Philosophy professor and #OER Coordinator at Houston Community College, Dad of two. Views are mine, all mine. He/him

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Philosophriends, I worked with @openstax (et multi alibi) to write an Intro to Philosophy textbook that covers the bases--from a global perspective. It's completely free & you'll appreciate the quality and breadth. Use it as a primary text or supplement: openstax.org/details/books/i…
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Do any of y'all know if Trump is going to do something about getting smaller cans of tomato paste?
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Every single day when I log into this god-forsaken platform at twitter dot com
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Your daily reminder that the IRS will launch a pilot of its first free tax online filing tool in a matter of weeks. It will be available in 12 states In English and Spanish. Intuit spent $3.8 MILLION in the past year alone to stop this from happening. We didn’t let them win.
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🚨Breaking 🚨 @GOVUK has approved the use of a banned bee-killing pesticide for the fourth year in a row‼️ This is a: ❌deathblow for wildlife 😡a backward step in evidence-based decision-making 🌱betrayal to farmers who try to produce food sustainably. wildlifetrusts.org/news/auth…
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18 Sep 2023
Good thing that X is still on x.com because otherwise I would have to forget about this app entirely.
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29 Mar 2023
Wait, I never use the "For You" tab. Am I doing this wrong?
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26 Mar 2023
That Babylon Bee advertisement is really getting on my nerves.
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23 Mar 2023
When your annual outcomes assessment report is due.
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I probably should just refrain from Tweeting
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Notice: a story documenting thousands of cases of child exploitation, clear as day, out in the open, and the (to be clear, otherwise excellent) report doesn’t mention the word “crime” or “criminal” once. It’s presented entirely as a civil and bureaucratic process issue.
The @nytimes spoke with more than 100 migrant child workers in 20 states, working for brands like Cheerios, Ford and Fruit of the Loom, who described jobs grinding them into exhaustion and fears they were trapped. Read this story by ⁦@hannahdreiernytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/un…
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23 Feb 2023
Listening to the B*rnes & Foibles rep talk about how their "complete"/everyone required to pay for textbooks program works "really well" with OER. Um, I think you don't understand OER...
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Cool write-up about from @OpenStax about our "Introduction to Philosophy" textbook. openstax.org/blog/meet-dr-na…

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Do I commit plagiarism when I use the auto-fill suggestions in Outlook email?
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18 Jan 2023
The New Mexico-Texas Philosophical Society has extended its call for papers to February 5. Please consider submitting something (meeting in El Paso, April 14-15): philevents.org/event/show/10…

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16 Jan 2023
Nice to see Warehouse Live on the list. Also, I've been to only three of these venues. May need to update the bucket list.
16 Jan 2023
Live music as we know it would not exist without these weird, wonderful places and the tireless people who operate them p4k.in/VxnY8n7
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25 Oct 2022
Can someone explain how Cardi B wins this trial? Isn't this just a clear-cut case of appropriating image and likeness? (Explain it in a way that doesn't appeal to raw power as justification.) cbsnews.com/news/cardi-b-win…
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21 Oct 2022
This was an excellent keynote. Please avail yourself of the opportunity to listen to Dr. Gentles-Peart.
The recording from Dr. Kamille Gentles-Peart's keynote at #OpenEd22 is now available in Sched! If you missed it live, watch it now. sched.co/16Jv1
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19 Oct 2022
Doing some promotion for the @OpenStax Introduction to Philosophy textbook next week. Please join a webinar with me Wednesday afternoon (CT). We'll talk about some of the main features and aims. Registration here: event.on24.com/wcc/r/3996233…
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Nice thread. One thought: writing that is valued (even required) for academic publishing doesn’t work for teaching.
30 Sep 2022
Teaching is so weird because nobody seems to want to talk about how to explain things... which seems like it'd be something we'd talk a whole lot about. There are a few things I've learned from research into clarity of explanations that I wish I'd been taught earlier 1/
21 Sep 2022
In a "Show and Fail" session at #OpenTexas2022 and it is so much of what I need right now.