Will Richardson, Future Serious

One modern skill is pattern recognition... Heat dome here, heat dome there... Ah...it'll pass.

Now that's a headline: "Heat dome to broil western US ahead of North American monsoon." Move along, nothing to see here...it'll all be ok... After all, the kids look happy... (PS...that picture is one reason why we're not getting it...)

Our president is a blithering idiot. #thatisall

Why I decided to listen to any of this rambling, self-aggrandizing bullshit of a speech is beyond me. But a part of me thinks we should subject every single person in the country to listen to the whole thing.

I mean... He's a parody of himself.

Merkley had a pretty effective day. Or will have, if you make this go viral.

The end of the world is nigh... I mean seriously, how disconnected can you get?

I wish I'd had this example when I was teaching journalism to high school kids. It's not living up to it's "Fourth Estate" calling much these days...

Seriously, can someone, anyone please tell me why you know who can just order up all of these executive orders without any, zero, nada oversight? I mean, wtaf? I thought we had, ahem, "checks and balances"...

Anyone who thinks that these "rebounds" in the market are not market manipulation isn't paying attention. Send the Treasury Secretary out after a down day to suggest that talks with China are "progressing," but don't forget to grab some oversolds before you do. Brazen.

"I'm pissed" needs to be the rallying cry. T-shirts. Bumper stickers. Tattoos... edition.cnn.com/2025/04/15/p...

Idiots.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down each layer of the "sheer lawlessness" of the Trump deportation case. (1/2)

Jesus.

Signs of our times.

One thing you can do right now to push back against the oligarchs: Stop buying their products. Hell, stop buying new stuff in general. We need an army of non-consumers of all that crap we "want" but don't "need." #justsayin

I had an amazing interview with seven students and a head of school in Bangalore where kids are actually being told the truth about what's happening in the world and give the space and support to attack those challenges in meaninful and engaging ways. What a concept.

I thought someone was taking care of this...

Here's what's lighting me up the last couple of days: I've found a couple schools, one in Bangalore and one in Compton, where students are being told the harsh truths about the world and are encouraged to work on meaningful projects to address those challenges. What a concept. Film at 11.

My latest on Substack: "Here's the point: it’s ok to feel 'woo-wee.' In fact, it may be required. Feeling yourself as land, or sensing all other life as kin, or allowing it all to “dream through us” is language that’s asking us to go into spaces we aren’t used to going...that's a good thing."

#collapse We teaching this?

"More wealth = more ecosystem destruction." We get this, right?

"Rather then expect tech, the market and the state to "fix" healthcare, we're better off accepting the system has no solutions because the profit streams and power structure are sacrosanct and cannot be touched, even though they're the source of the problem." Amen. We teaching this?

If you're in #education and you haven't started thinking about how to best serve the climate migrant children that are almost certainly in your future, now might be a good time...

For all of you going gaga over J. Haidt's #1 bestseller "The Anxious Generation," take deep breath. He's wrong. #thatisall

Not sure when I’ve been so profoundly impacted by works of art as these: “Parallel Universes of War and Peace” Just a warning…some of these are pretty disturbing. But we can’t turn away. instagram.com/ugurgallen

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results” – Albert Einstein I mean, just look at the picture associated with this story. Attention #education: This is not how young humans #learn best. But, yeah, let's just keep tweaking...

Amen. Stay focused.

In case anyone is looking to fill up an hour, I had a great podcast conversation with Steve Walker recently. Have a listen.

Iowa wants to eliminate any reference to climate change from its state science standards. I have thoughts.

Thank god we have a new president in office who has promised to take care of this... Whew!

"Schools were built for a time that no longer exists, and school leaders must widen their perspectives from the constant and specific demands they’re facing to consider bigger questions—much bigger questions..." My new piece with Homa Tavangar in NAIS Magazine. #education

“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost effective.” ~Kurt Vonnegut

Oh good...now guys with guns are going to be ALLOWED to enter schools to round up immigrant children because, you know, they're a huge threat... Move along. Nothing to see here. It'll all work out.

I just knew I shoulda kept the laptop shut today...

It's not just California... There's going to be a "Great Insurance Migration" as well...

This week's provocation: Mission Critical #education #schooling #learning

The evolution of the planetary boundaries framework: the last 15 years. Hmmm...