He found a squirrel in the brush, and pulled it out to show me. After I told him to drop it, I got his WTF look. To his credit, he did drop and abandon it when I spoiled his fun.
Now that we are back at the house, he is acting like I promised him something even better than a dead squirrel. I’ll take him for a car ride to even the score.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is about hubris. Man playing god, creating life, that sort of thing. Poor Things is a Frankenstein movie without a moral or message.
NYT Interactive Admissions Plotter
The NYT has this fancy, interactive plotter that shows how many Black and Hispanic students will be admitted based on different criteria.
Treating people differently on the bases of race for college admissions is found to be illegal because it is, by definition, racial discrimination. Universities are looking for legal ways around that.
While browsing the *Teachers* forum on Reddit, I read this post.
If you want to keep your jobs, and preserve the education system as it currently stands, VOTE in the 2024 presidential election.
The text of the post was a rant about how Trump promised to dismantle public education and collapse democracy in America. No one had commented, so I did:
The education system, as it currently stands, ain’t that great.
The original poster and a couple of dozen other people replied. A third were supportive, so I engaged the other two-thirds. Always be polite, but give no ground.
Several other people commented to disagree with the original post and started other threads.
After 200 comments, the original author withdrew her post. My comment has 28 up votes. I figured I’d be deep in negative numbers.
That’s a win. Not only did she withdraw, but many conservative teachers know that they aren’t alone.
Charter schools aren’t going to save education, but Classical Learning may.
Since Davy and I started working out, I wanted to encourage symmetry. Some machines allow for a different weight for each arm. It made sense to start with the highest weight that either arm could handle. I don’t want to develop a lobster claw, where one arm is much stronger than the other. That might be a fiddler crab I’m thinking of.
Megan McArdle is a columnist who I’ve followed for years. Except for being a Never Trumper, she is generally insightful.
On Friday morning, when I first sat down to write this column, Google’s new Gemini AI was having problems that seemed mostly amusing. The internet had discovered that it would generally refuse to create pictures of any all-White groups, even in situations where it was clearly called for, such as “draw a picture of Nazis.” Gemini also insisted on gender diversity, even when drawing popes.
NY Post: MS Society fires a 90 year old
The National Multiple Sclerosis reverses it’s decision and apologizes. That’s not enough.
Cats and dogs have an outsize carbon footprint, mostly because of their carnivorous diet. If the pet food industry, which mainly feeds dogs and cats, were a country, it would rank as the 60th-highest greenhouse gas emitter, equivalent to the Philippines.
When I was an RA at Ohio State my senior year, me and a few other RA’s got a bunny. We named him Travis. I don’t recall how or why we got a pet rabbit. Lisa, an RA in Barrett, was very sweet and loved animals, so it was probably her idea. Scott and I liked spontaneous dumb ideas, so we were in, and Barb liked being in on the secret.
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