Cate Denial

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Professor and Chair, Center for Learning Innovation, UM Rochester; Historian; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Dakota land

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Are you gearing up for fall? Thinking about classrooms that are welcoming, just, and kind? Check out -A Pedagogy of Kindness- for ideas about how to be kind to yourself, and how to thread kindness through your syllabus, assignments, and into your classroom. www.oupress.com/978080619385...

oupress.comA Pedagogy of Kindness - University of Oklahoma PressAcademia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, highe...
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The material facts on the ground - that a person could invite people over to a home in any state of being and serve whatever - do not matter to the people writing these think pieces. Their point is to bemoan the at-large status of women as independent, non-servile beings.

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Read a thread in which people were debating whether AI is actually intelligent, and marveled at how fast people descended into "your reply isn't intelligent/you show no evidence of being intelligent yourself." Sorting humans based on "intelligence" is eugenics. This is not a winning argument.

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Anthropic's new User Policy forbids you from engaging in "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models". It does not, however, explain what the fuck this could possibly mean.

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The death penalty is wrong, and the way it's undertaken - in highly controlled circumstances, often late at night - betrays a lingering sense of shame. But Trump and co. have no shame, and I have no doubt that if the accused was white, they wouldn't be doing this, nor livestreaming it.

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