In no particular order: teacher, spouse, father, historian, still puzzling over Omega's Kiwi accent in Bad Batch.
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Mackey Luffman retweeted
On September 29, 1864 US forces attacked the defenses of Richmond, VA during the Battle of New Market Heights. Two Divisions, comprised mostly of Black soldiers, played a crucial role in the fight - 14 of whom received the Medal of Honor for their actions. 🧵
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Mackey Luffman retweeted
The Economist just published a deeply-researched story about car bloat, and it's very, very damning:
"For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles."
Well worth your time: economist.com/interactive/un…
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Please don't operate heavy vocabulary without proper certifications.
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Okay this is awkward but @yashwinacanter would you please DM me recs for things to do in London.
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You seen this @startleseasily ?
Ok here's a concept: Wife Swap but with municipal budgets.
librarians get cop budgets for a year and we see what can be done
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Hey everyone (and hey @mattson_rainer in case you missed this) my new single is now streaming everywhere. Enjoy and share and follow me on spotify etc. open.spotify.com/track/5s4z6…
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I haven't read the book in question, but I think presenting, "Japan should have just built 16 more carriers" as a serious argument, by either Goldman or VDH, should just immediately discredit the speaker from being taken seriously on modern conflict. 1/
Everyone who opines about "hard power in the Pacific" should study Victor Davis Hanson's "The Second World Wars." Everyone--Hitler, the Japanese, the Brits and the US--built battleships at the expense of carriers. Hanson says Japan would have won the Pacific War if it had built another 16 carriers instead of battleships, and Hitler would have ruled the North Atlantic if he did the same. Battleships were sitting ducks for cheap torpedo planes then, and carriers are sitting ducks for cheap Chinese missiles today. The fact that our admirals and their camp-followers want to build more of the same sitting ducks shouldn't surprise anyone--that's what militaries have done from time immemorial. Trump is right, and the pundits are wrong: Concentrate on missile defense. @VDHanson
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Thinking about how much money the university spent on trying to make sure this image didn't exist in public so when you share it you're continuing a time honored tradition of not letting people make you forget
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From the MIT Living Wage Calculator (left) and ALICE Survival Budget stats (right). $20/hour isn’t even a living wage for a single person with 0 children.
Words mean things. Whoever decided to call this a living wage is lying.
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Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards | Teen Vogue
The type of article @TheAtlantic would write if it had any grownups working there. teenvogue.com/story/campus-c…
Reposting even though I haven’t read it. Please remind me @haberflav @annastern18 !
Banning smartphones in schools is good for learning and well-being.
New study of 400+ middle schools in Norway: after smartphone bans, girls had fewer mental health issues & better grades. Boys and girls were less likely to be bullied.
Smartphones belong at home or in lockers.
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Mackey Luffman retweeted
If vouchers were as popular as their lobbyists say they are, these Trojan horses and shady backroom deals wouldn’t be necessary.
🚨VOUCHER ALERT🚨
A lot of eyeballs in Tennessee legislature are on HB390/SB191 - which could become a vehicle for school vouchers, skipping Finance Committee. The budget bill, on the House floor at 4 pm, has funding for vouchers. A GOP leader assured me recently that the bill would NOT be used for vouchers, but things can change. Next step will be watching House Calendar and Rules, which meets sometime today. HB390 needs a vote there to move to the House floor. wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Bil…
Another year, another YIG conference. Sgt. York statue for scale. Note that the state chose to remember him as a doughboy rather than the founder of a rural school 🤔
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Mackey Luffman retweeted
We don't use AI to do things that we care about, so this is more proof those in power don't care about standardized test scores.
As long as the scores can continue the narratives + advance the agendas, it's all good, no matter what the harm to children, families + communities.
Students will use AI on assessments, and teachers will use AI to grade them. Who gains or learns from this?
The above is paraphrased from @sharplm who foresaw this in AIED well before ChatGPT.
Parliamentarian job description didn’t include sound management when @Wayne_Begarly was here 🫡
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