Notices by myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win), page 27

@KarlHeinzHasliP

Much of "education innovation" and the content of any news segment on "a remarkable school that is succeeding despite the odds." revolves around people who claim to have made an excellent school *without* hiring more teachers, investing in quality educational spaces/materials or anything that costs money.

When you look closer at these schools you tend to find one of two things:

1. Teachers and parents making massive sacrifices to make it work.
2. It's fake.

@KarlHeinzHasliP

There is a tacit expectation that teachers make huge sacrifices for our students. And, when it's working this happens naturally, it doesn't even feel like a sacrifice. -- when things are working this is just a joy.

But, when you are in a place where they are trying to bleed you for your passion, it's not so cute anymore.

Yeah I could teach an overload.

But why don't ya'll hire some more people huh?

@KarlHeinzHasliP

Creating excellent schools isn't mysterious. Excellent k-12 schools exist, there are many of them, generally at least one in most major cities if not many more. We simply need to copy what those schools do.

The "problem" is what those schools are doing costs more money.

* Smaller classes
* Teachers with more higher degrees (nearly all k-12 educators should have a masters at least 1/3 should have a PhD)
* Sufficient materials
* Extra curricular programs
* Enough admin staff

There is nothing a single person has ever ever ever ever done or will ever ever ever ever do in all of time and space that merits paying them 56 billion dollars—

Madness. Obscenity. Ludicracy

“During Jim Crow, the Black family was together,” Donalds explained to the crowd.

Not worthy of freedom; he cannot handle it. Donalds believes this about himself. Without a boot on his neck he would be feral. I will take his word on that. But, he should not presume to speak for all black people.

In our history Black institutions, Black organizations were dismantled & burned. Churches burned. Neighborhoods burned. The less perceptive among us, like Donalds, roped in to cheer it on.

But didn't great grandmother get married and stay married? Lived her life right! Not like the fast little girls we have today.

My great grandmother had 5 husbands. She married the first at 15. He was in his 40s and she was considered lucky since married to him they could not take the land she owned. (Rocky, hilly soil cut by a river in North Carolina)-- her first husband died of the flu and she got married again right away. She had to be married to exist.

She was a remarkable woman.

I was very confused by the "5 husbands" thing since I associated that with someone who keeps getting divorced. But her husbands kept dying. It didn't help that they were all so much older than her. Some were abusive, some were nicer. But she was just a teenager trying to survive. Trying to hold on to the one little advantage she had: the land. My family was very lucky and exceptional to own land at all.

She needed a man to help her keep that land, so could not live on her own.

My grandfather remembered hiding under the bed as she manned the window with a shot gun when the white people from the town would get drunk and ride out on horses with torches to "scare the black folks" (they described it with different words)

He was so scared that my great grandmother might shoot... because if she hit one of them ... it would all be over. He fled to the north to work in the steel mills.

Ah yes Jim Crow what a wonderful time to be Black in this country. F-ing hell man.

… and the stupid wind took my hat. I didn’t even have it on I was holding it worried about the wind — pulled it right out of my hand. How did people live wearing hats all the time!?

Maybe the MTA people have some kind of grabber??

Everyone relax! I got the hat back. The MTA PD does have grabbers. (they said mostly they use them to grab air pods) It’s worse than those carnival games. We all took turns. The guy on the right managed to get it. The day is saved! hurrah!

(this is one of the most busy tracks in the country going down there is just *not* going to happen. I’m glad I didn’t get the rather expensive hat I was considering— but now this cheap hat is even better since I got it back)

I have never been more disappointed by a spelling error:

https://dp.la/item/9383481d7c3b1a327cbdf34ba6255d14

Can anyone help me tell these two images apart? I'm having a lot of trouble.

I’m crying on the bus (again) because some middle school kids decided that for their “design challenge” they’d envision an emergency food delivery drone that could fly high enough and fast enough that no one could shoot it down. And no one asked why someone would want to shoot down a food delivery drone— or why you couldn’t just drive a truck.

@clacke @tersenurse

Oh. Well, can't help ya'll with that one. Sorry.

@tersenurse

Why are they concerned about "survival" ?

I could understand if you are directly in Trump's orbit, if you were a fake elector, or at Jan. 6. The idea that these things were criminal would be scary.

But, that's not the majority of his supporters.

I can understand why trans people, and those with immigrants in their family, and even anyone who could get pregnant might talk about "survival" under Trump.

But, what threat do ordinary Trump supporters face?

@tersenurse

I suppose it's "the border" --I have such a hard time processing those lies. I guess they must think that scary immigrants will get them?

Or maybe it's that idea they float about "Christians being persecuted" -- which is beyond wild in the US. This is a de facto 'Christian Nation' not only is it the majority religion, but most institutions and companies cater to the needs of Christians above all others.

But there really are people who feel... attacked.

@TCatInReality @GatekeepKen

I think this is a comforting fiction we tell ourselves. No, these kinds of things really do numbers on facebook... and not all of the comments are bots. Some of them are people's moms and uncles!

There are all kinds of people in the world who see things in all kinds of different ways.

(US pol/ Trump tw)

I've largely dismissed the strain of AI alarmism based on the notion the a computer will be so smart that the danger it poses to humanity is outsmarting us.

There are real dangers in AI, most of them relate to people using these technologies in improper ways due to having a poor understanding of what they really are... and most important the exploitation & degradation of the human body of knowledge creativity represented by publicly available digital information. 1/

But some people still talk about the risk of AI being too smart, tricking us-- or simply not delivering what we expect, or using any power it is given in ways that result in manipulation more sophisticated than what we could ever anticipate.

Do all of the people who have these fears buy-in to that silly bootstrapping theory of AI advancement? (This is the idea that once an GI AI becomes "smart" enough to redesign itself, it will spiral off to become... well a god basically.)

2/