everyday I’m codeswitchin’

Turning now to UK politics, it is incredible to me that no one in either government or media has suggested that there might be a connection between the 2 million Britons who are out of work due to ill health and the perpetually shrinking number of available jobs for university graduates

You listening, Randi? This is the kind of city leadership UFT members want

Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.” This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.

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Right on. And humanities also teach skills & dispositions which render those trained in them less susceptible to the kinds of propaganda by which powerful interests seek to control populations. They also teach you to write & speak intelligently, which Mamdani is very good at. Come study humanities!

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

I am extremely disinterested in hot takes on the New York mayoral election coming from people who are terrified of the subway

Immigrants? In New York City???? sorry i've never read a book so this sounds scary and strange to me bsky.app/profile/park...

THE LIBBING OUT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

The requirements for this job as an English professor appear to be roughly the same as those for a job at Starbucks

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

The humanities are not dead (views probably representative of my employer).

And that’s a resounding NO on putting sexual predators back into positions of power!

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

can we talk about the women ages 18-29 though??? how is that not the story here

Every talking head, strategist, and/or consultant who peddles this obvious myth should be updating their resumes right now

The country has spoken. Get ready to drink some soy milk and hire minorities.

One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong. How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.

Please, PLEASE, I am begging you as both a parent and someone who is sick of all this THIS, go vote for your school boards. Even if you don't have kids, that's how these reactionary dipshits got their feet in, that's where the book bans and library cuts start.

Head Start closures will have far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. Because the million kids who rely on the program don't have other options. And so, we're likely to see: ⬇️maternal employment ⬆️child poverty, hunger, and homelessness ⬇️school readiness and achievement long-term

“left-wing platforms don’t get non-voters to the polls”

I'm very concerned about my party's popularity. that's why I constantly highlight internal divisions, stir up intrafactional strife, and loudly broadcast and complain about anything allegedly unpopular any party member has done, at any level of government

If you’re wondering what the funny little marks over the text are, the answer is an early form medieval music notation.

Hildegard may be dead (she is, we checked) but Hildegator is alive and chompin’! find me or one of my colleagues at AMS/SMT Minneapolis this week to get one of our *limited* Hildegator of Bingen stickers!

MLA is out there doing more for faculty than AFT.

as a coastal elite, I am legally required to inform you that my group chats are demanding that Los Angeles have its own locally-informed versions of Mamdani and AOC

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I talked to one white working class boomer on Staten Island who is voting for Mamdani today, where is my NYT headline

Andrew Cuomo has been endorsed by the Chambers Street subway station.

Worth noting here that the “scandal” is that a woman was near politics.

There are so many people on the left who spend their careers doing nothing but understanding the right, whether that's reading Catholic Integralist Post-Liberal journals or parsing Groyper memes, and there's absolutely no equivalent on the Right.

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For the record, the NYC plastic bag ban is literally old enough to vote (passed in 2000). Get over it.

Happy Election Day get out and vote or don’t complain later. Local elections are extremely important.

We have a winner, you can all stop now

Forgiveness requires contrition and amends otherwise it's just permission

Two good things are going to happen today.

The magic word here is “unrestricted” — which is to say, the donor isn’t setting an agenda or making a big fancy monument to themselves, but letting the institution use the funds for the actual, practical needs.

It is also worth saying that everyone who mocks some supposedly fake discipline like “gender studies“ or “Africana studies“ is also really excited about degree programs in things like “AI prompt engineering.” Nothing wrong with a “fake” discipline if it flatters your world view and bank account!

I was under the impression that corporations are people and can do whatever they want in the ~free market~ but ok

I've spent far more time than I wish I had in the pits of "look what you can do with a PhD!" literature and one of the few threads running through all of them is that they're incredibly unconvincing because their evidence base is so undercooked. Bad anecdata and tortured leaps of logic.

"People are getting free food and they might not deserve it!" who gives a shit man literally one of the unambiguously good things about the 21st century is we have lots of excess food production and we have the capacity to have hunger be significantly less important in decision making.

The lie of AI research is that somehow we'll be able to comprehend it all and therefore we will have superior insights. This suggests not a conversation, but an endpoint. Why would I be interested in an endpoint when the conversation is so much more interesting? Once I told students to lighten up...

Apart from anything else, the "Lincoln bathroom" wasn't Lincoln's bathroom. It was Lincoln's office and cabinet room. It wasn't renovated in the 1940s, it was installed in the 1940s.

remodeling my bathroom like a king

In six years of university teaching, I experienced a single "woke police" student incident. I understand how painful and damaging it can be when people who claim to share your values try to get you fired. But I was never afraid that those students would dox me or show up to class with a gun.