Code-less Game Design Workshop: Game Development Course using Construct 2 & 3. by Stephen Gose is the featured course 🎓 on Leanpub!

Link: https://leanpub.com/courses/leanpub/cgc-design-workshop

#computer_programming #ecommerce #game_development #programming_cookbooks #event_driven_architecture #presentations #project_management #games #computer_science #education

I guess someone has to be first. #Trump is helping them achieve their Texas Gov Abbott right-wing agenda.

"Corpus Christi, Texas could soon completely out of water in the next year. It’s the eighth largest city in Texas, and a major industrial node in the Gulf Coast."

#ClimateDenial #ClimateChange #Environment #Eco-Disaster #News #Science #Education #USA #MAGA #Democrats #Texas #Water #Drought

https://futurism.com/science-energy/texas-water-crisis-climate?

Strategic silence is a skill.

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https://eduhacking.com/100-youtube-channels-your-students-will-actually-love/
#Teaching #Education #TeacherLife

Signage featuring anthropomorphic talking fast food instructing us all on how to stop sexually assaulting each other...

I don't know if displaying this at a city college is more depressing than the notion that it might actually be helpful/necessary.

#education
#marketing
#OhGodWereAllGoingToDie

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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# 311 contd

Exposure to #glyphosate damages #bumblebees' fine-color discrimination.
Small disturbances in color vision can be disastrous for foraging success as #bees try to distinguish between visually similar flower types.
#nature #insects
#science #biodiversity
#education #environment
#wildlife #worldbeesanctuary

Il Tempo: Cortei e violenze, Valditara: "Chi minaccia i politici rappresenta la vera deriva fascista"

"Non c'è differenza fra coloro che oggi si esaltano minacciando ministri e politici di 'destra' e chi cento anni fa minacciava i politici antifascisti: sono  parenti stretti, anche se di opposto colore politico. La vera deriva "fascista' e antidemocratica oggi è rappresentata da costoro, da chi li sostiene, li vezzeggia e li giustifica. Una cosa è certa: non hanno alcun titolo per celebrare il 25 aprile". Lo scrive sui social il ministro dell'Istruzione Giuseppe Valditara dopo che una sua fotografia è stata appesa a testa in giù a Napoli al corteo per l'anniversario della Liberazione. "Condanno con forza gli insulti e le parole agghiaccianti rivolti alla Brigata Ebraica e ad altri esponenti nel corso del corteo per il 25 Aprile a Milano e i gravi episodi accaduti oggi nel corso delle manifestazioni: un atteggiamento di stampo totalitario, in aperto contrasto con i valori di questa giornata. Ai componenti della Brigata ebraica, agli iscritti Anpi feriti e a tutti coloro che sono stati violentemente attaccati, offesi ed esclusi, rivolgo la mia solidarietà", interviene il presidente della Camera dei deputati Lorenzo Fontana.
"Abrasione alla cornea: questo è quanto attestato dal personale del pronto soccorso oftalmico di Roma. Una lesione causata dallo spray urticante che ci è stato spruzzato questa mattina durante il corteo del 25 aprile da parte di militanti di Cambiare Rotta che ci hanno strappato la bandiera dell'Ucraina. È necessario dirlo con chiarezza: sono i gruppi violenti di estrema sinistra a tradire lo spirito di questa giornata", dichiara Matteo Hallissey, presidente di +Europa e Radicali Italiani. "Il 25 aprile appartiene a chi difende la libertà, non a chi la nega con la violenza".

Floats and violence, Valditara: "Those who threaten politicians represent the real fascist drift."

There is no difference between those who today exult by threatening ministers and right-wing politicians with “fascist” terms, and those who a hundred years ago threatened antifascist politicians: they are close relatives, even if of opposite political colors. The real “fascist” and anti-democratic drift today is represented by them, by those who support them, flatter them, and justify them. One thing is certain: they have no title to celebrate April 25th. This was written on social media by Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara after a photograph of his was hung upside down in Naples during the parade for the anniversary of Liberation. “I strongly condemn the insults and chilling words directed at the Jewish Brigade and other figures during the April 25th parade in Milan and the serious episodes that occurred today during the demonstrations: a totalitarian-style attitude, in open contrast with the values of this day. I extend my solidarity to the members of the Jewish Brigade, to the Anpi members injured and to all those who were violently attacked, insulted, and excluded,” intervenes the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Lorenzo Fontana. “Corneal abrasion: this is what attested by the staff of the ophthalmic emergency department in Rome. An injury caused by stinging spray that was sprayed at us this morning during the April 25th parade by members of Cambiare Rotta who tore our Ukrainian flag from us. It is necessary to say this clearly: it is the violent groups of extreme left who betray the spirit of this day,” states Matteo Hallissey, President of +Europe and Radicali Italiani. “April 25th belongs to those who defend freedom, not to those who deny it with violence.”

#Valditara #Education #GiuseppeValditara #Naples #theJewishBrigade #Milan #LorenzoFontana #CambiareRotta #Ukrainian #MatteoHallissey #+Europe #RadicaliItaliani

https://www.iltempo.it/attualita/2026/04/25/news/cortei-e-violenze-valditara-chi-minaccia-i-politici-rappresenta-la-vera-deriva-fascista--47435072/

Hampshire College; Build-Your-Own-Brain, System Not Included

Liberal arts get treated like a luxury now—as if learning how to think is an optional add-on instead of the foundation. Places like Hampshire were never built to feed pipelines but were built to interrupt them. Build-your-own-brain, anti-system, question-everything energy. And right now, that kind of education doesn’t just get ignored but gets quietly starved because the system isn’t collapsing loudly but narrowing.

We’re pumping out business majors, optimizing tech tracks, smoothing everything into something legible to employers. And anything that resists that—anything slower, messier, more human—starts losing oxygen. That is how institutions disappear now. Not with a press conference or even with outrage but just a phone call.

A friend calling, voice already breaking: “Check your email.” And suddenly something that shaped decades of thinking is just… ending.

Hampshire College was founded in 1965 in Amherst, part of the Five College ecosystem that reimagined what higher education could be. It didn’t just teach subjects but taught students how to construct knowledge itself. For years, it stood as a kind of intellectual counterweight to standardization. But systems like that are fragile in ways people don’t want to admit.

After years of financial strain, things started to unravel. The 2019 decision not to admit a full incoming class disrupted the enrollment pipeline. By 2025–2026, enrollment had dropped to around 750 students—far below what the model needed to sustain itself. Fixed costs didn’t shrink with it. Debt climbed past $20 million. Annual deficits hovered around $3.7 million.

Fundraising brought in about $55 million overtime that sounds massive until you realize it was trying to patch something structural, not temporary and structural problems don’t respond to one-time fixes. So the announcement came: the college would close at the end of Fall 2026.

Not a dramatic collapse or a scandal and that’s the part that hits hardest where a system increasingly rewards efficiency over exploration, certainty over curiosity.

Hampshire just stopped fitting into what higher education is becoming. Accreditation pressure from NECHE added another layer: prove long-term viability, or risk losing legitimacy in the higher education ecosystem. That requirement is not just administrative functions like a countdown clock. Institutions don’t just need to survive; they need to demonstrate that survival is mathematically credible.

Higher-ed analysts sometimes describe this as a structural enrollment failure. And once that pipeline breaks, recovery stops being linear. It becomes exponential in difficulty: fewer students lead to fewer resources, which leads to fewer students, to further constraint.

What remains isn’t just a campus but an academic ghost space. Dust settled where conversations used to stretch late into the night. Doors closing where people once figured out who they were. Spaces that held energy now sit behind logistics, timelines, and liability notices.

Hampshire isn’t some random outlier but part of a wave. Across the U.S., the Council of Independent Colleges has tracked dozens of closures and mergers since 2020, with more than 18 schools closing in just a two-year window. Many were small private liberal arts colleges founded in the 19th century — institutions built in a different America, now colliding with a different economy.

The pattern is consistent declining birth rates (fewer college-age students entering the system) rising tuition dependency pandemic-era enrollment shocks and long-term financial fragility in small private colleges.

Researchers call it a demographic enrollment cliff, a slow disappearance. All these colleges don’t come back and it didn’t happen all at once, even if it feels that way in hindsight.

When people talk about college closures, it’s usually abstract — numbers, trends, policy talk. But a place loses its center.

Take Wells College (founded 1868, closed 2024).
Perched on Cayuga Lake. Students filled cafés, alumni came back for weekends, locals used campus spaces like extensions of their own homes. When it shut down, it didn’t just erase jobs but hollowed out the student housing economy, weekend cultural life, and that quiet “college-town gravity” that keeps small places alive.

Or Cazenovia College (founded 1824, closed 2023) where students transferred there after other closures. Same pattern: admissions letters one year, shutdown notices the next.

Hampshire College (founded 1965, closing 2026) built on an entirely different philosophy: self-directed learning, interdisciplinary thinking, education as exploration rather than credentialing.

The break starts earlier. On paper, it looked like a pause but in practice, it is a disruption to the entire enrollment pipeline that colleges depend on like circulation. Once that flow thins, everything downstream starts to wobble and stability becomes fragile.

The morning Hampshire College stopped being a college and didn’t arrive like a breaking news alert already in motion before anyone had language for it. A quieter email thread as a faculty meeting that ended ten minutes early and nobody celebrated. A landlord text sent were testing what grief looked like in rent cycles: “unit may be available earlier than expected.”

By noon, the story had sharpened into something people could repeat without fully absorbing it: closure and not restructuring.

Roughly 250 staff and faculty jobs suspended in a sentence learns how to say, “you are now outside the system you held together” and still believe collapse can be administered gently.

Hampshire College, a tax-exempt land, the buildings generated activity, noise, emergencies, leases, and turnover. Inside Amherst double accounting: service demanded in full; tax return discounted at the door.

And Hampshire, in its quiet exit, was removing itself from that equation but nothing in Amherst leaves cleanly. Fewer students mean less immediate pressure on housing competition for leases heat in the summer rental cycle that turns every June into an informal auction and something else starts to shift underneath that relief.

And Amherst, held together by institutions that are bigger than it is, is left doing what it always does in moments like this: Counting what remains as just different phases of the same adjustment curve.

In a town already stretched by limited housing supply, rising infrastructure costs, and a constrained tax base, even small changes in demand matters and shifts in pressure. This is how institutional collapse is actually experienced at the town level: the disappearance as a rebalancing act.

The real question is what Amherst chooses to do with the space Hampshire College leaves behind because closure is not the end of the story but the redistribution point.