Ellen Rigsby

The Problem with My City Is That It’s a City I’ve lived in this city for decades, but I’m noticing more and more problems. There’s crowding, congestion, changing people, tall buildings, and th...

Love you McSweeny’s!

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I use in-class exams in college-level classes as a way to prevent the temptation of AI. I’ve allowed students to bring in one page of notes. Now students are photocopying others’ notes to use for exams. In other contexts I’d be fine with note-sharing. Here, I’m not liking it. Thoughts?

"A Free Teacher in a Free Society" A fortuitous encounter with John Dewey

Today’s long-form bit of inspiration: a reminder of what books and education are for: the development of free will. open.substack.com/pub/emilypit...

Hands Off Berkeley

Opinion | The Rise and Fall of Elon Musk (Gift Article) His belief that liberal democracy has failed and that technologists should lead can be traced to the unusual life of his grandfather.

Jill Lepore offers a grounded and historically-evidenced explanation of Musk’s ideology here, in case you are curious why he wants to kill democracy(gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...

I could not resist reposting this from Maureen Gilbert.

@onequietvoice.bsky.social welcome!

Trump’s Reign of Terror on Schools—and How We Fight Back It’s not enough to be afraid of the laws and rules we don’t want to see in schools. We have to clarify our visions of what we are fighting for.

I’m loving this article today. “Dreaming is not a luxury.” inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

Sonoma State discontinuing athletics, eliminating several degree programs (BCN) — Sonoma State University announced Wednesday that its intercollegiate athletics programs are being discontinued, several academic departments and majors are being eliminated and dozens…

This is painful. www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...

Happy Martin Luther King day, everyone. And happy Inauguration Day, for those who are celebrating. We are all human.

Gwendolyn Brooks said it better in her poem “Paul Robeson”
“that we are each other’s harvest:
we are each other’s business:
we are each other’s magnitude and bond”

My college-age student at home for winter break made these for me today while I was at work. I love them, but what does it say about me as a a parent that my first thought was “wow, she must be bored.”😂

I’m in Morocco at a conference, and we got to see this amazing band tonight: Gnawa State 7

The concert I went to with my boyfriend in 1979 is here! What a treasure the Internet Archive is! archive.org/details/gd19...

@deb-palmer.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky!

Thank you for this!