@bestonetx.bsky.social
Award-winning community college professor, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews and the Galveston Immigration Movement. Alte kaker in training.
Views are mine, not my employer's, and are protected by the First Amendment.
@bestonetx.bsky.socialC.J. Dregg
@bestonetx.bsky.socialNo, gross.
@bestonetx.bsky.socialI have it on excellent authority that Talarico ate a cat.
@bestonetx.bsky.socialRepublicans have discovered that mocking James Talarico magically lowers the price of gas and uncorrupts Ken Paxton.
@adamserwer.bsky.socialReposted by @bestonetx.bsky.socialFormer “free speech” crusaders have ushered in an unprecedented campaign of censorship in Texas universities, resulting in pulitzer winning books being banned, medical and scientific facts being suppressed, and entire fields of study deemed “woke” being eliminated www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
@victoriascott.bsky.socialReposted by @bestonetx.bsky.socialThis sucks so bad. Obviously we lost a great actor, but also he spent so much of his life doing advocacy for people with disabilities; we lost a good person. Fuck.
@bestonetx.bsky.socialWashington, D.C., January 20, 2029.
@bestonetx.bsky.socialSomehow we've incentivized dying in office.
@telecomone.bsky.socialReposted by @bestonetx.bsky.socialEleanor Roosevelt was born on this day in 1884.
@rezekjoe.bsky.socialReposted by @bestonetx.bsky.socialBehold!! On this Indigenous People’s Day, the first page of the first number of THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX (1828)- featuring the Cherokee Constitution in English & Cherokee, in the syllabary created by Sequoyah. An epic milestone in Native American history and the history of print
@bestonetx.bsky.socialThe @texastribune.org is indispensable.
I learned more from this article about my city's water crisis (which is actually an industrial and political crisis) than from years of following coverage in local media.
@bestonetx.bsky.socialDon't even have to recharge it!
@bestonetx.bsky.social😍
@bestonetx.bsky.socialIt was all of them.
@bestonetx.bsky.socialI refuse to spend more time grading an assignment than the student spent producing it.
@bestonetx.bsky.socialThe likelihood an assignment was generated by AI is inversely proportional to the amount of time before the deadline it was submitted.
@bestonetx.bsky.socialMe: You used AI on this assignment. Fix that. Student: But I didn't use AI. Me. Then you write like AI. Fix that.
@bestonetx.bsky.socialThere are two kinds of college professors: those who become harsher graders as they get tired and those who get easier. I'm the latter, but I wish I were the former.
@bestonetx.bsky.socialNo, they're working as intended.
@bestonetx.bsky.socialIf you use AI, you are responsible for what it does. If you program AI, you are responsible for what it does. If you distribute AI, you are responsible for what it does. If you fund AI, you are responsible for what it does. If you legalize AI, you are responsible for what it does.
