I'm reading a university report that begins, "According to EAB," and I need the world to understand that this is like saying "According to Microsoft," to introduce your ideas about teaching and learning
DON'T DO THIS
I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.
This is absolute trash. Kids are submitting their original art for AP Studio Art classes. Claiming copyright over that work is genuinely evil.
Enormously looking forward to this event on April 21 at 6:30pm ET (online!) with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social
and @alexhanna.bsky.social talking about their new book, The AI Con.
Register here:
virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
more seriously: both an adult life spent teaching and an adult life spent on message boards and sites like this one have underscored to me that reading and communicating about reading is very much not a trivial skill. the recent tech developments further underscore this for me
This year has really taken it out of me.
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today.
Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.
Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
As a person who has to inform others that this really is a university-mandates process and I am powerless to override it, I nevertheless offer my most heartfelt apologies.
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
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NYC Open Data Week 2026 is here and the NYC City Nature Challenge will be featured at THREE events! 🌱 For more info: linktr.ee/citynature_nyc
#OpenDataWeek #GovTech #CivicTech #DataLiteracy #NYCSoData #citynaturechallenge
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Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
A work in progress color work knitted sock in grey and cream, with a bunny holding a puffy dandelion.
I’ll always remember that I was knitting this sock when my bracket broke Ironically, the Bunny Wishes sock by Grey Owl Knits. #2026MMM
People often defend Grammarly when I lump them in with the rest of the LLM crowd, but this is why: their model of consent is no better than OpenAI's or Anthropic's.
That’s super frustrating. Maybe it was easier when I asked because I was living in a location with active spread.
For the time, effort, and overall cost, my dr was fine with giving me an MMR without titers (born in the 70s with proof of MMRx2 in childhood). I did that a few years ago when there was an active outbreak in NYC.
Are we really going to blame a philanthropic group for supporting underrepresented topical areas in response to a rightwing movement to defund public education?
Many colleges have their own separate supplement to their regular application for homeschooled students. My kid landed on her feet and is currently in college, but I cannot overstate how much extra work it is for students and parents to move from homeschool to college.
Preparing all the paperwork to show the homeschooling curriculum and evaluations was daunting, and I work in higher education. There are so many hoops to jump through for a college applicant who is not in school or doesn’t have a HS diploma in hand.
She was only 2 credits shy of meeting graduation requirements for NY. But too young to take the GED for almost *2 years.* All the work of doing college applications without the support of a school system and counselor is no joke. 2/
I didn’t get past the paywall, but if the hypothesis is that it will help college admissions for kids growing up in NY, they have absolutely no clue. My daughter had to drop out of school in her junior year for medical reasons. The home instruction program had challenges that made it a bad fit. 1/
A white woman’s hand in clear ice-cold water in a fjord in Norway.
I reproduced this result in Norway. ✅ Hopefully we can get more results from other regions.
Remember how during the pandemic masking eliminated an entire flu strain, well guess what ? Large health systems including mine are back to recommending masking for visitors + healthcare personnel in hospitals and clinics due to the very high levels of flu we are seeing currently & because it works!
So much of what happened at the peak of the pandemic explains how we ended up with fascist consolidation at the Federal level and not mostly in the ways commentators discuss.
Many get sick while traveling.
One major reason is they don’t realize mass transit is high risk because airline CEOs lied about viral spread early in the pandemic and lobbied the CDC to lower precautions.
To make the most of your holiday, take precautions like wearing a mask when you travel!
I get you didn’t mean it that way. It seems like you are pretty new to this discussion (e.g. starting to see UG use it on the sly, while that’s been rampant for a while now). Remember that there are people who have been critically engaging for years and it’s tiresome for us to be scolded to keep up.
Yeah, you really can’t ask for a good faith argument when you begin with bad faith framing.
Please don’t confuse conscientious objection with fear.
Facts.
Numerous low-stakes assignments. Lots of scaffolding. Many discussions, in class and in private. Readings on LLMs and free writing and think-pair-share and anonymous feedback and a co-authored class consensus statement. Contract-based grading and much formative feedback. And STILL so much GenAI.
I’m not so sure about that. If this were my student, my LLM slop radar would be alerting.
