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Daphna
@dapati.bsky.social
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I like serial commas, fireflies, bold patterns, cities, advice columns, long walks, museums, menus, learning about a lot of things and teaching about some. Always thinking about my next meal. She/her.
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I screenshot this as well! (Reposting with alt-text)
McMillan Cottom: Perhaps one of the biggest threats that A.I. poses to education isn't that it's going to make educators useless, but that it is going to make educators so much more necessary than we are willing to invest in. A.I. actually makes it more important that we have everything from librarians to counselors to teachers to professors to researchers who can put this rapidly changing information environment into context and can develop the capacity in students to make sense of things.
August 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Oh, this is amazing. Not the same kind of piece at all, but I had a similar reaction to Elizabeth Catlett's sculptures and portraits of mothers and babies, currently on view at the National Gallery. The way it was clear someone had lovingly observed pregnant people and parents.
A small terracotta sculpture of a woman holding a baby. She's seated, and the infant rests in the folds of her skirt. Her head is bent down kissing its forehead, and her arms are wrapped around him. It looks soft even though it's clay. It's lovely.
June 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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This is so fucked-up.

(Reposting Patty Murray's summary below, with alt text.)
• DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA LOCAL FUNDING: Limits D.C. to its FY24 levels for local funding-_which would have dramatic impacts on city functions. Congress has predictably allowed D.C. to spend its locally-passed funding year after year. In fact, in both the enacted September and December continuing resolutions, Congress included a longstanding provision allowing D.C. to spend at its determined levels. This CR, however, would cut D.C.'s funding and impact Home Rule mid-way through the fiscal year when D.C. is already spending at its ostensibly Congressionally approved FY25 levels. This means a nearly $945 million cut for the District, impacting teachers, firefighters, and law enforcement. The Metro Police Department alone would see a $75.6 million cut and teachers could be fired in the middle of the school year.
March 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Love a good sage green. We similarly kept some orange we weren’t expecting to.
A orange shelf nook and accent wall whose color we can’t fully decide how to feel about, bisected by a staircase.
January 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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So much to unpack in this wonderful paragraph from @becksup.bsky.social, which really gets at a lot about why college students are struggling, and why their teachers are struggling to teach them. www.chronicle.com/article/some...
Paragraph from linked piece by Beckie Supiano: "Students are given little independence in school and, when they gain it in college, are overwhelmed rather than relieved, unmoored rather than motivated. After years of having their education treated as a performance, it’s asking a lot of students to trust that it might be more fulfilling to approach it as a process."
January 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM