Canary in the Coal Mine
GenXer who grew up on PBS in a small town & ended up in Fortune 5s. I have very strong feelings about our failed government, media, tech, fascism .. and video games. Not here for clout, just old and treat this like it’s a BBS 🙂
- Reposted by Canary in the Coal MineAnd here's what I wish more people would think about: who benefits from having half the country functionally illiterate? From people lacking skills in critical thinking, analysis, evaluation, and communication? From us outsourcing critical thinking to chatbots that are wrong over half the time?
- Reposted by Canary in the Coal MineThis is how I feel, too. I think a large part of how we got here is that test-based K-12 education is so deeply flawed. There is almost no reading or writing compared to when I was in school. Then, when students hit college they've never practiced those skills, so of course turn to LLM's.
- This is just so incredibly sad to me. It's not just that people think they are clever for hacking their way through school without work. It's that they don't WANT to learn new things. They don't WANT to improve skills. They don't WANT EDUCATION. nymag.com/intelligence...
- Reposted by Canary in the Coal MineSo that's what Big Balls did with the terabytes of data he stole from the National Labor Relations Board a few weeks ago.
- On Friday ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...
- Reposted by Canary in the Coal MineOn the merits this is just one instance of administrative vandalism among many, but I'm always struck in stories like these by how inexpensive/efficient these legacy government programs are. A year of funding Energy Star is more or less Blake Snell's annual salary. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
