Todd Battistelli

Use feedback as a tool to actually communicate with students. It will change how they understand feedback as a learning tool. I use feedback to 1) answer questions students ask abt the readings and then I 2) provide some more takeaways from the readings so the feedback is like a conversation.

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Colorado constitutional debates foreshadowed a populist backlash against Gilded Age railroad barons | Colorado Newsline Pueblo’s grand celebration of the arrival of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway began promptly at dawn on March 7, 1876.

Colorado at 150: In 1876 in the soon-to-be-state of Colorado, there was anxiety about the complex relationships between business and political leaders, the railroad companies and the public they were meant to serve.
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Can confirm, I’m not a nazi. There’s candidates that have a lot of money, and there’s me—the better candidate. Just a reminder that Sara Gideon outraised Collins by $5mil and lost. It’s not all about the money. Happy to have you support 💜

Series: Forgotten Pasts, Alternative Futures
"How to Build a College: Experimental Alternatives in History of Higher Ed"
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I am facilitating this conversation of practical hope -- what are the material needs for launching alternative programs and colleges? The people, funds, land, students?
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Nobody on LinkedIn has ever had a bad day. Every setback is a "growth opportunity." Every firing is a "new chapter." Every complete professional disaster is framed as "excited to announce." These people would describe the Titanic as "a bold pivot to submarine operations."

Of course. Michael Bennet's rhetoric reflects which way the wind is blowing.
Trying to portray himself as anything but a dyed in the wool career, corporate, unimaginative, mainstream seat holder with fat cat donors is quite the stretch.
Don't buy it. #MichaelBennet

The slop machine slops; and, having slopped, slops some more.

So the constant and consistent posts on here about "we" need to stay in the streets are belied by a reality that no "we" cannot. Some people are but most people cannot for lots of reasons.

went to this community organizing thing a bit ago and ended up on a variety of signal chats and like. wow. how does one keep up with all this while being employed? i’m glad there are folks who can do all that, but man. i burn all my energy just getting through the day. there is nothing left.

Don't go searching for OP, leave them alone. I just think that what they uplift is important and explains why many people simply cannot engage in activism and organizing regularly. And the truth is that it's hard to figure out actual ways around this because organizing in fact a labor.

Mostly, though, I’ve been imagining how nice it’d be to crawl into a hole and hibernate while the world shuts down for awhile.

Been thinking a lot about A Deepness in the Sky lately:

- The battle between conservative ideology vs. knowledge and compassion
- Disease-wielding space Nazis
- The inevitable decline of once powerful polities

imagine a world where retail properties are owned by the city and leased out to businesses with a contractual obligation to hire more employees and lower prices. imagine if we abandoned the myth of the market and actually treated the economy like a tool a society uses to serve its populace

I long for the days of Google Reader so really my favorite QT function is to pull a quote from the post (usually an article) that I'm excited to share. Anecdotally, I've seen that get more traction for sharing than a straight reskeet.

Disappointed that my state Rep. Jacque Phillips chose not to join her colleagues in rejecting @colorado.gov clemency for election felon Tina Peters (and that my state Sen. Kyle Mullica did not respond to the @coloradosun.com request for comment).

#COpolitics

coloradosun.com/2026/03/04/t...

CO D posting blow out numbers for mid term caucus.

"Nearly 2,000 Democrats attended precinct caucuses in Denver, compared to 1,025 participants in 2024 and 715 in 2022. Arapahoe County reported 615 attendees, exceeding turnout from both the 2024 caucus (463) and the 2022 caucus (507). Park

Yesterday I got to visit the Colorado Springs hold room, tucked away on the second floor of the Pueblo Bank and Trust building downtown.

LaborLab's work is ultimately about more than union density --it's about restoring agency and self-determination to working people and their communities. Higher union density doesn't just raise wages; it shifts power.

Excellent comparison between what colleges ask us to do vs. what they actually support us doing. Compassion, so often trumpeted as an institutional value, is often just lip service that offloads labor onto faculty.
(Banerjee, #TYCA26)

This is a basic and crucial point for any discussion of LLMs’ use in teaching research or writing. Whether it can ape us, fool us, or get facts right or wrong is, in the end, irrelevant. The LLM is not the thinker we are trying to encourage; the LLM is not the writer that we are trying to improve.

The alien captain from Star Trek 3 that McCoy tries to hire for a ride to the Genesis Planet. He is captioned as saying, "Generative!?!"

Tech oligarchs: OK, we'll just make examination and explication impossible as we demolish shared meaning.

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Dorothy E. Smith, The Conceptual Practices of Power: "If we don't examine and explicate the boundaries set by the textual realities of the relations of ruling, their invisible determinations will continue to confine us" (p. 65).

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almost every single one of our coalition issues will get help from a galvanizing national level campaign that brings people together with a sense of imagination and possibility. we win when we make our positive case. we don’t want to spend 4 years being cynical and grumpy oh no

The trying kombucha meme template: A face of distaste under the Polymarket logo. A face of reconsideration under the Polybius video game title.

Thanks for this. To be clear, I do believe Christianity can be done right. Different groups and individuals choose what to focus on for their interpretations.

Ideally, though, progressive Christians should be honest and explicitly face and reject certain things rather than deny their presence

Weaponize weaponization.

Meanwhile, books long for us.

Pen and paper are still waiting.