Ted Weiland

It’s one of the real advantages of being at a community college.

Occasionally you’ll get a double section, so it’ll be 48 people in a lecture, but a second lab section is added.

Three 55 min lectures and a 2 hour lab per week, which counts as 4 credits.

No recitation, but classes are limited to 24 students per section. Same professor teaches lecture and lab.

It goes even deeper than this. The vast bulk of red state agriculture is corn, soybeans or seed crops.

And most of it is not for US human consumption! We export 20% of our corn, half of our soybean and seeds. The rest?

Most of it becomes oil, animal feed or….ETHANOL.

The subsidized fuel additive.

The bar is in hell.

Man, do you know what rules? Actually loving other people, reminding us that we deserve a government that cares for us, and inspiring us to meet our neighbors.

Dick Cheney lived long enough to witness the horrors he had unleashed.

On the other hand, I felt disappointed because I missed out on an opportunity to learn from my professor. I lost a learning moment, the possibility to add a new skill to my repertoire, and the opportunity to feel proud of my work. Most importantly, I watched what I valued in my education slip away. What could have been an insightful and reciprocal conversation turned one-sided and transactional. What could have been a moment of open-ended intellectual inquiry turned into a multiple-choice question. I have had other classes with this professor and appreciated the rich conversations we had in the past. I was hoping for something similar again. It reminded me of Paulo Freire’s theories in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a work that has been engrained in my mind from my writing tutor work. I realized that this interaction followed Freire’s banking concept in some ways: I was deposited an answer to my question without the time to work through it with my professor and truly learn the process of answering this question for myself.

A linguist at UMN shared this with me today, which I thought was a really helpful discussion of genAI in the classroom as a conversation around consent.

refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

Breaking: The Darkness Returns WASHINGTON—With deep unease and outright horror haunting millions of Americans as a great shroud enveloped the land, late-breaking reports confirmed Monday that the darkness had returned. Bystanders f...

Breaking: The Darkness Returns

Some great news to wake up to on a Friday!

Honestly, I'm thisclose to ending lectures with "all right, smoke 'em if you got 'em"

No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:

1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail

Full Midwesterner status achieved.

… and all indications point to a US Government response that will not meet the challenge and our neighbors will be worse because of it.

This is going to be terrible for Jamaica.

Higher Ed Jobs website has been a pretty reliable source for me.

Today’s challenge was I can’t make them feel wonder or joy.

It's like the War of 1812 but this time the President is doing it himself

We’ve had good luck with Arc’teryx as well as Patagonia. But yeah, price of entry is a bit rough for casual wear, on the other hand it’s well made and lasts a long time.

My spouse has the same issue. When it comes to finding good jackets, we spend more time in the men's section because of this.

Maybe #chemsky should revive #realtimechem week?

It would be this upcoming week, with mole day on Thursday, right?

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Traveling around Japan is so much easier compared to the first time I went in 2008, and it's purely due to how well the metro systems are integrated with an app.

YES!

And also... ChatGPT makes stuff up all the time, so it's also not giving real information.

Definitely @infinitescream.bsky.social material here.

I put this to the test with Copilot and yeah, I think it's fair to say that it struggled with the structure of caffeine

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

It helped me connect with people in my local community.
This led to finding a new group of friends, joining their running group, and participating in a relay run across my current state.

... and the investment in the scientific infrastructure of the USA has demonstrated numerous benefits to not only the USA but the world at large.

Immigration is good, actually.

My dad studied applied electronics in college and I have his trig based slide rule. It sits in my office and I pull it out occasionally and look at it like a mildly confused orangutan.