI tools & introducing kids to AI as early as kindergarten are addressed with rebuttals linked to sources.
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 stagnati… 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 Guinzburg 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 thi… 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. “… 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 cos…
June 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
Found a #vintage social media post in the wild today.
A Polaroid pic from the 70s of two women acting goofy behind a wooden home bar. On the bottom is a typed sticker label that says, "What's This?!!! "When the Boss is away the girls will play!""
June 14, 2025 at 5:31 AM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
Hawaiian pizza 2.0;

Spam and mango.
May 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
Wait, what... hold on, they defunded the police?

Libs? Owned.

www.npr.org/2025/05/24/n...
Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
www.npr.org
May 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
ju5tje55.bsky.social
Is Trump mad at Harvard because he had to go to Penn?
May 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
Can't stop thinking about the McSweeney's Sad Dad Bands, (first published January 14, 2022.)

Back on Twitter, I started a thread of my own riffs on Sad Dad Bands on January 17, 2022. Here is that thread, recreated.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...
What Your Favorite Sad Dad Band Says About You
The War on Drugs You make your own paella and take super long naps on Saturday. Like over two hours, consistently. You prefer the smallest possible...
www.mcsweeneys.net
July 9, 2024 at 5:38 PM