I will say, if I never again hear “private public partnership” again in my life, I will have heard it enough.

I was trying to wrap this up with a joke, but I got nothin'. It's tough out there. And, at least at YLCC, the problem is outside our power to fix at the source.

So students wash up on our shores with no practice at Doing The Things and no internal incentive structure for it. Professors have to either put a lot of work into holding the line, put a lot of work in to rebuilding their classes, or let the tide of mediocrity wash over us.

It's good to support students. But learning doesn't happen without challenge. And the push to graduate everyone can mean that challenges get hollowed out. Teachers don't have time or resources to differentiate between abilities evenly.

High school has been "show up and you'll graduate somehow" for a long time. It's ramped up in recent years. Covid played a part, but it was happening before the disease hit. Everyone Must Graduate so there's a heavy heavy emphasis on retakes, do-overs, flexible deadlines, etc.

give me a miniseries of paul walter hauser’s moleman as like mayor of the underground

Our trans kin aren't going anywhere. There will always be more; you cannot harass a facet of humanity out of existence. So if we could be kinder to the ones who are here now, I would really appreciate it.

Be nice to my friends. And to the ones who aren't my friends. Please.