Cleveland forever, Ohio never (in Simpsons B Sharps episode style)

Clean indoor air is *the* main answer to the spread of respiratory disease. Just like in the 20th century we agreed potable water and unpolluted outside air were public goods, in the 21st we should be mandating air changes per hour and filtration inside.

It's been hours since these arrived and I'm no closer to deciding which goes on tomorrow morning's eggs @barrysoh.bsky.social @newkshotsauce.bsky.social

NEW — Belfast-based writer @hleehurley.com talks about the racist pogroms that have terrorized his city, how existing tensions in Northern Ireland (and *not* Elon Musk) primed local factions to turn violent, and how Minnesota’s response to ICE inspired their community to care for one another:

I think you make cool videos or art that I find thought-provoking or entertaining. Tech CEOs think you make "content" because they don't care about its qualities beyond driving traffic. When you call yourself a "content creator", you're aligning with the tech bros' vision rather than fans'.

Fellow cis people: Making up “cutesy” pronouns for yourself is literally making a game and a joke out of people’s identities. It’s so fucking disrespectful and dismissive. Take pronouns seriously.

This from @grantbrisbee.bsky.social on the Giants Pride Night situation is worth your time today.

It's not even Father's Day yet but my 16 year old brought home a rental VHS player and Teen Wolf VHS cassette

The original Deltron 3030 album gets a prestige HBO adaptation after the graphic novel blows up

I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!

The new Cincinnati Reds City Connect uniforms look like pajamas, and I am curious if people like them or if I just don't get it because I'm not from there (like how everyone in Cleveland loves our City Connect but outside CLE reactions are mixed)

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

The previous round of oligarchs were at least polite enough to build some beautiful buildings. This current set of oligarchs are the worst.

In a moment of my work life and hobby life getting mixed up in a way nobody but me noticed, this week in class I referred to a genecon as Gen Con

For a long time I was on team "weight is a convenient shorthand way of saying gravitational force on an object." Then I joined team "weight is a word we should just avoid using in physics classes for a multitude of reasons."

Starting spring break in the best way

CEOs and tech bros: AI is going to replace people! My phone: you look really good (while showing me a pic of my sharps container that I thought looked like a goofy face).

Take me down to Parallax City Where the front moves slow and the back moves quickly.

cleveland baseball resumes tonight, and in this house, we celebrate the runs, long relief, and going going gone. go Guards. #GuardsBall

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Buy art made by humans

Spending my Saturday doing The Most Cleveland Thing, waiting in line for paczki at Rudy's Strudel

I spend a lot of time thinking about teachers and their students, so I feel like publicly saying that HS math teacher Bob Erdman and CWRU astro professor Dr. Heather Morrison (the GOAT) changed my life for the better. Who changed yours?

I'm just going to say a thing. What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.

The first good news in forever

I never, ever want to hear about “flyover country” or “what’s in Minnesota?” ever again. That is NPC behavior to me. This is my fucking state. And this isn’t even the folks who are still watching out from their neighbors, from home.

I know this feels minor now but trinket.io is going away. Act accordingly if you have a bunch of stuff there (@rhettallain.bsky.social) trinket.io/announcement

Hot take: if Carlos Beltrán belongs in the HOF, so does Barry Bonds. Both were unrepentant cheaters who had already piled up HOF credentials before they became unrepentant cheaters, Bonds more so.

If you're into fantasy TTRPGs, this is my current favorite at a great price

I have 2 of these in my classroom and I highly encourage you to do the same so you too can demand that students make "volcano sounds" every time they take a tissue

But let's turn that around: Anyone who wants to call what they are doing "AI" should be accountable for making clear why their product (or research) isn't in fact slop. That's on them. The rest of us do not need to hold space for that. >>

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Took a cue from Barry at Sandwiches of History and mixed an egg into leftover stuffing to make some waffles for breakfast. Highly recommend.

The mission to make all of us distrust any health science we come across is thriving

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Channeling my inner Adam Richman

My experience: being a parent makes me a better teacher and being a teacher makes me a better parent. Also my experience: being a teacher makes me a better RPG game master and being a game master makes me a better teacher.

This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.

Overhead at the end of one of my classes today: "this class makes me think, but like not in a bad way." Counting that as a win.

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Hang it in the Louvre

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Do any physics teacher folks know of any PER papers or papers in TPT about the use of/effectiveness of TIPERs? I thought I had some PDFs somewhere but can't find 🎢 (apologies to everyone else for the jargon)

At our school Ss can choose chem or forensics as their 3rd year science. I’ve long advocated for a stronger push for chem as the ratio has become 1:3 with as many as six sections of forensics in a year. This has been my first year of teaching forensics and I’ll admit, I’m having a blast. BUT 1/8

Fun fact: bonafidemasks.com has a 25% off sale (code BFM25) with free shipping, where you can get not just masks but also Covid tests. I have a good supply of masks already but I just re-upped my family's stock of tests. $45 for 10 tests. Not a paid promo, I just think public health is a good thing

I have amazing #ITeachPhysics and #TTRPG news to share! Adventures with Emmy (AwE), a STEM education tabletop roleplaying game, has been AWARDED FUNDING by the National Science Foundation. In AwE, mathematician and physicist Emmy Noether invites you to learn science by exploring imaginative worlds.

Ohio, dare to dream that we could choose a governor who would support public education rather than undermine it 🍎

Hey physics teacher 🎢 friends, let's all remember that if you're not explicitly, regularly communicating that everyone has a place and a voice in your classroom, not all of your students will see themselves as having a place and a voice in your classroom #nerdytshirtFriday