DrJ,EdD

Dems are only marginally better than GOP. That is not saying they are the same. I’ll vote my conscience and my beliefs

Anyhoo

DOGE hacks fueled the identification. Fed to AI tasked with hunting humans. I’m sure that is at least part of it

There are now more U.S. troops deployed in Los Angeles than in Iraq and Syria combined.

4,800 Guard and Marines on American streets.
2,500 troops in Iraq.
1,500 in Syria.

Hell of a flex, America—treating your own people like a war zone.

Everybody is a star
I can feel it when you shine on me
I love you for who you are
Not the one you feel you need to be

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RIP

RIP Sly Stone

Everybody is a star
Who would rain and chase the dust away
Everybody wants to shine
Who'll come out on a cloudy day

'Til the sun that loves you proud
When the system tries to bring you down
Ever had to shine tonight
You don't need darkness to do what you think is right

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“What. The Hell. Are You.” Kinda goes hard though. And then he detonates a tactical nuke on his arm or whatever. Which goes even harder.

Xe ;)

I remember hitchhiking out that way in college in the late 1990’s. One driver pulled up and checked first - “you’re not a Nazi, are ya?”

This has been going on for a long time up there

Thanks. I’ve been in constant professional trouble since busting my first smartphone-under-the-elbow copied exam essay in 2008 or so.

Imagine teaching, as I do, in a system with no functioning plagiarism or AI policy.

Generally, I’m the one called to an office for a dressing down.

My district literally bought textbooks that were AI generated slop this past summer….

We are sinking down into a Marianas Trench of disinformation.

Mon Mothma vibes

Have a great conference! My spouse flew in for the conference last night!

My son was a late reader. I gave him the collected works for Christmas in second grade and it opened up many worlds for him. 18 now, he’s a phenomenal student and Shakespeare/ Musocal Theater actor who is about to begin his undergrad work at a competitive university.

Physiotherapy can work wonders. I brought my elbow back from almost unusable to 95-100% I found a very good, mellow, yoga place during my course of therapy and added that gently, and then continued. Good luck!

Evidence and proof, please? I’m a skeptic…

I’ve not read this one, but did pick up 1493 in an airport once. Great read, and memorably educational.

Incredible box set. Glad I picked it up.

Keystroke loggers — seems to be a solid solution to the problem. Supporting this across our academic system seems like an idea worth exploring. Why is it presented as such a bad thing? Less invasive than any captcha

you say the left is fragmented and almost non-existent.

yeah that's because the last 50 years they’ve been infiltrated, jailed, exiled, discredited, absorbed or assassinated.

Revolutions are built on hope

Hidden turbulence in van Gogh's The Starry Night Turbulent skies have often inspired artists, particularly in the iconic swirls of Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night. For an extended period, debate has raged

Today In Autism

We got our kid into Pipe Organ. Like the most giant complex kazoo on the planet.

I’d say that the heightened awareness of justice does make it more statistically likely to be more in the direction of correct.

But it’s hardly a guarantee. Autistic folks can be very — and quite intensely — wrong.

Everyone naturally wants that. It’s a matter of defeating the policies, structures and situations in place that defeat and manipulate such natural drives.

Endless scrolling.

Social media stickyness

Cell Phones in Schools

Digital grading and instant grade notifications.

AI.

Rhetoric

And - I’ve purchased, read, and shared in my circles one of your books. A good read and I agreed with the content, but those selling solutions often haven’t the space to address the structural issues and complexities. Complex solutions don’t sell. It’s the quandary of the sound bite in Ed Policy

Your essay does three things:
1. Blame secondary ed w/o evidence - or, it seems, experience.
2. Dismiss concerns as pearl clutching, calling it a “moral panic” because you “talked to a few students” who stated they did not use it.
3. List some books as the “solution”

Please lmk if I’m missing smth

Walk and run pencil tests for The Secret of Kells (2009), dir. Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey, Cartoon Saloon

Animation by Fabian Erlinghäuser and Barry Reynolds

I got yelled at by a cardiologist when I wanted to figure out which of my new medications was causing a reaction. Put my shirt on and left and haven’t been to a dr since. Guess I’ll die.