snackowski

me, every spring: i'm going to get so much work done this summer!

weather: nope

hello fellow xennial

(1983 baby here)

yeah, it's for sure not new. it just seems really obsessive at times, to the point of delusion

oh of course, there are differences, because people have grown up in different contexts, with different experiences - i'm not denying that - and i'm not saying it's not worthwhile to study those differences. it's more the way social media encourages generational allegiances and animosities

so tired of generational thinking. it's like it wasn't enough that people are divided into nation-states. we have to turn generations into nations too

i didn't even like the "innovative teaching methods" - which somehow managed to take simple concepts and make them convoluted - so i'm sure AI would have made me hate math (one of my fav subjects in grade school)

the general vibe of the story was "some teachers are a little bit scared of AI, but they just need to figure out how to be friends with it"

so pretty much they're doing propaganda for AI companies and administrators who insist on AI - by making it sound like a fait accompli

*screams in former math student*

also the CBC people are not questioning whether or not AI *should* be integrated into the classroom. they're assuming it will be, and it's just a matter of policies to make the integration good

they interviewed a math teacher who said he teaches his students how to turn ChatGPT into a tutor

"Thanks to AI we can finally automate the stuff teachers do and have them focus on what really matters, filling out compliance paperwork"

CBC is about to do a story about AI in education - about the "positive potential and lingering concerns." i bet it's gonna be an administrator's wet dream

This is the weird things that subset a white men ponder all damn day unprompted.

is there such a thing as fan-noise+heat-induced psychosis

and then it's supposed to get smoky later tonight. so much for enjoying summer

even when i turn off the fans, it feels like my brain keeps buzzing and spinning

the ridiculous humidity (it's adding 14 degrees to the base temp) plus the constant noise of window fans and the smallness of the room is starting to make me feel like i'm stuck in some terrible submarine

i’m guessing the US has a different humidity scale, because it’s regularly 100% humidity here - and, like, it has got to be more humid there?

move to Ontario only if you want to spend your summers feeling like the air is secreting some sort of sticky air mucous

i actually think this book is worse than Abundance, despite the actual writing being better

it sounds like it’s propaganda written for real estate developers. like, i have actually seen landlords use the very same arguments and images to sell demoviction as vitality and progress

A lot of people in the US feel that as long as they can go on minding their daily lives of work and consumption that fascism has not arrived, but COVID, global warming, and Gaza has demonstrated that is precisely this desire to go on as if nothing is happening that drives contemporary fascism.

if you hated Abundance and now you’re looking for something new to hate, may i recommend Stuck by Yoni Appelbaum

i read that a lot of his work was dictated to his wife, who typed it, and then it was never edited

oh for sure. MUCH better

i'm okay with not being good at success. but what if i'm not even good at failure

it's not about space per se, but helped me make links between the spatial theory and the idea of social transformation

Revolutionary Romanticism This article examines Henri Lefebvre's concept of revolution-as-festival, its textual sources and its relationship to contemporary notions developed by Georges Bataille and the Situationist Interna...

re: space and resistance - i was writing on a similar topic, and found Gavin Grindon's article on Lefebvre's concept of "festival" useful

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

oooh i would like to read that. i found The Production of Space really unwieldy the first few times. i find the best way to deal with it is to read it once, quickly, all the way through, and spend a lot of time returning to parts. "The Right to the City" is easier tho