This is one that I genuinely think will be printed in history books one day to show how insane American media culture became. CBS News presenting ethnic cleansing as a housing policy to be compared with home construction tax incentives.
This is the fundamental paradox of AI: if it's actually helping you, there is no way to know when it is no longer helping you. Put another way: if you can supervise it effectively enough to catch its mistakes, you probably didn't need it in the first place.
no one read this column but a little whole ago i wrote about the kinds of questions we should be asking presidential candidates (hint: not questions about polling or narrative) www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/o...
A successful presidency is much more about organization, vision and values than it is the scope of a given legislative package.
finally, a higher ed opinion piece about ācollege as job prepā written from a student perspective. worth reading. gift link.
Economic anxieties are generating crushing pre-professional pressure on campuses, destroying college life and damaging studentsā mental health.
So youāre saying Iām not even worth a *fake* $500,000 advance?!
In 1790 Pennsylvania was considered a remarkably polyglot place because almost 40% of the white population did not speak English as a first language. Approximately 3% of the stateās population was of African descent.
Itās a bit of an experiment, but Iām going to let them each pick an episode so they can pick a topic they like and get a variety of responses to think about writing style.
On the other hand, Iām assigning the podcast to my capstone seminar students for us to talk about the practice of writing! (Not for another few weeks, but happy to report back once we get there.)
Thread. And this point in particular--that fulfilling a deep-seated sense of vocation is its own reward--has been used to justify forcing teachers to work in worse and worse situations for less and less remuneration. "Do it for the kids!" the say. But you can't eat vocation.
Then thereās the argument that teachers arenāt motivated by money. "Pay doesn't seem to motivate teachers as much as many people think. According to a [12/23 NCES report], when...teachers were asked why they decided to leave the profession, only 9.2 [%] said it was because they needed higher pay."
For the 2023ā24 school year, the average public school teacher salary was just under $70,000āover the average for bachelor's degree graduates ages 25 to 34.