ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

New to Mastodon, and hoping to network with other physics teachers across the globe. Here is my most recent blogpost on a topic
that many of us find tricky to teach https://physicsteacher.blog/2022/11/13/split-ring-commutator-more-like-split-ring-commuhater/ #ITeachPhysics #ChatPhysics #ScienceEducation

When the Republican extremists (redundant?) have full control over the House agenda, once they actually permit a speaker to be named, one of their top priorities is to cause the United States to default on its debt. That will trigger a global economic catastrophe.

It will be essential if and when they do this, for Big Journalism to make totally clear -- with no quoting "both sides" bullshit -- what has happened.

What worries me is that I'm not sure journalists will rise to the occasion.

Another year, another retrospective on the existential crisis in the American political project: https://davidknuffke.medium.com/not-entirely-gloom-ef3d690ac56

Persistence of Poverty: How Measures of Socioeconomic Status Have Changed Over Time

Free access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/0013189X221141409 #EdResearch

Great opportunity -
@pewresearch
is looking for an Associate Director for its Global Attitudes team who will help shape the team’s research & lead an evolving research agenda on religion, democracy, nationalism, tolerance & social values around the world.
https://pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExternal/job/Washington-DC-Pew-Research-Center/Associate-Director--Global-Attitudes_R002012
@sociology @politicalscience @economics @surveystatisticsandmethodology

There was an attempted coup in the US two years ago, people died, and we still have had no accountability for the events of that day.........🫠🫠🫠🥴🥴🥴

1. Two years ago today, http://popular.info began its reporting on corporate tax donors to the members of Congress voting to overturn the 2020 election.

Over the course of a few days, hundreds of companies pledged to suspend their giving

What's happened since?

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Researching mines in northern Spain I came across this curious object. It's a canary cage designed to keep the canary alive in the event of a gas leak. If a miner saw the canary laying at the bottom of the cage it was time to abandon everything and leave the mine, but not without first closing the latched glass door and opening the valve of the oxygen bottle to save the bird. A miner would do that on their way out and take the bird with them. It's a signifier of the miner's legendary sense of solidarity, no lives lost to the mine on a miners watch. A solidarity that was also crucial in the fight for workers rights, creating safer and more humane working conditions, achievements of unionization and solidarity that some of us still enjoy today.

1. Two years ago today, http://popular.info began its reporting on corporate PAC donors to the members of Congress voting to overturn the 2020 election.

Over the course of a few days, hundreds of companies pledged to suspend their giving

What's happened since?

🧵

@msnbc @CNNNetwork As the House adjourns after day 3 of the #speakerofthehouse sh*tshow, please spare the American people a pointless interview with any of these 20+ members of the #gop because you are only incentivizing them. Instead, you should ask Don Bacon (R-NE) and the #gop ”moderates” why they are letting their 20+ colleagues hold the chamber hostage and why they haven’t approached the #Democrats about a deal. Ask them why they won’t create their own leverage.

Banning books is always an early step on the path to fascism.

If you are a member of the far right, you can simply tag @elonmusk@twitter.com with any complaint & he will look into it right away.

Accounts are banned or restored. Rules are changed.

If you ascribe to any other political ideology, you are on your own.

This Twitter in 2023.

Andy Ngo and Elon Musk apparently confirm that Musk personally suspended my Twitter account at Ngo's request, following Ngo's multiple failed attempts to silence my reporting on Ngo's ties to violent right-wing terrorist groups.

I call on Musk to release all his communications with Andy Ngo. Let's bring some transparency to Twitter. https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1611118439812456448

Andy Ngo has been trying desperately to silence my reporting on his record of lies and thuggish legal threats against his critics.

In Sept 2021, Andy Ngo's lawyers threatened me with legal action for exposing his lies. @Popehat replied to their frivolous and baseless legal threats on my behalf in the now famous "oily poutine" letter. https://www.techdirt.com/2021/10/01/ken-popehat-white-again-shows-how-to-respond-to-completely-thuggish-legal-threat-letter/

I just hit publish on #ChatGPT and Good Intentions in #HigherEd

http://autumm.edtech.fm/2022/12/29/chatgpt-and-good-intentions-in-higher-ed/

@ZingerLearns well, on your last point, the AI is very responsive to it, more input the better the output, just freeform it in a stream of consciousness . But overall what you're seeing is more the limit to the number of tokens (ie $) spent on each output. So for example i use other tools that produce better results. I'm really honored you took the time to thoughtfully consider and work through the prompts provided, you seem to have your finger on the pulse of these mores , so hopefully you'll keep being a bellweather or even a lighthouse to the whole community of educators 🚀