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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 5h

Sure. But that’s not happening at the middle and high school levels, usually. And AI falls squarely in the “applied” category, particularly right now. Any AI-oriented curriculum will be out of date in six months. I’d be ok with history of ML and basic concepts underlying AI.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 5h

AI companies are in desperate straits, in terms of the amount of money they’ve accepted from investors. They need AI to function like a privately owned universal utility. And that’s why AI is being pushed into schools so aggressively.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 5h

I agree! I use AI! It’s extremely easy to use, which is most of my point. I know a lot about ML! But I also want kids to learn how to write, and to research, and to validate claims made by a chatbot. AI is not a knowledge source, it’s an excellent and comprehensive averaging machine.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 5h

The analogy isn’t “learning a programming language,” but “learning boolean search,” or “learning to use a calculator.” Neither thing requires study. It’s being injected into schools as a sop to corporate interests, and as an attack on education.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 5h

Counter argument is that AI in schools is entirely unnecessary at best, and replaces learning how to write and reason and research and think critically at worst.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think the key takeaway is that the community affected by a project needs to be listened to earlier in the decision process. I’m not shaking my finger at anyone, it’s just such a major fumble by Wu and friends (and I’m a supporter, generally).

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of the things I get wound up about, as a designer, is choosing the right medium for the job. Slides are not and have never been the correct medium for lots of text. If the expectation is that a slide deck will be a leave-behind doc, vs an artifact used for a talk, then make it a Google doc.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s also how slides -should be done-. It’s a best practice.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Obviously frats should be dissolved, everywhere. Social clubs that commit crimes while holding their members hostage—with the threat of loss of housing and social networks—have no place on a college campus. They’re effectively gangs.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anyway, it sure would be nice if colleges and universities were held accountable for breaking laws and their own policies. And it’s really not great that elite educational institutions program their graduates to accept and perpetuate abuse.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is mostly about disgusting and dangerous hazing practices, but: “male students in the Greek system learn to “scoff and smirk when women speak,” their fraternity rituals deliberately designed to degrade women.” From 2025. www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2025/04...

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Greek Tragedy: A Drowning at Dartmouth College

In the place that gave us Animal House, will the party ever really end?

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I would like Talarico and Ossoff to win, but I would also like them to lose -all- my contact information, forever.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I do not need to hear from Talarico or Ossoff ever again

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s much simpler: the state should not murder people. if it’s a crime for a citizen, it’s a crime, period. bsky.app/profile/pars...

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I would genuinely like to see a research study on this phenomenon of forgetting. It’s likely connected to the Just-World Fallacy; for women, this kind of data goes into a vast and detailed mental just-in-case file, while men can safely read and forget. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-wo...

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Just-world fallacy - Wikipedia

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Coda: I think of this story every time that NDGT’s name shows up in my feed. Do you? bsky.app/profile/publ...

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A friend opined that it's because it's unpleasant and disturbing information that doesn't affect them directly, so they just delete it. Which explains why we keep experiencing the same dumb waves of "oh, that happens?" every few years. Anyway, women shouldn't have to keep educating them, the end.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've had the same conversations with the same good men over time, and they sincerely don't remember the information that shocked them so much the first time they heard it.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is a phenomenon where women tell men about [bad stuff] that happened to them at an institution or workplace or whatever that they are mutually part of, and the men express their extreme sympathy and ask what they can do. And then, with time, good and well-intentioned men...forget all about it?

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Its like saying that they need to be trained to use a TV remote

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I saw a leading investor in Boston declare that he was glad that our governor was pushing AI into public schools, so kids would be “prepared,” unlike kids in NYC. AI is easy and optional! Kids don’t need to be prepared, it’s the easiest thing in the world to use! bsky.app/profile/trav...

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Congratulations, you’ve boosted the KPIs of the team at PayPal responsible for the goal of “get AI into the product, or else.”

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bowdoin College quietly banned frats a few years ago. The frat buildings, which are old and historic, were mostly owned by the college, which eased the process. The remaining frat-owned one was dismantled because the frat had irrevocably abused it. Anyway, they go unmourned. It‘s an option!

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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 28/09/2026

From @globespotlight.bsky.social: After a New Jersey man bought up nursing homes around Massachusetts, some of the state's best-rated facilities fell to among the worst. Patient care plummeted. Veteran staff fled. And the state kept letting him buy more. trib.al/HKE9scd

Text on the card reads: “The Boston Globe Spotlight. He’s buying Mass. nursing homes, cutting budgets, and driving down care. The state keeps signing off.”

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

MyRadar is frantically popping iPhone notifications at me, meanwhile the weather in Boston isn’t that bad really?

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is off-putting on multiple levels

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yeah this makes zero sense to me. Can you bring a coffee? Yes. Who cares if it’s iced? People really don’t have enough to ruminate about I guess

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a bad feeling that there’s a part 2 to this bsky.app/profile/jona...

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I personally would not hand my life’s car keys to any AI agent, much less one developed by Zuckerberg/Meta.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes, there are bike lanes. Weird.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just ask Seth Moulton how this worked out for him…

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Both are on the Androscoggin. Berlin stank of rotten eggs and ashes until the mill shut down a few years ago. Anyway, here’s a 1957 Brown Paper Company magazine, which contains an essay from a teenager extolling the virtues of the Berlin paper mill. berlinnhhistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/u...

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have a story to tell you about Berlin, NH…

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The only thing I know for sure is that it takes the better part of a decade to get new trains made, so yeah this is on old leadership/anyone left who led requirements around the time of procurement.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Me, looking for that converse ad: "how bad can it b—yikes."

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think people should be fired for this. Not only is accessibility the right thing to do, but it is a basic compliance (risk) issue. Just massively dumb.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My design professional cynicism may be showing, but my belief is that the mockup was mostly marketing. At that point, any feedback taken would be for elements that could be remanufactured separately (e.g. seat height), at most.

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This says to me that the requirements for the new trains didn’t include accessibility requirements. If they had, train entrances would have been six inches lower, to be flush with the platforms. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/19/m...

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The T is spending millions to make the Green Line more accessible. Soon, it may have to redo its work. - The Boston Globe

The upcoming arrival of new Green Line trolleys is putting the T in a sticky position.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

found it (or some of it) — in mac OS 27.0, seems Apple hides the kill switch for Apple Intelligence in the Siri menu in System Settings & when you click it (screen shot on left) you get a menu of all your apps & you have to go one by one & flip AI learning off (screen shot on right) - the bastards

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Anne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As I was saying bsky.app/profile/jeff...

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