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Layer enthusiast. Teaching middle schoolers to write at Frankenstories.org.
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Utterly horrifying interview.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Love to hear Elon advocating so strongly for an end to gerrymandering, election day public holiday, mail in ballots, and preferential voting, and proportional representation

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Wonder what would happen if air traffic controllers all just went on strike.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is a great episode and gets to the heart of the real problem with AI in education, which is that for decades we’ve been teaching students to write like machines in order to meet the requirements of testing regimes.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

after living here for four years I can say that canadians are absolutely nice, but they aren't weak. it's just the american conception of strength is so tied to outrageous cruelty it's hard to imagine people can be both strong and kind

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 32 days ago • 835 comments

Feels like one of the most important things we can do right now. There’s no utopia, but we can make it easier to leave dystopias. Or at least try.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

One of the things I did not expect is constantly crying over all the generous things people are doing for those displaced. My friends’ six year olds are at this camp in Santa Barbara for evacuated children. Art, music, sports, play, and trauma counselors—all free: www.independent.com/2025/01/10/s...

submitted 41 days ago • 12 comments

I’m realizing most people are decent and social media has ripped society apart. LA is pulling together with love and ACTION while idiots on Twitter and Threads blame DEI, democrats, and aren’t doing shit to help. Meanwhile this is the reality on the ground. Volunteer teachers helping displaced kids.

submitted 41 days ago • 20 comments

The irony of “Truth Social” is that truth *is* actually social. It needs to be built and maintained.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

It’s not even rich elites; I think the root cause of why we can’t have nice things in public education is bog-standard middle-class parental anxiety. The cycle works like this:

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Wild that I just started a middle-school writing prompt with “You are a local journalist” and had to stop and think, *will they even know what that is?*

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment