Pleased to see Stromae reviewed in the NYT—by someone who liveblogged Eurovision no less. Will be listening all afternoon, I’m sure.

Lots of thoughts about this. As someone with an education PhD who teaches and researches outside traditionally education topics, I want to emphasize that the prevalence of education PhDs is a symptom, not the actual problem. In my teaching and research outside my home discipline, I work hard to learn the content and communities that I’m branching into. The disdain for those content and communities at BYU Religious Education is the real problem here and therefore what I’m really worried about. To channel Shulman, this is a context that values pedagogical knowledge at the expense of content knowledge; there are lots of academic departments out there that make the opposite mistake, but that doesn’t justify this approach either.

We can support Ukraine generally and still be concerned about the integration of the far-right into their armed forces.

So very gross. What’s happening in Ukraine is terrible, but terrible things are happening all over the world, and we shouldn’t make Ukraine more terrible out of some kind of chauvinism.

Proud of Lexington for hosting this. Also wondering if I should check the Lexington groups on Gab to see if the local far-right is cranky about it.

Tremendously worrying stuff. Taxes are the price we pay for democratic society.

Because the Web feels new to us, it’s easy to forget how important it is to preserve it for the future.

Oh no no no. This hadn’t crossed my mind as a possibility, but how terrible.

Eurovision is not supposed to be political, but it always sneaks in. My money is on a lot of sympathy votes for Ukraine’s entry, and a very low score for Russia.

Lots of important reminders in here. I also feel ashamed that I have not protested my country’s wars in the way these Russians are doing so now.

Greene is repeatedly awful, and the GOP’s refusal to do anything substantial about it is telling.

Hits too close to home for me. I have work to do.

Shut up and take my money! This is why itch is one of my favorite game-related places on the internet.

Amazon already has too big a footprint here. Don’t feel great about this.

Putin has outwitted every U.S. President since W, not necessarily because he’s smarter, but because he doesn’t operate with the same constraints U.S. presidents do. To blame this on Biden is moronic. We obviously shouldn’t let this episode of the culture war overshadow the more important crisis happening in Ukraine itself, but this appropriation of the crisis really worries me in the context of U.S. politics. These stances are largely indefensible. Gabbard isn’t totally wrong, I don’t think, but it’s still a sloppy oversimplification.

There is no denying that Putin is smart and strategic, but expressing awe instead of concern is typically Trump in its idiocy.

Worrying stuff here. Right-wing media consumption appears to be the big predictor for QAnon beliefs.

Certainly not the worst news I’ve read this morning, but still tremendously worrying.

Happy that my much cheaper bike does not rely on servers to function properly.

Kentucky has taken some bad steps in this direction lately, but this is horrific.

Bellingcat does good work. It gives me hope to see people using the internet to fight back against disinformation spread by the internet, but I’m also glad the article touches on the dangers involved.

The students in my fundamentals of computers class have repeatedly heard me bring up this story to explain that technology is never just technical.

Boo on Proctorio.

This has been around long enough that I used to show it to my FREN 102 students, but very glad to see it cross my radar again via Boing Boing. The whole show is fantastic, but this bet might be the best. Great, nerdy deployment of mostly-right French.

Can we please refrain from electing the alleged Q to Congress?