That’s the face of “Sometimes you get rocked.”
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That’s the face of “Sometimes you get rocked.”
Ah. Now I get it.
"Be loud for America."
The stack grows larger
Thanks!
Do they define consolidation? Is this like synthesis?
boss would be one thing, I'm increasingly certain he sees himself as the owner of the country and everyone in it
My godparents, comrade.
Pokemon Go. CCP. Google it.
All I can really say to this is that capitalism collapses time into a present that extends into both past and future without recognition of either. Sliced bread is forever and always (and has always been forever and always, always).
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Thanks! These are great
I’d like to do a book club with my English teachers this semester. It will be optional, and I’d like it to be something we can use as framing for discussion about teaching. Any book recommendations?
Just posting on the Internet.
Writing teacher advice for Democratic strategists: Your audience is NEVER everyone, and acting as though it is will lead to generalities that appeal on average but not in specific. You find your audience through specificities. Relying heavily on polls and consultants leads to tepid messaging.
The pentagon is reinstating an image of Robert E. Lee AND AN ENSLAVED PERSON. He was a traitor responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. He was a slave owner. Explain this without using the phrases “white supremacy” and “racism”
A big difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans understand the science of political communication. Republicans dictate the topics/terms of debate while Dems (and the left) usually burn energy in constant response. Thiel and Co call this mimetics, Lakoff calls it framing.
Tom Cruise just bought the rights to this post. He’s starring. It’ll be in theaters next summer.
When I see gratitude in these contexts, I always hear them saying, “Just be glad we didn’t wipe you off the face of the earth,” which is especially rich when they’re actively trying to wipe people off the face of the earth.
Then why are you partnering with AI companies? Why are you taking their money to bring AI into classrooms? I’ve been a union member since I was five. AI companies have stolen my work. This is a workers’ rights issue.
Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title A Farewell to Tom Clancy's Arms
It seems to be a requirement for high-profile Republicans
To those looking for permission to use AI - “Stop. You’re embarrassing yourself. I am embarrassed for you.” God, this is good.
I’ve told the teachers I work with to insist that drafts be written by hand. It’s different.
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what the fuck is a hamas camera?
Just asking some questions in Intro to American Politics today.
Don't be too fast of a learner, or too slow. Don't have any disabilities! Don't daydream. Don't socialize. Don't get bored. Don't get upset. Don't have questions. Don't think.
She was never apolitical, she just took aim at fat people, which people thought was acceptable and therefore they misinterpreted her as apolitical.
I had wondered whether the chips bag was product placement, which felt off, but this is so much better.
Same to you
This looks a lot like the framework I use when working with teachers. Some of the issues are at the philosophy level, but many of my approaches are stuck at the curriculum level. I inherited a scripted 6-8 curriculum that is immovable. Everything after that gets stuck in a mire. Anyway, thanks.
I’ve thought a lot about this in my role as a curr director. My success as a teacher has been part of my failure as an admin - the translation struggles to capture that essence. The act of translation leaves out so much on both sides (content and pedagogy) and the plans I put forward fall short.
chicago is the best: beautiful, brimming w culture, delicious food, so so so many languages + traditions converging. neighbors support one another. public schools serve very well. union town. crime is historically low. our protests run deep. no quartering large bodies of armed troops among us!
Like, those people struggling… you’re their mayor. You can’t blame that on the not mayor.
Adams is the current mayor. What is he doing?
My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members. If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.
At first I read this as “it wasn’t a million dollars, just a 1/4 of a million dollars” and that felt right - congrats, quinces are the best
What does it mean to ‘come back to the ‘80s’?
Shout this to the rooftops: "PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY ARE NOT EDUCATIONAL VALUES."
When we encourage students to use LLMs to complete their work, I think we're signaling approval for alienation from the experiences of humans. I know that these tools can be used "productively," but productivity and efficiency are not educational values. We must encourage deeper work.
i wish more people had the time and inclination to read and experience art outside the narrow window of what’s being put out and promoted by media companies at this precise moment in time
Its tendrils are everywhere today, from worker’s rights and wages to prisons to voting and beyond. It’s so foundational that it’s confused for benign American cultural quirks.
Every high school and college in America should offer a mandatory course on the history of chattel slavery in this country. You can’t understand America if you don’t understand this.
Instead of my normal "I choose readings carefully so they'll be interesting & meaningful. & I expect you to read them, so we have good discussions" first day shtick.... I'm having to do: "I want to empower you to think for yourself, and not to use bots, in the face of the Univ pushing you to..."
Also: “Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing.” So not just formatting. But finding evidence to support your argument after you’ve made it and without you reading the cited source.
When everything is a product, process becomes a dirty word.
Same song, “Bleeding isn’t in my blood” is great too
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
my serious analysis of the idea of a stewart run is that he is too much of a "pox on both houses," anti-politics, anti-partisan to be able to do the work of reconstruction and reform in the wake of trump. zeteo.com/p/should-jon...
We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years. The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.
No, I don't think there is any need for you, me or anyone to have access to ChatGPT or CoPilot just to help you plan your kid's birthday party, or find nearby restaurants, or plan your holiday for you, or do your homework for you, or write your book review for you, all to see the world burn.
Absolutely not. Because of the organization of the enterprise of AI in education around the aims of finance capitalism, "teaching AI" will result in the erosion of the educational enterprise and its further organization around capitalist, neo-liberal ideologies.
they are murdering the people who tell the truth.
The Democrat he’s describing is Donald Trump, lest we forget.
Classic Time Machine erasure. This (election) is what Wells was writing about.
look, it doesn't matter if the night-night man isn't real. a number of voters have very real concerns that the night-night man is waiting under their beds ready to eat them as soon as mommy and daddy say night-night and you need to have a plan to address those concerns regardless
Exactly. My gripe with people’s focus on “evidence-based practices” is there’s no such thing as context-free evidence. And the range of factors that can make implementing a strategy to fidelity ranges to accounting for disability to class size to “did everyone eat this morning?” That matters.
A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.
It’s always seemed odd to me, a 30+ year Texan, that the small-government loving Republicans in Texas are so willing to exercise the full weight of whatever govt they have control over to implement their beliefs. This absolute deference to Trump is a reflection of that.
Green Dildo Coin. An amount spent on masked thugs and themed concentration camps that could house and feed every homeless person in America. Cage fights on a paved-over White House lawn. It really all boils down to losers who want to replace our society with a different one that just fucking sucks.
Just offering that up since everyone says I’m too glib about the whole thing. It’s mid. It’s also absolutely a man-made ecological monster that will probably successfully hollow out our institutional capacities in exchange for more emails (and admittedly some sped up gene research).
i just did a workshop with kids about making comics. emphasized that ANYONE can make comics. you don't have to be a "good" artist. you find a story that matches your art style and you do it and it's awesome. and a kid who NEVER PARTICIPATES got out from under a desk and PARTICIPATED and had a blast.
I still remember the first few lines of the General Prologue. It’s a fun party trick (at some parties).
At 38, I was part of the beginning of this acceleration toward hyper-competition to create a product out of young athletes. By the time I was 18, after 14 years of non-stop baseball, I was burnt out and wanted nothing to do with it, despite being recruited. The physical and emotional toll is real.
Everything we hate about 2025 hoops/baseball ailments (load mgmt, torn Achilles, pitchers’ arms falling off at 23 yrs old despite averaging five innings a start) is not rooted in today’s jocks being “soft”. It’s youth sports profiteering and kids in hyper-intense year round travel leagues from birth
“Could this be acceptable use of AI? Yes, if you write a whole other paper explaining its use.” 🙄
This piece lays out all the reasons AI is ill-suited for historical work — getting facts wrong, relying on existing sources only, churning out banal claims in bland prose, etc — and then asserts we’ll all just have to use it anyway. Yeah, no.
I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.
The confederates are so funny. The rest of us are out here being normal, and they’re like “remember that time we came in second place in a war?”
Grief is powerful, but there are survivors of this tragedy who have been doing this work for nearly 10 years. We don’t need algorithms to guide us. We have humans.
I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware. Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...
Love pretending that headlines like “use AI to choose gifts for your friends/write your texts/etc” and “there’s a loneliness epidemic” aren’t related
Really interesting. Also, as someone in education, what Ben says about ‘data being a poor driver’ really resonated with me. ‘Data-driven’ is, and has been, a favorite term in education. “I have found that data is a poor driver, as it is often short sighted, lacks context, and is overly reactive.”
People think that they are immune from internalizing nefarious/toxic ideas and framing. "I will use their term for this place and it will not impact how I think at all." But that's not how this works at all. Of course, you are spreading all of the associated ideas by using their terms.
In all seriousness, this is the existential issue facing the Dems right now: they very simply cannot conceive of a political order that is not MAGA Lite. There is no vision. No imagination. Just, "we need a Joe Rogan, but blue!" "We need a Stephen Miller, but blue!" No. We do not need blue Evil.
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
This is the best thing you'll see today, and I say that as a person who wrote something awesome today and does not lack for confidence.
we don't talk enough about censorship within journalism — eg. which stories are killed for political reasons, which style guide standard language is considered neutral when otg it's quite charged.
Just read some phenomenal weekly posts from students in my Summer Am Lit II course, on late 20C texts from Leslie Marmon Silko, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath, Sandra Cisneros, & more. Despite literally fucking everything, literary & cultural works have so much to tell us, & so do our students. 🗃️
Trans kids are not •disposable •the reason Dems lose •a threat Trans kids are •deserving of basic human rights Trans kids should be •protected, always
the lesson people got from cyberpunk 2077: 1. wow wolf cuts are hot i wish a girl with one would beat the shit out of me the lessons you should have pulled from cyberpunk 2077: 1. we REALLY need universal health care 2. we REALLY need UBI 3. wow corpos and ceos fucking suck 4. wow wolf cuts are-
Bove himself is a literal criminal. A man whose short time in the public eye is defined by his open contempt for the law and those responsible for enforcing it. And the only reason he was nominated is because of his slavish devotion to the president’s most lawless impulses.
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
This man looks like he was drawn by Rob Liefeld.
"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest
“Famine is unfolding.” is it? Or is Israel deliberately starving people in Gaza with the help of the United States
This is amazing. All it cost was everything and the rest of us.
Amazing. Thanks.
These look fun. My son has been on a tabletop tear lately. Do you have a place you always go back to find these? I’d love to expand our search radius.
Such a good movie, enjoy
“You taste like a burger.”
The key change proves it
When you strip away humanity
The use of orthodoxy is telling. They don’t see their orthodoxy reflected explicitly, so the opposite orthodoxy must be the norm, which is exactly what happens when you don’t go to public schools or visit them or know anything about them.
“Maybe it should.” 😮💨 The repetition of “There will be no other end of the world” is why I love poetry. We are reminded that there will be many ends to the world, each separate and individual, but through that isolation we find ourselves in community. Contradiction of form and function - 👏🏻👏🏻
If you're going to use video games as a lens to teach history, the students need to actually play a video game. If you're going to use video games to write about history, you need to read and cite game studies. Video games aren't window dressing, they're a serious industry with an academic field.