Mike Headley (He/Him)

jfc Marissa, skill issue. Here's 3 bullet points that make MY kid special: -She's extremely creative and constantly makes / draws / paints -She has a sweet side she shows with making -She's too smart for her own good.

That's also why I'm partially so vehemently opposed to aye-eye. (Again, if you well actually into my mentions it's blockity block). The tools to actually make stuff and grow are SO accessible. And then they just want to bulldoze all that shit to make their trillionaire yacht mall.

One thing that let me do is get language to *articulate* just what the problems ARE, and help me wrap my head around how to fix them. That skill gave me the praxis to actually do my craft. Prompting doesn't give you that shit at all.

That's also why I'm partially so vehemently opposed to aye-eye. (Again, if you well actually into my mentions it's blockity block). The tools to actually make stuff and grow are SO accessible. And then they just want to bulldoze all that shit to make their trillionaire yacht mall.

With the clank slop, you make something. It doesn't meet your vision, you aren't sure why. So then the only recourse is to spend hours "learning" how to do "better prompting" and the in result is STILL shit and you aren't actually any CLOSER to your vision.

That's also why I'm partially so vehemently opposed to aye-eye. (Again, if you well actually into my mentions it's blockity block). The tools to actually make stuff and grow are SO accessible. And then they just want to bulldoze all that shit to make their trillionaire yacht mall.

Let's be clear: art is and has always been accessible. I started drawing in friggen first grade on the back of my assignments with a #2 pencil and whatever-the-fuck I had. And if you draw a lot, you learn skills and get better at drawing and making creative choices.

Ohmigosh. Like. Okay, Godot is literally a free engine that can do production level game dev. Blender is a standard. There's an explosion of creative tools that actual humans can use to make actual human stuff for actual people that we woulda killed for in 1998.

I've gotten utterly bombarded by desperate pleas for money and it's like. Yall. Literally all I hear from you is that you need money. Any actual spines? Nothing. We get milquetoast gutless shit. And I stf godzilla if we DO get a Blue Wave and they just write a stern letter I will be PISSED.

Life do be Life-ing today. Do kindly send pet pics. (Everything is fine; everything that went wrong today went first-world wrong).

I worked at a community college, a fact increasingly true over 10 years ago. I saw how INCREDIBLY power, transformative, and important education ways. I also saw simultaneously how truly fucked up it could be.

I also feel like there HAS to be some opportunity, somewhere, to reform college sports. As much as there's budget issues big schools still seem to schill out tens of millions for coaches and facilities and stuff*...

I worked at a community college, a fact increasingly true over 10 years ago. I saw how INCREDIBLY power, transformative, and important education ways. I also saw simultaneously how truly fucked up it could be.

Students shouldn't be customers. We shouldn't be worried about the ROI of an education. But that's also because an education shouldn't cost as much as *several* cars.

I worked at a community college, a fact increasingly true over 10 years ago. I saw how INCREDIBLY power, transformative, and important education ways. I also saw simultaneously how truly fucked up it could be.

I also am philosophically conflicted. I firmly believe that a Liberal Arts education, in the traditional sense of "you will learn a well-rounded bit" is important in its own right to just LEARN. I also understand students need to be able to get jobs.

I worked at a community college, a fact increasingly true over 10 years ago. I saw how INCREDIBLY power, transformative, and important education ways. I also saw simultaneously how truly fucked up it could be.

Equally clear, I literally saw students get themselves out of homelessness. I saw guys transition from construction jobs their body couldn't handle anymore to engineering jobs doing stuff they loved. Hell, one of my former students works at my current company and loves her work.

I worked at a community college, a fact increasingly true over 10 years ago. I saw how INCREDIBLY power, transformative, and important education ways. I also saw simultaneously how truly fucked up it could be.

I LEFT Education because they got a grant made by a grant-writing company that we rubber stamped to redo the remedial math education program. They hired a mathphobic former English teacher and anyway instead of asking someone like myself who literally taught and tutored remedial Math...

I worked at a community college, a fact increasingly true over 10 years ago. I saw how INCREDIBLY power, transformative, and important education ways. I also saw simultaneously how truly fucked up it could be.

All the best teachers got moved into management. The over-reliance on adjuncts to teach 80% of the load at 20% of the cost of full time faculty. A board that hired a guy with no experience in education (literally - he was from ATF). I saw students viewed as "clients."