PNYCMom

Questioning, learning, changing, growing. Transforming rigid political paradigms.

[PNYCMom @PNycmom]

@pcosprincess22 Instant Pot! It has a slow cooker function if you want to use that. Plus you can do an initial saute right in the same pot. 1000% better than a crockpot.

[Ryan Healy @HeyHealy]

Today I'm coining a new internet slang term:

ai;dr

AI, didn't read.

Start using this to reply to comments that are obviously written by AI and watch what happens.

[PNYCMom @PNycmom]

@BigChuc82197870 Trying to get extra exercise.

[PNYCMom @PNycmom]

@JeremyPhilosoph Not true. Most feminists I know think both these things are true: 1) Nothing excuses rape (what you wear, where you are, etc) and 2) Women also need to protect themselves. It's not a good idea to go to a frat party and get incredibly drunk.

[PNYCMom @PNycmom]

@ravenunreal No contact for six months. Take care of your health (hydrate, eat well, work out). Do things you love and things that will improve your life. Spend time with people who love you.

[PNYCMom @PNycmom]

@_babybatz_ FYI, you need more than a few weeks. You need six months of no contact.

[chl$ @chelsssseeeea]

I genuinely think we're sleepwalking into one of the biggest generational divides in modern history, and it starts long before our children ever enter the workforce.

I encourage every parent to spend some time reading what teachers are saying about the children entering their classrooms. Kids who can't sit through a lesson, follow basic instructions, regulate their emotions, hold a pencil, tie their shoes or tolerate being told no. Some kindergarten teachers are reporting children arriving without basic independence skills, including a lot still in diapers.

Meanwhile, we're entering a time in which AI will fundamentally change what it means to be educated, intelligent, and employable… and somehow, our response has been to put more technology in front of children at increasingly younger ages.

I don't think we're talking nearly enough about the consequences. The research on executive function, early childhood development, and excessive screen use should be getting considerably more attention from parents. Not praising Ms Rachel for babysitting your 6 month old…Attention, working memory, cognitive flexibility, and emotional regulation aren't simply nice qualities to have. They're actual foundational abilities that influence how children learn, solve problems, and function independently.. and many of the experiences that help children develop these abilities are purely disappearing from everyday childhood.

Unstructured play. Boredom. Reading. Physical exploration. Real conversations. Working through frustration. Learning how to entertain themselves without someone or something constantly providing stimulation.

We're raising children in an environment where practically every uncomfortable moment can be eliminated with a screen (just go to target and you’ll see at least 3 babies on phones) and every difficult question can increasingly be answered by AI.

But what happens when a child never develops the patience to figure something out independently? When they've spent their early years consuming content engineered to capture their attention but struggle to concentrate on something that doesn't immediately entertain them? When they've never had to develop their own imagination because an algorithm has been entertaining them since infancy? "Brain rot" might be an exaggerated term, but the concerns about attention, compulsive media use and the displacement of important developmental experiences are very very very real.

Not only that..then we send these children to school and expect teachers to somehow reverse years of habits while simultaneously teaching them reading, mathematics and everything else.

I think the next generation's greatest advantage may have surprisingly little to do with how early they learn to use technology.

I think it will come down to which children develop the independence, curiosity, emotional resilience and critical thinking skills necessary to use that technology effectively.

I want my child to understand AI. I want her to build things with it, question it, and take advantage of opportunities that didn't exist when I was growing up.
But I also want her to be able to sit with a difficult problem, read an entire book, entertain herself, have meaningful conversations, disagree respectfully and navigate the world without needing an algorithm to tell her what to do next.
The goal shouldn't be to raise children who can compete with AI. It should be to raise children who have developed enough of their own abilities to do extraordinary things with it….And I increasingly believe that starts with giving them a childhood that allows those abilities to develop in the first place.

[Joseph Massey @jmasseypoet]

I’ve seen people try to downplay the lesbian bar story, but they don’t understand that it’s a true illustration of how these “communities” operate. The types of people in the story have hijacked academia and the literary and art worlds. The insanity is not isolated—it’s a real problem.

[PNYCMom @PNycmom]

@LGUS @LGSuppor_t @_LGSupportusa_K LG is delaying on our refrigerator repair. It has been >4 days & we've called multiple times. There is still no authorization for repair. Think twice before buying @LG because your warranty service will be a headache. #appliance #refrigerator

[PNYCMom @PNycmom]

@LGUS @LGSupport_usa LG is delaying on our refrigerator repair. We are under warranty and this is the fourth day since we have contacted you. I have called multiple times and there is still no authorization for repair. #refrigerator #appliance

[Kibo @Kibo_care]

Do you know that the commercially made bread and cereals you have for breakfast everyday are full of glyphosate and other pesticides and herbicides, and are a likely cause of your autoimmune diseases from irritable gut and eczema to asthma and thyroid problems?

The root of the issue goes deep into big agrochemical and seed companies (Bayer/Monsanto, Corteva, Syngenta, etc.) that dominate the seed and pesticide/herbicide markets and significantly influence farming practices. Their contractual agreements with farmers mandate the exclusive use of their GMO seeds (engineered to withstand heavy use of chemicals) and unnecessarily excessive use of their herbicides and pesticides. Farmers, facing economic pressures, are forced to adopt these practices.

Our @HHSGov will collaborate with other departments, including @USDA and @EPA , to implement policies that limit pesticide use and support organic farming. The FDA will impose the strictest limits on pesticides and herbicides in food to change agricultural practices.

Americans deserve normal, healthy food, and no one should be consuming pesticides and herbicides from their meals.

[Muriel Blaive, PhD @MurielBlaivePhD]

I'm rubbing my eyes. Why haven't we learned our lesson, asks Zeynep Tufekci, who has been nastily vilifying anyone who dared to bring any perspective that might be remotely critical of the official narrative for the past five years.

Who has been peddling "half-truths and strategic deceptions" apart from herself? And after reigning terror on anyone who expressed any doubt, she dares to accuse others of having been duplicitous: "The few papers cited for market origin were written by a small, overlapping group of authors, including those who didn’t tell the public how serious their doubts had been."

And to cap it all, she concludes that "Only an honest conversation will lead us forward." You have to see it to believe it!

No, Ms Tafekci, "we" were not misled: *you* misled us for five years and now you act all virtuous - again. Do you even know how to speak in any other way?

https://t.co/Bbi8BsM7bu

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

I used a scripted curriculum

It “lessened” my autonomy, sure, but resulted in my daughter learning to read

More freedom for me would have resulted in less success for her.

Education needs to be a little more comfortable with scripted lessons

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

July 2020

Anders Tegnell, in charge of Sweden's COVID response, said he did not mandate masks because they are unscientific and provide false reassurance.

He was criticized for this.

From 2020-23, Sweden had the lowest excess death rate in Europe. Tegnell was right.

[Viggo @viggofredrikson]

The most dangerous, common, and overlooked problem in the world:

Chronic procrastination.

It's the reason why you're depressed, anxious, and your nervous system is in chaos.

Here is Andrew Huberman's 7-step protocol to beat procrastination (for good):

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

"Lockdowns were an catastrophic mistake that never should be repeated. ... They violated not just medical ethics, but also crushed the ability of scientists to openly discuss with each other facts and evidence. Many scientists were abused and silenced. ... The restoration of the freedom for scientists to discuss with one another openly what the evidence actually says without this fear of repression that we have seen during the pandemic needs to end. ... The proper place of science in society needs to be restored, so that scientists can advise but not dictate policy."

- Jay Bhattacharya, MD PhD, Stanford professor, nominee to NIH Director

[The Free Press @TheFP]

“We’re getting dangerously close to the point where any nonheterosexual, non-white, non-male person with a job is automatically assumed to be unqualified for it.”

The FP’s @River_Is_Nice on what DEI isn’t: https://t.co/eZ4UlRncGM

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

“Equity” in today’s classrooms often translates to: dumb down the curriculum, inflate grades, and pretend everyone’s succeeding. This doesn’t close achievement gaps; it creates achievement chasms.

By removing all obstacles, we’re not helping struggling kids, we’re crippling them.

Real equity means high expectations for ALL students, not lowering the bar for everyone.

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Most Americans are worried we’re transitioning too many kids.

But that’s just the START OF THE HORROR STORY. We’re transitioning:

✅ people with extreme autism who don’t need hormones, they need help with sensory issues.
✅ fetishistic crossdressers who blow up their lives and marriages and are miserable as women.
✅ natal women who grew up on instagram and think they aren’t female because they don’t look like Barbie.

Why? Because trans activists GENUINELY BELIEVE CLINICIANS SHOULD PLAY NO ROLE IN EVALUATION OR MEDICAL SAFEGUARDING. There is no safety net. You can go to Planned Parenthood today and transition.

It’s not the 1990s, HRT is being overprescribed, not underprescribed. It does not help transsexuals to be giving the mass public our healthcare. It gives the bigots that hate us the tools to end our civil rights.

[Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD @TracyBethHoeg]

In summer of 2021, we decided to follow 2 adjacent school districts in Fargo, ND adopting different mask policies: mandate vs none

We found no sig difference in covid cases when they had different policies or the same

Out w/@ProfNeerajSood, @ifihadastick & S. Heick
in @RCJAPH