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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 9h

in Warsaw and it’s really noticeable how much *quieter* European cities are than American ones

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

this made me think about how the actually good uses of technology in the classroom are the things that just let you do the traditional stuff you do but better/easier/more accessibly

Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

teaching trick I would highly recommend: share your tablet screen on the projector (I did this by mirroring the tablet to my computer) & use whatever notes app you have as your whiteboard. lets you face the classroom & move around freely, & now you have lecture notes you can share with the students

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 9h

I resent the fact that what the pope says matters but if we’re stuck with that situation I’m glad for what he’s saying

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 11h

Given that anyone with a brain ought to recognise how many “national dishes” were impossible pre-Columbian Exchange, it’s nice to finally see pushback on the inherently ethnonationalist/racist claim that some cultures have “authentic dishes” and other “parasitic” cultures only “steal” them

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12h

Seeing people take runs at the menswear guy is bonkers to me as a guy who wears the same hoodies he had in highschool. I leave that guy well enough alone, I don’t want any of that smoke.

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

it's pretty crazy that as an English speaker I can visit basically any major city in the world and expect that there will be signage in my language

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

citizens like “listen, I feel bad for the refugees, of course I do, but we’ve got to take care of our own, and besides how do we know that some of them aren’t cultists?”

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

Gortash

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

got to Baldur’s Gate and was like “well, I certainly know how Larian feels about Europe’s populist right”

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

ok but actually one of the many things I love about BG3 is they looked at all the go-woke-go-broke discourse and were like “nah, let’s make everyone gay and have one of the main villains be an anti-immigrant demagogue”

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

ok but actually one of the many things I love about BG3 is they looked at all the go-woke-go-broke discourse and were like “nah, let’s make everyone gay and have one of the main villains be an anti-immigrant demagogue”

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

They should make a game that is woke.

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

this made me think about how the actually good uses of technology in the classroom are the things that just let you do the traditional stuff you do but better/easier/more accessibly

Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

teaching trick I would highly recommend: share your tablet screen on the projector (I did this by mirroring the tablet to my computer) & use whatever notes app you have as your whiteboard. lets you face the classroom & move around freely, & now you have lecture notes you can share with the students

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 1d

Parody protections are so funny. Yeah you can copy, but by law you have to be a little silly with it.

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

also means you don’t have to worry about running out of space, and can scroll back to previous stuff

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

teaching trick I would highly recommend: share your tablet screen on the projector (I did this by mirroring the tablet to my computer) & use whatever notes app you have as your whiteboard. lets you face the classroom & move around freely, & now you have lecture notes you can share with the students

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

or any early modern philosopher. they’d be like “yeah that’s how it works, first you’re motivated by others’ esteem but then that builds a habit”

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

“but then how…how’s anyone supposed to learn virtue?”

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

imagine trying to explain the concept of virtue signaling as a bad thing to Aristotle

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

the virtue signalling vs. not discussion just strikes me as a social drama that makes sense within the class of people that don't think they have anything else at stake in these discussions other than clout, some of whom also can't imagine any other way of relating to these discussions

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

"asked him if something was going on that explained why he couldn't get that thing done and all he said was 'not really'"

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d

ADHD would be a good secret identity for a superhero.
"oh yeah, he's CONSTANTLY late to meetings. sometimes doesn't even show up. seems a bit distracted a lot of the time. will just stop in the middle of something and go off to do who-knows-what."

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 2d

just saw 👍

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~ an egg

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Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 2d

why haven’t you acknowledged the ai-generated video?