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Nathan Holbert

@snowdaylearninglab.org

Learning Scientist. Maker and designer. Player of games and toys. Dad. Associate Professor @ Teachers College, Columbia University. Pop & Play host http://tc.edu/popandplay

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There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

08.03.2026 02:12 πŸ‘ 11177 πŸ” 2978 πŸ’¬ 388 πŸ“Œ 144

I don't ever want to hear that it's wrong to call them Nazis again.

08.03.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 1807 πŸ” 481 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 8

I get that there's no backbone or will from those in Congress, but not only should Trump and all his pals be impeached and removed from office, they should be tried and convicted at The Hague.

06.03.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I get that there's no backbone or will from those in Congress, but not only should Trump and all his pals be impeached and removed from office, they should be tried and convicted at The Hague.

06.03.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Doing the peeps brand proud!

06.03.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Up to $2 billion per day. Enough to give $200 to EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN CHILD LIVING IN POVERTY instead. Every single day.

06.03.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 5

You don’t ever have to apologize for not knowing a marvel movie 😁
Captain America: Winter Soldier. One of the best ones really!

06.03.2026 12:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of β€œshould our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but β€œto what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

06.03.2026 03:06 πŸ‘ 1541 πŸ” 475 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 48

Just imagining Captain American slamming into a data center or a rack of servers with his shield. It’s glorious…

06.03.2026 11:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Worth remembering they made a Marvel about this. Unfortunately Cap can’t just swap a single computer chips and save the real world from itself.

06.03.2026 11:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than β€˜speed of thought’ Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined

Β«Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, was reportedly used by the US military in the barrage of strikes as the technology β€Ήshortens the kill chainβ€Ί – meaning the process of target identification through to legal approval and strike launch.Β»

06.03.2026 10:34 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 10

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.

06.03.2026 03:30 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
Markwayne Mullin - yes Mark and Wayne pushed together - is depicted standing on a box during a debate to hide the fact that he’s a very short man and would look quite small next to his opponent.

Markwayne Mullin - yes Mark and Wayne pushed together - is depicted standing on a box during a debate to hide the fact that he’s a very short man and would look quite small next to his opponent.

Holy shit I forgot he was THAT bitch. Incredible. He’s also this bitch…

06.03.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 208 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 4
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Senator Mullin on January 6th

06.03.2026 03:01 πŸ‘ 3263 πŸ” 1152 πŸ’¬ 204 πŸ“Œ 85
Poster art for Bennett Foddy's Lecture Series event with the NYU Game Center. Features characters from QWOP, Getting Over It, and Baby Steps. Text reads:
NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents
Bennett Foddy
Creator of QWOP, Getting Over It, and Baby Steps
Why did I make this?

7:00pm, March 5th, 2026
Room 202, 370 Jay St. Brooklyn, NY

Poster art for Bennett Foddy's Lecture Series event with the NYU Game Center. Features characters from QWOP, Getting Over It, and Baby Steps. Text reads: NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Bennett Foddy Creator of QWOP, Getting Over It, and Baby Steps Why did I make this? 7:00pm, March 5th, 2026 Room 202, 370 Jay St. Brooklyn, NY

NEXT THURSDAY

"Why did I make this?"
NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Bennett Foddy
March 5th 7pm - 8:30pm
RSVP: bennettfoddylectureseries.eventbrite.com
(Also live streaming at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter)

Join us for a career retrospective with @foddy.net!

Poster by @cromsferatu.bsky.social

24.02.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 253 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 10

prosecute her instead then big man

05.03.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Way back when I was in university the smartest guy in class wrote a math proof in a half page. We all took 4 pages double sided. We rambled. We all could think but he did it better. I would rather learn to think better than try to weed out rambling done by a machine that doesn’t β€œknow” anything.

05.03.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

100%

05.03.2026 22:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And with another round of prompts, it'll fix these errors. But you are so far away from the code in this process that "getting it right" is a huge pain in the ass, probably expensive, and requires dealing with layers and layers of weird "choices" made by the AI.

05.03.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think the "wait for the next model" argument boosters make is nonsense. BUT, it has gotten better. Mistakes were not typos, they were conceptual (for a platformer game NPCs weren't placed fully on the ground or had faulty collision checks).

05.03.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

There are many ways that NYC residents can fight to fund our public libraries:
1. Send a letter to your city council member (30 seconds): actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

04.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 171 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Did some vibe coding with Claude yesterday as an experiment. It IS impressive what it churns out. But the code is a messβ€”so many stupid bugs that a moderately knowledgeable human wouldn’t make or would notice immediately. That’s fine for toys, but for large projects that would be catastrophic.

05.03.2026 12:32 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's not that AI is useless.

It's that AI is useful like asbestos was useful.

04.03.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 554 πŸ” 154 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 15

@steveinskeep.bsky.social didn’t directly confront the 47 years lie with Ron Johnson this morning, but in the short interview he did get Johnson to admit congress isn’t voting on war powers because the war is incredibly unpopular with the American people.

05.03.2026 12:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The β€œwe’ve always been at war with Eurasia” talking point the GOP is using about Iran is insane and someone with a mic should say so every time they trot out that bullshit.

05.03.2026 12:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Trucker on one side, and Korean War vet who did mostly menial odd jobs the rest of his life on the other. Deeply rugged stock, but these are baby soft academic hands typing this message.

05.03.2026 03:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That platform could get him elected to public office in the UCA in 2028

04.03.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflictβ€”and 9000
miles from North Americaβ€”makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

04.03.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 13488 πŸ” 4965 πŸ’¬ 541 πŸ“Œ 295

Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.

04.03.2026 04:14 πŸ‘ 2160 πŸ” 1115 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 10