The open eugenics has been so loud since 2020 🫠

I don’t support bans, but if I had to pick one book to disappear, it would be that one.

It’s not a great face for the anti-ban movement when the reasons are so different from the others, being centered on physically protecting kids.

“For hundreds of years Germany was good enough to receive these elements, although they possessed nothing except infectious political and physical diseases”.

-Hitler, speaking of the Jewish population in a speech to the Reichstag, January 30, 1930.

RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

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Oh YES those programs do help and are amazing!

The nice thing is, in my school, it’s the difference between a Chromebook and an iPad (iPads are way better at that type of functionality apparently) and kids don’t really even notice a difference.

Again, where the fuck have AAPG, GSA, and AGU *been* in raising alarm about this shit?

All three geological and geophysical professional societies have *direct interests* in at least getting the public aware of what an absolute disaster the targeting of civilian energy infrastructure is.

You’d think the digital tools would help more than they do!

It’s almost like the information is posted in too many places, so many kids with executive function challenges shut down and wait for a zero appears in the grade book, then they get to work.

So they’re not thinking of it as SELF flagellation, even though it very much is!

My theory here is that academia is attractive to minds on the autism spectrum (or minds that have elements of it, like “I can fix this with a better system”) and they are getting frustrated when not everybody wants their system, so that’s what they want to talk about.

That is weird! I don’t love google’s infiltration of everything school, but at least it’s accessible on any device!

In the schools in my state, the answer is generally a firm “yes.” We have a lot more control when the devices are provided by us (and when we’re talking about kids on the open internet during class time, control is very much a good thing).

Democrats getting more backlash for attempting redistricting in Virginia in response to completely unprecedented GOP powergrabs than Republicans have gotten for gerrymandering for decades is extremely grim shit ngl.

Lol that doc was SO vindicating for parents!

My daughter wanted to turn it off at that point, and I was like “no be quiet this meeting is more important to me than 90 percent of my own work meetings.”

Oooh I’ve got the first two on my own list but I haven’t seen the third!

Country (or state, in the US)-wide bans help take pressure off school admin when making these calls. They get an incredible amount of abuse for these types of policies, and being able to point at a state law deflates some of the vitriol, threats, etc.

It doesn’t seem to be a total ban; it’s just taking the phones during the school day.

Schools these days are WAY better than back in our day about allowing student phone use; every school I’ve taught in has had a dedicated student-use phone in the office for school hours (when phones are banned).

Total bans take the pressure off of local admin. They deal with a lot of parent abuse when implementing and enforcing these policies.

Do the kids not have computer access?

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Then not nominating booker seems like a good idea, if he needs those votes!

She is awful and should be fired but man that is three women out of the Cabinet and not a single guy

But…he looks like his dad…

nearly all of these MAHA influencers are being compensated by tobacco companies, and very few disclose it. in many cases, they are marketing to children. nicotine pouches harm child brain development.

In unfortunate news, one of the missions I work on, NASA TRACERS, is on the chopping block in the budget proposed by Trump and Vought.

A functional pair of sats that would just outright be shut off because the current federal government is anti science and anti exploration.

He’ll catch up in a year or two!

You replied to someone discussing why qualitative research is important when studying human behavior.

I picked the easiest human behavior to measure and explained why it’s about as complex as your trickiest data set. And that’s the easy one.

We can get a ballpark figure that takes these things into account, and give either a picture in time or a range, but surely a physicist understands the challenge of quantifying a constantly moving target that you can’t measure constantly.

My students my first year of teaching read at the HS level when it was about hunting/fishing, but elementary if it was about anything history-related.

Similarly, students with ADHD have a higher reading level when it’s a “special interest” topic of their choice, but lower when assigned/“boring.”