Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 2h"The credit for coming up with the research is now shared across the entire field because the machines exploit all of our ideas at once. And in their thinking, mulling, and regurgitating they even forget where the ideas they used came from." 000
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 12/10/2026So...what's going to happen when a potentially nefarious AI agent tries to become the successor to any of these people? 000
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Unfortunately, the opposite is true: educational spaces are often highly surveilled, with thousands of schools using AI software that send up red flags if students post troubling content (including if a student types a threatening sentence in a Google Doc and then immediately deletes it.)apnews.comStudents have been called to the office — and even arrested — for AI surveillance false alarmsSurveillance systems in American schools increasingly monitor everything students write on school accounts and devices. 010
Reposted by Sharon Luryealexia winterhalter @alexiawinterhalter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026october is already here and i haven’t shared one of my favourite paintings form this summer yet! this is the mont blanc from the italian side. i love the warm palette, orange mountains might be my new obsession! #art #gouache #mountainart #landscape 333078
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Example: Everyone loses their mind when they see the estimated cost of attendance at Columbia J-School. But I don't know anyone who paid the full amount listed online. They include expenses that I know for a fact *no one* paid, like $2,000 for textbooks (not a single class I took required one). 010
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It baffles me that colleges scare so many students off of even applying by showing the full sticker price without the added context that most students pay nowhere near this amount. 220
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I saw the most sick, twisted, violent flames wars you could ever imagine on a Neopets forum. 000
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 14/09/2026And if you don't kill yourself, you get murdered by bandits 020
Reposted by Sharon LuryeJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 11/09/2026I banned Meta glasses in my classes because students told me they are hesitant to speak up and engage if they think they’re being recorded. Apple releasing this feature is just another tech company setting off yet another bomb on young people trying to learn things and join society. Really gross. 220273
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Can't believe my editor made me cut the line "much like the famous tower in Italy, PISA scores are leaning"apnews.comFamilies' interest in their kids' education is falling around the globe as scores drop, test showsFamilies’ interest in their kids’ education is falling in many high-income countries as school systems struggle with plunging test scores. 041
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The Trump administration suppressed every single datapoint related to nonbinary students in the nation's most important and comprehensive database on educational opportunity, including questions meant to hold schools accountable for bullying and harassment based on gender identity.apnews.comTrump administration scrubs data on gender-based bullying from school civil rights surveyThe Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed of all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender ident... 010
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I think my favorite study here is the one where they had people step on venomous snakes to find out which conditions were most likely to provoke a snake bite. Spoiler alert: don't step on a venomous snake. 000
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 03/09/2026How many cockroaches do you need to milk for a milkshake? 010
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Would a person running a largely AI-written news site be eligible for this tax credit?southshore.newsChanges Coming to South Shore NewsTo my readers, 000
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Wait until you work for a wire service where *other outlets* can change our headlines! 000
Reposted by Sharon LuryeMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This advice is based on observational data with n=1. Need to see a scaled RCT. 121756
Reposted by Sharon LuryeJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital... 24932292
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Hmmm...in that case I'd say Mexico gave the best food (because it gave the world chocolate, corn and chilis) and India benefited the most (because it got potatoes and chilis). 010
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Is the winner the region that provided the best food or the one that received it? 160
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 31/08/2026People in Sichuan were known to like peppery flavors (e.g. Sichuan peppercorn) prior to the Columbian Exchange, so when chili showed up it was probably like the Chosen One arriving at last 1230
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 31/08/2026If your results had been insignificant, you could have titled it "Kumon Feel the (Statistical) Noise" 180
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I maintain the cultural practice of my ancestors, which is to reuse the tea bag for at least two more cups. 140
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Dolly was Miley's godmother so I assume she had some personal training for those parts 1670
Reposted by Sharon LuryeJosh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026They make some stellar recommendations, including a whole section on grades. I'm going to post a screenshot of the section here, and then add some commentary about different pieces of it. 2/x 39728
Reposted by Sharon LuryeColin @colin-fraser.net · 18/08/2026This is not quite right. The interchangeability of words or lack thereof is already expressed by the model, independently of watermarking. The model always generates text by randomly sampling from P(next word | "The weather was cold and") = {"grey": .192382, "overcast": .13929, "wet": ...}. 3986
Reposted by Sharon LuryeJon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 18/08/2026Generative AI’s per-query footprint can be small compared to flying, eating meat, or even Zoom. Until agents show up and compute goes through the roof. How I updated my AI footprint calculator accordingly jonippolito.substack.com/p/agents-are...jonippolito.substack.comAgents are where AI’s energy bill gets uglyGenerative AI’s per-query footprint can be small compared to flying, eating meat, or even Zoom. Until agents show up and compute goes through the roof. 2145
Reposted by Sharon LuryeMegan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I'm going to talk to a huge range of people for this book: teachers, parents, students, scholars, founders, and more. If you're interested in chatting with me about literacy education, please please please get in touch! readingmachinebook@gmail.com. 94210
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 11/08/2026One of my colleagues wrote about a college professor who did indeed bring back typewriters: apnews.com/article/type...apnews.comA college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessonsOnce a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms ... 110
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Tip: Congress mandated increased safety standards for dressers so they would be less likely to tip over and hurt children, which impacts all dressers manufactured after September 2023. So I would NOT get a used dresser that's >3 years old. www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/...consumerreports.orgNew Dressers Pass CR's Tip-Over Tests, but Riskier Ones Are Still for Sale - Consumer ReportsNew dressers are less likely to tip over, Consumer Reports' tests found, but older and riskier dressers are still for sale from Amazon, Walmart, and other retailers. 110
Reposted by Sharon LuryeThe NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 10/08/2026BREAKING: USA Today’s journalists and media workers demand that the media company end its relationship with AI firm Palantir. 329479
Reposted by Sharon LuryeEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Does Steve Kornacki get a pausa de hidratacion? 1029532
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 20/07/2026It gets better: Her appointment was suggested by the inventor of the Rubik's Cube. 4845
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 17/07/2026There's a walking simulator called Pools and someone commented "isn't this just Piranesi" and you know, they're not wrong. www.threads.com/@allymalinen...threads.comAlly Malinenko (@allymalinenko) on ThreadsWhy is this video Piranesi and if you get what I mean we are now best friends 030
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Look, if one of the parents is an economist, there's no way you're going to parent without a spreadsheet. MANY spreadsheets. And if both parents are economists...God help us all. 060
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 16/07/2026The link has expired -- any chance there could be another gift link? 100
Reposted by Sharon LuryeJ. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026[shows a map of earliest sunsets under permanent standard time] everyone boos [shows a map of latest sunrises under permanent daylight time] everyone boos [suggests we keep changing the clock twice a year] everyone boos 2143
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This is such a good example of transparency when using AI in journalism! 030
Reposted by Sharon LuryeNolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Our society has associated surveillance with security (CCTV) and with love (bluetooth tags) for so long that tech companies are betting (perhaps correctly?) that people prefer being surveilled to being ignored... 624241
Reposted by Sharon LuryeEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/20263. Very few film scripts are composed entirely in Homeric Greek. In fact, I can't think of any. That's a shame, but also understandable. It would be quite unlikely to do well at the box office. 570648
Reposted by Sharon LuryeUgo Sin Hache @ugosinhache.bsky.social · 10/07/2026IMPORTANTE. Hoy es el Día Internacional del Capibara. 19592184
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 10/06/2026NAEP officials scrupulously avoid answering any questions about *why* we see the trends we do. But they did point out two things. 1, teens were in 2nd/3rd grade when the pandemic hit, while the 9-year-olds were in PreK. 2, scores started dropping after 2012 -- coinciding with the rise of screens. 121
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 10/06/2026A surprising age gap has emerged: 9-year-olds' test scores are growing in math and reading, while 13-year-olds are stagnating. Their reading scores are basically at the same level now that they were in 1971 when the NAEP Long-Term Test started.apnews.comTeens' reading and math scores have stagnated, US test results showYounger students have regained academic ground lost during the pandemic, but older students' test scores remain stagnant. 100
Sharon Lurye @sharonlurye.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It's soooo much fun. Tubing down the Bogue Chitto with friends in Louisiana, sharing random drinks on the water with strangers, getting massively sunburned = peak Southern experience. 050