Eric Blyler
Liberally blocking people who use “liberal” as a slur. Not an automatic follow back. 🫡🇺🇸🇺🇦
- ancient sumerian stand up comedian: who heckles from beneath me? do you not see how high my ziggurat is? the gods look upon me! (realizing that comedy comes from shared humility) but they look at me with disdain
- “that doesn’t mean YOU can look upon me with disdain
- i’d be offended but yeah, fair cop, i am absolutely a posting gremlin
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View full threadI’m experimenting with compressing my internet madness into as brief a period as possible during the day before I log out which has actually been a fun challenge
- “Welcome to the internet. You have thirty minutes. Choose your battles accordingly. “
- If I were, say, a teacher I'd be radically rethinking how I manage my time with students in the classroom. The good news is No More Homework. The bad news is, I will be in the room with you while you do everything.
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View full threadI hadn't even thought about how that must be for the student! That's absolutely a mindfuck.
- think critically and write persuasively. They are equally weighted.
- I call her the brain cracker. She challenges them to think critically until they get it and it can be a kind of born again experience.
- Has to be addressed at the institutional level, with an emphasis on culture
- She has students who have been radicalized when they realize how they were shortchanged at an early age. I had a similar reaction in my late teens about religious indoctrination.
- Yeah, my partner is a law prof. Same problem. The solution needs to be at the early learning to read and write stage.
- Well, I know some who go that far. I just...didn't. That was around the time it became a mere job for me.
- I know Ezra Klein is not enthusiastically embraced on the left these days but this was a good conversation about education in the time of AI.
- We shouldn't require our teachers to be martyrs.
- I started doing that back when students didn't turn anything in and then complained to admin that I was being unfair in grading. It...reduced attendance significantly.
- That's a bummer. I imagine even this requires a heroic amout of hand-holding a mere mortal could not possibly provide to all.
- Let's all read these five pages right now and then talk about them.
