Reminding everyone again that there's an add-on for chrome that you can use in Google docs called "OneLook Thesaurus" and it can do all sorts of stuff

Random game of the day: Cyberbox (Puzzle: Doug Beeferman, 1991) Download/play: https://t.co/LduSFntlzS #dosgaming #retrogaming #puzzle #sokoban #blockpushing #ega

The 1970s. What if smartphones had existed back then? The old VHS recordings of memories—your parents' lifeless, soulless archive of absence. Inspired by The Anxious Generation @JonHaidt @karenvaites @jflier @MattWallace888 @SandyChatterbox @MarioNawfal @BerryRazi @hubermanlab

SONGWRITERS!! Rhymezone's had a makeover! I can't get used to it, it's like when your Dad shaves his beard off

More cities are exploring ranked-choice voting and other alternative electoral systems. Hear their insights and experiences in our latest CivicSearch newsletter: https://t.co/RBeejJ15Jw

Short-term rentals create both opportunities and challenges for the residents of cities struggling with housing affordability. In this week's CivicSearch newsletter we look at how city councils are proposing to regulate these units: https://t.co/iPltJmWJYj

Through redrawing attendance boundaries to "promote racial and ethnic diversity in elementary schools," authors hope this study is a useful building block to help inform school desegregation policies. #Diversity ➡️ https://t.co/oB47DpfFfg @AERA_EdResearch @SageEducation

Writers out there: If you aren't using https://t.co/xQi2dQddLZ , you are missing out. Not only is it an excellent thesaurus/dictionary, it will also help you find a word you can't remember. Looking for a word that means 'unable to articulate', it has you covered. 1/2

This sound made up, but it really happened. I was at this clam shack in Falmouth today. Older man in front of me steps up to order. Guy: "I'll have the whole-belly clam roll" Cashier: "Can I get a name for that order?" Guy *looking perplexed*: "Uh, hmm - maybe 'clam roll' "

every website now is like “oh were you looking for Answers? well here are Sentences”

We were delighted to be an exhibitor at the @NSBAPublicEd annual conference this weekend in New Orleans! Links to our handouts and other resources are posted at

I can’t believe it took me so long to discover this thesaurus!!!! sharing it so more writers and ppl who need it can use it

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

"Contrary to futurist discourse...Silicon Valley has instead delivered infinite arrays of two-dimensional spectacle combined with total civilisational stagnation in the crumbling three-dimensional world." https://t.co/agW4mi7w7P

CivicSearch is a searchable archive of public meetings from 500+ US & Canadian municipalities. "The data is organized into 75 frequently-discussed local policy topics" https://t.co/ffXVBVl4r2

The conclusion that @sayashk and I have reached over and over: direct harms from gen AI (that you can regulate) pale in comparison to the cost of societal adaptation and of the extractive business model. Without structural reform, those will continue. https://t.co/VSMxIxaMAX

This tweet & follow-up ("need more gpus") is unfortunately another good example of how AI culture can be alienating to people outside the tech bubble. Even though I'm inside, chatbots creating more text than people isn't something that I can discern as good in-and-of-itself. 1/

Reflecting on Claudine Gay, I'm reminded that a fundamental of racism--that we should all be aware of--is the disparate application of rules: People from one race* are disproportionately punished for "breaking a rule" that ppl from another are virtually never punished for.🧵

this is the most 2020s paragraph i have ever read

"...when you can convince everyone that AI might turn everyone into paperclips tomorrow, or on the flip side might cure every disease on earth, it’s easy to distract people from today’s issues of ghost labor, algorithmic bias, and erosion of the rights of artists and others."