Chelsea Cristene Bock
@chelseacristene.bsky.social
Proud community college educator based in Maryland. EdD student with a passion for information literacy and social justice. Warren Democrat. YIMBY. Anti-GenAI. She/her/bi. ♌️♋️♍️ Posts do not represent my employer.
I remember listening to a TED Talk from Galloway on the housing crisis and other cost-of-living challenges that Millennials in particular are facing, and I really appreciated his insight. As I learned more about him, though, I got an undeniable manosphere vibe.
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I remember listening to a TED Talk from Galloway on the housing crisis and other cost-of-living challenges that Millennials in particular are facing, and I really appreciated his insight. As I learned more about him, though, I got an undeniable manosphere vibe.
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“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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i'd say the midterm-level turnout for a special election is even more ominous than the swing
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i'd say the midterm-level turnout for a special election is even more ominous than the swing
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Donald Trump fell asleep during a Cabinet meeting, raising new questions about Joe Biden's health.
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Donald Trump fell asleep during a Cabinet meeting, raising new questions about Joe Biden's health.
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Every ai booster believes that college is about doing homework. They think there’s a homework goblin that pays the colleges for their homework. Their dream is that they can have a machine that you can pay $75,000 to and receive a college degree from in four years.
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Every ai booster believes that college is about doing homework. They think there’s a homework goblin that pays the colleges for their homework. Their dream is that they can have a machine that you can pay $75,000 to and receive a college degree from in four years.
Yesterday was my husband's inauguration: four more years as a City of Annapolis alderman! Yesterday was also yet another day I failed to meet Senator Alsobrooks as a human being instead of as a crab mascot. This woman ONLY knows me as a giant red crab and the longer this goes on the funnier it gets.
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Yesterday was my husband's inauguration: four more years as a City of Annapolis alderman! Yesterday was also yet another day I failed to meet Senator Alsobrooks as a human being instead of as a crab mascot. This woman ONLY knows me as a giant red crab and the longer this goes on the funnier it gets.
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The President has 2 settings: diarrhea and asleep
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The President has 2 settings: diarrhea and asleep
I've never done this. Throughout the years, I've found that if you give students enough examples of both strong and weak thesis statements (so that they also know what *not* to do), you eliminate the need to spoonfeed them "x, y, and z" formulas.
Thinking of banning list-of-three-things thesis statements.
December 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I've never done this. Throughout the years, I've found that if you give students enough examples of both strong and weak thesis statements (so that they also know what *not* to do), you eliminate the need to spoonfeed them "x, y, and z" formulas.
As someone with a friend whose sweet mother has early-onset dementia, I really hate the “Dementia Don” jokes about Trump. I know he’s failing mentally — all the signs are there — but there are ways to point this out without punching down at everyday people affected by something so difficult.
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As someone with a friend whose sweet mother has early-onset dementia, I really hate the “Dementia Don” jokes about Trump. I know he’s failing mentally — all the signs are there — but there are ways to point this out without punching down at everyday people affected by something so difficult.
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not unless they’re also leftists but with slightly different views
December 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
not unless they’re also leftists but with slightly different views
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Hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social do you have a favorite Steely Dan album and if so what is it?
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social do you have a favorite Steely Dan album and if so what is it?
It will be interesting to see if more counties making community college free for dually enrolled high school students (Maryland counties started this last year) helps bump up enrollment more long term.
Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline.
I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:
"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"
I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:
"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"
December 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It will be interesting to see if more counties making community college free for dually enrolled high school students (Maryland counties started this last year) helps bump up enrollment more long term.
Me to the Gap pants I’m aggressively stalking online like a lion in the grass
a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words " you 're my obsession " on the bottom of the image
Alt: a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words "you’re my obsession" on the bottom of the image
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Me to the Gap pants I’m aggressively stalking online like a lion in the grass
Today: Another Christmas artisan festival attended (in Frederick, Maryland) and a lot of gifts purchased (for me)
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Today: Another Christmas artisan festival attended (in Frederick, Maryland) and a lot of gifts purchased (for me)
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Outgoing Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley wouldn’t change a thing
Gavin Buckley wouldn’t change a thing about his time as Annapolis mayor
As he concludes his second term as Annapolis mayor, Gavin Buckley reflects on his tenure, the controversies and where he goes from here.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Outgoing Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley wouldn’t change a thing
It has to be the most American thing ever to swarm this woman’s replies yelling about American politics when she’s a Brit talking specifically about political parties in the UK. Jesus.
There is an extraordinary sense of entitlement behind the belief that there ought to be political party that aligns 100% with your own opinions.
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It has to be the most American thing ever to swarm this woman’s replies yelling about American politics when she’s a Brit talking specifically about political parties in the UK. Jesus.
I think it’s especially depressing after all those Thanksgiving commercials foisting AI upon us. Lie to your child with AI. Make a shitty recipe with AI. “Create” a dead-eyed cartoon of yourself instead of meaningful and original art. Nothing matters.
Enshittification is depressing
Everything that was cool is struggling to survive or has become a deranged version of itself
And it’s everywhere. Ugh
Everything that was cool is struggling to survive or has become a deranged version of itself
And it’s everywhere. Ugh
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I think it’s especially depressing after all those Thanksgiving commercials foisting AI upon us. Lie to your child with AI. Make a shitty recipe with AI. “Create” a dead-eyed cartoon of yourself instead of meaningful and original art. Nothing matters.
Glanced at the image and thought at first it was an ad for a Kraftwerk show.
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Glanced at the image and thought at first it was an ad for a Kraftwerk show.
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All these edtech and AIed testbeds don't follow the evidence-based "what works" policy model that's dominated education for years. They're *making* AI work in real-world school settings to generate insights for policy and tech. Schools are AI testing labs now.
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
All these edtech and AIed testbeds don't follow the evidence-based "what works" policy model that's dominated education for years. They're *making* AI work in real-world school settings to generate insights for policy and tech. Schools are AI testing labs now.
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people who watch pluribus have a biological imperative to get other ppl to watch pluribus
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 AM
people who watch pluribus have a biological imperative to get other ppl to watch pluribus
Sitting here rewatching the video I took of when my husband was Acting Mayor of Annapolis and got to play the heel in a Lucha Libre wrestling show, where he was bodyslammed and then rolled out of the ring.
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Sitting here rewatching the video I took of when my husband was Acting Mayor of Annapolis and got to play the heel in a Lucha Libre wrestling show, where he was bodyslammed and then rolled out of the ring.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.