New report calls for a 'postsecondary pivot': "We need people who are studying poli sci to know how to use ChatGPT to write and edit an e-mail....” - J Pichette, Dir of skills policy, RBC Thought Leadership

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www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5e75e16...

I don't THINK 'car pickup lines' exist at public schools, but Ontario is a big place and I could be wrong.

It is not perfect: There is plenty of concern for safety with drivers going too quickly in the school zone & folks parking where they shouldn't in the neighbourhood.

But this is ... wild.

Jaw on the floor. "Car pickup lines" do not exist in my suburb ~45min from Toronto, Ontario (pop 187,000). How the heck does this work with the parents' jobs!? At our school, the options are walk, bike, school bus, daycare van, OR drive: your parents park nearby & walk over.

and so much more -- seriously, ya gotta listen -- and then listen again.

and then the part on Kristi Noem 🔥

"if we cannot figure out how to critique the embodied performance of power and autocracy when it comes in a female body because then all the other side has to do is get a woman like Kristi, prop her up, ... and then say, oh, you can't talk about women."

"The world we built makes everything from beautiful art to beautiful people, a commodity. And so your preferences are always operating within the limits of the commodity of beauty. ...
[T]he last safe place for us to be ruthlessly racist, sexist classes and ableist is when it comes to bodies."

It is bizarre and a cover for something else. In daycare, anonymity (we got told, "A friend bit Lauren on the arm today"). But now I also hear it like, "Several friends had trouble listening so now we will review the rules again". It's become creepy/ ominous/ euphemistic

I figured weekday mid-day (yesterday) would be a decent time to visit my newborn nephew in The Beaches, driving in from Burlington. 90min there, 90min home -- all after/ before rush hour! Brutal...