Notices by myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win), page 26

I don't think it was wise of Biden to say he would not pardon Hunter *before* sentencing. Pardons should be broadly granted for excessive sentences. Will it be excessive? Probably not. But it could be.

Can we maybe NOT start using "activist judge" as an insult? It implies being an activist is bad. It's a bad thing for Judge to be, in view of fulfilling their job.

But "activism" must always be measured by what exactly is being advocated. The content matters. For decades judges that defended basic voting rights, civil rights, were called "activist judges" by the right. I don't see flipping that term back at them as a win since it validates their criticism.

"extremist right wing judge"

Have Trump's guns ever been used?

Remember how they said "Allen Weisselberg knows where all the bodies are buried."

Was that . . . literal?

Although murders are rare for a big city, the clearance rate of the NYPD is only 40 percent. Most go unsolved.

@andreashock Yay you’re here!

#comics Are there any comic book people still around on the fedi? A good friend of mine has kindly shown up so please point her to the very best accounts.

Artists also—

@andreashock

Rather than anthropomorphizing, which is to crudely project a human-like mind on to the differently animate, I seek to expand that category we honor with the privilege of being; to welcome alien selves with an alien, untranslatable sense of “I” and “we” into the ranks of those we hold precious: so that their lives have a right to be, their choices and conduct a right to be considered and their destruction and dissolution a sense of gravity and tragedy.

@ai6yr
From the article:
Grier was “engaging with passengers” when he got into a fight with one of them, a male, who pulled a gun, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

“Grier took the gun from the passenger and began threatening passengers with it,”

@ai6yr Every person who carries a gun thinks this wouldn’t ever be them! (If they didn’t think that they wouldn’t carry the gun)

They will 2nd guess his every decision, from pulling the gun to how he held it, to probably not being willing to use it once the guy grabbed it. None of this matters. Everyone else on that damn bus is traumatized, could have been dead for this “right” —the guns are only as safe as the most clueless person who has one. Everyone must pay. How is that fair.

@alec @ai6yr He thought he was buying something that was making him safer from random violence— data don’t support this— but the lies are thick and it’s tempting to think of yourself as an action hero. This is sad. The gun industry and the cultural complex that supports it lied to him; got him killed.

@stefanlaser Wild wires sound much nicer than wild fires— and wild wires would be decidedly solarpunk imo

I love how when your posts get boosted by @theantlady her transparant user icon makes it look like you have a little ant friend on your shoulder.

😊

I love ecosystems in unexpected places. Who lives in this storm drain?”

@celesteh @derek I just totally left! And going back only seems more pointless as the years roll by.

Don’t start the thing “as soon as the other thing is over” just start the thing now— the other thing may well never end.

Zoe has been making some important content about PragerU's effort to creep into public schools. Her main point is an important one: It's not just that this content comes from an extremist right wing group with extreme views: it's also just not very good. It's all videos and multiple choice questions-- none of it very thoughtful.

But what would you expect? These people don't really like education or think it's important.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLKMW1LII7c

If I had to design an economics course despite being a pretty left leaning person, I'd feel an obligation to include everything you might find in a "Econ 101" courses at high schools or colleges. I'd want primary sources, interesting experts, questions that illustrate the central questions.

I'd insist that the students do something creative with what they learn to gain ownership of the material.

I don't consider myself qualified to design an economics course but I could easily do a better job.

But I take education and course design pretty darn seriously. And I think education and well designed courses are valuable.

The work from PragerU shows that they do not share this essential value common to educators.

They even use garbage AI graphics in the economics course that's just a bunch of emails. To me that's just a benchmark of not really caring.

But the other issue here is just how much of a course can you have without a teacher anyway?

Can a book be a course?

The most important thing I do as a teacher is decide what my students should encounter next based on where they are.

I've had lessons I've spent days developing... only to throw them in the trash when I see what the students might really need.

I try to reuse material every year, but every year I write new lessons and skip others because every class is different.

I just don't think ANY canned program can offer all that much. Sorry.

So much of the lives of ants and what they do is a mystery because they live underground in structures, that though resilient for their purposes are rather fragile from a human perspective.

The making of plaster and aluminum casts of ant nests has exposed the complex architecture of their nests.

Many cast-makers go for abandoned nests some of the youTube channels attract ant-haters who just want the poor things to burn.

Is there a less destructive way to see the structure of the nest?

Anyone have any HS level CS (python or java) project ideas that deal with the Johnson Solids (these are the extended universe fan fic on the Platonic Solids: convex polytopes where every face is a regular polygon— also there are rules to exclude just adding layers of repeated triangles)