t. addison brown

What If It Works? The real threat from AI in education isn't that the technology fails. It's that it succeeds — and we never stopped to ask what we'd lose.

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[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater) YouTube video by USGS

Take a break from human folly; watch rocks being born in a fiery red fountain from the very bowels of the earth.

The Speech That Should Break the Trump-Epstein-Russia Dam What happens when the fragments of evidence finally become a pattern too dangerous to ignore

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“… maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than war”

- Rebecca Solnit, NYT interview

#NoWar

brava 🦋

Rachel Maddow called Bill a genius of exposition. Which rings true to me. Who else finds such clear, concise, vivid ways to sum up where we are and where we could and should be?

Crockett !

These women can do it 💪

This month, we’re celebrating the groundbreaking and inspirational women of our national parks system.

Learn about the 13 national park sites commemorating women's history: https://bit.ly/4u2iHFC #UnitedByParks

Get to know NPCA’s new CEO, Tiernan Sittenfeld, and join us in giving her a warm welcome for her first day at NPCA! With more than two decades defending public lands, she’s ready to hit the ground running.

Watch more: https://bit.ly/4rF6DbH

Why Attack Iran? Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
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Orcas and the price of consciousness – lessons in love and loss from our planet's most successful and most creative predator www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/23/o...

stay curious.always keep learning. love fiercely.
#light
#photography #conservation

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☔ 💜 Sun, Feb 22
🐳 Two more Sounder grays arrived! Total now is six: 53 Little Patch, 56 Stardust, 531 Gretchen, 2246 Azulão, 2362 Thidwick, 2440 Tahoma.

🐬 Orcas today in Central Puget Sound making their way south.

📷 T36B4 Auk & mom T36B Tattertip. By Padmini Harchandrai early January.

#psws

here for it #TeslaTakedown #fELON

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. #Resistance and #change often begin in #art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
#write

- how fitting a message
#NaturalLaw

happy lunar new year
Year of the Fire Horse

awe, I love this for him. #TeslaTakedown #fELON

"It does not require many words to speak the truth." - Chief Joseph (Nez Perce)

The Threshold Guide An emerging role for those who want to reframe the reality of collapse into emergence

The Threshold Guide: Want to #reframe the reality of #collapse into #emergence? open.substack.com/pub/frameros...

goodbye @yeastyboys and goodluck!

‘Workers get the thorns’: the moral ugliness of rose factories | Rebecca Solnit A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not

Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.

The Senate Vote That Could Change Public Lands Forever This week Republicans are pushing a legal maneuver that would undo a century of public land protections — starting with America’s most beloved wilderness.

This week Republicans are pushing a legal maneuver that would undo a century of #public #land #protections — starting with America’s most beloved wilderness.
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Take Action on the SAVE Act - When We All Vote The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act is a dangerous attack on our right to vote that could threaten more than 20 million eligible voters. EMAIL YOUR Senators CALL YOUR Senators This…

take action #saveact is a #dangerous attack on our right to #vote
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I love him

Duck, Duck, Grey-Duck in an Occupied State Why Minnesota Nice is the Ultimate Resistance

Teddy-bear-ears-duck with her red-knit-resistance cap stands witness at the bus stop during rush hour twice a day.

We still show up with food because we expect people to keep needing to eat.

Which means we expect them to keep being alive.
#minnesota #resistance
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A Non-Exhaustive List of Sources for When You Need Real Information, Not Just Content How to find trustworthy sources for breaking news, health questions, financial decisions, and local elections.

There is no such thing as an unbiased source. Every news organization is run by humans who make choices about what to cover, what to emphasize, which stories get front-page treatment and which get buried. Bias isn’t a bug; it’s a feature of human consciousness. #news
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There’s nothing quite as satisfying as a boring day at sanctuary. It allows you to make your own excitement when you’re in the mood and enjoy time at your own pace. When you have the option to “choose your own adventure,” as they say, sometimes you choose no adventure at all.

Prescribe Yourself Some Art The "forgotten fifth pillar of health."

so good. #art
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Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (@alisavaldes)

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