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Julie

@Julie@social.coop

#Teacher, #librarian, #writer, #reader. #Neurodivergent. Former NY State Senate candidate. Advanced degrees in #literature, #education, and #library & information science, but none of them are doctorates so it doesn't count. I teach students to understand and make strong arguments because it's the best I can do now for #democracy and the #climate. I love #journalists, #historians, #scientists, and other truth-seekers. Oh, and I've written two novels and raised two children. She/her

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Julie, to FiberArts
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A little to cover the inkstains that had ruined this shirt.

Julie, to ai
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Wow. Yes. #AI

Julie, to random
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The New York Times seems pretty convinced that TFG will win. Or is it just clickbait?

Julie, to college
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professors are facing the same challenges we see at the secondary level: students who struggle with , writing, and completing homework. It explores the reasons behind these trends, dives into relevant research, and showcases how some professors are adapting their teaching methods in response.

The article is free, but you may have to create an account to read it.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-this-the-end-of-reading

Julie, to random
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I had a bad dream last night that I was hunting all over a vast parking lot, but could not find my car. Not terrifying. Only annoying. A slightmare.

Julie, to random
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When I was wholly a creature of Twitter, I followed all the Blue Team Legal Pundit Crew and was regularly excited, hopeful, and then disappointed, again and again. After longer than I care to admit, I understood the game and unfollowed all of them. What can I say? I wanted hope, and they were dishing it out for free. @Teri_Kanefield explains exactly what’s wrong with all of it.

https://terikanefield.com/beware-the-lawyers/

Julie, to random
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I got a little philosophical during a class visit with high school juniors in a U.S. history class today. Talking about research, writing, and rhetoric, I told them, "This is the whole game--not AI, but YOUR ability to find good sources, to read and understand them, to use them to help you make your own strong arguments. That's it. That's the point of your whole education."
It was ad libbed, so yeah, their whole education involves more than that, but at least they were looking and listening.

heidilifeldman, to climate
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Trump has offered to sell himself to the fossil fuel industry if they find his campaign. Reporting here, gift access: https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

Julie,
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@heidilifeldman It will be interesting to watch how they respond, if we can even observe it through the cloak of dark money. They won’t throw good money after bad if they think he has no chance of winning, certainly not to the tune of a billion dollars.

Julie, to random
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Dang. I’ve fallen for this. I love soft “bamboo” clothes, but it turns out, it’s just rayon, which is not at all eco-friendly. Dang, and dang again.

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/bamboo-fabrics

Julie, to ukteachers
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“I have been teaching in small liberal arts colleges for over 15 years now, and in the past five years, it’s as though someone flipped a switch. For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation… Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding.“

https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/02/literacy-crisis-reading-comprehension-college.html?via=rss_socialflow_facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2el5hj2IJIZV8F8Hi-62KtCwuu2XTcElhuvuwa4yIXvglej21ZZbmbKVE_aem_ATF4R36NfLOkaspzyk_eDxbfTt9K0lpCFfs9yMgxC4L71c81MTUTb6tXPZD9XkEHLHvpabg17mjWVDTzLw-K1paj#lvwqz456tzz7ahrlip9

Julie,
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@jeffsussna Try Reading Mode in Chrome. It's pretty good! https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/14218344?hl=en

Julie, to random
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Practically speaking, can they send a former president to Rikers? There isn’t is a Club Fed style equivalent for New York City, as far as I know. How could the Secret Service possibly operate there?

Julie, to random
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Horrifying. There is nothing for it but to beat him again. SCOTUS is not coming to save democracy. By @Dahlialith

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/supreme-court-immunity-arguments-which-way-now.html

Julie, to random
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Things I want AI to do:
Tape up the trim and edges before I paint the living room.
Chop onions.
Take the cars for inspection.
Gather up all the tax documents.
Call the insurance company for like the eighth time this month.
I’ll do the rest.

Julie, to random
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Nobody’s name was changed at Ellis Island. Our family stories (yep, mine too!) are incorrect. Receipts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15LydHEMwFhgfb8LgAs-ofZCNn4BUD7LFApYNaVBSDuQ/edit

Julie, to random
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So, should I save the glasses, or…?

Julie, to random
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There is a person in my book club who has been disappointed in relationships throughout her life, and she interprets any book in which a relationship lasts (whether it’s a good or terrible relationship!) as pro-marriage propaganda, and therefore, bad literature. Everyone else in the book club is married or widowed, so she thinks we don’t share her interpretation because we are so invested in this marital hegemony that we can’t see it.

Julie, to random
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I think it’s possible RFK, Jr. is more of a threat to Trump than to Biden. Thoughts?

Julie, to random
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I am now all caught up on “fundie baby voice,” thanks to the fiasco.

That high-pitched, soft, breathy way of speaking is what Christianists want grown women—EVEN U.S. SENATORS!—to sound like.

Now I understand why rightwingers always called Hillary Clinton “shrill.” She speaks like an adult capable of taking a full breath, not like a sleepy four-year-old.

(Of course, the misogynist elements on the left followed right along with it. So shrill! the boys said. Can’t vote for her!)

Julie,
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I grew up in the New York metropolitan area, and I never heard an adult speak this way. Not churchgoers. Not anybody.

Julie,
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@sarajw She’s rooted in MAGA culture rather than fundie culture. She’d give a SOTU response at a gun range or at the border, not in her kitchen.

augieray, to random
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How important is handwashing? A new STUDY found that "The detection rate of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from the hands of healthy individuals was extremely low (0.32%), and no viable viruses were detected. These results suggest that the risk of contact transmission via hands in a community setting is extremely rare."

It's good you wash your hands. Just don't think it protects you from .

https://www.cureus.com/articles/227537-sars-cov-2-contamination-on-healthy-individuals-hands-in-community-settings-during-the-covid-19-pandemic#!/

Julie,
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@maleve @augieray I’m curious whether anyone has researched the incidence of illnesses that handwashing can prevent to see if they have declined since Covid began. We were surrounded with handwashing messages. It didn’t help prevent Covid, but I wonder what illnesses it did help? Food-borne, maybe?

Julie, to random
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“It’s a bit rich. Policies undertaken to increase corporate profits at the expense of workers’ well-being are then held up as evidence of the workers’ poor character. There is poor character at play here. It’s just not that of workers.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/19/opinion/part-time-workers-usa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Wk0.boEI.v8bHRQZmx36O&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

makkhorn, to random
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Children's cancer charity fraudster
Still proudly stealing

Julie,
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@makkhorn This is great news! The RNC won't have a penny to spend on Congressional, Senate, gubernatorial, or state legislative races? Mayors? Bring it on.

Julie, to random
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“‘Remote Work Is Hurting Company Culture,’ Says CEO After 3rd Round of Layoffs”

https://reductress.com/post/remote-work-is-hurting-company-culture-says-ceo-after-3rd-round-of-layoffs/

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