Zed
@sigmabetazed.bsky.social
📍Mobile, AL
Perpetually curious higher education professional. Associate Director of Student Activities at University of South Alabama.
*Opinions my own and do not reflect the views of my employer*
Perpetually curious higher education professional. Associate Director of Student Activities at University of South Alabama.
*Opinions my own and do not reflect the views of my employer*
The most un-American President: apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says he wants to 'permanently pause' migration to the US from poorer countries
President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status...
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The most un-American President: apnews.com/article/trum...
Good job, Alabama: alabamareflector.com/2025/11/19/a... #PBS
Alabama Public Television to maintain PBS programming | Alabama Reflector
The Alabama Educational Television Foundation voted Tuesday to maintain PBS programming after backlash from the public.
alabamareflector.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Good job, Alabama: alabamareflector.com/2025/11/19/a... #PBS
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this is where i insist you have to tell your family stories like this at Thanksgiving! it's the only way they'll ever actually learn what's happening!
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
this is where i insist you have to tell your family stories like this at Thanksgiving! it's the only way they'll ever actually learn what's happening!
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
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Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
"You can’t convert people who don’t want what you have… you need to attract people who do." seths.blog/2025/11/opti...
Optimizing the landing page
It might be your website, your brochure, the inside of your store… This is a fine thing to do, but it’s not particularly effective. The secret isn’t to optimize the landing page. …
seths.blog
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"You can’t convert people who don’t want what you have… you need to attract people who do." seths.blog/2025/11/opti...
Long live the Internet Archive
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.
arstechnica.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Long live the Internet Archive
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
"Be worth the trip. Be worth the price."
seths.blog/2025/10/out-...
seths.blog/2025/10/out-...
Out of the way and a little inconvenient
Visitors to your new bookstore are likely to have a phone in their pockets–they could buy a book from the competition without even walking into the shop. And diners at your funky restaurant h…
seths.blog
October 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Be worth the trip. Be worth the price."
seths.blog/2025/10/out-...
seths.blog/2025/10/out-...
Cracking down on speech, but, yeah, not authoritarian.
www.highereddive.com/news/state-d...
www.highereddive.com/news/state-d...
State Department has revoked over 6,000 student visas this year
A spokesperson said 200 to 300 of the revocations were over support for terrorism, a common Trump administration claim against international students.
www.highereddive.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Cracking down on speech, but, yeah, not authoritarian.
www.highereddive.com/news/state-d...
www.highereddive.com/news/state-d...
Not one university should agree to the compact. www.highereddive.com/news/trump-u...
‘Nothing less than government control’: Higher ed responds to Trump’s compact
Federal officials offered preferential funding treatment to nine initial colleges in exchange for sweeping changes. Here’s how they replied.
www.highereddive.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Not one university should agree to the compact. www.highereddive.com/news/trump-u...
"But it might be even more effective to realize that, whenever we choose, we can learn something from what’s going on. We’re not getting taught, we’re choosing to learn." seths.blog/2025/10/what...
What the world teaches us
It’s possible to consider the next event in our lives as something the world is trying to teach us. But it might be even more effective to realize that, whenever we choose, we can learn somet…
seths.blog
October 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"But it might be even more effective to realize that, whenever we choose, we can learn something from what’s going on. We’re not getting taught, we’re choosing to learn." seths.blog/2025/10/what...
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oh look, giving in to a bully didn't work, again
BREAKING: Trump says he's punishing Canada with 10% extra import tax for not pulling down an anti-tariff ad sooner.
Trump punishes Canada with 10% extra import tax for not pulling down anti-tariffs ad sooner
President Donald Trump says he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by an extra 10% because of an anti-tariff television ad aired by the province of Ontario.
bit.ly
October 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
oh look, giving in to a bully didn't work, again
"The sexual binary espoused in both Trump and Abbott’s directives run contrary to decades of research from the scientific and medical communities, and neither directive represents a legislative change." #HigherEd www.highereddive.com/news/texas-t...
Texas Tech orders colleges to align instruction with Trump administration’s gender views
The directive from Chancellor Tedd Mitchell immediately drew backlash from free speech advocates, with one attorney describing it as “obvious censorship.”
www.highereddive.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"The sexual binary espoused in both Trump and Abbott’s directives run contrary to decades of research from the scientific and medical communities, and neither directive represents a legislative change." #HigherEd www.highereddive.com/news/texas-t...
"Five years after the conclusion of a term, presidential records must be made publicly available through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...President Trump’s records from his first term in office will be available for request beginning in 2026."
www.aacu.org/liberaleduca...
www.aacu.org/liberaleduca...
For the Record | AAC&U
Colleen Shogan on what’s at stake in the fight to protect the National Archives
www.aacu.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
"Five years after the conclusion of a term, presidential records must be made publicly available through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...President Trump’s records from his first term in office will be available for request beginning in 2026."
www.aacu.org/liberaleduca...
www.aacu.org/liberaleduca...
"When travel times and service reliability are relatively unequal between transportation modes, travelers are forced to make a difficult, binary choice...Such a harsh binary choice quickly exposes a lack of economic resilience." www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...
www.brookings.edu
September 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"When travel times and service reliability are relatively unequal between transportation modes, travelers are forced to make a difficult, binary choice...Such a harsh binary choice quickly exposes a lack of economic resilience." www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...
"Given the current targets of the opt-out movement, such curriculum shifts would deemphasize the experiences of racial, sexual, and gender minorities, perpetuating the very silence and unfamiliarity that can give rise to bigotry." www.brookings.edu/articles/mos...
Most Americans support parental opt-out of school curriculum—until they consider the downsides | Brookings
Research shows that views on parental opt-outs change when people weigh the costs for teachers, students, and schools.
www.brookings.edu
August 31, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"Given the current targets of the opt-out movement, such curriculum shifts would deemphasize the experiences of racial, sexual, and gender minorities, perpetuating the very silence and unfamiliarity that can give rise to bigotry." www.brookings.edu/articles/mos...
"It’s entirely possible that a magical AI will replace every single human job and then destroy the Earth. But it’s far more likely that the pattern of the last five hundred years will continue." seths.blog/2025/08/job-...
Job churn
Since I was born, humans have created 6 billion jobs. All while technology relentlessly disrupts existing industries. The pin making machine replaced the hand-crafted pin. The ox-pulled plow replac…
seths.blog
August 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"It’s entirely possible that a magical AI will replace every single human job and then destroy the Earth. But it’s far more likely that the pattern of the last five hundred years will continue." seths.blog/2025/08/job-...
"Internal correspondence from Newsmax officials likewise shows they knew the claims were baseless. 'How long are we going to play along with election fraud?' Newsmax host Bob Sellers said two days after the 2020 election was called for Biden..." apnews.com/article/domi...
Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims
The conservative network Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump’s 2020 election los...
apnews.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"Internal correspondence from Newsmax officials likewise shows they knew the claims were baseless. 'How long are we going to play along with election fraud?' Newsmax host Bob Sellers said two days after the 2020 election was called for Biden..." apnews.com/article/domi...
This guy wants to be governor. "15.6% of Alabamians lived in poverty in 2023, a number that Tuberville called 'embarrassing' but also appeared to blame on those in poverty."
alabamareflector.com/2025/08/21/t...
alabamareflector.com/2025/08/21/t...
Tommy Tuberville suggests putting students in vocational programs after 10th grade | Alabama Reflector
Tuberville said Wednesday that if elected governor he would encourage some students to go into technical training after completing 10th grade as a means of building the workforce.
alabamareflector.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This guy wants to be governor. "15.6% of Alabamians lived in poverty in 2023, a number that Tuberville called 'embarrassing' but also appeared to blame on those in poverty."
alabamareflector.com/2025/08/21/t...
alabamareflector.com/2025/08/21/t...
I love Seth Godin: "Teaching is not about assignments, textbooks or authority. It’s about the pedagogy, connection and approach that creates the conditions for a willing student to change their mind."
seths.blog/2025/08/aha/
seths.blog/2025/08/aha/
Aha!
Teaching is not about assignments, textbooks or authority. It’s about the pedagogy, connection and approach that creates the conditions for a willing student to change their mind. Everything …
seths.blog
August 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I love Seth Godin: "Teaching is not about assignments, textbooks or authority. It’s about the pedagogy, connection and approach that creates the conditions for a willing student to change their mind."
seths.blog/2025/08/aha/
seths.blog/2025/08/aha/
Isn’t this the second year in a row Burning Man was disrupted by crazy weather? #BurningMan
August 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Isn’t this the second year in a row Burning Man was disrupted by crazy weather? #BurningMan