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‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby "The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc.

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“The Public Health Map collects, synthesizes, and visualizes timely data on federal changes and their localized effects on U.S. health systems.” #medlibs theimpactproject.org/public-healt...

A girl reading texts on her phone while walking through her college campus. All around her people are running because they are being attacked by squirrels. She doesn’t notice. Her friend is saying, reunion tonight! Bring snacks! O.m.g. Tiffany is freaking out for some reason. A squirrel shouts, “Fly, my brothers! To the dining hall!” The text reads: Oh no! You were on your phone and unprepared for the squirrel uprising! Put your phone away! Distracted walking sends people to the ER every year.

#BackToSchool

"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill

This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.

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Like I’ve been saying…it’s not just the AI. It’s the cloud. It’s everything. (But one really has to ask, how many emails deleted will actually make a difference here?!)

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

I take pride in creating meaningful asynchronous credit-bearing courses that teach vital info lit skills. Today me and my student are putting a bow on coding of a giant Qual data set of student feedback and found this jem “Thank you for an enjoyable class in a largely unenjoyable world!”. 💕💔

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show

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ME: one coffee please

CASHIER: what size?

ME: load bearing

Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?

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Discovered this gem this week, a 'build your own background noise' noises.online

Seems to be free and ad free so far.

Great for shutting out office sounds 🗣️☎️🖨️
#Neurodivergent
#Neurodiversity

“Researchers will need to develop a raft of new techniques to adjust to censored information environments. These include becoming more deliberate about search strategies, as the list of words banned by federal agencies works to obscure the many ways in which human life is lived.”

creative person, one who took poetry classes (and almost failed statistics) in college, then chose writing as my career.

I stumbled across this little self defining statement from an author. Makes me wonder, was that near statistics course failure actually a reflection on them? Or actually on the way a course was taught? Were challenging data concepts scaffolded? Were assignments meaningful?

San Antonio Express-News ® @ExpressNews Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.

headline construction masterclass

Get an early sneak peek into some of the student interviews @bibliomancer.bsky.social and I did on AI use earlier this year!

A stripey grey cat had extended his paws in front of of him and is looking relaxed begin his ears being back. He is on a grey comforter with a window in the background.

Today the chonky boy is being a long boy with airplane ears, all because The Dog decided to be within a foot and a half of his chosen snoozing spot. #catsofbluesky

The state of Utah voted to ban pride flags so Salt Lake City Council decided to make official city flags that incorporate the progress pride, Juneteenth, and transgender flags so they can fly them without breaking state law

As a pragmatist, I continue to argue that AI has the potential to minimize sociocultural divides, but with the caveat that it's only when the resources are available to all equally.

Really excited to take this on the “road” for the first time today! Come see me and @amanda-larson.bsky.social present Beyond Labels: Empathetic Teaching Practices for Neuroinclusion, a free online presentation, today May5th from 2-3pm ET. ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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$25k grants for those who:

1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and

2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF.

Early-career scholars prioritized

As I continue to say, even if this *all* stoped and was reversed tomorrow, the effects will be generational.

Hey Penzeys shoppers, he announced that he's going to have to raise prices starting on Tues, in response to the tariffs. But they're running a bunch of specials if you want to stock up now. www.penzeys.com

A card reads “I will wrap rest and care around myself like a warm blanket today.” A pink cartoon raccoon sticker sits atop it.

Always trying to balance “doing” with rest. Doing work, dissertation, democracy, and taking care of a sometimes unorthodox body. No coffee or chocolate for a while, and my rest deck always provides good words to accept that, while I may need more than some, not only is rest good, #RestIsRessistance

a cartoon of a woman in a garden with the words gardening goddess written below her Alt: The text “gardening goddess” appears on the screen, two bird with a flower crown fly over a thin white blonde woman’s head and places it in her crown.

In an attempt to ensure there are things to ground the future rage in a present joy, I made sure to plant things. Four of the packets came from the library, catnip, bachelor buttons and ?!? Many things are sprouting. Now two of those things are a mystery.

a statue of a monster is standing in a field with its mouth open Alt: A dinosaur like monster in the likeness of hi Godzilla slowly turns towards the camera with its mouth open and hands up attempting to be menacing.

Honest to goodness.

Partisan and non-partisan conspiracy theories’ diverging effects on political participation What role do conspiracy theories play in mobilizing political action? Both historical and contemporary accounts have written on the role of conspiracy…

🚨 My first solo-authored piece is out in Electoral Studies! 👽
I examine when and how conspiracy theories become participatory, increasing political mobilization. Using the United States and Turkey as cases of a most-different-systems design, I explore how conspiracy theories drive political action.

Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.

For citizens coming back from conferences as well….

We’ve been overtaken by greedy, narcissistic, cruel thugs, devoid of any empathy. Get out all your monster hunting equipment—- it’s time to suit up.