y'all these people are unserious

The Texas Board of Education will be voting on a required reading list next week. If you want to testify, need to register in advance. You can submit an informal comment, but I think they are under no obligation to consider those.

"Small wonder that adolescents are struggling with nihilism and despair, when we’ve taught them that nothing they do during their six-hour school day can matter for its own sake."

The Texas Board of Education will be voting on a required reading list next week. If you want to testify, need to register in advance. You can submit an informal comment, but I think they are under no obligation to consider those.

Sure

Again, I ask, who is it who is killing Homer? (And Steinbeck, and Morrison, and Cather,and Dickens!)

fn 54 in Calder 1978 "The Correspondence between Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Mollendorf with Werner Jaeger"

Again for a later crowd--please help us get moms for liberty out of our school board of trustees!!!

This is adult vision forum cosplay, and it ought to be too embarrassing to post

Come and take it, unless its our first amendment rights, Texas will happily hand those rights over 🤠

Mike is running against a book banner and "parents rights advocate" on our school board (NEISD). If you can, it would help greatly to chip in a little bit to help get him elected! I cannot emphasize enough that the incumbent needs to go before TEA takes over! ilikemike.vote

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

knowles is on the clt advisory board now

Rushdoony's "expert" testimony transcript from Leeper vs. Arlington ISD, presented without comment

I hate this so much but I did it with my students today and I think it probably works youtu.be/NUq-8hvNgqU?...

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"In other words, while liberal arts majors—such as anthropology, psychology, and education—have long been among the worst-paid majors, the very skills often taught in those career paths are becoming more valuable, not less."

if I had this whiteboard setup I just know I would be unstoppable

This doesn't have to keep happening. It is possible to craft worlds where women and children are safe, rather than objects to be either dominated or protected from the domination of others. It is possible to create a world where people can just be safe in their bodies.

Happy Dr. Richard Kimble Day everyone

I forgot about this scene, and am just now realizing it wired my brain at some point

It’s been said before, but the extent to which the academic, cultural, professional and pedagogical world was already governed in a way amenable for LLMs to succeed, well before LLMs existed, gets far too overlooked.

i genuinely do not understand why *anyone* would want a phd if they're trying to outsource their thinking to claude. like, there are no jobs, no work-life balance, no resources (for most of us), and the work gets tougher every year. the thinking is the only fun part, i promise.

Go look at the moon

Overheard an undergrad say "I deleted TikTok and my screen time went from 12 hrs to 3 hrs" exsqueeze me 12 hrs

"..the moment where students can no longer appear as subjects of initiative and responsibility and are turned into objects of educational intervention. This is the point where education turns into indoctrination – the point where education itself comes to an end."

reading about greek particles here and there, and I keep imagining an ensemble cast of muppet-like personified particles with a bedraggled, kermitesque narrator (c.f. bonifazi.chs.harvard.edu

it was accent day today in Greek class!

Not exactly shocking news but it's worth noting that Hubbard seems to have requested money from Epstein to fund an anti-Title IX conference (something in line with, say, his class & multiple conference talks about how women are regularly making false rape claims) thetexasorator.com/2026/02/03/d...

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

in the first attempt I get almost nothing keepable! a phrase or two, a thought, just some spare parts. you know what you can do with spare parts? a whole lot! /thread

yes, because ultimately, christian nationalism and its classical education project is fundamentalist in its approach to knowledge and learning. Curiosity has to be limited, there is no open-mindedness. the CLT is a christian nationalist project.

H (5), musing at bedtime:"Ina (Garten) is non fiction. And I am nonfiction" (In my head) well actually we tell ourselves stories and our selves are the stories we tell, so jot that down

Learning to read closely is a civic duty and poetry teaches it better than almost any other discipline

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

Mr. Rogers: "You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful than any computer could ever be. You know why? You're a living human being, and a computer is just a machine. Human beings are far more wonderful than machines."

Mom insists we have both scalloped and mashed potatoes. Every year we have to deal with about 3 lbs of leftover mashed potatoes, because who goes for mashed when this is available?

love this time of year, when I get to answer existential questions about frosty the snowman, santa, and jack skellington

Take greek and latin, we don't talk at all about "use cases" only "case uses"

Take greek and latin, we don't talk at all about "use cases" only "case uses"

What this reveals is that for most people in charge right now “AI” is less useful as a technology than as a piece of language to shift a conversation in whatever direction they need it to go. In one minute it will propel a new economy; in another it’s the reason for a recession.

Its imperative that you read all the way to the end

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