Guess it makes sense that if you deny kids outdoor play, don't teach them to read, agressively violate their privacy by over-monitoring their internet usage, destoy third spaces, and never pay attention to them in ways that matter so they're either being ignored or yelled at, they struggle! Who knew

And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

When I ask them: "What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to?" Often, the answer is: nothing. Which has a direct effect on their over-use of prompts and AI, because they can't think of ideas, because they are literally not engaging with a single figurative thing.

I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.

We keep adjusting our goalposts, trying to meet students where they're at--but for some, that place is a kind of non-place, where they don't complete any work or engage with the class, but still receive a high grade. Emails are ignored. They can't meet a deadline or keep an appointment.

Wait it’s Black Friday?

*Always has been*

it’s been confirmed, or a sequence of suspicious cascading events has been confirmed. not sure if they’ll ever say ‘yes, we did this’ but it’s confirmed. therealdeal.com/chicago/2025...

Meanwhile, a neighbor who attended the presser (and asked not to be named for safety concerns) voiced the concern that immigration raids would be used to clear South Shore and similar communities of people of color and low-income residents.

"I feel like what people are not mentioning in this story is that this building is one block away from the beach," she said. "This is an attempt at gentrification. Point blank, period."

"This building, what they're trying to do is have it be luxury housing in 5 years," she further opined.

In California, protesters bought 79-cent ice scrapers and returned them on the spot as a symbolic statement.

my mother said ‘he doesn’t know what a fascist is, he thinks he’s calling him handsome’ 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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