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Late work point deductions never seemed to really help in my class. Want to know what did work for me and my students? This late work contract. Feel free to copy, use, and adapt as needed. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 11 hours ago • 463 comments

We should be able to buy adderall, testosterone & estrogen OTC at Walmart while buying a gun should require 6-12 months of intensive therapy beforehand and monthly reapproval from your psychiatrist

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Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up with a questionable tattoo ... you're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe."

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All my love to fellow gender dropouts, to the trans folks, to the queers, to the gender deviants. They can't legislate you or me out of existence because someone just like us is being born right now. And that will keep happening. And we will do everything we can to build the world they need.

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Keep in mind public land is land owned BY YOU, the taxpayer. Republicans want to sell it off so they can pay for their tax cuts for billionaires and corporations.

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Just published a new Photoelectron Spectroscopy (PES) Quiz to ChemQuiz.net! Question types include identifying elements and subshells from PES graphs, selecting the most correct graph for elements, and writing out electron configurations. Try it out now at chemquiz.net/pes #chemed #iteachchem

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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts granted class status to trans people in the passport gender marker change case and extended the prelim. injunction to the class. Trans people will be able to update their gender markers on their passports immediately. ecf.mad.uscourts.gov/doc1/0951130...

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Friends in Seattle -- don't miss the #TeachTruth events this Saturday, June 21 at the Seattle Public Library ⬇️

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this is LITERALLY what they told us strangers would do to us when I was a little kid! We were told what to do if a stranger tried to abduct us into a van! and here we're supposed to accept ICE can do it to anyone, any time, for any reason!

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This is an excellent point.

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BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

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This is exactly it.

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✨NEW!✨ Meet @pbs.org Resident Librarian & all around super-⭐️, @mychal3ts.bsky.social on StoryMakers! Tune in to learn how Mychal decided to become a librarian, discover his favorite kids 📚, & share in his infectious ❤️ of libraries: www.kidlit.tv/StoryMakersM... @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social #kidlit

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Thou shalt expel Mike Lee from the Senate and banish him from society, for he mocked and celebrated the murder of a political opponent.

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Hi hi! Any #Chemsky friends going to #FLAMEnet tomorrow? 🔥🧡 I’d love to connect ☺️

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Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 233 comments

One of you knows a brain surgeon who needs this. Or is a brain surgeon who needs this.

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If you call into your elected’s office, don’t start off yelling and cussing at the person on the phone. 1)- They are likely handling hundreds of calls every hour. 2)- We don’t get paid enough to put up with verbal abuse. Frustration is understandable. You can be frustrated and cordial.

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If a pregnant woman is brain dead, in a coma, and no longer has rights to make decisions about the pregnancy according to E. Bruenig, that means we don’t have a say in what happens to our organs and corpses after we die. We are public property upon death. Quite an argument!

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A senator celebrating the murder of political opponents should be expelled. Not debated. Not excused. Expelled.

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I love this. 2017, Billy Earl Dade Middle School in Dallas planned a “Breakfast with Dads” for boys whose fathers couldn’t attend. They asked for 50 volunteers—nearly 600 men showed up. This Father’s Day, let’s remember: You don’t have to be someone’s dad to be their example.

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Vermonters, school districts, teachers, and education advocates are urging the house and senate to vote NO on the education bill tomorrow. Write your reps!!!

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I’ve been saying Black folks should stay home. So why did I go to the No Kings protest? Because our Latino brothers and sisters need us right now. Because I live in the occupied city of LA. But here’s what I know: when large groups of Black folks protest, we become the target. 1. She gets it 👇🏾

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The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

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No Kings day should be followed by Articles of Confederation week.

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Saying "big marches are not enough!" is correct, but is also... not enough. So here are a few resources and pieces of commentary on different ways to take yesterday's energy into tomorrow. cc: @indivisible.org, @indivistwincities.bsky.social, @mn50501.bsky.social, @50501movement.bsky.social

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The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

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English muffins and strawberry-rhubarb jam #ChemistsWhoCook

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I've written many drafts of this post with the goal of being as cool as @katmabu.bsky.social in her campaign ads but alas! The dilly: Today is 50 days from my 50th birthday. My goal is to raise $5K for my campaign for town board. secure.actblue.com/donate/jennb... Steve! is here to help.

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"La eugenesia ha vuelto a lo grande, y entre más la llamemos por su nombre -y nos recordemos a nosotros mismos de la humanidad que nos niega- mejor seremos capaces de combatirla."

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more people turned out today to protest trump than voted for him in pennsylvania michigan north carolina and georgia combined

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I'm begging folks to not compliment themselves too much on their "non-violent" marches & rallies. Instead, try to understand that violence at protests is generally a result of law enforcement escalation. Then, the galaxy brain move is to ask yourself "which protests do police tend to attack?"

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We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

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