@skylar-in-tn.bsky.social
Dad, instructional coach, former English teacher. Here to read posts in education (generally) and literacy (specifically), political news, and other oddments. Fan of dialogic teaching, Arthur Applebee, and cracking open big ideas in the classroom.
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Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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After my 2nd grader's conference last night, I'm half convinced whoever designed CKLA has only ever encountered human children in a textbook...
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
After my 2nd grader's conference last night, I'm half convinced whoever designed CKLA has only ever encountered human children in a textbook...
It's unfathomably cruel, a kind of inhumanity that as a kid I must have thought impossible in the present tense, that you read about from Wiesel but imagine has gone out of the world.
Of course it hasn't. And our highest officials visit it for photo ops.
Of course it hasn't. And our highest officials visit it for photo ops.
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 AM
It's unfathomably cruel, a kind of inhumanity that as a kid I must have thought impossible in the present tense, that you read about from Wiesel but imagine has gone out of the world.
Of course it hasn't. And our highest officials visit it for photo ops.
Of course it hasn't. And our highest officials visit it for photo ops.
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Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
"Part of a fascist project to offload...the reflective kind of thinking that reading, study, and community engagement provide"
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"Part of a fascist project to offload...the reflective kind of thinking that reading, study, and community engagement provide"
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Note: also not a great teaching strategy
Toad put his head very close to the ground and shouted, “NOW SEEDS, START GROWING!”
November 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Note: also not a great teaching strategy
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one nice thing about the scarlet letter is that it's not a story by an algorithm specifically for one child
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
one nice thing about the scarlet letter is that it's not a story by an algorithm specifically for one child
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Everything the “don’t tread on me” folks claimed to care about is being done by the people they now blindly support
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Everything the “don’t tread on me” folks claimed to care about is being done by the people they now blindly support
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"
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a thing about human teachers—it’s not just about having someone around who’s “nice” or “encouraging,” there’s no substitute for a teacher who likes ideas and enjoys being in a room full of thinking students
October 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
a thing about human teachers—it’s not just about having someone around who’s “nice” or “encouraging,” there’s no substitute for a teacher who likes ideas and enjoys being in a room full of thinking students
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Let companies and employers produce workers and let our schools produce citizens. There is no vision of a thriving public education without reclaiming the central mission of schooling as the place where we live diversity, equity, and inclusion.
October 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Let companies and employers produce workers and let our schools produce citizens. There is no vision of a thriving public education without reclaiming the central mission of schooling as the place where we live diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:
1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and
2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.
1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and
2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.
October 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:
1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and
2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.
1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and
2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.
My 10yo just showed my 6yo how to bracket a word inserted into a direct quote for clarity, so I'm doing at least something right.
October 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My 10yo just showed my 6yo how to bracket a word inserted into a direct quote for clarity, so I'm doing at least something right.
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All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?
October 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?
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everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco
October 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco
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AI and authoritarianism are “two sides of the same coin,” George Packer argues. “We’re surrendering our ability to act as free agents of a democracy at the same moment we’re building machines that take away our ability to think and feel”:
America’s Zombie Democracy
Its trappings remain, but authoritarianism and AI are hollowing out our humanity.
bit.ly
September 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
AI and authoritarianism are “two sides of the same coin,” George Packer argues. “We’re surrendering our ability to act as free agents of a democracy at the same moment we’re building machines that take away our ability to think and feel”:
Eh, probably nothing to worry about...
A string of US armory break-ins, kept quiet by authorities for months, points to a growing security crisis—and signs of an inside job. www.wired.com/story/myster...
Thieves Target Tennessee National Guard Facilities, Stealing Night Vision Googles and More
A string of US armory break-ins, kept quiet by authorities for months, points to a growing security crisis—and signs of an inside job.
www.wired.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Eh, probably nothing to worry about...
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On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀
August 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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The six words every woman wants to hear
July 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The six words every woman wants to hear
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“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” @lilashroff.bsky.social reports on how the chatbot was easily prompted to offer instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship: https://theatln.tc/Up7Ycoli
July 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” @lilashroff.bsky.social reports on how the chatbot was easily prompted to offer instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship: https://theatln.tc/Up7Ycoli
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A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book
July 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book