a gorgeous Sunday afternoon in greater Boston today with the New England Friends of Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 for their annual Taste of Bosnia and Herzegovina festival…a celebration of life, culture, and survival ❤️
Day 1 of my 19th year teaching (and 16th at this place) is an absolute scorcher…even though it’s about 95 degrees in my classroom, so excited to welcome students to my fall courses in religion, ethics, and philosophy ❤️
I just commented, and you can too!
Deadline for public comment ends tomorrow. Please tell the CDC that we need vaccine access for everyone, not just a small sliver of the population. The pandemic is not over, and public health requirements don't magically disappear simply because it would be politically more expedient.
The CDC is accepting public comment on the updated COVID boosters through Friday, September 8
I was heretofore laboring under the misapprehension that somehow *I* could be Houston’s favorite Virgo, but this makes way more sense tbh…
I turn 48 today, and Twitter is now my e(X). Life’s too short for that noise. Good to see so many of y’all here!
As each semester kicks off the usual discussions about evaluations, I remember that the Gates Foundation spent $575 million specifically on *teacher* evaluations only to find that they make no difference in student achievement or course effectiveness :/ www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
An evaluation of a multi-year effort by the Gates Foundation to improve teaching, which cost $575 million, found no evidence the program improved student outcomes or gave low-income and minority stude...
English edition of a very fun interview discussing surveillance, AI, and why Signal is so important👇 https://schweizermonat.ch/when-ai-systems-are-used-they-are-usually-used-for-surveillance/#
The President of the messaging app Signal, Meredith Whittaker, warns about the application of Artificial Intelligence. It’s important not to give big corporations linked to governments a free pass…
The lawsuit accuses Twitter of "helping Saudi Arabia commit grave human rights abuses against its users, including by disclosing confidential user data at the request of Saudi authorities at a much higher rate than it has for the US, UK or Canada."
Lawsuit says network discloses user data at request of Saudi authorities at much higher rate than for US, UK and Canada