Notices by Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)

Creating space for people to be creative and weird and joyful turns out to be really, really, really important.

This!

If the right-wing block on the SCOTUS isn’t basing •everything• right now on political calculations about the Nov election, I’m a monkey’s redheaded uncle. @stevevladeck.bsky.social https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/post/3mkzx65csjs2m

@artemis
It was, and has been so through all the decades I’ve lived here!

The May Day parade was great and these photos are so, so, so very South Minneapolis I just can’t even tell you.

If you want to know where that MSP resistance came from, what soil it grew in and how it bloomed, you can get a lot of your answer by looking at each of these photos — the art, and the faces.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/03/melting-ice-and-welcoming-spring-at-the-51st-mayday-parade/

@nyquildotorg
Well I certainly trust the Trump admin over…(checks notes)…video of the event

On that note: the American Federation of Teachers is currently bed with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic.

if you are a union educator, let them know how you feel about that. Loudly.

Just because they’re a union doesn’t mean they get a pass.

5/

Teaching students to critically evaluate technology and its uses (including but not limited to LLMs) is a Good Thing Actually™ in my book. If this initiative weren’t stuffed full of OpenAI + Google + Microsoft money, I’d be a lot warmer to it.

As it stands, I’m placing my bet on “following the money tells you how this story will end.”

4/

To be fair, the text is article is quoting could be a whole lot worse. It’s money to “support research activities to develop educational curricula, instructional material, teacher professional development, and evaluation methods.”

Developing materials is a •lot• better than having politicians just shoving a curricular mandate down educators’ throats — though “evaluation methods” likely means it’s heading that way, developing a test that teachers have to to teach to.

3/

In addition to the obvious travesty here of turning curriculum into marketing material for a specific industry (and an investment bubble at that!), there’s a larger principle here:

It’s a terrible idea to let politicians set curricular mandates. Even the well-meaning ones crash and burn. This sets off that alarm bell for me.

2/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116516909073441719

Calling all techies! Light a fire under these assholes. Give their office a ring.

Huh. That WHCD would-be shooter is already appearing in court today. Already! And seems like he didn’t even get any shots off? It’s amazing how fast the justice system can move when it wants to.

Meanwhile, the guys who shot Renee Good in the face and Alex Pretti in the back have their court dates…when again? How long has it been?

Brooklyn.

#nyc #blackmastodon
https://abc7ny.com/post/protest-breaks-ice-arrests-man-wyckoff-heights-medical-center-bushwick-brooklyn/19028708/
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/home-page-91uottdbz/-/a-2bR-vXykSmmkcQi-oxqQCw%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0

It’s not individually targeted harassment, you see. It’s just that they’re targeting one specific individual they’ve expressed a desire to harass.

@watters
Dawkins certainly never passed muster for me even at the start of his popularity. Dude has always given me bad vibes. Parallel problem to Ayn Rand: refuting the dogma while retaining the unhealthy patterns of thought that surrounded it. She always thought like a Bolshevik; he always thought like a fundamentalist. They both just poured their opposition into their existing vessel, whereupon it took the vessel’s shape. Both ended up creating a worldview as broken as the one they thought they’d fled.

@ireneista
The team sharing might sound formal from that description, but it’s really not. It’s all stuff like: “What have you all been working on?“ “Oh, it’s broken? Let’s take a look!“ “Oh, cool new thing working? Let’s take a look!“ “Wait, don’t explain. Is it ready for a user test instead? Who wants to test it?” “What do you all notice? What’s working here? What stands out?” “That sounds interesting! Can we take a look at the code?” “What’s that? What does that part do?” …etc etc…

@ireneista The map is not the territory and the syllabus is not the course, but this syllabus text at least paints a picture that might spark something (see especially the highlighted text).

@ireneista

You are kind of describing the Software Design and Development course I teach. Not exactly…but also not not.

Back into it...

#minnebar

@crazybutable it really is a good photo!

I sure @quephird could have been there for @markgritter’s talk on contemporary serial art and Rogue!

#minnebar