Teaching momentum and collisions, and while I don't teach this, I feel like KE=pv/2 is such a cheat code for both elastic and inelastic collisions. I'm worried that if I do every teach it, they'll focus on that rather than the founding principles. #ITeachPhysics

I hate these stupid Thursday night football circles. Sure AWS is handy, I guess, but that's a really not helpful use for it.

Finally made it out to the Husky Memorial after having it pinned on my map for a couple of years. I love how stuff like this starts from one small thing and then grows organically into something even bigger. . . . #HuskyMemorial #HuskyMonument

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

And then they cut away to a commercial during a non time out before anyone could say anything bad about Nazis.

Gotta point out that the opposite of a Social Democrat is an Antisocial Autocrat, and anyone who thinks that a debatable choice should be launched into the sun.

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam,Soundgarden or Alice In Chains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESkF...

Paper on how AI can help (primarily below average people) perform better, but how it also impairs self assessment among even the above average - basically nullifying the experience part of the Dunning Kruger effect. The implications for education feel serious. #eduSky arxiv.org/pdf/2409.16708

This is why we're still together. He was fixing to cut fruit for his lunches this week. I came back into the living room and this is happening. On the right, apples. On the left, knife sharpening jig. Lower left, digital magnifier. Of course we nerd out over our tools!

I would love to have an optional mode for #desmos (maybe in the scientific calculator?) that let you include units for values. My students do good with units at the specifying end, but just completely forget about them as soon as they start punching in numbers. #iTeachPhysics #ITeachChem

Our school is giving the PSAT/NMSQT today. It seems like every access code the College Board is giving us has the dreaded number pair in it. Just what you need at the beginning of a test. #eduSky

"Tell me your worst opinions" has got to die as a content mill

This morning, my car's transmission refused to go into drive. I had to turn it off, and then turn it on again. This is the state of the world right now. We are so fucked.

Things that don't show up in your teacher evals: Giving up your Saturday night plans and staying late to support and comfort a kid who is going through a suicide risk assessment because you're the adult they trust most on campus. #eduSky

Why is it that these mandatory district trainings are shining examples of pedagogical worst practices?

Therapy Good News: My EMDR treatments from this summer continue to be effective. I can now get through our district's Suicide Prevention Training without repeatedly dissociating. Doesn't keep the training from being completely horrible and soulless. OMG it's bad.

I think Aaron Rodgers with a really porous O line may be my favorite thing.

Reflecting on this and the fact that cocaine is cheap right now because so much is getting into the US, folks I think President business might be pro crime actually

I started @scalzi.com's latest last night. It brings back an earlier side character who turns out to be a Ripley level badass woman following Retief's career arc and level of snarkiness and I'm here for it.

I got another one if those letters today. Former student. Thanking me for being the one who cared, who gave them room to be a person instead of a cog in the edumachine, and through that the strength to get out of an impossible situation.

I knew Mac Jones was bad, but this is something else. I'm just disappointed that my team⚡ doesn't get to play them.

The four points (0,0,0), (1,0,a), (0,1,b), and (1,1,a+b) are all coplanar and form a parallelogram. What is the area of that parallelogram? #iTeachMath #MTBoS #MathSky

I don't use the mute function a lot, but boy howdy have the bad takes been getting bad.

Wow.

I want Chris to do PDs for administrators everywhere. I've been in that meeting where we're given the employee assistance number, and when asked if admin could maybe help contribute by lower stress just received a blank stare in response.

What are the odds that he's talking about taking on the criminals who are masking up and kidnapping legal residents without following due process?

Wow. This is a blast from the past...,

No ordinary moving sale tomorrow: Survival Research Laboratories is selling robot parts, items borrowed then orphaned, and no doubt a variety of other storied components, all out of a Petaluma warehouse they've occupied for some time. Sunday/24th from 9am-7pm! Details from Mark Pauline in alt-text:

So I just read @naomikritzer.bsky.social's two #Hugo winning stories. What a delightful way to start a new week. Thank you Naomi and the Hugo voters for leading me there.

This is great. I'm going to use it for a center of mass/moment of inertia problem. #iTeachPhysics

The way calling in for jury duty has me rehearsing my ACAB rant.

NFL⚡

I'm in an LA suburb right now, but I spent half my life in SD, and I have to give it the win.

Burger 100%.

Meh. I think tattoos, but I also think they're both overdone.

Half a lifetime ago, it would have been beach, no questions asked. I've since done a complete turnaround.

R&B. But I'm culturally disadvantaged.

This is going to be hell in a classroom. Half of the purpose of note taking is for students to have a way to engage with the material, and outsourcing that will end up being another hurdle in the learning. #EduSky

⚡⬆️ #HallOfFame

20 I hate traveling.

Making me go dig out my old MB cds.

Real discussion: CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me? CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

I think I'm going to use this a door quote to start my year this year. (I've got a 8.5x11 frame next to my door that's supposed to have my name and schedule, but I put either quotes or challenge problems into it instead)

For real this. Too many people say they want their fantasy more realistic. (A) No thank you I read fantasy to escape to a better place, and (B) how sad is your brain that you think realistic is everyone being abusive shits to each other. Thank you to all the authors that envision a better world.

Football fans getting in line to understand why "meritocracy" is a scam...

Operation spoil my spouse's foodie desires completed successfully. Definitely a once in a lifetime kind of meal (or, every couple of years at most), but oh my goodness was it delightful.

Going to give a guest talk to for an Ed class, and that second paragraph sums up the whole theme of what I'll be talking about. Thanks for the good intro blurb.