Dr. Annaliese Hoehling

A table piled high with skeins of yarn.

Hi guys!! I am going to be putting together some bundles from this dragon hoard to raise food bank money. A lot of them are rare and no longer available. 💕
I’ll take some bundle pics for the thread. Send me a food bank donation receipt of $25 or more and I’ll pack one off to you!

Your eyes didn't deceive you -- Game 7 really did have the most wild swings all time Game 7 of the 2025 World Series was one of the wildest, and to some extent that’s expressed as easily as “a deciding World Series game went to extra innings,” which had happened just twice before in b...

Wrote about how Game 7 not only had two of the five most impactful plays in history, it also had..

- the most impactful out ever
- 3 of the top dozen plays ever
- the most plays that swung championship WPA by at least 15% of any game ever (9)

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Oh no I can’t get ahead I can’t get a good job I can’t pay rent, you know who is to blame for this? Fucking kids having popsicles. Yeah you’d be a millionaire otherwise you muppet ass poor person blamer

These same administrators have somehow completely lost the plot, and bought into the belief that universities can and ought to be run like hierarchical businesses with administrators as management and faculty as employees. This relationship is upside down.

The students who do NOT use AI are giving me life on this grading catch-up day.

I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app

The Gatsby Nexus and whatnot

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s…

Why is this happening? Oklahoma has tens of thousands of abandoned, unplugged oil wells.

When oil companies dispose of wastewater by injecting into the ground, those wells provide pathways for the waste to shoot thousands of feet to the surface, contaminating drinking water sources along the way.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto passed the torch to Shohei Ohtani after the Dodgers win last night 😮

I teach a field natural history course that’s very analog—a hand-written field journal, hands-on skill sessions, hours in nature each week. This very much tracks. My evals for that class emphasize the class’s impacts on how they think, and their mental health.

The argument I’ve been trying to make is that the “AI” that students may use in their future careers is not the “AI” that is being served to them by EdTech and tech hypists. Preparing for *that* still requires the fundamental nutrients, which are being replaced by junk at a crucial growth phase.

LLM's operate like candy to my students. They recognize it's bad for them and would prefer the nutrients of a real meal (good instruction, engagement, feedback, etc). But the university is intent on putting a candy bar next to the plate every time, and obviously some students are going to eat it.

“i am willing to start a process of improvement even if it inconveniences the people with the most money who
will be angry at me” is such a pathetically low bar that almost no one even suggests clearing, much less clears. let’s hope he clears it.

Ugh George Springer is giving the Natural vibes but if Hobbs’ bat was made from a trashcan

Horrifying.

I’m not sure Smoltz has a firm grasp of language and its relationship to the physical world.

I am dying laughing as one kid, who took a little longer to pick bc he didn’t want candy (braces), saw the Declaration of Independence and then had to run to catch up w/ his friends, unsuccessfully yelling over their howls and hoots “Guys - guys, guys - GUYS! I GOT A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!!!”

This framing obscures the vast mediating apparatus of the university itself—centers, policies & funding structures— & presumes (in keeping with tech-sponsored ideology) that any rejection will happen individually bt teacher & student even while broad consent has already transpired institutionally

Excerpt from NYT op ed about AI: Higher education aims to create cognitively mature adults, which in turn requires us to ensure students learn to read, think and write all on their own. It is easier than we think: Creating tech-free spaces and incentivizing students to spend time in them requires no new resources. All it takes is will. Many of our students still have it. Do their teachers? The last part, starting with “creating” is bracketed and the word TEACHERS is underlined in red

Because I do think the turn at the end, towards “teachers” who are supposed to show “will” to “create spaces” for AI refusal, is a little surprising given the rest of the essay:

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Please, New York. We really need to get this one right. The war didn't end with the primary.

Feds say immigration blitz will continue amid Halloween festivities Families and city leaders are scrambling to make Halloween and the Day of the Dead celebrations safe for children caught up in the debate over aggressive immigration raids.

to understand the situation in Chicago I recommend listening to this piece which has a CHILD talking about the TEAR GAS they encountered en route to a HALLOWEEN PARADE

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They literally ruin everything they touch

Higher Ed May Be in Trouble if the Government Is Shut Down for Much Longer The prolonged shutdown is putting a strain on colleges that are dependent on federal dollars. Policy advocates say things will only get worse.

From the stalled grant reviews & award dispersal, to FAFSA & financial aid issues, & SNAP running dry, this article provides a good overview of how the shutdown is squeezing higher ed institutions’ finances that can impact everyone on campus.

"When I say something because people believing-it makes me richer, I'm being sensible."

"When you say something just because you believe it's the truth, that makes you a crazy activist."

'Give your money away,' Billie Eilish tells billionaires The singer called on the mega wealthy to donate more to charity, during a speech at the WSJ Awards attended by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and George Lucas.

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

This is why they closed the govt, isn’t it. They’re just not going to open it back up, and it’ll be billionaire-funded fascism propping up this kind of thing plus tacky AI-designed ballrooms from here on out?

There should be a fine for companies who have a certain percentage of workers who need to use food stamps. Call it the McDonalds or Walmart tax

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social