Nate Ledbetter

Every Southern Mom instantly judging you for those instant grits.

sharon no

@jessicaw.bsky.social Guess we're never running for mayor of NYC.

This tree in a planter was here in my freshman dorm room when we moved in, and definitely is not from the dining hall, why would you ask such a thing?

Excellent rec.

Obv Jpop =/= Kpop but still, the factory mindset is...something.

She's been dancing her whole life so on the one hand it's "ok, sure, just another form of performance, why not, can't hurt to apply" and on the other hand I'm like "they squeeze the life out of these young kids, only a few make it, and I'm too aware of all the abuse in Jpop not to worry."

We're in the "standing in line at a coffee shop to get Kid2 a scone and she out of nowhere asks if she can apply to audition" phase. We just got back from a 3-week ballet intensive in FL and somewhere along the way she started doing kpop dancing on the side and well, yeah.

Probably going to see Tomorrow x Together or Le Sserafim since they'll be nearby.

That's what I gather from my intensive research (10 min on the Wikipedia page). Seems like their major "scandals" involve contract issues and normal business stuff, not rampant abuse. Which matters if someone is going to consider auditioning...sigh.

It is the most tech-brained thing in the world to name your product after a symbol of oppressive surveillance and power.

Counterpoint: Every post should make Noah Smith mad.

Can I just comment how much I hate the video app is called "Panopto"?

Sample quiz question asking the student to view pictures of Japanese women post-WWII and answer what they were known as and what it said about one set of experiences in Occupation Japan.

...picture pictures? For instance, I gave this question on a post-war Japan quiz.

The second pic is an example of the "pick all answers that apply" style.

Ugh. Oh well. It depends on the class, for some it's merely a reading check/participation grade for them to do weekly quizzes online, but some I do grade them. Either way, the main purpose is to give them a study guide for the final exam (not the same questions, but same topics).

What about...

"Cochise"?

....really?

3 out of 5 options might be correct, and you get whatever percentage of correct choices you make out of that 5.

For text analysis, I wonder if uploading the text as a .jpg instead of a readable text they could copy/paste is helpful too. Anything to make it one more step they have to take to cheat.

So far I've found for online multiple choice, my students don't bother to put it into ChatGPT because that's too many steps when they can just answer and well, if they're wrong, they're wrong.

But in terms of making it harder for ChatGPT, I created multiple-answer questions, like...

Part of the problem is the assumption that the current US "leadership" cares at all about "the economy." They don't. It's merely a tool for ever more intense wealth extraction. It's vulture capitalism, Federal Edition. All "economic policy" isn't policy, it's removing any brakes from this process.

I’ve written about eugenics too and it wouldn’t kill white people to think about how brazen that shit sounds to people of color

Maybe if you’re white, re-read The Bluest Eye before posting about this

Hey, uh, Kpop stans.

What can you tell me about HYBE and their various sub-labels? Asking for a 16 yo who is suddenly into KPop. Like, a lot.

Aspirational title.

Screenshot of Francis Fukuyama posting a substack talking about AI "denialists" and getting his ass ratio'd.

I know many of my mutuals like Fukuyama, but if he's pushing this dreck, there are concerns. But as usual, I'm sure I'll be told I'm just being uncharitable.

History ends in getting ratio'd.

Hah. I looked at Cyrillic and thought "nah, can't be."

Put simply, at every moment where the barest scrap of "equality" or "equity" or whatever you want to call it has been attained, here has been a massive backlash in response to these gains from white people, many of whom would see democracy burn before granting equal rights to marginalized folks.

See also: intelligence satellites

I mean, Clay Travis is involved, is anyone surprised (that it's awful)?