“The ship I was educated on sank” theberkshireedge.com/simons-rock-...

Negativity bias has a bunch of people immediately gravitating to believing the worst about folks. YET in reality, most people are pretty decent and are trying to live their lives. Folks buy into the "people are terrible" hype and that only serves other terrible people.

One of my grad students has decided to have her students do the most crucial readings OUT LOUD together in class and it actually sounds like something the kids will find kind of cozy and cute

Honestly one of the hardest parts of being a solo mom is that there is so often no one there to witness your parenting challenges and triumphs; no one to deliver the news that you are, after all, an OK, even Good mom, when you really do most need it

Praxis

Realizing that my pedagogy goals this quarter are essentially to create a Montessori classroom for adults

Xmas eve layover in Salt Lake City turned into an overnight due to a snowstorm. Airline bussed us to a Ramada Inn over an hour from any open restaurant, grocery, or convenience store and so a hundred people had to line up to get Xmas eve dinner from the hotel’s single vending machine. I got a Twix

I’m of the school of thought where if it’s ideology of course it’s more or less incoherent; less incoherent is better, but a coherent worldview would mean you had Grasped Totality

Wealthy adults go to spa retreats for the experience your son or daughter could have at their public middle school, my friends, if we all just keep our eyes on the prize here

This is 🤯 - more please

Everything is possible. That's what the fascists are demonstrating, maybe this will get through everyone else's head.

I know my position within the academy is different. I’m keenly aware. I know what the attacks on HE look like and that we are in no way suited to defend them. I’ve tried to hold my mule. But this? This makes me want to pop out so badly. You don’t have an ethical responsibility to use A.I.

decided to start doing my letterboxd again; anyone out here letterboxd.com/aNancyMeyers...

formative experience for all elder millennials amirite ladies

Just imagine a world where we poured the billions of dollars and effort that are currently going into sexy chatbots that tell you to put glue in your pizza sauce and eat a small rock a day into things like this instead

Always fun to get "WorkLife" emails from UW on "how to budget" and then to realize that my childcare (monthly tuition is set by the UW), rent (below area median), student loan (below national median), electricity, and internet add up to 80% of my take-home income before, like, food

They could have "smarter humans" right now by reading a fucking book

"Do the Next Right Thing" from Frozen II is the preschooler's version of Bernadette Mayer's "The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica" and both made me cry today! Hello blue sky

Say it again for those in the back: HUMANITIES USUALLY SUBSIDIZE STEM at most R1s. Yes we have receipts.

I am crying with happiness So proud I am from the same state as this dog

"people are just not built for modern times, that's why everyone's sick and nuts" DID IT EVER OCCUR TO U THAT MODERN TIMES SHOULD BE BUILT FOR US

Not the assignment but I once lived with a serious boyfriend who only read Céline, Knut Hamsun, Jean Giono, Huysmans, and Thomas Bernhard. Great guy but boy did literature frighten and confuse me for a minute there

During the early weeks of the New York City printers' strike, Times reporters dictated their copy to the Western edition office by phone. The company ran up a SIXTY THREE THOUSAND DOLLAR TELEPHONE BILL. There is no lesson in this. I am just amazed

Mechanical Turk: 21st century spectacle edition.

Watching this Computer Programmer instruction guide from 1976, I'm reminded that being a programmer was somewhat gender coded as a woman's job, like an advanced secretary job, until the modern computer era. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-gp...

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them

It’s how I became an air conditioning historian!

LOL at the prose in this article. Maybe the author practices what she preaches?

A lot of what guides the populist right as seen in Hungary or the USA is a belief that the cultural trends they don't like are conspiratorially imposed by academics and journalists and entertainers. So they can impose their will on these groups and see the cultural change they want rather easily.

Turns out some people will vote exclusively in their own self-interest! Really makes u think 🤔

The labor done by prisoners is NOT mainly for profit. People in prison work to REPRODUCE the prison itself. They are engaged in maintaining the prison - cleaning, cooking, etc etc etc.

please UNDERSTAND this. It's why I just can't stand the "private prisons" discourse. No matter how many times I explain that this is NOT the problem re: US prisons. People refuse to understand that the vast majority of US PRISONS ARE PUBLIC. PUBLIC and NOT OPERATING WITH PROFIT IN MIND.

I'm not crying you're crying

Cannot emphasize enough that, if you dislike doing the things academics do (reading, writing, developing and expressing opinions about things you've read) enough to try to make a chatbot do them for you, there are lots of actual humans who would be happy to take that unpleasant job off your hands

among the things we apparently need to do a better job of going forward - as a society, it seems - is communicating the basic conceit of what learning is and why we value it. a problem that we in higher ed share with our K-12 colleagues

I watched a young adult person just struggle his way through counting coin change in a line and we really need a lot of public health information campaigns, a 24/7 public Sesame Street channel, & a moratorium on all education debt. We will get more prisons, eugenics and AI.

If you want to make yourself miserable go to the /r/ChatGPT/ subreddit and search the word "professor"

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

Imagine being Zizek's analyst

Comma splice for extra vagueness

You *must* swallow your impulse to parse and nitpick and find fault with protestors’ actions right now. We need solidarity so badly. It’s literally all we have. I am begging you, as a mother of 2 kids who is terrified of martial law, to find it in yourself to support the protestors. We need you.

[regular brain] privacy as a luxury that only the rich can afford, hmm [glowing brain] do they really want the data of people who need to sell it? [galaxy brain] holy shit bespoke brokerages help billionaire tweens sell data for tens of thou passive income monthly wealth begets wealth aaa

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

The most demoralizing moment of my teaching career thus far: assigning Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing, asking students to spend 20 min doing nothing, then either attend class discussion or stay home and write a 300w reflection. Offered 100% for completion. Four students used ChatGPT. We’re cooked

Wow wow we are really still doing this aren’t we

Just learning about this but I am so, so in favor of Large Teen Gatherings

Golf dudes in Staten Island can only deserve this

no one ever told me that Jenny Marx named every single one of her daughters Jenny