Reviving this thread here: Higher Education Administrators: We are fully committed to the principles of DEI and believe our institution stands for social progress in society. Higher Education Faculty: Great! We'd like to form a union. Higher Education Administrators: No, not like that.

I am proud our family are members at BJ. Rabbi Felicia Sol navigated every difficult turn in this Yom Kippur Sermon beautifully. We don't have to run away from hard things. In fact, we just shouldn't. youtu.be/H32_aWTHoUo?...

Maybe I can't save the world but I can save this little oven bird who bounced off of a building window.

Made this back in 2017. Feels evergreen:

Required reading: www.nybooks.com/articles/199...

It goes without saying that this is horrific: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Current Mood:

Our daughter is getting a double room in a suite after spending two weeks in a "forced triple" room. So Friday morning I hit the road super early to bring her remaining stuff and set it up before her pm shift in the scenery construction shop. And I have to say goodbye again. Give me strength.

Not entirely sure that the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog soundtrack is getting me in the right mood for a long teaching block...But I am not changing the music.

It isn't the biggest issue we face as a nation, but every time I see the current state of the Oval Office I want to head down to D.C. with a putty knife and a ladder and get to work fixing it.

What do you mean I am just supposed to wake up every morning and our daughter is not here? #parentofacollegekid

American Chattel Slavery was: Permanent Inheritable Imposed entirely on the basis of race Subject to virtually zero standards whatsoever and enforceable by total brutality In the history of the world that makes the "peculiar institution" in the United States especially heinous.

I’m terribly afraid that I have misled our daughter about the overall organizational skills of most of the professoriate.

The gap between higher- and lower-spending education states is growing. www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/revisit...

Watching someone you love trying to figure out how to make Apple OS do things locally is painful.

I held a very minor but elected position for 4 years. I did get the opportunity to rub a few elbows with careerist, and while the people I met were earnest and wanted to do good, the compulsion to be IN office always baffled me.

Our eldest has been on a Falsettos obsession lately, so I handed her "And the Band Played On" for context. She is both grateful and angry at me which is about the right reaction I think for someone really learning what happened and who refused to care.

I sometimes wonder if generative AI experts and commentators who assert that they are able to "sense" the artificiality in writing created by LLMs are falling into a reverse "Eliza effect" by attributing artificiality to writing because they know AI was involved rather than by objective standards.

This is not why I became a teacher educator.

Trump telling the Q-anon wing of MAGA that there are no Epstein Files is like trying to tell the world's Christians that is no Resurrection. It's an attack on an absolutely foundational belief for the movement and demanding they become ontologically unmoored moving forward.

LOL

One of the more jarring aspects of social media is how often it suggests that I follow or friend people who I know for a fact are dead.

They are threatening the university with a law school named after SCALIA.

Our daughter has been worldbuilding again for a new project, and I got a glimpse of some of her work which includes: A spreadsheet projecting the exact date of each leap day in the new world's calendar from the next 300 years. This kid never stops amazing me.

@microsoft.com has inserted #copilot into Teams and I have to say that I hate it a lot.

Our almost 13 year old car with 165K miles has an uncanny ability to develop mechanical problems right before the NJ Turnpike exit to Carteret. This time I think it is pretty well fatal.

This could become a fascinating test case in schools using Hirsch's core knowledge curriculum...

2023 data: Number of Americans killed by books: 0 Number of Americans killed by guns: 46,728 Let’s ban books then. 🤪

It's not just books. It's really anything. Parents will try to opt out of media, assemblies, field trips, etc. It'll be chaotic in some schools and districts.

Segregation Academies were too subtle?

What is the fucking point of SCOTUS? Robert and Coney Barrett being too cute for words.

"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we will be lucky to live through it."

"The admin's response to America’s youth crisis has been stunningly consistent..it has balanced occasional, vague promises to do something constructive to address [issues] on the one hand w/real & stunningly concrete attacks on children’s well-being on the other" www.the74million.org/zero2eight/h...

Coco Gauff is a stone cold assassin.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

once again I must tap my own sign

I did not have Elon Musk Accuses Trump of Being In The Epstein Files quite so early on my 2025 Bingo card, but it says something that it was never entirely off the table.

The inversion in anti-vax ideology under Kennedy is breath taking: It was "we demand the right to not protect ourselves and our children no matter the consequence to others." Now it is "we demand the right to prevent your protecting yourself and your children no matter the consequence to you."

In retrospect, I bet a decent argument can be made that America's decline can be roughly tied to the fact that Uncrustables were successfully marketed.

I'll take the "Biden was in serious decline and it was hidden" narrative more seriously when the media stops treating Trump's behavior as personality quirks instead of what it is: evidence of dangerously disqualifying psychosis on top of his authoritarianism.

Hey, Vector Solutions, not only is your training boring, predictable, and creepily narrated, your standard for password security has been out of date for years and leads to passwords that machines can guess but humans cannot remember.

I'd feel better about the integrity of my work mandated "data security and privacy training" if Vector had paid an actual human being to do the voice over.

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This is our new puppy. I have named him Peter because everyone's friendly, neighborhood spider should be named Peter:

Niche content but I am here for it.

4th Mother's Day without Mom, and it still feels fresh.

Academic Office Politics 101: Never pull a gun on someone unless a) you know you can pull the trigger, b) you know the gun is loaded, and c) you are certain the gun is actually a gun and not, say, a banana. Literally astonishing how many otherwise brilliant people don't grasp this.

"The Day the Pope Came From Chicago" does not have the same lyric genius as "The Day the Pope Came to New York."