Chris Cruz

YouTube video by European Graduate School Video Lectures Catherine Malabou. The future of Continental philosophy. 2014

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One of my first jobs was to dress up like the rat at Chuck E. Cheese. Just so you get a sense of my trajectory.

I wonder if anyone has thought that if we want to change the world, we will likely have to reorder how adults relate to young people. We have to care about formation and community.

I find it to be absolutely horrifying that conservatives have taken the lead on this particular issue. Liberation theologians, for instance, hardly conservatives as such, would be horrified.

This isn’t to say I don’t want to do those things. But this one novel isn’t about that. It’s a rest and reprieve. I want to surprised and shocked by how hilarious a story is. Does anyone have a recommendation for a novel like that?

I’ve broken my own rule this summer. Every year, when the school year finishes, I generally read a comic novel. For this particular novel, I don’t want to think about the meaning of existence, why *gestures to everything* this is happening, or anything.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

There’s an incentive to be initiated into anger and resentment. Actively fighting against that impulse has to come from a different place than simply will.

Cast the mighty from their thrones and lift up the lowly.

Avoiding culture is actually a bad strategy for Democrats, actually.

If “reading books” is going to be a culture war issue, it’s one I’m willing to die on. The stakes are, in fact, life itself.

We really are in a bad place. It’s to the point where, like magazines, schools emphasizing books may be a very niche thing. And the way it’s going, conservatives, at least in part, are often leading that conversation. It’s sick.

School vouchers could cause another headache for Texas Advocates fear the state's $1 billion voucher program could strain public schools.

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We Don’t Have Any Reserves | Los Angeles Review of Books Adam Morgan writes on the impact of Trump’s coup at the NEA for small publishers and literary magazines.

I didn’t realize that *every* literary arts grantee, all 51, were terminated by the NEA. lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-d...

YouTube video by St. John's College Dean's Lecture Series: Fred Moten on Plato, Dickinson, and the Philosophical Blues

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I bought this so fast that it counts as cardio

Black Students Are Being Watched Under AI — and They Know It New technologies are quietly reshaping K-12 education — but civil rights advocates argue they’re turning Black kids into digital suspects.

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Oh man, I feel this

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.

Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

Nobody wants to say it but AI is a culture war issue and you can’t really convince me otherwise at this point.

Most of the ppl who use phrases like “critical thinking” wouldn’t be able to give you a real explanation of what that means. “Critical thinking” is the “reduce the bottlenecks” of education.

Ultimately, these technologies splinter what’s possible if we could just remove what is covering over relationality.

“We gotta really rethink the future of education” no, we have “rethought” education for decades to fit around market conditions, international pandemics, globalization, pragmatism, accountability, etc etc etc. Maybe we can, idk, just study with each other. Paper, pen, and book. Nothing more.

The idea that kids have responsibilities to a classroom is utterly foreign because we’ve transformed them into customers. They pay tuition, so you do your thing up there and let me get that paper so I can go into the “real” world.

One thing professors fail to do often is to create boundaries for how we choose to relate to each other in classes. And for some reason a lot of profs have anxiety about it. Students have a responsibility in classrooms as well. It’s not as much as profs, but it certainly exists.

Aside from the headline cracking me up, I’d say I love the fact that students are upset. It turns out they—and I really believe this—want a real education. Let’s create and incentivize what that might look like for EVERYONE in a classroom.

This is true and it’s just that simple.

I only add that “Christian” in their context just means the rationalization of capitalism. That keeps confusing people.