LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders. A heart-rending and very funny book about the universality and absolutely unknowably personal nature of death. This knew how to gut me; where, for brief moments, to go big; and when to show itself the door.
Why are there SO MANY???
Strongly agree. And really, the word "husband" itself, with its connotations of ownership and control (see animal husbandry; husbanding one's accounts), feels deeply interconnected with the violence some men enact upon the women in their lives
We are real persons
Yep. I'm so glad people are showing up for this fight!
Coincidentally, the same day, the SF Chronicle posted my (extremely similar) opinions on the topic.
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
While I was away on an exhilarating multi-day screen-free field trip, the Chronicle posted this opinion article I wrote!
AI doesn't belong in schools. Our kids deserve the fullness of this real world.
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Heck yeah!
Ha! What most of these "girly jobs" have in common: historical devaluation in pay and respect once they became associated with women.
(Also, like, caring for other people.)
Dang it, sun's too sunny
A public good is a public good
*too unimportant to have
Exciting! I will be reading all the parts--even the ones unimportant enough to have warranted a regular chapter number
This moment was, for me--as I imagine it was for many many others in work that demands that dedicated individuals compensate with their own unpaid time and labor for the failure of the systems in which they operate--a real kick in the pants
Once again, a public good is a public good
A really good response. The revelations about Chavez are horrifying--and farmworkers' rights matter as much as they ever have.
THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE by Richard Osman. Always a pleasure.
An excellent report about instructors' struggles to convince people that our brains still matter.
We have to have SO MANY goddamn conversations about why we'd rather take the trusty old rowboat rather than clamber onboard the crowded, half-built superyacht with obvious gaping holes in its hull.
MR. PENUMBRA'S 24-HOUR BOOKSTORE by Robin Sloan. A very middling white man who only likes women when they're hot or helpful is consistently rewarded for breaking other people's rules. In 2026, this 14-year-old book feels like a thousand tiny warnings.
A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...
May you find joy in your saved daylight
Actually, this one is true. But also, few know that the reason the richest men in our world dream of terraforming a distant death rock when we have a perfectly fixable human-supporting ecosystem right here is they've calculated that's how far they have to go to avoid an interview with Chotiner
Photo of Alysa Liu smiling broadly holding a gold medal to their mouth against a vibrant red and purple background. Text on the side reads, "Congratulations to Oakland's hometown gold medalist Alysa Liu."
Congratulations Alysa Liu! Oakland is so proud of you!
Still dreaming that OUSD will finally figure out its own finances, and that California will repeal Prop 13, and that we will someday fund public education like it's a service we treasure and not a struggling dollar store full of dusty staplers
Love to wake up to the announcement that we have a TA and probably won't need to strike. Thanks, bargaining team!
Life status: just said "good job" aloud to myself when I realized I had, in fact, put my shirt on the right way
It's such a delightfully wacky song, and such a perfect choice for her
Same in my teaching! Except I always say it "EGGzample" to try make the eg pop?
(My pedagogy is predicated on the belief that students remember what I say best when I sound the most foolish.)
Yeah, agreed; I didn't think they're setting her up as a bad guy, but as another hard-working, well-meaning person deceived by the hollow "productivity" promises of AI.
Interesting that different viewers land on such a range of interpretations of the show's intent!
My kneejerk anti-AI feelings made think this *was* heavy-handed, and that the show was obviously setting up Al-Hashimi to fail with her AI charting tool, so I appreciate your take. Maybe there was nuance I couldn't perceive through the fog of my biases!