I'm just saying: it's never been easier to "work in education" without having any of that work take place in an actual classroom or school And I don't believe this is a good thing for students

What feels like a pretty clear trend over the last 25 years: more and more adults working in education but not in actual schools What we have zero evidence of: students and schools being better off as a result of this

We don’t kill people for sucking! We shouldn’t kill people for anything really!

Hey the guy that makes the deepfake generator and suicide machine is gonna get into the murderbot business sounds great what could go wrong

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

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The New School, founded by faculty literally fleeing fascist loyalty oaths, is about to set up one of these while firing their actual humanities faculty It is detestable The estate of bell hooks should demand her name be erased from their overpriced cafeteria walls

This is a particular kind of anti-fatness that shows up on the left: the "hold corporations accountable for creating fat people" stuff. Yes absolutely, corporate accountability across the board, within & beyond food industries. Just stop mobilizing animus against fat people to make your point.

“Low enrollment“ is always a bad argument (tho one that many humanists buy into in worries about “declining” majors) but it’s a particular sham at a research university. These are vital, active research fields that produce important knowledge, which is why research universities must support them.

This is it. Way past time for everyone in this country - literally everyone - to find practical ways to support trans people and immigrants, this regime's primary targets. Starting right now, find something practical to do to actually help people.

Students feel like they can’t enroll in majors like Af-Am Studies and WGSS because they’re getting messages from all sides that they’re not remunerative. And yet they desperately want the knowledge, so classes are full. That seems to be the situation everywhere.

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There are red states with fully universal pre-k. It's absolutely unacceptable for even the most corporate-friendly Democratic governor to put forward a means tested "universal" preschool proposal in 2026.

Poller : what's ur single issue me : v e n g e a n c e Poller : oh ok i mean like in what way are we talking immigration or taxation or me : V E N G E A N C E

Analysis: Tonight's speech gives Donald Trump an opportunity to revitalize his failing presidency. To do so, he must not sound like Donald Trump, have the priorities of Donald Trump, or be Donald Trump. Joining us are three pundits with seven figure incomes who believe this might happen.

"We have literally been talking about this for decades," says Carl, proudly. "That's why some many people have come down to be a part of it. Some of my friends were glad it happened today, so they could quit hearing about it!"

one part of the problem is that we’re at risk of losing teachers who, as students or in their professional lives, experienced another kind of system

For The New York Times to choose to publish Jesse Singal today, of all times, is a choice to attack trans people, to make them even more vulnerable while they are already under attack. It is an appalling abdication of the Times’s journalistic duties.

My abuelo went to NYC from Cuba during WWII and he worked as a snow shoveler for years before saving enough money to go back to Cuba so he could really start his life. Till his very last day - and I am not kidding - he carried his NYC snow shoveler ID in his wallet with pride. Respect is long due.

I don't think the "Einstein" or other AI replacing the important steps of learning, esp in higher ed, would be posing quite the challenge it is right now if students hadn't been sent the message their entire lives that the point of college is to get good grades and a high paying job, not to learn.

"accreditation is months away from fully breaking" feels like should be a bigger story? suffice it to say, @bakerdphd.bsky.social isn't an expert known for her hyperbole

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“Great Man” theories of history may have been wrong but “That F*ing Guy” theory looks increasingly plausible.

I loved this piece.

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Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

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Nobody believes this anymore but it’s absolutely true! The COVID-19 pandemic was as bad as it was not just because Trump bungled it, but because he actively made it worse from the start. Almost everyone has forgotten this.

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

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"make DC Paris-er"

It's not an accident that the most genuinely exciting and meaningful technological developments from the past few decades have not been incorporated into our cultural mythology of what counts as "tech innovation." That mythos is purely reserved for the products coming from Silicon Valley...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

I wish I believed academia was ready for co-written dissertations in the humanities. Yeah, dissertations, paired work (or bigger teams!) between people with true expertise in different arenas. The most obvious/urgent (IMO) is in languages, but there are many kinds of expertise that might work.

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

It is so hard to find a cheap way for our 6-year-old to play some soccer for fun that isn't about professionalization and competition. He is 6!

I want to remind everyone of the Wayback, where education staff can find their original pages and restore them exactly as they were with some copy-paste action.

Reminded that there are few more corrosive trends in higher education in recent years than the divide and conquer approach to undermining faculty solidarity by focusing on numbers of majors. Each degree pathway at an institution is strengthened by each other form of expertise available to students.

"Researchers found that walkable city design—not personal motivation—was the key factor behind people taking 1,100 more steps per day." www.scientificamerican.com/article/movi...

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Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

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Let me tell you what happens when they can’t manufacture enough parts for critical medical equipment: the companies will exit making that equipment and your insurance company will say “too bad, do your best to keep it working”. Phillips did this with pediatric ventilators.

AI is revolutionizing the world! A Playstation now costs $5,000 and this is the last phone you will ever own.

This is crazy. Raw milk is really dangerous, and it’s because of bacteria that you can’t see (so a clean-looking cow or nice farmer isn’t a defense). Pasteurization is simply a simple reliable way of doing what women used to do, which is boil milk before drinking. Don’t drink or sell raw milk.

it is not enough to disable the feature that produces an AI summary of my emails at the top of my emails in gmail, I need a button that delivers an electrical shock to the person who thought it was a good idea

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