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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 2h

in researching, it was really very absurd to go through the annual headlines about enrollment from the 1880s through 1964 from 1965 on, press and government are two sides of the same coin, stirring anti-Black sentiment

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2h

there's a pretty good argument out this morning that maybe it's time they didn't

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 3h

I mean. They don't *have* to

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 3h

that's the problem with basically every post in the thread

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 4h

Lawyer Cites Improv-Comedy-Group-Invented Fake Witnesses In Murder Appeal

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 4h

i am also a college dropout, one billion dollars please

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 4h

to be fair i'm actually arguing that its primary function is rhetorical not a tool for automating various tasks, but a tool for justifying a political project of centralized power and constant surveillance in that frame, whether it gets better at automating particular tasks is irrelevant

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 5h

"we can't afford these students"

Others argue that the district's tiniest campuses are unable to offer the full breadth of academic courses and extracurricular activities. CPS also spends significantly more per pupil to operate many of its smallest schools because fixed operating and staffing costs are spread across fewer students.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 5h

"people are scared, this will affect Black students, property values at risk"

Ahead of Thursday's school board meeting, a group of community leaders rallied outside CPS headquarters, demanding that the district extend its school closure moratorium indefinitely. School closures have been a political third rail in Chicago since officials shuttered 50 schools in 2013, a move that prompted widespread outcry across the city. Those campuses were almost entirely on the South and West sides and disproportionately affected Black students.
Research has found that closures disrupt students' academic progress, while generating little short-term savings for districts. Some of the school buildings closed in 2013 still sit empty, raising safety concerns and lowering property values.
Wilma Pittman, a longtime organizer with North Side Action for Justice, said any closures would be "catastrophic" to students of color.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 5h

"the district faces Hard Choices"

The enrollment decline comes as Chicago officials debate whether - and how
— to address a growing number of underenrolled schools. The district's school closure moratorium will expire next summer, after a fully elected school board takes office.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 5h

here you can see them hitting the required beats: "enrollment is down!! for assorted different reasons but mostly birthrate"

Chicago has slightly reversed its recent population loss, gaining 5,253 residents in the year leading up to July 2025. But the city has still lost 16,748 people since 2020, according to census data. Experts cite rising costs and a lack of affordable housing. For Black families - who have left Chicago in droves over the past decade - chronic disinvestment on the South and West sides has also driven population shifts.
Public schools also face more competition than ever, including homeschooling, private schools and online schooling options. A January report from the advocacy group Kids First Chicago found that CPS served only 71% of the city's school-age population in 2023, down from 75% in 2018.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10h

"cps enrollment crisis" stories are zoned for whiteness

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 9h

if you are an editor: stop assigning these stories. stop it. bad editor

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 9h

"infinite personalized music" these people do not understand what art is but think they have replaced it

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10h

Mark, this is an inappropriate response. Race is socially constructed but has real consequences and saying "we're all mixed" does not help us understand how it works or how to dismantle the systems built around it. Take this note and learn; if you try to argue about it I'm going to block you

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10h

If you followed me for my strong opinions about computers, surprise! I also have strong opinions about public education

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10h

"cps enrollment crisis" stories are zoned for whiteness

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10h

Here's an example from the Tribune in 1965, the year that "Enrollment stories became scarcity stories: what if there's not enough? What if there's not enough for my kids? The implied audience is white families, who are meant to be the readers and not the subjects of these stories."

Chicago Tribune headline image reads

WILLIS PREDICTS 1965
SCHOOL FUND CRISIS
White Pupils in Minority Now, Count Shows

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10h

If you are unfamiliar with the genre, it goes like this

Every year on the 20th day of school, Chicago Public Schools announces how many students are enrolled. The press takes this number and runs the same scary story: enrollment is down, the district is in danger, the future is in question, and hard choices have to be made.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20h

Indeed the process has no inherent relationship to truth at all, which is why I say they are structurally indifferent to it

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20h

So 11k works out to .044 CoP hours. Or 2.64 CoP minutes

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20h

The 2026 conversion is ~6m/day

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20h

I crowdsourced the acronym so technically credit for "Cost of Policing (CoP)" hours/days goes to @maniccage.bsky.social but yes I do argue it's the correct unit of analysis for municipal budgets

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21h

hallucination still implies that it's a different process from the usual one. i find it helpful to think of them as structurally indifferent to truth

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23h

lol i promise this is the only time

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 23h

"The particular pathologies of AI, especially scaling and accelerationism, are symptoms of the actual restructuring taking place in relation to energy politics and increasing authoritarianism." danmcquillan.org/ai_is_a_morb...

danmcquillan.org

AI is a morbid symptom of the interregnum

This is the abstract for my Rogers Chair Public Lecture for Western University on 20th March 2026 at 5pm GMT, hosted by the Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies. URL for the talk t...

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23h

When I was part of a variety show we had a segment called Water Balloon Debate that worked on similar lines

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23h

Feels like it has crossover potential. Sometimes the correct response to a bad argument is a body check

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These tools are associated with what I consider bad politics and ethics for a number of reasons (in addition, I am a hater). First, while LLMs promise labour free writing and content to the end users, they rely on exploitative labour practices. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

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I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/09/2026

Bernie doing research for roadrunner safety legislation

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve been fully brainwormed by @anthonymoser.com’s observation that Altman only has three facial expressions, so now whenever I see a photo, I note which one it is (here: ‘processing bad news,’ with overtones of ‘saw a ghost’; the third is ‘jackass’).

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/09/2026

so is this a "she's not qualified" story?

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/09/2026

Is the idea that her pension is too big? or that NITA is paying too much? Because the two of them together thing does not, as far as I can tell, change the situation in any material way

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/09/2026

What is the point of these stories? She earned a big pension because she worked for the city a long time. She retired and is owed her pension. She also got a new job working somewhere else, and her new job is paying her, as jobs are supposed to do. What part are we objecting to here?

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/09/2026

The ship scale light sabers are fun but extremely silly

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/09/2026

i checked the quotes and somehow nobody has done the madmen elevator meme so just picture that here

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/09/2026

(my parents mostly did, which I have told them means I did keep their values just not the framework they express them with)

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/09/2026

Catholicism certainly did not celebrate or encourage *my* questions

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 29/09/2026

Type of guy who chooses to work at the vampire factory

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/09/2026

if it helps the graphic is not strictly necessary

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/09/2026

"ensure kids get dressed" is a perfectly good task for a human! but not for a bot

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/09/2026

And tbh I think a lot of the hype around ai agents is companies pretending that task in the one sense is the same as task in the other

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