ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

Without understanding how race, gender, class, and the law intersect, we are severely limited in our ability to achieve gender equity. Bad actors that understand very well how these concepts intersect, will use that knowledge to win the long game.

This is why racists are banning the teaching and study of this intersectionality.

Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality. Read her stuff.

Arm yourself with the forbidden knowledge! 👍🏿
https://youtu.be/XfBzTTFLNz4

“Why do Americans have to pay Intuit to tell the IRS things it already knows?” — Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/20/turbotaxed/

If you carve out a path in the newly fallen snow, the next person along will likely tread that path. Others will follow until the path becomes easy and accessible for everybody.

If you pioneer a new model for society, everyone who joins in builds upon that model with their participation, ideas and innovations... until that model becomes the standard and the old, dysfunctional model becomes obsolete.

With #Mastodon, we have a functioning model of a new society in its early stage. As more people join in, the direction we need to take will become more apparent.

We all have that power... to create a #NewSociety.

#PowerToThePeople

“"Replacing gasoline-powered cars with EVs saves energy, regardless of the energy source used to recharge EVs." Please take note of the word "regardless," as that's how "coal-powered cars" are in fact cleaner than gas-powered cars. Efficiency: EVs have it, ICE cars don't.” - https://www.motortrend.com/features/truth-about-electric-cars-ad-why-you-are-being-lied-to/ #electriccar #energy #cars #EVs

Is your state in the compact?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/21/twenty-governors-are-forming-new-coalition-support-abortion-rights/

If you tell your friends about Mastodon, you’re technically an ambassador of the federation.

Sure, calculators also make up random answers? Why must education always "catch up" with tech, from typewriters, radio, TV, and calculators to computers and the internet, social media, big data and language models? Maybe education has purposes beyond technical applications.

It is one thing for Speaker Kevin #McCarthy to fully release the Jan. 6 footage.

But releasing the footage EXCLUSIVELY to a Jan. 6 denier like #TuckerCarlson? That is as insane as appointing Marjorie Taylor Greene to the Homeland Security Committee.

To the Lakota, Ȟe Sápa (the Black Hills) are the place of creation, of shelter, the heart of all that is. The Lakota chiefs signed treaties to protect Ȟe Sápa in perpetuity, but as soon as gold was discovered, the US violated their agreement and stole the land. Then they carved the faces of their presidents upon Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe, the sacred mountain of the six grandfathers (earth, sky, and four directions). These men know nothing of honor, so we do not honor them.

The robots aren't taking over. They're not falling in love. They're not feeling. They don't want to be alive. They're not evil masterminds. They create word patterns based off text on the internet. Is what journalists should be saying, not gee-whiz sci-fi LARPing about fancy autocorrect.

We're doing a sweeping update of our collection of climate myth rebuttals, to provide an easier on-ramp for readers most of whom find us via search, are looking for help as novices.

We've started with ten of our most viewed rebuttals, now updated with an "At a glance" introduction.

Before doing more we'd like to get feedback from as many people as possible. So, please share the link here far and wide, and take a look yourself.

Thanks a lot!

#ClimateScienceMyths

https://skepticalscience.com/rebuttal-update-project.html

@nandoodles might depend on your server.

@ZingerLearns @actualham This isn't the primary reason that policy makers ignore current research, but it sure doesn't help the rest of us call them on it either.

I'm sad they left out the part where I noted that Nature, the organisation who published this article, failed to give me a meaningless "publon" when I peer reviewed for them...

@academicchatter

Y'all realize that anti-maskers are using all the same tactics as the tobacco industry did to create doubt in #publichealth measures, right?

#COVID

Helpful context and framing:

Is what's happening in Florida unprecedented? (opinion) https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2023/02/13/whats-happening-florida-unprecedented-opinion

#HigherEd

Mostly when I think about this issue, I feel sad for how we have underinvested in our public universities, who could be (or could have been...) an epicenter for ethical and open academic and educational publishing.

"Stop the peer-review treadmill. I want to get off" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00403-8

@ZingerLearns @graciegato
Thanks for the CA update, though I wish there were no need for an update. Serious damage being done to teachers, kids and families.