Think adding extra #mortgage payments scales linearly? Think again. • 1 extra payment/yr = 6 years saved • 2 extra payments/yr = 9.5 years saved • 3 extra payments/yr = 12 years saved #CompoundInterest math is a curve, not a straight line! 🏠📊

Asked @Copilot to make a word doc tutorial from 8 slides in a PPT. Took a while and it did not put equations in proper format. All products involved are @Microsoft. What the heck?

Florida’s tax system is the most regressive in the country.

Entertainment for rich on backs of low-income residents has to stop!

Time for the richest homes to finally pay their fair share and balance the scales.

floridapolicy.org/posts/floridas…

@HillsboroughFL @JoshuaWostal

Amendment 3 passes. The low assessed house and long term residents will get a break. Fear mongers will say you will pay more via increased millage. Even then they will save as the taxes will appropriately shift to wealthier homes. The local sales tax scam has to stop.

Amendment 3 in FL passes. Hope it gives pause to @HillsboroughFL commissioners to not spend precious taxpayer money on Bucs stadium renovations. The $500M canopy for inebriated fans is ridiculous. It is not needed to get #superBowl to town as it is held on a February evening

Thinking about PhD? Do your HW on job prospects - perpetual adjuncting & postdocing are not careers.

Don't fall for clichés: "it's a calling"; "money doesn’t matter".

R1 professors are measured by 3 archaic metrics: grant money, citations, and PhDs. Students fuel all three.

Remember amendment 3 YES will still save you money if you live in a low “just assessed” value home even if they increase the millage to have same revenue as last year. No one is pointing that out, and the fear mongering is winning.

Stop leaving your academic career to chance.

"Stop Working Toward Tenure, Start Engineering It"

blog.autarkaw.com/2026/05/06/sto…

#HigherEd #Academia #TenureTrack #Research #AcademicLife

Maine banned cell phones in class. It is working. Helicopter parents will be upset now. What if there is an emergency, they say - there are more qualified people in the school to handle the emergency.

apnews.com/article/maine-…

We have not even broken ground on the corporate welfare funded Rays stadium and HCC is not getting temporary facilities for teaching their students. So when you proclaim about promises will be kept, it is all a piece of worthless paper. cltampa.com/news/promises-… @HillsboroughFL

In 1980, voters approved increasing the Homestead Exemption from $5,000 to $25,000; In 2008, from $25,000 to $50,000.
Did we become any less safe? What services were cut?
Amendment 3 - Vote YES!
$367M less for @HillsboroughFL; increase millage; $2.36B to Bucs & Rays??????

The bills are coming due at the expense of humans, water, electricity, climate change, … Hope the balance presents itself sooner than later.
apnews.com/article/micros…

Assessment is for learning as well as for providing a grade. Have no guardrails such as unproctored tests and/or unfettered technology use, and both suffer. Accreditation is the last straw left for higher ed - let’s not play fire 🔥 with that.

Which AP classes matter most in admission. insidehighered.com/news/admission…

The results are not statically ckear but my opinion is to go for the Calculus BC for sure. Others found are psychology, biology, chemistry, English language, and statistics

If you are teaching regression, please start with y=ax model, and not the y=a+bx model. The cognitive load reduction is huge.

nm.mathforcollege.com/NumericalMetho…

With machine learning becoming critical, using it to teach gradient descent also becomes beautiful.

Elon is giving one #spacex stock to every kid. finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks…
What a treasure trove of data of 72 million kids, data which is not as accessible as that of adults. That is worth more than $150.

Don’t listen to naysayers on #Amendment3FL. The median home in FL costs 400K. So we are still going to be paying non school property taxes. They can always increase the millage for the shortfall. Give low middle class people and long term residents a break, please.

Customer service pro-tip for getting results:
Get the CSR’s name & reference # immediately
Email yourself timestamps + detailed notes after call
Send summary email to support to lock in record
Still stuck? Send Certified Mail (Return Receipt)
Paper trails change everything. 📝💡

Returning items to @amazon is a trap:
Get refund confirmation
They claim they never got it
Call support; they confirm the refund
Get charged AGAIN anyway
Call support again; they promise a credit
Weeks pass, radio silence
Off to file a credit card dispute
@FTC @WiltonSimpson

Moved this as CC dispute and they want to dispute that the charge is correct. Called again today and they said, they will credit the CC. Keeping fingers crossed. Always saying that they had a glitch. Will reply their dispute email as well with proof of return! @amazon

Did you get this mailer in @HillsboroughFL. This is about #referendum2 and there is no language about term limits in the referendum. I wish there was - we could stop the stadium frenzy. Go figure out the truth.