Mal
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· Jan 12
My manifesto (er, article) is out in AERA Open today! It’s about how #neoliberal & #racial capitalist logic worms its way into far too many project-based learning experiences, and what #educators can do about it. Come for the righteous anger. Stay for the solutions!
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hot damn my friends, this is a *masterwork* of pedagogy. if you care at all about my opinions on education, read this.
incidentally, this is an important post about education.
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
incidentally, this is an important post about education.
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LEVERAGE meeting 2008: “The trick is, slide the social critique in behind the fun. I don’t want to push.”
ME IN EDITING IN 2024: “Do we have a take of the white techbro chasing our heroine with an ax screaming ‘THIS IS EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM!!’ where he looks directly into the camera? No? Damn.”
ME IN EDITING IN 2024: “Do we have a take of the white techbro chasing our heroine with an ax screaming ‘THIS IS EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM!!’ where he looks directly into the camera? No? Damn.”
May 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
LEVERAGE meeting 2008: “The trick is, slide the social critique in behind the fun. I don’t want to push.”
ME IN EDITING IN 2024: “Do we have a take of the white techbro chasing our heroine with an ax screaming ‘THIS IS EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM!!’ where he looks directly into the camera? No? Damn.”
ME IN EDITING IN 2024: “Do we have a take of the white techbro chasing our heroine with an ax screaming ‘THIS IS EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM!!’ where he looks directly into the camera? No? Damn.”
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
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AI makes effective science communication more difficult and more important than ever.
More difficult because AI makes laypeople think they can bypass experts and interpret data for themselves.
And more important because AI's errors threaten to further erode laypeople's trust in science itself.
More difficult because AI makes laypeople think they can bypass experts and interpret data for themselves.
And more important because AI's errors threaten to further erode laypeople's trust in science itself.
I need more people to know about this nonsense happening in my comments…
Me: here’s a detailed review of this study.
Them: My AI says it’s trending towards significance, tho
Me: here’s a detailed review of this study.
Them: My AI says it’s trending towards significance, tho
October 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
AI makes effective science communication more difficult and more important than ever.
More difficult because AI makes laypeople think they can bypass experts and interpret data for themselves.
And more important because AI's errors threaten to further erode laypeople's trust in science itself.
More difficult because AI makes laypeople think they can bypass experts and interpret data for themselves.
And more important because AI's errors threaten to further erode laypeople's trust in science itself.
Sex and the City is such an absurd cultural artifact.
image: four hwight girls hwalking into a movie theatre, a soundtrack of Aretha playing Respect in the background, as Carrie Bradshaw explains in sagely voiceover how married and single folk are just like the Northern Irish, not a *real* war. 😐
image: four hwight girls hwalking into a movie theatre, a soundtrack of Aretha playing Respect in the background, as Carrie Bradshaw explains in sagely voiceover how married and single folk are just like the Northern Irish, not a *real* war. 😐
September 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Sex and the City is such an absurd cultural artifact.
image: four hwight girls hwalking into a movie theatre, a soundtrack of Aretha playing Respect in the background, as Carrie Bradshaw explains in sagely voiceover how married and single folk are just like the Northern Irish, not a *real* war. 😐
image: four hwight girls hwalking into a movie theatre, a soundtrack of Aretha playing Respect in the background, as Carrie Bradshaw explains in sagely voiceover how married and single folk are just like the Northern Irish, not a *real* war. 😐
it is one of the fundamental ironies of our society, that Tim Burton simply does not understand The Addams Family.
September 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
it is one of the fundamental ironies of our society, that Tim Burton simply does not understand The Addams Family.
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I don't know who originally wrote it or remember who I first heard it from but "A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now." is the truest thing ever said and it just keeps on getting truer
August 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I don't know who originally wrote it or remember who I first heard it from but "A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now." is the truest thing ever said and it just keeps on getting truer
gonna be watching this one in the Human Restoration Project discord on monday evening (EST) for all my teacher friends out there...
brace yourself; it's a lot.
brace yourself; it's a lot.
August 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
gonna be watching this one in the Human Restoration Project discord on monday evening (EST) for all my teacher friends out there...
brace yourself; it's a lot.
brace yourself; it's a lot.
Aaron Sorkin really thought a series about a pseudo-heroic Republican journalist during the Obama years was a stroke of political genius, didn't he?
i suppose it *is* the ideal spiritual successor to the neoliberal circlejerk president show.
looking forward to a great Skip Intro essay at least.
i suppose it *is* the ideal spiritual successor to the neoliberal circlejerk president show.
looking forward to a great Skip Intro essay at least.
August 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Aaron Sorkin really thought a series about a pseudo-heroic Republican journalist during the Obama years was a stroke of political genius, didn't he?
i suppose it *is* the ideal spiritual successor to the neoliberal circlejerk president show.
looking forward to a great Skip Intro essay at least.
i suppose it *is* the ideal spiritual successor to the neoliberal circlejerk president show.
looking forward to a great Skip Intro essay at least.
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“I’m sick of these purity tests. NO CANDIDATE is perfect. Newsom may not care about homeless people or trans people but he’s the ONLY ONE hiring social media posters to ask ChatGPT to talk like Trump”
August 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
“I’m sick of these purity tests. NO CANDIDATE is perfect. Newsom may not care about homeless people or trans people but he’s the ONLY ONE hiring social media posters to ask ChatGPT to talk like Trump”
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I do a lot of yearning these days. I don't know what that's about, but maybe something or someone will satiate my yearns.
August 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I do a lot of yearning these days. I don't know what that's about, but maybe something or someone will satiate my yearns.
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"The two months immediately before the general election is too close for you to criticize us, do it when it's not as destructive."
"Okay, how about 40+ months before the next general election?"
"Fuck you, why do you want Trump to win?"
"Okay, how about 40+ months before the next general election?"
"Fuck you, why do you want Trump to win?"
August 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
"The two months immediately before the general election is too close for you to criticize us, do it when it's not as destructive."
"Okay, how about 40+ months before the next general election?"
"Fuck you, why do you want Trump to win?"
"Okay, how about 40+ months before the next general election?"
"Fuck you, why do you want Trump to win?"
i wish JK Rowling to be relieved of her gross fortunes, deplatformed and unable to continue doing as much harm as she has.
i wish her a legacy of disdain, that her works become footnotes in history akin to beanie babies or tickle-me-elmo. some weird capitalist hiccup we all agree was a mistake.
i wish her a legacy of disdain, that her works become footnotes in history akin to beanie babies or tickle-me-elmo. some weird capitalist hiccup we all agree was a mistake.
I wish ill on JK Rowling. I *also* wish ill on the Bluesky mods who suspended Jessie Gender.
August 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
i wish JK Rowling to be relieved of her gross fortunes, deplatformed and unable to continue doing as much harm as she has.
i wish her a legacy of disdain, that her works become footnotes in history akin to beanie babies or tickle-me-elmo. some weird capitalist hiccup we all agree was a mistake.
i wish her a legacy of disdain, that her works become footnotes in history akin to beanie babies or tickle-me-elmo. some weird capitalist hiccup we all agree was a mistake.
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We once spoke with a well-regarded dev psych who told us that of course they know & work with actual cognitive scientists and they would be the first to tell you a classroom shouldn't look like a cognitive science lab.
Maybe people know enough about #cogsci to know it's not sufficient to build thriving, healthy human learning spaces around, and people like Zach Groshell are fringe because they're wrong?
August 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
We once spoke with a well-regarded dev psych who told us that of course they know & work with actual cognitive scientists and they would be the first to tell you a classroom shouldn't look like a cognitive science lab.
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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
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Researching ‘What Works’ in Education Isn’t Working - A 2018 Bush-Obama ed reform post-mortem:
"Learning isn’t something that educators do to children, and it’s not something they can make happen or make children do."
www.edweek.org/education/op...
"Learning isn’t something that educators do to children, and it’s not something they can make happen or make children do."
www.edweek.org/education/op...
November 8, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Researching ‘What Works’ in Education Isn’t Working - A 2018 Bush-Obama ed reform post-mortem:
"Learning isn’t something that educators do to children, and it’s not something they can make happen or make children do."
www.edweek.org/education/op...
"Learning isn’t something that educators do to children, and it’s not something they can make happen or make children do."
www.edweek.org/education/op...
why is this the most accurate representation of jubilee content i've ever seen?
youtu.be/vjG5WJkwX00?...
youtu.be/vjG5WJkwX00?...
1 Paladin vs 20 Vecna Cultists | Surrounded D&D Edition
YouTube video by Double Crit Fail
youtu.be
August 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
why is this the most accurate representation of jubilee content i've ever seen?
youtu.be/vjG5WJkwX00?...
youtu.be/vjG5WJkwX00?...
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All you need to know about transphobes/terfs/gender critical people is that they think trans people have an unfair advantage in chess.
World chess just placed restrictions on both trans women and trans men
The International Chess Federation will stop allowing transgender women to participate in women's tournaments. The group said changing genders has a "significant impact" on a player's status.
www.npr.org
August 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
All you need to know about transphobes/terfs/gender critical people is that they think trans people have an unfair advantage in chess.
just overheard someone complaining that Terry Pratchett 'spoils the mystery' by giving readers too much inside information up front instead of keeping us guessing.
and it occurred to me how hard this cultural shift has been into media that wants to *surprise* its audience... (🧵1/4)
and it occurred to me how hard this cultural shift has been into media that wants to *surprise* its audience... (🧵1/4)
July 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
just overheard someone complaining that Terry Pratchett 'spoils the mystery' by giving readers too much inside information up front instead of keeping us guessing.
and it occurred to me how hard this cultural shift has been into media that wants to *surprise* its audience... (🧵1/4)
and it occurred to me how hard this cultural shift has been into media that wants to *surprise* its audience... (🧵1/4)
hm i don't post here very often, wonder if anyone is watching...
The last episode of The Good Place is the worst episode of The Good Place.
the whole series benefits from ending at episode 51.
The last episode of The Good Place is the worst episode of The Good Place.
the whole series benefits from ending at episode 51.
July 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
hm i don't post here very often, wonder if anyone is watching...
The last episode of The Good Place is the worst episode of The Good Place.
the whole series benefits from ending at episode 51.
The last episode of The Good Place is the worst episode of The Good Place.
the whole series benefits from ending at episode 51.