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Graph showing that about half of people in state prisons are parents to children under 18

On any given day, 1.25 million kids are without their parents because of mass incarceration.

Agree completely. But also: LLMs can’t even create a basic literature review! I had a grad studen try to submit one recently and half the sources were hallucinated and the other half incorrectly summarized.

I came to share this exact story! I was (barely) on my high school team, but once played with a friend’s teen sister - an int’l transfer student who came to Canada to train w/ a tennis pro. And forget getting a single point - I couldn’t even return her serve! It was like a bullet.

The moment we accept the idea that peace must be purchased with the blood of women and girls, we are no longer speaking of peace.

If safety demands their suffering
then what we are building is not a better world but a quieter graveyard.

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Had a grad student submit a lit review on a topic I know about that was pure AI and it wasn’t ‘better’; it was stupid, unreliable and unusable bc a bunch of if the sources and concepts were made up.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

To: Jeevacation[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:53:33 PM Subject: Re: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence wrong; one; my very best PhD student was female; smartest woman I ever knew; she has decided to quit being a professor and is now an accupuncturist; that is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap; also she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/ On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Jeevacation wrote: > It's the tail of distribution , no really smart women ---none > Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:15 AM, roger schank • t > wrote: » intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed >> behavior); (this is why you have the absent minded professor » caricature) >> it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what >> others are thinking and feeling about her >> >> hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why >> another woman hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag

Note how Schank also takes credit for his former PhD student's brilliance, saying "she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do."

This is the logic that allows men to justify exploiting women's intellectual labor for their own gain.

If you're looking for the source of academia's leaky pipeline--it's not women's lack of commitment, it's the misogyny of men like this.

In a sea of terrible misogynistic bile, this one put me over the edge. What a pair of absolute assholes. May they rot, and I wish the same on all the other ‘brilliant men’ who’re having these hubristic conversations at this very moment. You’re awful.

It’s possible to all have those things without the oil and gas revenue - eg Denmark. And every other rich country has public healthcare. America’s the odd one out here.

Ford defends OSAP cuts despite student outcry | CBC News Ontario Premier Doug Ford stood by his decision to cut funding to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP), when asked Wednesday about pushback from students.

Ford says about OSAP that “What we were doing was unsustainable.” I wish the reporter would give the context that the Ontario gov't "provides the lowest per-student funding in Canada.... at only 57% of the national average." ontariosuniversities.ca/news/joint-s....

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Yes! And that goes double for kids books.

Yes! And my first thought is that this person has never tried to get a stubborn kid to read. If it weren't for Narnia &The Secret Garden & Anne of Green Gables, my kid would never ever have started to read chapter books. There's SO much YA yet hardly any kids books that are actually well written

Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.

One more way AI doesn't actually save time/effort? Because while it takes 20-30min to grade a paper, it takes 2x that to realize it's AI, check citations & document how they're hallucinated or don't at all say the thing the paper claims, write this up, respond to NONSENSE excuses that come back.....

avi lewis in the 90s

Gen X Canadians, we're up. Time to put that grittiness to work and get our 90s crush elected so sandwich generation-ing doesn't kill us. lewisforleader.ca

Two cards side by side. Left card: Jill Andrew endorses Avi Lewis for NDP Leader. Right card: Group photo and Jill Andrew quote: "I am impressed with Avi's immense passion for community-based, grassroots organizing. He is meeting us where we are at and he listens and that gives me hope! Avi knows we are at a critical moment where platitudes just won't cut it. Only real, people-centred solutions can cut through."

Jill made history as the first Black, queer MPP in Ontario, and she’s fought relentlessly for affordable housing, health care, the arts, and gender & racial justice.

She is a principled, courageous leader who knows how move a room — and a movement. I'm delighted to have her support.

Posting for researchers to do paid freelance peer reviews, neat! Except a second glance makes it clear they’re hiring PhDs to train an LLM to do reviews. We’re all screwed.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over and over and over again at work.

"Hey check the Syllabus and get back to me if you're still unsure"

My cat is sitting on a neighbour's fence, juuuust out of reach of their little dog who's now yapping himself hoarse, ignoring him and gently enjoying the sun on her face. Reminds me of something...

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This gal’s makeup artist hates her

No kids should be in prison, ever. How is that even something that needs saying?! NO KIDS IN JAIL

Ms. Rachel, Greta Thunberg, and Francesca Albanese are heroes. Beautiful bright beings full of love for humanity. They aren’t alone. May 2026 be one of a united message: protect children all over the world at all costs; end the genocides; protect this earth and all species.

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What these goons don't seem to realize is that decades of neoliberal policies have forced the work of care downstream--from the state onto families, and then onto women, who've had to get very good at caring for others through the crises that those same neoliberal policies tend to create.

There’s an assumption that this is designed to justify their violence towards protesters. But I’d worry it has a different goal: they know that an ICE agent is about to be killed any day, and this sets up the narrative-trail - so it’ll be the fault of everyone who criticised ICE