This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

A lot of things suck in this lifetime, but I remember when the thought of this was incomprehensible. This is beautiful.

www.denverpost.com/2024/12/08/d... Denver prohibited low priority traffic stops. Racial disparities in stops reduced, stops for legitimate public safety issues went up, and traffic fatalities decreased.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

THREAD. Which stories get obsessive coverage and which don't is a defining feature of propaganda. Selectively focusing people on some harms and not others--or some perpetrators of harm and not others--is one way people in power increase inequality and evade accountability.

THREAD ECO-APARTHEID Gaza is currently experiencing the largest slaughter of men, women and children in decades and a destruction rate that has produced over 40 million tonnes of rubble that will take over a decade to clear.👇

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky