MathIsLife
@damianmolinari.bsky.social
Math educator, hill and mountain wanderer, and music and bean lover. Working to create a humane learning community.
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Hey I wrote this and got a lot of hate mail so maybe you can share it
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Hey I wrote this and got a lot of hate mail so maybe you can share it
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Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.
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🎯 @robsandia.bsky.social on Private School Vouchers (for the wealthy) — “CALL THEIR BLUFF… if they want public dollars, they should have to follow the same rules as public schools… it’s not a ‘COMPETITION’ when not everyone is playing by the same rules.”
(cc: Speaker Sexton)
(cc: Speaker Sexton)
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🎯 @robsandia.bsky.social on Private School Vouchers (for the wealthy) — “CALL THEIR BLUFF… if they want public dollars, they should have to follow the same rules as public schools… it’s not a ‘COMPETITION’ when not everyone is playing by the same rules.”
(cc: Speaker Sexton)
(cc: Speaker Sexton)
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Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
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ESSA has no provision outlawing indoctrination. Unless I'm misunderstanding, the entire standardization and testing apparatus can be aimed at mandating specific books and interpretations as "standards."
www.prestwickhouse.com/blog/post/20...
www.prestwickhouse.com/blog/post/20...
Florida B.E.S.T. Standards Reading Recommendations
Build a classroom library that’s both enriching and compliant with the new Florida state laws with these recommended books!
www.prestwickhouse.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
ESSA has no provision outlawing indoctrination. Unless I'm misunderstanding, the entire standardization and testing apparatus can be aimed at mandating specific books and interpretations as "standards."
www.prestwickhouse.com/blog/post/20...
www.prestwickhouse.com/blog/post/20...
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I’ve dusted off my blog and given it a new home. davidkbutler.xyz
Making Your Own Sense
Reflections on maths, learning and the Maths Learning Centre, by David K Butler
davidkbutler.xyz
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I’ve dusted off my blog and given it a new home. davidkbutler.xyz
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This year I’ve ended up with the most silent Y12 class I’ve ever taught. Today I changed the seating plan and put this instruction at the top of the starter, and they actually talked to each other! #WeeklyWins #MathsToday #ALevelMaths
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This year I’ve ended up with the most silent Y12 class I’ve ever taught. Today I changed the seating plan and put this instruction at the top of the starter, and they actually talked to each other! #WeeklyWins #MathsToday #ALevelMaths
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“I have found myself increasingly convinced that the best way to help people facing catastrophe is to support local organizations working closest to them on the ground,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes. “And, whenever possible, give those people money directly.”
“I have found myself increasingly convinced that the best way to help people facing catastrophe is to support local organizations working closest to them on the ground,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes. “And, whenever possible, give those people money directly.”
Opinion | Donate This Holiday Season: The World’s Poorest People Need Your Help
With suffering everywhere, give directly to those most in need and help those around you.
nyti.ms
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“I have found myself increasingly convinced that the best way to help people facing catastrophe is to support local organizations working closest to them on the ground,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes. “And, whenever possible, give those people money directly.”
“I have found myself increasingly convinced that the best way to help people facing catastrophe is to support local organizations working closest to them on the ground,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes. “And, whenever possible, give those people money directly.”
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This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing. https://to.pbs.org/3hJeiqq
This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing
When Allison Adelle Hedge Coke wrote her poem “America, I Sing Back,” she considered each word a note in a larger song about the nation. “I thought about America singing. That’s why this poem is a song -- a voice calling for reclamation.”
to.pbs.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This Thanksgiving, read a Native American poet’s song of healing. https://to.pbs.org/3hJeiqq
Unreasonable excitement for the lastest McSweeney's Quarterly. Is it the Trapper Keeper binder, the storybook template, the folder, or the story in the form of a scantron test? It's all that and more! Also, purchased at the International Library of Young Authors. 😊
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Unreasonable excitement for the lastest McSweeney's Quarterly. Is it the Trapper Keeper binder, the storybook template, the folder, or the story in the form of a scantron test? It's all that and more! Also, purchased at the International Library of Young Authors. 😊
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Session 1 of our Speaker Series, by @pamseda1.bsky.social, got Session 3's @jennalaib.bsky.social thinking: "When does it make sense to change [cultural] elements?... The answer isn’t a checklist or a directive. It’s a stance... I strive for intentionality & balance... Why this shift? & for whom?
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Session 1 of our Speaker Series, by @pamseda1.bsky.social, got Session 3's @jennalaib.bsky.social thinking: "When does it make sense to change [cultural] elements?... The answer isn’t a checklist or a directive. It’s a stance... I strive for intentionality & balance... Why this shift? & for whom?
This elegantly captures the intrinsic value of education (and reveals the critical importance of fighting for our public schools).
"Learning to listen, to attend carefully and
relentlessly, to unexpected others […] is the single disposition that renders education what it can and must be: the interaction quite literally constituting (ethical) community."
-- my colleague, philosopher of education @barbstengel.bsky.social
relentlessly, to unexpected others […] is the single disposition that renders education what it can and must be: the interaction quite literally constituting (ethical) community."
-- my colleague, philosopher of education @barbstengel.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This elegantly captures the intrinsic value of education (and reveals the critical importance of fighting for our public schools).
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"Learning to listen, to attend carefully and
relentlessly, to unexpected others […] is the single disposition that renders education what it can and must be: the interaction quite literally constituting (ethical) community."
-- my colleague, philosopher of education @barbstengel.bsky.social
relentlessly, to unexpected others […] is the single disposition that renders education what it can and must be: the interaction quite literally constituting (ethical) community."
-- my colleague, philosopher of education @barbstengel.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"Learning to listen, to attend carefully and
relentlessly, to unexpected others […] is the single disposition that renders education what it can and must be: the interaction quite literally constituting (ethical) community."
-- my colleague, philosopher of education @barbstengel.bsky.social
relentlessly, to unexpected others […] is the single disposition that renders education what it can and must be: the interaction quite literally constituting (ethical) community."
-- my colleague, philosopher of education @barbstengel.bsky.social
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Supporting Neurodivergent Teachers: How Schools Can Help the Helpers | Cult of Pedagogy
“Recognizing and supporting the needs of neurodivergent teachers doesn’t just benefit those individuals … it strengthens entire school communities.”
“Recognizing and supporting the needs of neurodivergent teachers doesn’t just benefit those individuals … it strengthens entire school communities.”
Supporting Neurodivergent Teachers: How Schools Can Help the Helpers | Cult of Pedagogy
Neurodivergent educators bring unique gifts to their work, but they also face unique challenges.
www.cultofpedagogy.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Supporting Neurodivergent Teachers: How Schools Can Help the Helpers | Cult of Pedagogy
“Recognizing and supporting the needs of neurodivergent teachers doesn’t just benefit those individuals … it strengthens entire school communities.”
“Recognizing and supporting the needs of neurodivergent teachers doesn’t just benefit those individuals … it strengthens entire school communities.”
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Hello, I was diagnosed with autism in the 80s. I was also told many times as a child by doctors that they only diagnosed extreme cases due to the stigma associated with things like autism and adhd. Hope that helps clarify why we suddenly have more (we don’t, they’re just being labeled now)
Next few paragraphs include some data but also lots of hyperbole and a shockingly dismissive tone that suggests lots of kids are suffering from made-up conditions.
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Hello, I was diagnosed with autism in the 80s. I was also told many times as a child by doctors that they only diagnosed extreme cases due to the stigma associated with things like autism and adhd. Hope that helps clarify why we suddenly have more (we don’t, they’re just being labeled now)
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In a massive backlash against MAGA fascism, Democrats have now swept school board elections in Pennsylvania, Texas and Ohio and defeating all terrorist Moms For Liberty candidates in the process. Much more of this please, we have a democracy to rescue. 💙👊
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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I think this is a piece that’s worthy of consideration by educators across the full K-post-secondary spectrum. It’s my experience that the nature of this current cultural moment in the U.S. is almost forcing kids to ask the questions that the humanities grapple with. And the job market demands it.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I think this is a piece that’s worthy of consideration by educators across the full K-post-secondary spectrum. It’s my experience that the nature of this current cultural moment in the U.S. is almost forcing kids to ask the questions that the humanities grapple with. And the job market demands it.
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If you're interested in some intersection of history and maths (e.g. history of maths, or the maths of history) and the potential for each to enrich education of the other, then I have the free fledgling network for you: historyand.mathsy.space
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November 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you're interested in some intersection of history and maths (e.g. history of maths, or the maths of history) and the potential for each to enrich education of the other, then I have the free fledgling network for you: historyand.mathsy.space
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.