Michaels is really out here pissing on us and calling it rain, lol. New product roll outs take time, but you lying about having sewing supplies in the meantime is absolutely not endearing to the customer. And they've actually had fabric online for a few years before Joann liquidated!

Join a local BuyNothing group, especially if you still have a Facebook account! I've gotten a LOT of stuff for free.

Apparently pedagogy went through a phase of, like, "why are we teaching them to read letter by letter if the way adults read is weird by word or even phrase by phrase?" without stopping to check if letter by letter was a load-bearing support skill for word-by-word reading

There's also some studies about how adults read that led to genuine misunderstanding of how children *acquire* the ability to read like adults. Adults read so instinctually we actually do read by whole-word recognition and context, but only because we have the *underlying* ability to parse letters.

One theory I've seen going around is that the guy in that Wikipedia page I linked is himself dyslexic but doesn't believe in dyslexia, he just thinks letter recognition is pointlessly difficult for everyone else as well.

pretty much, yeah.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_c...

At this point, our intro comp/first-year English course has been so heavily revised, it no longer includes a novel, or "extended reading" of any kind, no "specialized" or "historical" reading, mostly in-class assignments, no research essay...and we are still seeing a 40-50% rate of AI misconduct.

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.

"Seek out different viewpoints" on an issue doesn't mean you need to go read hateful takes. It should mean, for instance, making sure that your only perspectives on trans issues aren't coming from rich white trans women in the United States.