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Yvonne Lam

and even for people who love politics POLITICS IS NOT ONLY ELECTIONS!

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Long elections also cost MILLIONS of dollars, making them far more prone to influence from big donors, PACs & dark money.

Long elections waste immense amounts of money. they harass potential voters into apathy. They play into the horse-race, scandal-fed view of politics that feeds deeply unserious media coverage. They NOT INCIDENTALLY make it difficult/impossible for campaigns to deal with last-minute surprises.

I mean you said worst which implies a better?

lots of people in my mentions either saying sarcastically "but the poor pundits" or arguing that it's the media money preventing this and like yes I get that but PUNDITS AND MEDIA CAN ALSO TALK ENDLESSLY ABOUT THE GOVERNING

Long election campaigns also put the emphasis, over and over again, ON THE ELECTION rather than on governing: like voting is all we as citizens have to do; like winning is the most important quality in a candidate. GOVERNING. The thing is GOVERNING. Elections should be a means of accountability+

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MOAR TRAINS!!!!!!!!

More trains please.

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THEY DID IT!!

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Disposable Heroeswww.bookforum.com Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward” – Moira Donegan

#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...

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You will never convince me that a person who punched someone in the face once is much, much more morally culpable than someone who cheats and steals for profit.

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A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

Holy. Shit. They're literally saying Trump's felonies aren't that bad compared to the "real felonies". Bear in mind, they're ignoring J6 and "gimme 12000 votes" call and the stolen docs. We joke, but this is literally Newsmax copy.

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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it

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For a lot of students, it’s also about identifying gaps in their high school learning and (hopefully) helping them close the gap before classes get harder. Chemistry is a lot harder if your high school algebra teacher was the football coach.

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Most people will forget 80% of the information they learn in these classes. The real learning is teaching people how to tackle problems.

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But the idea behind this—that the robot can convey information—fundamentally misunderstands what is being taught in those core classes. You’re teaching people how to do problems: how to check your work, how to solve problem sets, how to generalize solving problem sets to other problems…

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This will also makes graduate school much, much less accessible—because teaching helps students finance their education—and less effective, because teaching the basics patiently, over and over again, and figuring out the pitfalls, really helps cement your own understanding.

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We have access to an extraordinary amount of materials that will explain the same concepts in twenty different ways. What most people often need is to listen to the person in question to figure out what you’re missing.

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As a chem TA, one of the most valuable things I ever did with struggling students in office hours was have them narrate for me how they would solve a problem, and then figure out what it was they weren’t getting. That’s how you get the lightbulb moments.

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They particularly don’t need a thing that will repeat important points incorrectly.

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Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

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It kinda seems to me that this court is doing the Dred Scott kind of originalism. They should stop doing that.

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Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

Please note the wildly incorrect polling in France. No matter what the cacophony of pundits keep saying, polls are not predictive, and are never the end of the story. Organizing, volunteering, engaging in conversation, and direct action are effective tools. Let's use them here too.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

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Putain de belle cerise sur le gâteau 🍒

Big, symbolic flip for the Left: Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, an ultraconservative politician & former presidential candidate (*not* in the RN, though he's endorsed Le Pen's presidential bid in the past), was ousted in the greater Paris region. He was an incumbent.

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Meet the Taxidermists Who Care for the Animals at Your Favorite Museumswww.smithsonianmag.com Only a few U.S. museums still employ the specialists. The rest rely on a small group of highly skilled contractors

Here's a fun read about museum taxidermists who care for oodles of specimen.

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It's also absolutely corrosive to our society and makes the media do bad things.

put some of that in the next quote-post but yeah

Yvonne Lam

I tend to think that it would be easier to legally shorten campaigns as a way to cut some of the money out but whatever fucking works

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I'm not crying you're crying.

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RECAP: —Exit polls 90 minutes ago showed surprise: Left first; Macronists 2nd; RN third. —Since then, results in from many districts. They're confirming that big picture. —And show why: Stronger than expected transfers from Left voters to Macronists, & vice-versa, to block RN.

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