Patrick Byers

Father and psychology professor (CUNY)

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

"Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth"
--William Blake

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@buttcheeks_69 @peterlanee Not my first choice for a song to cut by any means

[irix ❤️‍🔥 @queerbobdylan]

@PJuvek Liams changed he posted highway 61 last year ❤️‍🩹lik 5 songs from the album

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@meganysta @shagbark_hick Would you elaborate?

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@matt_slotnick The distance is probably shorter in the original

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@NotCubby @benryanwriter This doesn’t prop up unions; it’s a threat to them and public education in general

[Ross Barkan @RossBarkan]

One thing never much discussed in SHSAT discourse is how many high-achieving Black and Latino eighth graders don't even bother with the test because they can get full rides to secular private or Catholic schools, or maybe go the charter route. I don't know.

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@nypost Why does this map include great neck as part of queens?

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@Justin01026486 @TaglesTopGuy @Empty_America The high temperatures are basically the same as a place like Hagerstown MD, although it gets nowhere near as cold at night there

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@JHWeissmann There are also a lot of great Albanian restaurants there

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@spqr_sulla Nevertheless, learning to take language (statements, etc) as an object of thought is one of the most important purposes of formal education. Many students more or less lack this, even in college, and are basically unable to write in an academic/professional way as a result.

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@spqr_sulla It’s not that illiterate people are categorically unable to think logically about matters disconnected from daily life (or from any practical purpose) but that they have no expectation that they would be asked to do such a thing.

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@spqr_sulla I’ve never gotten sick of this in 14 years of college teaching and it’s even more interesting than the passage suggests in several additional ways

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@onon_film That’s not dirty. Do you live on a space station?

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@MurrayHillGuy1 What’s the significance of Phebe’s? I’ve been there a number of times and don’t know what that means

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@omgsidewalks Tons of my friends did the opposite and became annoying as hell

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@imehlman @MosabAbuToha Did the coach occupy Gaza?

[Faraz Ansari @farazansari77]

The people of Astoria have abandoned the frigidity of individualism (apartment AC) in favor of the warmth of collectivism (it is 100 degrees out)

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“Beyond dystopian.”

Novelist Dave Eggers is sounding the alarm about AI, which he argues is harming children’s education:

“You have a ten-year-old who is unprecedented in the history of the world. There's never been anyone like that person… To think about that one-of-a-kind-in-the-history-of-humanity person shopping their vision out to a machine, how tragic that is. That's beyond dystopian. It cannot be allowed. Not even one ounce of AI can be allowed in the humanities and youth education.”

[Patrick Byers @patrickdbyers]

@JacobAShell Uh, that would be great. What do you do, go to Hard Rock Cafes and wax museums?