incidentally, this is an important post about education.

LEVERAGE meeting 2008: “The trick is, slide the social critique in behind the fun. I don’t want to push.” ME IN EDITING IN 2024: “Do we have a take of the white techbro chasing our heroine with an ax screaming ‘THIS IS EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM!!’ where he looks directly into the camera? No? Damn.”

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

AI makes effective science communication more difficult and more important than ever. More difficult because AI makes laypeople think they can bypass experts and interpret data for themselves. And more important because AI's errors threaten to further erode laypeople's trust in science itself.

Sex and the City is such an absurd cultural artifact. image: four hwight girls hwalking into a movie theatre, a soundtrack of Aretha playing Respect in the background, as Carrie Bradshaw explains in sagely voiceover how married and single folk are just like the Northern Irish, not a *real* war. 😐

it is one of the fundamental ironies of our society, that Tim Burton simply does not understand The Addams Family.

I don't know who originally wrote it or remember who I first heard it from but "A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now." is the truest thing ever said and it just keeps on getting truer

gonna be watching this one in the Human Restoration Project discord on monday evening (EST) for all my teacher friends out there... brace yourself; it's a lot.

Aaron Sorkin really thought a series about a pseudo-heroic Republican journalist during the Obama years was a stroke of political genius, didn't he? i suppose it *is* the ideal spiritual successor to the neoliberal circlejerk president show. looking forward to a great Skip Intro essay at least.

“I’m sick of these purity tests. NO CANDIDATE is perfect. Newsom may not care about homeless people or trans people but he’s the ONLY ONE hiring social media posters to ask ChatGPT to talk like Trump”

I do a lot of yearning these days. I don't know what that's about, but maybe something or someone will satiate my yearns.

"The two months immediately before the general election is too close for you to criticize us, do it when it's not as destructive." "Okay, how about 40+ months before the next general election?" "Fuck you, why do you want Trump to win?"

i wish JK Rowling to be relieved of her gross fortunes, deplatformed and unable to continue doing as much harm as she has. i wish her a legacy of disdain, that her works become footnotes in history akin to beanie babies or tickle-me-elmo. some weird capitalist hiccup we all agree was a mistake.

We once spoke with a well-regarded dev psych who told us that of course they know & work with actual cognitive scientists and they would be the first to tell you a classroom shouldn't look like a cognitive science lab.

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

Researching ‘What Works’ in Education Isn’t Working - A 2018 Bush-Obama ed reform post-mortem: "Learning isn’t something that educators do to children, and it’s not something they can make happen or make children do." www.edweek.org/education/op...

why is this the most accurate representation of jubilee content i've ever seen? youtu.be/vjG5WJkwX00?...

All you need to know about transphobes/terfs/gender critical people is that they think trans people have an unfair advantage in chess.

just overheard someone complaining that Terry Pratchett 'spoils the mystery' by giving readers too much inside information up front instead of keeping us guessing. and it occurred to me how hard this cultural shift has been into media that wants to *surprise* its audience... (🧵1/4)

hm i don't post here very often, wonder if anyone is watching... The last episode of The Good Place is the worst episode of The Good Place. the whole series benefits from ending at episode 51.

shouldn’t have to call high school courses “college-level” to denote prestige, challenge, seriousness of purpose

Comrade card for 7/16/2025.

all this week on the @humanrestorationproject.org discord server we're going to be streaming a little series i've affectionately named EdTube - a loosely curated collection of documentaries and video essays we feel are relevant to the conversation of contemporary progressive pegagogy!

I miss getting excited when the lyrics to all the songs were included with cassette tapes

I'm doing some casual ✨narratology✨ (the study of storytelling) reading while thinking about D&D, and Y'ALL I know I hammer on about this but TTRPGs are absolutely buckwild narratively. Let me explain: 🧵

Why are we always more fearful of kids “falling behind” the latest tech than being its guinea pigs? Why do we listen to tech companies when designing our schools? Why don’t we pay teachers more? All these questions are connected

we should have summer institutes for teachers to read and talk about books with each other and with professors and instead we have this

since we're talking about "violent protests" again... youtu.be/6BB0Q1qHpAw?...

Say all their Names: Yasemin Acar - 🇩🇪Baptiste Andre - 🇫🇷Thiago Avila - 🇧🇷Omar Faiad - 🇫🇷Rima Hassan - 🇫🇷Pascal Maurieras- 🇫🇷Yanis Mhamdi - 🇫🇷Şuayb Ordu - 🇹🇷Greta Thunberg - 🇸🇪Sergio Toribio - 🇪🇸Marco Van Rennes - 🇳🇱Reva Viard - 🇫🇷

i feel, i don't know, foolish and old...for hoping that there was enough attention, that people cared enough, that it would pressure Israel into letting this one small act alleviate even a fraction of their atrocity.

do US liberals go into hibernation during democrat administrations or something. the ferguson protests happened under obama & last year under biden we saw police attacking student gaza protestors all the time

ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people

"we constantly ask 'why are these kids looking down at their phone?' rather than 'what is the world we have made for them to look up at?' youtu.be/FgP7FcUAt4Y?...

applying for jobs again

High school science class should be straight up lessons in alchemy. Kids should be going out and harvesting plants to crush up in a mortar and pestle for medicinal purposes. The children MUST be allowed to indulge the Mud Pie instinct of just mixing stuff together!

This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing. I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom. Dark, dark stuff.

Schools: We're going to prioritize technology & standardization to maximize our ROI and make the most efficient use of the limited resources we have available. Students: Okay, so will we! Schools: Wait, not like that...

Kill the lawn in your head.

I mean…

What's one word you'd use to describe school? "Depressing" Why do you say that? "Just look at everything. There's no color to anything."

"As human beings, feeling alive means feeling alive in a body but also feeling alive in a society, in a culture; being loved, being part of a group, being accepted, and feeling purposeful." - Dr Mary Helen Immordino-Yang