Barbara Niederhoff

Underfunded Schools Forced To Cut Past Tense From Language Programs WASHINGTON—Faced with ongoing budget crises, underfunded schools nationwide are increasingly left with no option but to cut the past tense—a grammatical construction traditionally used to relate all a...

Underfunded Schools Forced To Cut Past Tense From Language Programs

Grew up on this in the 70s and I feel for the parents trying to stretch meal dollars now.

I can still hear the voice of the hand mascot.

Avelo quits Bradley after seeking free rent, losing tax subsidy, ICE protest Both protesters and Connecticut's attorney general had targeted Avelo Airlines because it runs deportation planes for ICE.

We won!! We won!!

AVELO is quitting Bradley Airport in CT!!!

We protested! We wrote to the CT Airport Authority (CAA)!
It worked!

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The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

I had no idea this was a grammar irritation for some. But now that I do, upon reflection, I personally hear "rest of your day" as a noun unit in this context, and I guess that's why this has never bothered me.

How can we miss him if he won't go away?

Time to dance!🕺 💃

Hi, I’m a PhD level expert and I know many PhD level experts. They’re mostly great at what they do, but also great at admitting what they don’t know, and finding the right resources to fill in those gaps. One problem with these systems is they are not designed to own up to their limitations.

111 Years Ago Today: War Declared By All

111 Years Ago Today: War Declared By All

Mark and Melissa saw the humanity in everyone. Let’s honor them by doing the same.

Boom.

help people connect, vote together, work together. If enough folks like how it works. Can't speak to that yet.

Shaping more of the party structure is possible but takes some time & effort. Which favors folks with the time. But I see newer, younger people making that effort & I hope they keep going.

Having gone from voter-only to more of a voice in the party (@arapahoedems.org) I'd say that depends

I wouldn't discount voting. NYC shows voters will use their voice when they see someone worth voting FOR, not just against, & that shapes the party too.

So a relational organizing tool could...

Google's AI overview answer to the question "is it 2025 right now" is "No, it's not 2025 yet. The current date is May 29, 2025."

bahahahhaaa

Periodic reminder that the people going after trans children don't actually care who's trans or not.

The real goal is to keep your eye elsewhere.

LBJ called it: give folks someone to hate in order to pick their pockets.

That's why these terms are interchangeable.

It's funny cos last week the power went out in the whole of Spain and Portugal at once - like in a movie where disaster ensues, planes fall out of the sky, cars crash into each other, people blockade themselves into supermarkets etc - but in reality nothing much happened. People helped each other.

Score bug on tv showing Detroit Tigers and Colorado Rockies are tied 6 to 6 in the 6th. Bits of orange glowy numbers in the background almost look like flames.

Opportunity for the Rockies to call someone "up from the minors" 😈

The same day the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden announced more than 100 layoffs, this popped into my feed: France announces €100 million to attract researchers.

A large songbird with a red breast, white belly, black wings with white bars, and a black head, sitting in a tree among green leaves. Its head is behind a leaf.

One of our most beautiful birds! The Rose-breasted Grosbeak. My best photo. #worstbirdpic

‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw Google’s AI Overviews feature credible-sounding explanations for completely made-up idioms.

Crazy thought but what if we made an AI model that can say “I don’t know” instead of constantly making stuff up www.wired.com/story/google...

This whole thread (detailing Elon's magical thinking in the earnings call) is worth a read, but this is the point that had me shaking my head.

The best way to be a good driver in a blizzards is NOT TO DRIVE IN A BLIZZARD IF YOU CAN AT ALL HELP IT.

That's crazy. It's almost as if opinions are not fixed to proportions of the population to be captured by one party or another, but mutable things that can be shaped over time

It is true that this is very serious nazi shit, and thank you for standing up for your neighbors when so many look away

Another true thing is that Newsom deserves (at minimum) to be mocked mercilessly & laughed at endlessly for calling this nazi shit a DisTrAcTiOn

Over 40 of us at the #TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com today in Littleton CO. We're making a difference. Auf Wiedersehen, Elon!

The inverse bystander effect

With you on the over-focus on policy. On listening:

I know you want to meet people where they are. Too many Americans are in a very dark place.

Not bc they want to be there, but bc they have been led there, year by year, by leaders with dark plans.

Listen to them without leaving them in the dark.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

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“An overwhelming rainbow of pushback and outrage” is a great way to describe the entire LGBTQ and AIDS movements of that period, Saeed.

The disagreements and personality conflicts were legion. We just didn’t let them immobilize us.