All that innocent until proven guilty stuff was mythical, like hearing about Bigfoot. Then you grow up, says Pirro!

Maybe Derrida was right, and AI prompting is nothing but infinite deferral and difference. Postmodernism is finally here (and not yet)!

Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.

When the archaeologists dig me up, they’ll mostly find scribbles and to-do lists. So much to do.

They know the midterms are going to be a bloodbath.

This guy is worse than you think. He wrote a book called Southern Slavery, As It Was which basically argued that the enslaved were happy until agitators came in stirring up trouble.

These cornballs just think we are gonna let them do whatever they want. Intelligence like a water meter? Please go to hell, sir.

I have so many thoughts about this Vladimir show. I’m 3 episodes in, so I’ll have to reserve them until the end, but the representation of the English department is both funny, yet totally unlike what departments are actually like in most places.

I reviewed Lio Min’s debut Beating Heart Baby, a queer YA romance set in perhaps the most intense high school marching band in Los Angeles.

The right-wing in power devalues education in every way they can imagine: A for-profit college, once accused of duping students, gets a lift from Washington www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Love is Blind reunion is unhinged lmao

Part of what I am so passionate about in educational reform is trying to eliminate the ways stakeholders choke out the pleasure of wonder and the “aha” moments which should occur in classrooms. There is a pleasure in thinking deeply together about an idea or a text.

Me revising an essay

I often think about a guy I talked to during Covid who was really freaked when I began to press him on purchasing all the hand sanitizer and selling them back to people at insane mark ups. I argued that should be illegal. “But that’s…that’s socialism.” Like Tim Curry in Home Alone, I smiled—“yes.”

Ex-DOGE worker may have taken  sensitive info on millions to new job: whistleblower www.rawstory.com/social-secur...

The very idea that they had all that money and effectively spent it on the same stuff Google and Facebook did for their offices in Manhattan and LA is incredible. Gotta have donuts and the ice cream machine! It builds morale!

I am growing increasingly tired of the charade that this BS is going to bring some sort of good.

The new film "Moses the Black" connects the experience of Black gang life to the ancient Egyptian Christian saint who turned from robbery to the monastery. Samantha Smith reviews director Yelena Popovic's latest, calling it an exposition of repentance. www.blackcatholicmes...

Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education is stronger than ever.

“Although a liberal education is about freedom, it does not produce a person unbounded by responsibility. Rather, [it] forms the person to extend themselves deeper into the world by affirming and loving it, and ultimately claiming responsibility for its transformation.” I needed this today.

This is an excellent article. Democrats and progressives need to start taking public education seriously again and make it a core issue, rather than cede it to corporations and extremists.

Thanks for this excellent article! As a former teacher, this really resonates. I’m sharing it widely.

Since I’m officially back on BlueSky after taking a hiatus, it’s probably a good idea to announce I’m working on a literary memoir. I’m generally at work on academic pieces, but I’m working on a story from a period in my life. As always, I can’t stop asking educational questions.

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It’s been so cool to get the positive feedback I have for this article. I hope it continues a conversation so many started before me. But it’s important. Possibly the most important. Let’s keep it going! www.liberalcurrents.com/upholding-li...

One of my first jobs was to dress up like the rat at Chuck E. Cheese. Just so you get a sense of my trajectory.

I wonder if anyone has thought that if we want to change the world, we will likely have to reorder how adults relate to young people. We have to care about formation and community.

I’ve broken my own rule this summer. Every year, when the school year finishes, I generally read a comic novel. For this particular novel, I don’t want to think about the meaning of existence, why *gestures to everything* this is happening, or anything.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

There’s an incentive to be initiated into anger and resentment. Actively fighting against that impulse has to come from a different place than simply will.

Cast the mighty from their thrones and lift up the lowly.

Avoiding culture is actually a bad strategy for Democrats, actually.

If “reading books” is going to be a culture war issue, it’s one I’m willing to die on. The stakes are, in fact, life itself.

We really are in a bad place. It’s to the point where, like magazines, schools emphasizing books may be a very niche thing. And the way it’s going, conservatives, at least in part, are often leading that conversation. It’s sick.

I didn’t realize that *every* literary arts grantee, all 51, were terminated by the NEA. lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-d...

I bought this so fast that it counts as cardio

Oh man, I feel this

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

Nobody wants to say it but AI is a culture war issue and you can’t really convince me otherwise at this point.

Most of the ppl who use phrases like “critical thinking” wouldn’t be able to give you a real explanation of what that means. “Critical thinking” is the “reduce the bottlenecks” of education.

“We gotta really rethink the future of education” no, we have “rethought” education for decades to fit around market conditions, international pandemics, globalization, pragmatism, accountability, etc etc etc. Maybe we can, idk, just study with each other. Paper, pen, and book. Nothing more.

One thing professors fail to do often is to create boundaries for how we choose to relate to each other in classes. And for some reason a lot of profs have anxiety about it. Students have a responsibility in classrooms as well. It’s not as much as profs, but it certainly exists.

Aside from the headline cracking me up, I’d say I love the fact that students are upset. It turns out they—and I really believe this—want a real education. Let’s create and incentivize what that might look like for EVERYONE in a classroom.