Dammit, this is interesting. Where I was sure “education” in Va campaign was only code for racist panic it really seems these women were chiefly concerned abt “learning loss”—among kids in special ed, notably—a legit concern McAuliffe shd’ve picked up on. cnn.com/videos/politic…
I have no doubt the CRT panic worked on single-issue segregation voters, but when Obama said discussion of education was JUST phony culture war, he missed a chance to at least recognize the enormous exertion of women who homeschooled in the pandemic.
It’s notable that these centrists are basically balking at the entrepreneurism required of them & their children for the last 20 months, and demanding better social services — public schools, tutoring, etc. Biden should be able to address these anxieties w BBB, New Deal thinking.
If there’s anything to the one woman’s fire-hose metaphor, she actually accepts that lessons about systemic racism have a place on the syllabus—it’s just that she believes the general learning loss (in basics of math & literacy) needs to be remediated urgently and first.
I’m not saying these “moms” [vomit word] are wonderful or brilliant progressives or even likable - just that they’re not insane and won’t be helping to re elect Trump in 2024…
Which to me is a huge relief
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The thriving, rambunctious lithosphere means that even humans will survive in our component parts: oxygen, nitrogen, carbon. Whatever happens to the biosphere, our afterlife will be in the elements.
Heaven turns out to be down there, in the crust and mantle, rocks and lava and sloshing iron.
“The metaverse is … you’re looking at basically — you can be in Oculus or whatever — and you say, ‘I like the way that person looks in that shirt, I want to order that shirt.’” latimes.com/opinion/story/…
Alt: The metaverse is the sum total of physical, augmented and virtual reality.
So it’s JC Penney or a scorched-earth everything nightmare
This is the episode where I express my awe at the work of Maggie Nelson.
Montel Williams threw an elbow at a priest who assaulted him, and his parents immediately quit the Catholic Church & he never had to go again. What is it called when parents express this kind of supreme faith in their children?
Listening to audiobook of yet another academic bestseller warning of the apocalypse caused by the internet, esp. “cybertrolls.” I feel like warnings to Victorian women abt “licentiousness” & “bad men” in the city were more specific. Seriously what internet are they talking about
How is this science? There are upsetting provocateurs in some precincts of computer networks and thus our brains are broken and the world is over — I get trolled a lot & I probably encounter one troll/week
Blowing past random subway small talk like “we are all in filter bubbles” or “echo chambers” without evidence of then then some false precision about the rise in “anxiety” based on lab studies in the social sciences and voila tons of funding
Years ago a Mac shop dude recommended software called RAM Doubler to boost my RAM.
My computer failed & I went back a months later. What? he said in disbelief. You’re running RAM Doubler?! We call that RAM TROUBLER! 😂 Everyone howled with laughter.