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Lecturer @UCBerkeley, working on #CSEd #a11y #EdTech I build @Gradescope, @CSPBJC & @SnapCloud I enjoy☕️ 📷 🥃 #GoBears

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The @uaw2865 strike is over but @UCPrezDrake wants to impose the costs of paying workers a living wage on the already strained budgets of campuses and departments. Say no to puntive austerity, sign this letter cucfa.org/2023/02/reject-pun… @uc_faculty @UCAFT @AFSCMELocal3299 @CalYDSA
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BART Board just approved my proposal to institute 30 min grace period for $6.40 excursion fare! We'll soon stop penalizing riders who enter a station and don't ride BART, especially when it's due to BART delays. Thanks @JaniceForBART & staff for working with me all year on this!
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This is awesome. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while. – at Berkeley, CA
Jens Mönig@moenig25 Nov 2022
I'm excited to fool around with new ways to write code using blocks! snap.berkeley.edu/versions/d…
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This makes me sad - but @UCBerkeley and @Berkeley_EECS need to take notice! We cannot be driving away smart and capable and empathetic instructors from our classes.
Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle1722 Nov 2022
Officially handed in my notice to quit my lecturer position at UC Berkeley after the fall semester finishes. It’s been an amazing 2 years, but I’m exhausted, and given that I actually have a main full time job as an ML engineer for an amazing startup already, I just have no time.
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I needed to look at the terms of the Amex Purchase Protection / Extended Warranty agreement.... it excludes insurrections. Though the last updated date was 1/1/2020 ...can they predict the future or the actuaries just really ahead of the times?
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Long thread on why @UniCalifornia Senate faculty should join the @uc_faculty #UCFacultySolidarity rallies on their campus at noon tomorrow to support #UAWonStrike #FairUCNow @uaw2865 @sruuaw @UAW5810
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Michael Ball retweeted
Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle1721 Nov 2022
Okay, this is an absolutely horrible idea.
The New York Times
@nytimes20 Nov 2022
Universities are partnering with sports betting companies to introduce students and fans to online gambling — and reaping millions of dollars in fees. nyti.ms/3TT0bvV
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Quite possibly the most organized the Stanford Band has been! This was cool!
UAW 4811@uaw_481120 Nov 2022
What a beautiful showing of solidarity from @lsjumb during halftime at the Big Game! Students across California know that fair working conditions make better learning conditions. We will not be divided! #UAWonStrike
A photo of the Cal football field with Stanford band members forming the letters UAW with their bodies on the field. Behind them is a giant crowd in the stadium. They are wearing many colors.

ALT A photo of the Cal football field with Stanford band members forming the letters UAW with their bodies on the field. Behind them is a giant crowd in the stadium. They are wearing many colors.

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This! There was lots of pre-complaining but I found it pretty good for BART especially. Will be extremely useful for Mission Bay to East Bay commuting! – at Oakland, CA
Heather Knight@hknightsf19 Nov 2022
Replying to @hknightsf
The public art is 💯. And the walk between the Union Square station to the Powell Bart and Muni connections was a lot shorter than I expected.
San Francisco finally has a subway line to China Town!! Exiciting to see so many people want to check it out… but really @SFMTA_Muni no cell service in brand new tunnels?!
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Replying to @ShriramKMurthi @_mball_ @shuchig @guzdial @cchmagyar @UmichCompFor @cynthiablee @chrispiech @landay
If I ran the CS major (and I never will) students would be required to balance tech courses with humanities 50/50. And only 4 courses per semester. Theyd know less math/physics/cs and thatd be fine.
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OK, so I have a few hundred followers across Mastodon instances, what's the best way to converge them? Pick and instance and then migrate over? This is why I hate this so much.
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I fully support the right of UC academic workers to organize. They are the backbone of our world-class public university system. I hope that both parties can reach a fairly negotiated agreement. washingtonpost.com/business/…

In largest strike of 2022, California academic workers walk off job

Some 48,000 teaching assistants, postdocs, researchers, and graders on the front lines of teaching and research at California’s prestigious public university system, are seeking a minimum annual...

washingtonpost.com
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honestly, one of the highlights of today (esp on this TL) is watching all the strikes going on, particularly from our 48,000 colleagues (!) at the University of California. solidarity. xitter.cf/uaw2865/status/1588009…
UAW 4811@uaw_48113 Nov 2022
BREAKING - 36,558 total votes were cast in UC Academic Workers’ Strike Authorization Votes, with 98% voting Yes to authorize a multi-unit strike if necessary. These are far and away the largest and most decisive strike authorization votes ever taken by Academic Workers in the US.
Pink square graphic with a cutout image of dozens of UAW members holding picket signs. Above the image is the text: "UC ACADEMIC WORKERS' STRIKE AUTHORIZATION VOTES" and below that is "36,558 VOTES CAST 98% VOTED YES"

ALT Pink square graphic with a cutout image of dozens of UAW members holding picket signs. Above the image is the text: "UC ACADEMIC WORKERS' STRIKE AUTHORIZATION VOTES" and below that is "36,558 VOTES CAST 98% VOTED YES"

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This has to be one of my favorite IT stories of all time. And it is deeply relatable to anyone who has ever worked anywhere that scaled really fast and documented poorly.
Ben Sandofsky@sandofsky14 Nov 2022
12 years ago, Twitter’s office used a Mac Mini to tunnel into the servers. One day, an IT guy found it in the closet. “Anyone know who owns this?” “Unplug it. Someone will show up.” Everyone lost access to servers. Huge crisis. It became known as the “Load Bearing Mac Mini.”
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Wow! The largest academic strike in US History according to @BerkeleyUAW2865 #ucberkeley
Pickets with the campanile in the background

ALT Pickets with the campanile in the background

Thousands of people in front of Sproul Hall, giving remakes from the Mario Savio Steps

ALT Thousands of people in front of Sproul Hall, giving remakes from the Mario Savio Steps

Picketers in front of MLK Student Union

ALT Picketers in front of MLK Student Union

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Nearly 48,000 @UofCalifornia academic workers poised to shut down many classes, labs and research with strike on Monday @UAW2865 @sruuaw @UAW5810 latimes.com/california/story…

Nearly 48,000 UC graduate students poised to shut down many classes, labs and research with strike

Nearly 48,000 University of California graduate students -- the backbone of the esteemed higher education system who research, mentor and teach undergraduates -- are poised to strike.

latimes.com
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This 'makes sense'....but is too much. I'd make a joke about needing a PhD but clearly that's not enough.
Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky)@ShriramKMurthi12 Nov 2022
Replying to @ShriramKMurthi
Update: fixed. Copy the URL, go back to your instance, go to its search bar, paste the URL in there, and now the toot/post can be starred/reshared/bookmarked/etc. Thanks to the helpful replies.
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Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle1711 Nov 2022
Feel like I did way better this time with our @SplitTicket_ senate ratings; if Kelly and CCM hang on (still not confirmed), we'd go 34/35, missing only PA. regardless of what happens, still a lot better than my disastrous 2020 predictions! 2 more years under your belt does help.
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