Hal Plotkin

Senior Scholar, ISKME, Senior Open Policy Fellow, Creative Commons USA (2014-2017), Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Dept of Ed (2009-2014).

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

Why gender equality is key to achieving peace in the Middle East. Toxic masculinity is toxic - and never more so than when men say their oppressive behavior is ordained by God. To lift the world to nonviolence we must first move boots off the necks of women. #GenderEquityNow

[Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme @FondationMSH]

🎙️ PODCAST
Discover #IPEVLIVE conversation n°2 : "Listening to Women in the MENA Region Before and After the Arab Spring" focused on gender-based oppression and violence directed toward women, on the #fmsh #SoundCloud channel @ExitingViolence
▶️ https://t.co/tcFc3egu0G

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

Hey @StateDept! I've been trying *for more than a month* to make an appt for a NEW PASSPORT APPLICATION. Nothing avail w/in 100 miles even checking at midnight. More than a month! Can you please help? #passport #basicgovservices #EpicFail @ZoeLofgren @RoKhanna @RepAnnaEshoo

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

@JGreenblattADL Thank you for your leadership.

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

@anya1anya I first noticed this during the late sixties, when the media fixated on the so-called "generation gap" -- which "othered" young people and made disparagement based on age fashionable. One generation set against the next in what became a fight for survival. Divided, America fell.

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

I don't think I can continue to use this platform. Comments like this are beyond reprehensible.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

@anya1anya I wrote a column years ago about the way the AMA was actively opposing the expansion of medical schools. As a trade group one of their goals is to restrict the supply of physicians. I found that shocking.

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@RoKhanna https://t.co/bLBvheEfad

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

@elonmusk @nytimes You really don't understand what signal you sent by reinstating KW and Trump? Really? How can that be?

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

This is so despicable. Folks, I love my union made GM Chevy Bolt EV. It's a great car! Added bonus: buying one undermines a pernicious and odious billionaire who is spewing poison into public spaces.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@neontaster Vindman is both puppet & puppeteer. Question is who pulls his strings … ?

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

@hcdawes Atonement and freedom. None of us are free until all of us are free.

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

@Volcoucou Meanwhile, our public schools only allow the "top athletes" to participate on their sports teams. My short kid loves to play basketball and vollyball. "Go home, you're not on the team" was the message they gave her. That just outrages me. #LetAllTheKidsPlay #FindAWay

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@elonmusk doesn't understand that private firms have always edited the views they publish & that "free speech" guarantees are what allow them to do so. He invites kooks and bigots onto his platform as if that serves a public interest. Astonishing ignorance of constitutional law.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead.

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

@elonmusk @StephenKing Suggestion: Devolve Twitter. Thousands of services operated by qualified affiliates - profit & non-profit - give those entities the freedom 2 join larger flocks of smaller Twitters. Make Twitter a disaggregated aggregation - with each local free 2 enforce their own standards.

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

@anya1anya How difficult. I'm sorry. 💔

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

How we teach is what we teach. #OER #OpenEducation #OpenAssessments #opportunity4all

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

THREAD: CROWD SIZE: Okay look. For years now, Donald and the GOP have been lying about crowd size. They’ve been lying about how many people call them and tell them they love them. They’ve been lying about the size of their fan base. There’s a reason for this. 1/

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

@jeffwgallant GREAT question (hi!) We need regular periodic (2× a month to start) open online #OER pedagogy meetings organized by discipline & led by faculty paid 2 present their work. Whoever does that owns the future of higher education. Folks register to participate and over time it grows.

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

@elonmusk What a crappy roll out of a good idea. You should have described the benefits first (wiping out & IDing fake accounts, saving democracy, etc). Instead you led with price!? What marketer does that? Goofy way to begin. You sell the benefits first - then you pitch the price. Basic.

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

@bmckib That's one reason I have proposed this: https://t.co/hnTmUnIt9O

[Hal Plotkin @HalPlotkin]

@SabrinaMarie45 On the legislative front, I've proposed that we amend the HEOA to require that schools must annually publically report what they do to help faculty who want to use, adopt, and/or create #OER if those schools accept federal money. No congressional sponsors yet. But that wuld help.

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@veenadubal How about a DPA? https://t.co/1oGHqumR5a