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Cake day: December 9th, 2024

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  • I’ve been rereading a book I liked as a teen, called Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams. It’s pretty good, a little more eyebrow raising now as a wiser man (he’s a white guy from New Mexico writing about two Black characters from made up future ethnicities which have some clear parallels to real world oppressed peoples, eh…)

    What surprises me most is how much of the story is a romance, it’s very 50 shades, a working class woman and a billionaire fall in love. But the billionaire is kind of a leftist revolutionary and the woman is kind of a sorcerer but its future science magic. Anyway, neat stuff, but I’m amazed teen me put up with so much romance; the science magic is really rad though, i did remember that!




  • As always though, “technology is ruining the kids” is actually cover for “our policies are ruining the kids, let’s blame technology!”

    Am I saying AI should teach kids? Hell no, but this is a distraction. The article, via the teacher herself, outright states the problems. One, she has no time or motivation to work with the kids individually so she relies on tech to get more done. Two, this is because she’s teaching 160 students. Three, and that is because we’ve slashed education funding to practically nothing. And with DOGE destroying the DOE it seems now we’ll be educating the children with literally nothing.

    This isn’t an AI problem. It’s a “we don’t give a fuck about children or the future” problem.