Round watercolor card. Layers of color: green, pink, turquoise, blue. Inside the layers is a very delicate little flower. Words along the outside: wrap each other in care and see what grows.
Comrade card for 9/24/2024.
So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.
"if you were in charge of star trek, what would you do?"
Rip it out of Paramount’s cold dead hands and vest it in a nonprofit. Capitalism is killing us. If steered by an org not driven solely by capitalist metrics, Star Trek could be free to explore even further. Trek doesn’t need the streamer,
headline: gen z doesn't want your full-time job. They want several part-time roles, and it's reshaping the entire workforce.
This is propaganda.
2. These courseware platforms are of course already compromised and deficient in all of the ways we know and understand. Federal compliance will now shade into content delivery. The goal is not accessibility in any altruistic way, it is consolidation and control.
The image features a quote about long-term care affecting the financial assets of the middle class and lower-income families, emphasizing its impact on retirement security and wealth transfer. It cites Jessica Forden from the Roosevelt Institute. The background is a gradient from purple to orange, with the Roosevelt Institute logo on the lower left.
These costs drive a wealth gap. After needing care, middle-class families are forced to spend down their assets, which plummet to just 42% of original levels. Meanwhile, the top 25% of earners recover nearly all their wealth.
Give people slop, and they’ll scroll for hours.
Teach people to slop, and they’ll destroy consensus reality.
Alex, president of the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix, joined us to explain how his chapter works to build community and improve peoples' lives in Arizona. Check out his full interview (and the rest of our Community in Action series) at the link in our bio!
Sophistic rhetoric treats language as a site of power, and one that should be democratized. And as teachers, that is precisely what the Sophists actually did.
The Sophists (and their inheritors--Cicero included) are buried under centuries of interpretation written by their political enemies: people who wanted political and rhetorical power concentrated in the hands of the few.
🤚 [blank]-maxxing
👉 Max Headrooming
Gen ai in education feels very much like the scam of “cybersecurity awareness”
Everyone got told they had to have it, but it is actually a huge scam by vendors who sell magic beans to people who don’t want to admit they can’t do their job/made mistakes/ don’t want to think or do any hard work
Once again, the national average pay for adjunct professors with PhDs is a flat fee of $3900 per course.
Chief Slop Officer
I had the chance to go on the Boulder Valley Frequency podcast to express my...disgust, I think is the right word, with the contract that CU recently signed with Open AI and with the prospect of integrating ChatGPT throughout higher education #ai www.boulderfrequency.com/2600535/epis...
New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.
They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.
www.theverge.com/news/908401/...
Oracle just fired 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge - tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day ⚠️
All the while, we give them tax reductions and incentives with the promise of job creation...
We need to change course and support smaller businesses instead
New post on Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies! I wrote a blog about why abstinence-only sex education is a bad metaphor for generative AI refusal.
refusal.blog/2026/04/07/w...
Weingarten has been wrong on every major issue facing educators: she embraced testing, charter schools, an abandonment covid protocols, now AI. Her mantra is always the same: we need to welcome the systemic changes imposed by neoliberal administration, so that they appear inevitable
From AP News: "Microsoft is contributing $12.5 million to AFT over five years. OpenAI is providing $8 million in funding and $2 million in technical resources, and Anthropic has offered $500,000."
Looks like AFT is receiving $23 million from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to push AI onto educators via "trainings"
apnews.com/article/arti...
news.microsoft.com/source/2025/...
No matter how you feel about xenomorphs, they are growing more widespread and it's important to understand how they can integrate into our bio-weapons policy.
-- Weyland-Yutani PR office
Tricia O’Neill in the Columbo episode How to Dial a Murder. She faces camera talking to Peter Falk.
When the captain of the Enterprise C helped Columbo learn about conditioning using an example from Pontypool.
My hottest educational take—white hot with the fire of a thousand suns—is that we've solved every major educational problem but no one in power wants to hear it because the answer is "a lot more qualified teachers" and that's expensive.
So instead, we get bullshit about AI transforming education.
And @bennet.senate.gov pulled out at the last moment. Not wanting to explain your actions as a sitting U.S. Senator to your constituents is a hallmark of weakness. The opposite of what Colorado needs as a Governor.
@philweiser.bsky.social showed up, answered all questions, a true leader
#copolitics
Colorado legislators are planning to cut a teacher recruitment program that promised to pay 2 years of a student’s college tuition on their path to becoming educators, leaving soon-to-be-graduating high school seniors in a lurch. "Everything is blown up," a parent tells @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social
Colorado did tax cuts galore the last 8 years. It’s been a disaster, with the state now in a $1.5B deficit, with austerity as the main tool on the table to address it. This isn’t smart governance, it’s lazy leadership making governance decisions with poll-based policy. Pennywise, pound-foolish.
"Fascism is not just blackshirts. It is the father who rages over his trans daughter. It is the incel who feels entitled to a wife because he is a man. The emotional, terminal core of fascism is power that is told “no.” Thus, the war against fascism must be a war against conservative hierarchy"
