Barrett Bowlin @barrettbowlin.bsky.social

1 hour ago

Educators! Looking for a study to include in your syllabi about how AI/LLM use actually does make you dumber? Here's a link to the original findings from MIT researchers:

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

And here's a solid summary of those findings:

publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social

3 days ago

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:

"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social

3 days ago

pritzker is doing the work while newsome is playing mimicry games.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social

3 days ago

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

jj skolnik @modernistwitch.bsky.social

4 days ago

need people to understand that the idea that “regular people” can’t understand trans people is inherently transphobic framing.

#1: we are regular people. demographically, we are less wealthy than cis people on the whole because of employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and the wage gap

D 🔗 @plasmaxpriestess.bsky.social

4 days ago

excellent piece by excellent author. I've always voted blue no matter who but going forward I will not vote for anyone on the national stage that does not loudly and repeatedly affirm my right to exist + vow to fight to claw back the rights taken from us by the current regime

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social

4 days ago

since Bluesky is chock full of Newsom-stan-bots insisting that "Dems should compromise on trans issues", I will re-up my November essay about why this is not only immoral & unempirical, but BAD POLITICS. Dems WILL LOSE if they do this, here's why (no paywall): juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ...

Should Democrats Throw Trans People Under the Bus?

Here’s Why It Would Be Bad Politics

mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com

4 days ago

been at the eric adams scavenger hunt all day. mostly we were in a crawlspace under a house in howard beach learning “how to out-hustle the rats.” not sure what this does for the campaign

MeganKCool @megankcool.bsky.social

4 days ago

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social

5 days ago

I keep saying this but it remains true: Dems have not learned the central lesson of Reconstruction, that multiracial democracy cannot survive when those working to overthrow the rule of law & fair elections are allowed to operate with impunity.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net

4 days ago

once again, i'll suggest that perhaps the reason the broad public thinks democrats are weak is that when confronted with situations that demands that democrats loudly and proactively stand up for their values, democrats shirk from the fight