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A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

Just a reminder that there is no good data to support these uses in K12, we are just testing it live all on kids who won’t ever be these ages again and can’t get them back if we fuck it up.

This show is so delightful. The popcorn episode is actually quite moving, an investigation of the small and loving ways people try to make other people’s experience better. That’s what most episodes are about, actually. Let’s help them afford health insurance!

hey so I figured out why we’ve murdered higher ed & expunged all the people there we don’t like

Today we (@propublica.org) published this map of every location with an active 287(g) agreement with ICE. (with the help of @tituslegaldesign.com's initial data analysis). Read the story: "The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Ingram, Texas, Neighbors" www.propublica.org/article/depo...

The mainstream argument that teachers aren't capable of lesson planning and instructional design is a deliberate attempt to create conditions for more corporate control in schools, especially through ed tech. We should resist teachers being ventriloquist dummies for Cambium, HMH, and Sam Altman.

Any reason's a good reason to share this interview with the designer of the Cheesecake Factory interiors.

the point of cheesecake factory is it's classy AND fancy AND trashy AND goofy. staff in fresh-pressed restaurant whites but half the menu items are cheeseburgers. you look equally normal eating there in a suit or in jorts. kris jenner filmed a music video there. it's the fever dream of John Everyman

a green new deal president and they redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe

His Gofundme is here for folks who can help out: gofund.me/1f23632cd

I would also add that classroom teachers benefit from gifted programs, especially in elementary, because they get the weirdos out of their hair, if only for a little while, while giving everyone the pretext that it's for students' benefit

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

Democrats do not fund curiosity-driven humanities research. They do not believe in doing so. They are unlikely to change their perspective any time soon. They will not, in their current ideological form, rebuild the NEH at anywhere near the capacity needed even given the chance.

Right now, public funding for academic research even in Democratic states is contingent on that research supporting for-profit economic development or job training. The other type of public funding available is for right-wing “civic” thought. Nobody is supporting peer-reviewed humanities scholarship

Wisconsin is one of two states I've lived in whose insularity leads to the kind of evolutionary cultural craziness you find in animals in the Galapagos or language in isolated settlements. This is what hath been wrought in the name of sausage

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Trumpism has succeeded because his side draws up a passionate core and supplements it with gigantic media presence. There is no alternative to this. Goody-two-shoes "let's participate in democracy together" crap goes nowhere. You can only defeat fascist power with progressive power. /end

TREE LAW.

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

Policy idea to deal with "burdensome" traffic fines: If a driver is issued more than $1000 in traffic tickets, we should take away their license, thus ensuring they will not get any more fines.

Doin’ my part, I suppose jhttps://www.chronicle.com/article/humanities-dissertations-have-declined-far-more-steeply-than-those-in-the-social-sciences-report-findso

Much of the modern digital world only exists because of human social norms. The Internet's backbone exchanges data at light speed because a bunch of regular folks, essentially, shake hands & agree to do so. Lots of fragile, vital infrastructure only survived because nobody decided (yet) to knife it.

Your takeaway from the Israeli statement should be to remember that the 3.4 million Palestinians of the West Bank live under a permanent and unaccountable military-security state that has existed for nearly sixty years, and that every major political party in Israel is committed to maintaining it.

I am a huge disaster nerd (hi @nameshiv.bsky.social and @rahaeli.bsky.social) and my first obsession as a kid was the Titanic it really cannot be overstated how absolutely heroic the Carpathia was once they learned what had happened to the Titanic, this is worth your time

This is why I have been deep in the weeds on this case. This is about DC as a city that has its own civic spaces and Hains Point and its surrounding course is open to any comer.

In my most curmudgeonly moments, I don’t see why presenting the prose output of a machine built on mass theft as your own scholarly work should be evaluated less harshly than old school plagiarism. Traditional plagiarists at least had to identify and evaluate the works they were going to copy.

It’s striking how much of the higher ed organizing on the political Right is focused on the epistemic content of teaching and scholarship - and how there is basically not much of a response to that from either scholarly associations or the political Left.

East Potomac costs $42 to play and hosts thousands of people each year. A lot of the players are beginners. A lot of them don't have that much money. A lot of them are black. This is the course Donald Trump has decided shouldn't exist, and in the past, he's been fairly explicit about why not

We have an opportunity to really expand upon transit in the US, emphasizing more funding to communities that want to expand options while maintaining support for communities with high ridership. Read the full analysis:

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It’s simple. Pedagogical routines: ✅ High quality curriculum: ✅ Support for new teachers: ✅ Database of lesson plans: ✅ Option instructional materials: ✅ Scripted lessons from companies: ❌ Mandating scripted lessons: ❌🔥🚫 No one is arguing that teachers HAVE TO create all materials from scratch.

Once we allow part of our work to be automated in the name of clearing our plate, then one of two things happens: the empty space on our plate is quickly filled with something else, or administration decides automating workflows means they can spend less on faculty lines

This question applies to lot of professional organizations right now.

washington dc is not trump’s personal property and must be given statehood to prevent this kind of abuse in the future