Drew Daudelin
@drewdaudelin.bsky.social
Dropping “fuck yeah” in department meetings since 1999. Outdoorsy, bookish, teaching-adjacent. Maryland.
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Off on a roade trippe wyth Dante. See you yn a fewe dayes, everyebodye!
It ys manye miles and dimensiouns to Los Angeles, we have a fullye charged Hyundai Ioniq, halfe a page of plannes for frame tale narratyves, we are lost yn a darke woode, and we are wearinge sunglasses. Hit it.
It ys manye miles and dimensiouns to Los Angeles, we have a fullye charged Hyundai Ioniq, halfe a page of plannes for frame tale narratyves, we are lost yn a darke woode, and we are wearinge sunglasses. Hit it.
December 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Off on a roade trippe wyth Dante. See you yn a fewe dayes, everyebodye!
It ys manye miles and dimensiouns to Los Angeles, we have a fullye charged Hyundai Ioniq, halfe a page of plannes for frame tale narratyves, we are lost yn a darke woode, and we are wearinge sunglasses. Hit it.
It ys manye miles and dimensiouns to Los Angeles, we have a fullye charged Hyundai Ioniq, halfe a page of plannes for frame tale narratyves, we are lost yn a darke woode, and we are wearinge sunglasses. Hit it.
Make a Bond Movie Casual:
No Reason to Die
No Reason to Die
Make a Bond movie casual
A View to a Chill
A View to a Chill
Make a Bond movie casual
The World is Fine Enough
The World is Fine Enough
December 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Make a Bond Movie Casual:
No Reason to Die
No Reason to Die
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I am APOPLEPTIC that administrators turn "students are all cheating" into "yep that's why we need to incorporate cheating into your teaching."
And I am DISTRAUGHT about what is being stolen from our students: the chance to struggle, to grow, to learn, to be human. That one will have global effects.
And I am DISTRAUGHT about what is being stolen from our students: the chance to struggle, to grow, to learn, to be human. That one will have global effects.
December 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I am APOPLEPTIC that administrators turn "students are all cheating" into "yep that's why we need to incorporate cheating into your teaching."
And I am DISTRAUGHT about what is being stolen from our students: the chance to struggle, to grow, to learn, to be human. That one will have global effects.
And I am DISTRAUGHT about what is being stolen from our students: the chance to struggle, to grow, to learn, to be human. That one will have global effects.
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
It’s the cupholders. And power outlets. And individual seats with a little aisle. And yet more cupholders
This was also my reaction last year when we rented a plugin hybrid Pacifica. I had been generally anti-minivan my entire life, but that thing was amazing.
we rented a chrysler pacifica for our trip down to see my folks after christmas and i now totally get why people like minivans. this thing rules.
December 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
It’s the cupholders. And power outlets. And individual seats with a little aisle. And yet more cupholders
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not especially "crazy", but screwing around with microfilm was much more fun than proquest or w/e because you got all of the context of what was happening at the same time as whatever you were looking up
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
not especially "crazy", but screwing around with microfilm was much more fun than proquest or w/e because you got all of the context of what was happening at the same time as whatever you were looking up
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and yes, no contest, Emily Wilson's translation is the best I've ever read; the Odyssey is always beautiful but under her hands it felt like the Sistine Chapel except that you'd always seen it under centuries of dust and then, suddenly, it was just there - revealed -
December 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
and yes, no contest, Emily Wilson's translation is the best I've ever read; the Odyssey is always beautiful but under her hands it felt like the Sistine Chapel except that you'd always seen it under centuries of dust and then, suddenly, it was just there - revealed -
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not as it "is" but as it could be; Wilson doesn't pretend that her work is a simple unveiling; even with the Sistine Chapel you make decisions as you uncover
December 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
not as it "is" but as it could be; Wilson doesn't pretend that her work is a simple unveiling; even with the Sistine Chapel you make decisions as you uncover
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If protein folding models, based on supervised learning w/carefully constructed datasets have proven useful to biologists and go under the same name ("AI") as the synthetic text extruding machines that are despoiling our info ecosystem, it is harder to critize the latter with one's full chest.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If protein folding models, based on supervised learning w/carefully constructed datasets have proven useful to biologists and go under the same name ("AI") as the synthetic text extruding machines that are despoiling our info ecosystem, it is harder to critize the latter with one's full chest.
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But let's turn that around: Anyone who wants to call what they are doing "AI" should be accountable for making clear why their product (or research) isn't in fact slop. That's on them. The rest of us do not need to hold space for that.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
But let's turn that around: Anyone who wants to call what they are doing "AI" should be accountable for making clear why their product (or research) isn't in fact slop. That's on them. The rest of us do not need to hold space for that.
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Uninstalling.
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Uninstalling.
Colonialism and capitalism are snakes eating their own tails
Wowwwwww
December 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Colonialism and capitalism are snakes eating their own tails
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My humanities dept was relevant. Majors were up. Courses were 100% enrolled. Revenue positive, GE serving, etc etc. We were still eliminated.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
'For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Indeed, the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one: Difficulty is good, an end in its own right.' 2/2
December 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
My humanities dept was relevant. Majors were up. Courses were 100% enrolled. Revenue positive, GE serving, etc etc. We were still eliminated.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
A little bit of looking and you can buy a “dumb” flatscreen tv that still works with your fire stick or whatever. Helped my mom with one when a smart tv had too much shit on it
Non-consensual deployment of apps against people seems to be a great marketing strategy for a really healthy, unfucked industry.
A copilot whether you want it or not.
December 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
A little bit of looking and you can buy a “dumb” flatscreen tv that still works with your fire stick or whatever. Helped my mom with one when a smart tv had too much shit on it
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
I’m 100% D is foer
Tag yourself. I’m O is penguin.
Also good for it for figuring out v is vulture on the second try.
Also good for it for figuring out v is vulture on the second try.
December 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I’m 100% D is foer
I’m pretty sure I could run through the 5? 6? Curriculum/textbooks our school has had over my career, and find that the supports and lessons are almost identical from book to to book
Through a kind of transubstantiation, where curriculum becomes "guaranteed and viable", worksheets become "High Quality Instructional Materials", and the failure to learn only exists in the child: Try harder! Pay attention! This high quality worksheet is guaranteed!
(by whom??)
(by whom??)
And there seems to be no responsiveness other than "He needs to do X" to keep up. When you center students in relation to the march of the pacing guide, it's inevitable that spiky profiled students fall behind. After all, it's a race: better learn to keep up.
December 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I’m pretty sure I could run through the 5? 6? Curriculum/textbooks our school has had over my career, and find that the supports and lessons are almost identical from book to to book
I had an assistant principal who tried to ask interview questions of prospective hires to get at this. “Talk about your favorite book.” “What got you into teaching English?”
no testing or state standards can compensate if teachers aren’t themselves enthusiastic readers
December 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I had an assistant principal who tried to ask interview questions of prospective hires to get at this. “Talk about your favorite book.” “What got you into teaching English?”
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no testing or state standards can compensate if teachers aren’t themselves enthusiastic readers
December 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
no testing or state standards can compensate if teachers aren’t themselves enthusiastic readers
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scripted, test-aligned “literacy” curricula, even if it includes whole books, is not the same thing as a teacher who’s lit up about art
December 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
scripted, test-aligned “literacy” curricula, even if it includes whole books, is not the same thing as a teacher who’s lit up about art
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i think there are some powerful people who genuinely do not believe the distinction matters in any meaningful or scalable way
December 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
i think there are some powerful people who genuinely do not believe the distinction matters in any meaningful or scalable way
BRING BACK MICROFICHE.
I don’t see how they can learn to acquire information or sift through sources on the internet when search is cooked, everything is prompts, and sources are corrupted
December 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
BRING BACK MICROFICHE.
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Trench coats informally banned from every high school since 98 but the suicide robot is installed on your school laptop automatically
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Trench coats informally banned from every high school since 98 but the suicide robot is installed on your school laptop automatically