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To live in a world where ideas were to be wrestled with instead of commodified as checks on rubric tick sheet...

Could you imagine if 300 was released today?

It was the fall of '08 & I started working with a guy who was a United fan and tried to get all the guys in our dept to find a team to follow. I wanted a team that wasn't Arse/Pool/Oil money and remembered watching Spurs a few times back when I was in college and thought To Dare is To Do was legit.

Seeing Dawn Staley continuing to make Kim Mulkey act like a petulant child will never not be appointment viewing.

"empty plains" - get the fuck outta here.

Real "it's not surveillance unless it's from the surveillance region of late state capitalism" energy here.

Can we turn this into a poster? I'd buy a few.

The only thing to save Spurs now: FRAAB

Seeing fieldworkers produce their own histories, knowledge, narratives, and generally assert their power and voice over the world has been sugarcane plantation owners' greatest fear.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Probably gonna skip listening to NPR on the way to work tomorrow morning...

Telling my students this was Simon Bolivar:

[You're actually better at using Excel than copilot is. Yes even you.]

PepsiCo in reality: www.reuters.com/article/worl...

Who would have thought that not using your brain is bad for your brain.

So are we doing this or what??

Generalize your skeets. What’s your most typical, most average skeet? "Neither the CB nor AI will save us and we should be insulted by those who continue to sell the snake oil."

Worry about this asshat 🖕🖕

Would love to see my union stand in solidarity. Another good idea I saw in the thread was to buy a gift card from a place or two that is sticking on the 23rd. Do I have any MN peeps on here? @erbeckman.bsky.social can I send you a gift card?

General strike when?

Got a new phone today and recycled the box within one hour of getting it.

We're starting the Haitian Revolution this week in class - will need to find a way to bring this source in:

Conversation happening in our house tonight you can feel free to weigh in on. Do you think someone who has a history degree and teaches high school history is a historian? Curious what you all out there think.

I finally had some time to watch Al Jazeera's new documentary series on the British, French, and Spanish empires - and man let me tell you the AI slop, and resulting inaccuracies, were really disappointing to see. Some examples:

Of course there will be weird dudes obsessed with playing Roman Empire in a post-apocalyptic hellscape...

Neither here nor there, but the ending of Netflix's Marco Polo will have to go down as Exhibit A on why you don't end a season on a cliff hanger in the streaming age.

I may have googled "how to challenge a sitting senator"

We need to do a better job of teaching our students that the US want for control over the Americas is not some recent fever dream.

We've gone from "standardized tests clearly discriminate against marginalized groups" to "let's use that discrimination to benefit us" God I hate this timeline so much.

We weren't really arguing about slop - you just didn't want to hear our actual arguments and tried to dismiss them and blow us off by saying we were unhappy about the slop.

Well if this doesn't hit the nail right in the head:

Can we sign ourselves up for this list or????

Why do kids hate school and where has everyone's sense of creativity gone? I give you Exhibit A:

Will put this on the TV to start class when we return in January. Me: Why did this make Mr. Busch laugh at 850pm during break and startle his wife? Class: [hopefully explaining chess to me] Me: Great, you just provided contextualization to something.

Sage advice:

Hie is it I'm just now hearing about TOO HOT TO HANDEL: The Gospel Messiah?!?

If I was an AFT member I'd be demanding your resignation.

Thinking of all the Christmases past where we stayed up to all hours playing pinochle and listening to "Christmas" on my Grandparent's Zune. Hoping everyone is able to create some memories this year with those most dear to them.

I honestly think the “AI college student that doesn’t read,” is quickly becoming the new “rural Ohio Diner,” in journalism: Something passed off as being the status quo and the norm, but a minor amount of research shows how wrong that is.

Can't wait for all those ardent free-marketeers to start prattling on and on about moral hazard again like is 2008/9 all over again...

You know you're supposed to be on the side of labor right??? Because your continued attempts to push AI really show you're on the side of management.

Remember when all those NFT bros got pissed off when people would just CTRL C CTRL V their images? This is even better.

Continue to loudly not accept this AI bullshit. It's tiring, but it's working. www.techradar.com/computing/fi...

As someone a little familiar with history and not usually wont to make statements of hyperbole, I can pretty confidently say there is no more manufactured conflict in our day and age than the War on Christmas™

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