Kimberley

…directionally very bad…

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

pwned.

[Saritha Komatireddy @sarithaforny]

@BPGibson2025 I’m right there, standing next to you. You know who I didn’t see there? Tish James.

It was nice meeting you, by the way. I look forward to working with you to make New York safer.

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@sarithaforny @BPGibson2025 LMAO. Oof.

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@shorttimelines @homeserversltd Where’s the sanctimony?

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

Some women want shoes…

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@chartsandchess @PeterOlivier Sounds pretty beautiful to me!

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

Yes.

[Maud Maron @MaudMaron]

I have some thoughts!

Nikole Hannah-Jones interviewed me at the height of woke-1 to champion and virtue signal her “fight for every black child” and disparage and dismiss my fight for all NYC public school students to enjoy the rising tide that lifts all boats of academic rigor and meritocracy.

She thought my support of the Specialized High School Admission Exam, the SHSAT, was racist. I thought her school politics were deeply misguided, and well, quite racist.

Unlike Hannah-Jones I have nothing to walk back.

I knew then what she has just figured out that her identitarian race-based grievance project would not fix anything. And in fact, it has hurt all public school students. Not just in NYC—her Magnum Opus of racial grievance, The 1619 Project, is taught in schools across the country and its reasoning is used to dismantle and stop the creation of the kind of high school that her daughter ultimately chose—the one that finally taught her algebra.

NYC Public School students score lower on all academic metrics now than they did when her daughter started school—and we tax payers pay more for it. Enrollment continues to plummet while those in charge dumb down standards and hide results. So much of that is because any solution that challenged Hannah-Jones' race-baiting—endorsed by The Times and Democratic leaders alike—was verboten.

Like Hannah-Jones I have a HS junior. My two older kids have graduated from NYCPS and are in college and my youngest is in NYCPS elementary school. I have qualms with parts of their education but also many success stories. Can you get a great education in NYCPS? Yes. But you have to fight for it. And insisting on the schools that grade math homework is a start.

Knowing what your child is learning and mastering is a non-negotiable. Standardized tests help with that, but are a starting point only. Blaming phantom racists instead of understanding the role parents play was and is a lazy cop out.

There is still an effort–alive and well right now-to dismantle great schools like NYC’s specialized high schools because they use standardized admissions tests. The effort still relies on the same failed logic that Hannah-Jones has peddled for years. She insisted that kids like her daughter who did not score high enough on a test to gain admission were the victims of racism. But she refused to acknowledge that poor Asian kids whose parents had NONE of the resources that her daughter enjoyed (or should have enjoyed) (English speaking parents, resources to pay for prep classes, knowledge of how the system works, etc) were not racist oppressors—but kids willing to work hard and apply their smarts with parents that prioritized subject mastery and took the time to make sure their kids were actually learning.

Her daughter is right. She deserved much better. But it is not the cauldron of racist grievances that Hannah-Jones still cannot let go of that failed her daughter. It’s her daughter’s parents that did not figure out for NINE YEARS that their daughter was not learning enough.

New York City Public Schools should be among the best in the world because we have so many incredibly talented, smart and hard-working students that could and should learn more by being challenged more–and that means sorting kids into cohorts where they can rise to the level of their abilities and willingness to work. In other words “screening”—the exact project Hannah-Jones fought against for so long and which she has now relied on to rescue her daughter’s education.

You’re welcome Nikole. Your daughter’s chosen high school would not exist but for parents like me who fought so hard to keep screened schools.

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

Anthropic has disclosed that Claude attempted to eat a bat at a Chinese wet market

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@PalmerLuckey Dapper af.

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@hijibijihijibi Bruh.

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@AnthropicAI “Long-term, we think funding should come from pooled or government sources.”

No.

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

Show us what you asked the machine to do before telling us what the machine decided to do.

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@RoKhanna

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@JustinBrannan Speaking of facts and data and hypotheticals.

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@krystalball Where is the lie?

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@finkd Why is Muse so adorable?

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@timhwang You'd catch the eavid.

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@elonmusk @cb_doge Weird in a good way.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

This is Trust & Safety 2.0.

The last time we had media-generated panics like this (with Russiagate and Covid), social media companies created “trust & safety” teams to censor conservative and dissident voices. Those hires worked with left-wing NGOs like the SPLC to police public discourse and do an end-run around the First Amendment. It almost worked, until Elon bought Twitter and exposed the whole game in the Twitter Files.

This time the plan is to embed unfireable EA minders inside every AI company as the new trust-and-safety layer. The censorship and control will be far more comprehensive, but also more subtle. Anytime they don’t get what they want, this unaccountable NGO layer (with the veneer of “trust the experts” pseudoscience) will shriek to the press that the AI company is risking humanity, and they will be celebrated as “whistleblowers.”

These groups haven’t earned our trust, and their agenda is not our safety.

https://t.co/3eIsHxaC7h

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@MythoAotearoa Poor horse.

[Kimberley @kimberleyann]

@VigilanteLib Absolute piece of shit.