ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@qoto.org

oof.

“Housing for cars is super-cheap and housing for people is super-expensive. At some point, when the delta between the space for cars and the space for people becomes so, so large, then people begin to think about living in cars.” — @asymco https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-26/cal-poly-humboldt-students-who-live-in-vehicles-are-ordered-off-campus

John Anderson, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, Jill Stein, no labels party, etc…

A protest vote or third party vote’s sole purpose is to help republicans win - but this time, it would end democracy

Let Symone Sanders-Townsend walk you through it.

Anyone below the age of 50 who says Mastodon is too hard to use forfeits the right to say OK Boomer or complain about being grandpa's tech support ever again.

No job opening has deserved the question “Why is this position currently open?” as much as this one.

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/638596100?fbclid=IwAR3jAVffcSHvGLk-2TbuHccN6qe61mmXqncf4pN3oeSVkazWvWoiV2kLeOk_aem_ARtBnmPzSlCC-foEUHHlEgrvss34I7__p-8oStPcs0-gS41S0aIf-poZ3YQ7XT4pMgM

I speak about racism and Black people in the U.S. because it's what I know best, being an African American woman informed by my life experience here. The unsaid is that I'm also talking about all marginalized, oppressed groups at the same time, inclusive of everyone. There are parallels in our discrimination and treatment. And, we're all deserving of equal rights as human beings. It's never only about one group, it's about all groups, everyone.

Just because you think it, doesn't mean you have to say it.

Universities are worrying about how to deal with "AI" That's the wrong question. The right question is how to assess what really matters. Marks for critical analysis, not writing style.

hey.

Capitalism breeds innovation: https://streetartutopia.com/capitalism-breeds-innovation/

Obesity pay gap: Well educated workers are penalized for their weight. But women have it worse. Obese men w/ bachelors degree earn 5% less than thinner colleagues; those w/ grad degree earn 14% less. Women's w/ bachelors earn 12% less; grad degree=19% less.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/obesity-pay-gap-worse-previously-111354804.html

My fly-on-the-wall observations on AI and higher education (at least teaching and learning) is that most universities really do not know what to do. Many do not have integrated policies. Most professors don't really know what it is about.

Profs need training, procedural and pedagogical. Universities should be spearheading the response. However, that is not what I see.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/after-year-chatgpt-academia-getting-grips-generative-ai

#AcademicChatter #AI #HigherEducation #Pedagogy @academicchatter

For the first time in 20 years, the NBA began its season with no Black-owned franchises. In fact, there’s been only one Black majority-owned team in league history 🏀

A century ago, one of the top pre-NBA professional franchises began play in Harlem thanks to the efforts of a Black business owner named Bob Douglas.

The #history of the New York Rens:
https://theconversation.com/a-century-ago-a-black-owned-team-ruled-basketball-today-no-black-majority-owners-remain-213439

@histodons #Histodons #Sports #Basketball

Need a gift for colleagues at work? Or a woman experiencing gender bias? Or a new college graduate? Or for yourself? GLASS WALLS is a fascinating read about the barriers women experience at work and how to shatter them. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is offering 35% discount with code 23JOYSALE when ordered from their website: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538170960/Glass-Walls-Shattering-the-Six-Gender-Bias-Barriers-Still-Holding-Women-Back-at-Work

If you want to talk about violence in the prison system, what we can do to reduce it, and how it is morally reprehensible for prosecutors to use that violence as a way to get Black people to confess to crimes that everyone knows that they did not commit? Then I'm with you. 👍🏿

But if you want to talk specifically about how we can keep Derek Chauvin safe? How we can keep the inhumane, brutal system for innocent Black folk, but protect him from it? Miss me with that. Talk to somebody else.

Residents of Key West, Florida voted to limit cruise ships to 1500 passengers a day. This upset the wealthy pier operator, so he donated $1 million to Ron DeSantis’s campaign. DeSantis repaid the favor by signing a bill to overturn the local residents.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/us/key-west-cruise-ships-desantis.html

Do not ask me how you can stop treating me poorly. WTF could possibly be running through your mind? 🙄

Scene from an education conference I attended: school administrators at a fancy multi-course luncheon cheerfully comparing the number of free-or-reduced-lunch students in their respective districts

Michigan is poised to adopt the first law in the nation to automatically register people to vote as they leave prison. The bill, adopted this month by lawmakers, now sits on the governor's desk. https://boltsmag.org/michigan-automatic-voter-registration-prison/