Who knew that I'd get to witness the great filter in action in my lifetime?

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Happy thing for today: That band that played in front of the Subaru dealership makes it to the top of Billboards alternative top 40 last week: youtube.com/shorts/Dh9c3...

For the shape of the world today does not afford us the luxury of an anemic democracy, the price that America must pay for the continued oppression of the Negro and other minority groups is the price of its own destruction. Martin Luther King, Jr. Feb 5, 1964 Drew University

Newest member of the household.

It drives me nuts that the reporting is "oh, he was wrong" rather than "he's a lying thief who is stalking the entire economy!"

Kiss him with my boot!

I spend so much of my time teaching my kids about this - phlogiston, humorism, Lamarkism/Lysenkoism, geocentric solar system, Martian canals and my favorite - Michaelson Morley's attempt to establish the reference of luminiferous ether, which was the first domino on the way to relativity.

Edward Muppethands

NEW writing: a letter to these brave Angelenos "I see your efforts to oppose the terrible actions of la migra, which has terrorized our Black and Brown communities in Los Angeles for generations, as part of a proud tradition of STEM students and practitioners who refuse to shut up and calculate."

I went to two different high schools, so I'll take Julia Child and Octavia Butler.

Should probably get this for my spouse on a t-shirt.

A word. Hoo boy.

#MTBoS This thread and its responses highlight, to me, the difference between what math is perceived to be in elementary and secondary, and how those who get careers in it end up practicing it.

All books taken together form a kind of world. And what we have here is a technology that creates a desolate patch of ground. If you create enough desolate places, you will find some unlucky customers to live in that desert! This happened to community, the web, too, and then commerce.

Post a banger that isn't in English. youtu.be/JXc5oY2NaCk?...

I kind of hate that I have to use this transparency hack in 3D Desmos #iTeachMath www.desmos.com/3d/c7yxjkn8nk

I've electronic music DJs between me and progressive democrats, and math teachers between me and AI slop producers. I feel like my walls are .... thin.

Watching Superbowl ads and I'm thinking I'm really a lot more worried about AI in my ads than ads in my AI.

I think what's most damning about this is that even now most of them would deny that the purpose of those dinners was to collect and influence white men, rather than "just providing an opportunity for scientists to mingle".

Oof. A word.

Sure wish I heard these kinds of stories from the Los Angeles Mayor and council. Instead, they're kowtowing to the PD who refuse to enforce the law and assault protesters.

I fucking love math

In honor of February, I'm going to recommend this podcast by @sceneonradio.bsky.social for making me aware of just of how whiteness has driven the Black and Indigenous experience in America. It is what allowed me to understand Baldwin, Lourde, hooks, Crenshaw... sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/

You know? I regret every single dollar I've ever donated to a Democrat.

Me, dealing with the world, huffing N20 and realizing there's a vanishingly small community that would appreciate "Would you rather have two 14 inch balloons, or one 18 inch?" #iteachmath

Call Mayor Bass. Phone: (213) 978-0600 Online Contact Form: mayor.lacity.gov/contact Call your Local Rep: neighborhoodinfo.lacity.gov Call the City Attorney: cityattorney.lacity.gov/contact-us Email: [email protected] This is all so fucking insane.

Some people just like making dirty dishes for the sake of having more stuff to clean.

One of the things that sucks about limited time off as a teacher is trying to schedule end of life stuff for a pet. Bleagh.

I think an important metric for how effective AI is in education is seeing how well students can demonstrate understanding without AI after having learned with it. Very little of the discussion I've seen treats AI as a scaffold rather than a crutch. #EduSky

How can you have a movie titled The Wrecking Crew and not have it be a Matt Helm reboot?

Who Would Jesus Kill?

If you ever complain that your TBR pile grows faster than you can get through it, guess what you could be doing instead of doom scrolling here?

Call your reps and tell them that if they don't put forward and support a no confidence vote in the current leadership, that you will support, both financially and by volunteering, their opponents to the best of your ability in the next election.

I read this at the beginning of last year, and it felt like it might be the best thing I'd read all year. I'm not sure it was, but only because I've enjoyed so much of what I've read this year.

Breakfast in San Pancho

I'm off to go watch a football game in a minute, so these are just first thoughts. I think the locus of lines connecting tangent points of all possible planes with two spheres creates a cone whose axis goes through the center of both spheres. After that it's just arithmetic.

My conspiracy theory is that this Netflix NFL thing is only being done to make ESPN look good in comparison.

Silly #Desmos thingy inspired by the spinning wad of burning steel wool image. www.desmos.com/calculator/b...

Even though I've been happily married for decades, I will still eat bachelor chow. Grilled ham&cheese:

Tornado warning? In Southern California? (And apparently we're right in the risk area).

I was just thinking that, as a creative tool, drugs have a much better track record than AI. There are countless geniuses in a variety of fields who used mind altering substances to work their craft. Yet I hear no one clamoring to help our students effectively do that...

Fuck these homer announcers for the Cowboys game. I'm glad their team is getting their asses kicked.⚡

I had a former student visit. She has, in the four years since I've seen her, completed two bachelor's degrees, transitioned, and developed an enthusiasm for the whole breadth of human experience that I find wonderfully endearing. It's why we do this job.

I wouldn't trust an economist, period, after watching them for several decades. But I'm also reminded of Feynman's rather flawed take on psychology. He just couldn't handle anything that wasn't as deterministic as physics.

This is me.

Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel

My shingles vax was nothing compared to my typhoid vax, and that was really mild compared to any actual illness I've had in the past five years. Hell yeah I'm getting all the pokes.

Not only are we forced into "one size fits all" curricula, but then we are directed to differentiate our instruction. It makes no sense.

I will never get tired of Butker missing wide right.