#20180722

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This day in history

I’m at San Diego Comic-Con! Today (7/22) at 15h, I’m on a panel, “The Worlds We Return To,” in room 23ABC.

#15yrsago CNN reporter says bad things about the TSA, gets hassled every time he flies https://web.archive.org/web/20080718134827/https://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/CNN_reporter_wants_off_terror_watch_0716.html

#15yrsago Why is the TSA taking out nipple rings and pantsing amputees? https://web.archive.org/web/20080725112506/http://cbs2chicago.com/investigations/xrated.security.screenings.2.777423.html

#10yrsago UK Internet censorship plan no less stupid than it was last year https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/nov/13/children-porn-starbucks

#5yrsago Greedy landlords create a mass-extinction event in Burbank’s indie paradise https://www.laweekly.com/saving-magnolia-park-why-l-a-s-coolest-shopping-area-is-in-danger/

#5yrsago Disgraced charter school exec pleads guilty to criminal money laundering, resigns from LA school board https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-edu-ref-rodriguez-resigns-20180722-story.html#

#5yrsago As Chinese P2P lending bubble bursts, “investors” mob Chinese sports-stadiums used as temporary processing centers https://www.ft.com/content/75e75628-8b27-11e8-bf9e-8771d5404543

#5yrsago Important victory in Public Resource’s tireless fight to make the law free for everyone https://www.techdirt.com/2018/07/20/appeals-court-tells-lower-court-to-consider-if-standards-incorporated-into-law-are-fair-use-could-have-done-more/

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20180722

きょうびこの発言、コンプライアンス的に問題があると思いますが、拙者の今後の目標に「この島のジャ〇ーさん」になる、が加わりました。

It would touch compliance nowadays but I've found out my new objective to be a "Joxxny" in this island.

[aigle-suisse]

20180722-Equestrian GerryB 013 par BC Games

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ともに踊った仲間に。 #20180722 #千葉ロッテマリーンズ #マーくん #謎の魚 #オリックスバファローズ #バファローベル (Zozoマリンスタジアム) https://www.instagram.com/p/B313zZkg7R1/?igshid=1qq2wm5zu3uc7

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大石絵理さんのツイート 大石絵理

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花火大会のこと

高橋一生似（31）とそんなことがあってから二日後に「今週花火大会に行かない？」という連絡があった。おそらくこれはワンチャン抱けると思われているなあと思って、あえて乗った。絶対に抱かれない自信があった。

昨日の17:30頃に迎えにきてもらった。半ズボンを履く男がなんとなく嫌いで前回に引き続き半ズボンだったのであぁ…と思った。しかもストライプに花柄。目を疑った。31歳…？

近くに車を停めてタクシーで会場まで行った。場所を探してうろうろした。いい感じの場所を見つけて見た。花火は綺麗だったけれど一緒に見る人によってこんなにも見えかたが違うものかあと思った。せっかく綺麗だったのにもったいなかったかなあと思った。

タクシーの中で「あのラブホがー」とか「前の彼女と浴衣でー」とか言っていたけれど心底どうでもよかった。これ、相手が好きな人だったら花火大会がトラウマになるくらい傷つくだろうなあ。

そのあとは定食��さんでご飯を食べた。

「ねえ年上の人はどうなの、好きにはならないの」

「俺はならないね」

「年下派？」

「うん。同い年とか年上で自分よりあれ？っていうとこあると嫌だから」

「すごくわかる。まったく同じだ、年上が駄目な理由。やっぱり年下がいいよね何したって可愛いし許せる気がする」

年上の人の目の前でこれ程までに年上をディスったのは初めてで、「絶対にあなたのことを好きにならないしワンチャンなんてありませんよ」の表現のつもりで言った。実際そんなに年齢を気にしていないけれどなんとなく言ってやりたくなった。

「もう会わないと思った」

「なんで？」

「前ああいうこと（キス）があったから」

「あー、でも花火に行くとかご飯に行くくらいならいいかなと思って。それに人と話して何かを得るのは楽しいじゃん」

「男ってこの子と付き合えるかとか抱けるかとかそういうこと目当てじゃないとご飯とか行かないよ」

「そんなことないと思うけど。私が仲良くしてる子達はご飯にいって色々話すのも楽しいしなんなら旅行にだって行くよ」

「いやないないそんなのない」

「だってご飯一回行くのに付き合うとか抱くとかそんなことばっかにベクトル向けるなんてバッカみたい」

私は男女の友情肯定派なので腹立った。結局、

「じゃあ私と仲良くしてくれる男の子たちはほんとうにいいこたちだから大事にするよ」でおさめた。「ないないない」みたいに言われたけれど。

帰り道、めちゃめちゃ疲れてるしめちゃめちゃ眠いんだよねーとばかり言われて家に上げて欲しいみたいな素振りされまくったけれど「気をつけて帰ってね」ばかり言った。最終的に「シャワーくらい貸してくれんの？」とか「本当に泊めてくれないんだね」とか「俺に襲われると思ってる？」とか色々言われたけれど駅まで送ってもらってあっさり帰った。解放された気分だった。

必死すぎて痛かったし引いたし、雰囲気作るの下手くそなことを私がガード固いせいにすんなよだっせー。

♡2018.07.22.21:15

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[havethewhitefamgone]

Day 1291

Larry: Yes

Chrissie: Yes

Lucky: No

Bex: No

Seb: No

[shopgincho]

シアサッカーのコットンスーツ。 と言いたいところですが ポリエステル100の優れもの。 また、パソコンの調子が悪くなりまして、今日店長コレクションは直るまでお休みします。 #20180722 #summerstyle #summerfashion #mens #mensshop #mensfashion #mensclothes #mensapparel #mensstyle #menswear #mensshopgincho #selectshogincho #gincho #セレクトショップgincho #メンズショップギンチョウ #メンズショップGINCHO #丸亀町商店街 #takamatsu #kagawa #香川県 #高松 #新作 #newitem #summer #店内スナップ #ウインドウディスプレイ #ディスプレイ #windowdisplay # (メンズショップGincho)

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

Charter schools are money laundries

Critiques of charter schools usually focus on poor quality education (disproportionately affecting racialized and poor people) and dangerous ideology (the movement is funded by billionaire dilettantes and religious maniacs), and with good reason!

Charters hand public funds to private institutions with minimal oversight. Public money should not go to schools that endorse slavery and indigenous genocide, nor schools that deny evolution and claim humans and dinosaurs co-existed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180604002542/http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/school-zone/os-voucher-school-curriculum-20180503-story.html

Charter students know they’re getting substandard educations — that’s why the 2019 valedictorians for Detroit’s Universal Academy used their speech to denounce the school, its curriculum and administrators.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2019/06/10/salutatorians-criticize-charter-school-graduation/1381474001/b

The more we learn about charters, the worse the situation gets. Take New Orleans, where, post-Katrina, the Republican statehouse and wealthy dilettante “philanthropists” eliminated all public education in favor of charter schools.

https://www.nola.com/news/education/article_0c5918cc-058d-11ea-aa21-d78ab966b579.html

A decade later, the state education regulator gave half these schools “D” or “F” grades.

No wonder that charter teachers joined LA public school teachers on their Red For Ed pickets in 2019:

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-edu-lausd-strike-accelerated-school-20190114-story.html

Charter schools pitch themselves as grassroots phenomena, made possible thanks to the passion of parents seeking quality educations for their kids. The reality is that the movement is funded and promoted through a corrupt network of ultra-wealthy ideologues.

The Kochs and the Waltons (Walmart) have secretly funneled vast fortunes into disinformation campaigns aimed at demonizing teachers’ unions:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/apr/12/teacher-strikes-rightwing-secret-strategy-revealed

They were joined by the likes of Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos, a fundamentalist who makes no secret of her view that charters can remove the barrier between church and state and institute publicly funded Christian indoctrination in schools:

https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/02/politics/eli-broad-letter-betsy-devos/index.html

Destroying public education is the sport of kings. Bill Gates blew $775m on a failed charter experiment whose subjects were children who got no say in the matter:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-06-27/here-s-how-not-to-improve-public-schools

Gates has solid teammates in his anti-public-education crusade. I mean, who can say no to Mark Zuckerberg?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/technology/silicon-valley-kansas-schools.html

Misery loves company, which is why the Sacklers — mass-murdering architects of the opioid epidemic — sunk so much blood money into the charter project (incredibly, this “philanthropy” is supposed to improve their reputation):

https://web.archive.org/web/20171113043810/https://www.alternet.org/education/notorious-family-contributing-opioid-crisis-and-funding-charter-schools/

But a critique of charters that starts with poor outcomes and ends with ideological billionaires misses the third leg of this stool: money-laundering and financial fraud.

Admittedly some of that has been in plain sight for years. Remember when an LA school board exec plead guilty to felony finance fraud and conspiracy for his role in the charter-backed takeover of the board?

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-edu-ref-rodriguez-resigns-20180722-story.html#

But “Chartered For Profit,” a report from Network for Public Education is by far the most comprehensive look at the means by which billions are transferred from public school districts to profiteers, at the expense of kids in both the charter and public system.

https://networkforpubliceducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Chartered-for-Profit.pdf

In an interview with Jacobin’s Meagan Day, NPE’s executive director Carol Burris discusses the blockbuster report, which is so damning that it prompted a bill in Congress that bans funding to charters that are managed by for-profit contractors.

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/charter-schools-for-profit-nonprofit-taxpayer-public-money-oversight-education-salaries-real-estate-burris-interview

Burris explains that even though nearly all charters are nonprofits (except in AZ), there’s a widespread practice of contracting with for-profit corporations to “manage” these schools; the for-profits are often owned by the schools founders or their relatives.

Others are nationwide chains that offer comprehensive management services — “comprehensive” in the sense of steering schools to procure materials, services and supplies from affiliates that overcharge and kick-back to the management companies.

From substandard, overpriced cafeteria fare; to janky, nonfunctional ed-tech; to unqualified, underpaid teachers, these for-profit entities figure out how to minimize costs, maximize profits, and disguise poor student outcomes so they can keep doing it.

They deploy opaque corporate structures to give the appearance of a thriving ecosystem of suppliers — meanwhile, the largest chain, Academica, consists of 56 companies at one address, more than 70 at another, and a network of real-estate, holding and finance companies.

Real estate plays a major role in charter profiteering. Profiteers scoop up tax-advantaged funding and subsidized loans to buy buildings, leased at inflated rates to charters, with the tax-payer paying their mortgage.

When the mortgage is paid, more tax dollars are used to buy the school at inflated prices.

But it’s even more profitable to run a “virtual school” where you can deliver canned lectures and fake attendance records and pocket vast sums in public money.

For-profits are also loan-sharks. They offer credit to the nonprofit charters so they can afford the inflated prices for educational “services,” charging high interest rates that ensure they get an additional rake off of every public dollar the charter receives.

NPE’s “Another Day Another Charter Scandal” page is a good look at the tip of the corruption iceberg — the crimes that get caught, from fake invoices to outright embezzlement. Charter execs use the school’s credit card to pay for fancy dinners even trips to Disney World.

https://networkforpubliceducation.org/another-day-another-charter-scandal/

Charters shouldn’t exist, period. But if they must exist, then the loophole that allows for-profits to run the notionally nonprofit charter sector must be closed.

Meanwhile, if you want a look at education “reform” that works, check out Andrea Gabor’s 2018 “After the Education Wars,” and learn how eliminating hierarchy, funding the arts, offering good wages and good training to teachers transform schools.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/millionaire-driven-education-reform-has-failed-heres-what-works

The formula is rather simple, really: “a respect for democratic processes and participatory improvement, a high regard for teachers, clear strategies with buy-in from all stake-holders, and accountability frameworks that include room to innovate.”

“Robust leadership and strong teacher voice. Their success underscores the importance of equitable funding and suggests that problems like income inequality are far more detrimental to education that the usual suspects, like bad teachers.”

[weirdletter]

20180722, by Tianhua Xu, via Instagram.

[radiotrick-kougabu]

大きいのｷﾀ━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━!! #20180722 #千葉ロッテマリーンズ #謎の魚 (Zozoマリンスタジアム) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3111mVgO_1/?igshid=1plf4ga550jz

[um0707]

高橋一生似31歳男性のこと

FINLANDSが終わってから２バンドくらい見て会場を出て栄を歩いた。なんとなく誰かとご飯を食べたい日だったので近くに住んでいる高橋一生似（31）に連絡した。迎えにいくから待ってて、と約束を取り付けた。

車に乗り込んで居酒屋さんに行った。梅酒ロックカシスオレンジ梅酒ロック。お酒のせいもあってかなかなか楽しかったと思う。前会ったときはくっそつまんねー人だなあと思ったけれど。

ごちそうになって車に乗って、頭撫でられてキスされそうになって避けて、なんか嫌だった。酔っていてもこういうことは拒否センサーが反応するんだなあと思った。「もう帰っちゃうの？家来ない？」の連発だったけれど、行かなーい♡とばかり言った。

「ガード固いんだね」

「そんなことないよ、私性欲おばけだから」

「こうやって鞄を抱いてるあたりそう思うけどね」

「クッションみたいに抱きたくなるの」

「年下の男とは遊びまくってるくせに俺とは駄目なんだね」

「言っとくけど好きな人としか寝てないから」

「俺のことは好きじゃないんだね」

「そうだね、駅まで送って」

別れ際キスされた。オ��エエエってかんじにはならなかった。たぶんお酒のおかげだ。電車で帰ろうとしたけれど一駅ごとに気持ち悪くて降車した。そして好きな人に���話をかけた日だった。

♡2018.07.22.20:39

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