Bethany KJ PhD

It’s a tough situation. The cost of health insurance keeps making each employee more expensive and there are fewer traditional age students to go around and also maybe too many people at the top

Not everything is retail. Students are students. Patients are not customers either.

Shingles is so bad. I wish they would give it to me now.

Dickens would be like “his name was Musk and also he smelled bad”

I am struggling to help students get a foothold in what is trustworthy anymore. They need so much context before they even perform a search

Try adult Lego enthusiasts. Probably not totally free of nazis but brick world Chicago was full of dudes who want to talk about their guild

FIFA peace prize

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

We enjoy yelling “thanks Obama!” When our route to msi is weird and confusing due to construction

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.

Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

I guess I don’t perceive those messages as particularly aimed at young men but I see where you’re coming from. Perhaps a consequence of giving women access to previously masculine coded roles while still denigrating feminized virtues like emotional intelligence and people skills.

Mmm I’d be tempted to alternate between maniacal laughter and screaming all class long.

Women are a subgroup of people! Op isn’t talking about specifically feminine bad behavior, just bad behavior done by a woman this time.

Lying, ignoring professional ethics for ones own gratification, and helping bad people gather power and remain in power seem to be the ones under discussion right now, but most shitty things people can do are available to all genders.

… can you give an example? I genuinely don’t know what messages you are referencing.

Counterpoint: I would prefer to not know and never have considered it.

Thoughts and prayers

Certainly depends on what you’re trying to assess but my comm classes are more about what you do with the material than about quick and accurate recall or reproducing a process without a reference.

I moved toward open book or open note tests during Covid for this reason in addition to not wanting to police it. Doesn’t help much if you didn’t read it the first time.

If anything, students who would benefit from accommodations don't ask for them out of a misplaced sense that suffering is necessary for learning.

Much more important than whether this particular mediocre young person succeeds, and considerably more worrying, is how easy it all is, and how smooth and efficient the process is through which all this noise and damage is manufactured—how simple the culture has made it for someone with nothing but themselves on their mind to hurt someone they think they might benefit from hurting, and how eagerly and unquestioningly this daisy chain of apparatchiks and opportunists and independent operators and actual elected officials will apply themselves to that work. It doesn't much matter whether Samantha Fulnecky was volunteering to join the movement to remove trans people from public life because she thought this oafish provocation might someday pay her bills, or is just a spoiled kid seizing an opportunity to walk to the front of the classroom and try her luck, Marine Todd-style. What matters is that it all ends up in the same place, and that this choice is so easily and cheaply made, and that there is a machine—well-funded, well-insulated, and much clearer about the terrible things it wants than anyone charged with describing it can quite bring themselves to acknowledge—that exists to send anyone desperate, cruel, or careless enough to enlist off to war.

Yes.
defector.com/the-conserva...

Sorry for making moral arguments about a moral issue? Idk what you want here

The insults we have to use aren’t that he’s fat. We can focus on the stuff that’s actually bad about him. He’s incompetent, vain, easily manipulated and incoherent. It’s not about decorum it’s about accuracy. What we deride tells us more about us than who we deride.

nerds gummy clusters are great because they solve the biggest problem with nerds: hard to get a reasonable amount in your mouth at once.

There's a group of people in the US who routinely levies accusations of perversity, grooming, etc. at their opponents for political gain, and then there's another group who genuinely wants predators to be stopped, removed from positions of authority, and punished.

Team Sarah

You know what all these guys have in common? They were misogynists in public. If we made misogyny a deal breaker we wouldn't even have to wait for the trove of partially redacted emails!

this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card

Threadloop is a fantastic tool for cataloguing my patterns and fabric stash but the part where it lists my total stash yardage can be quiet. That’s between me and my thrift store.

Nothing says “safe place to shop” like a bunch of armed military!