Jeanne's Journal

05/27/2025

Fun in VT celebrating Leon’s 70th marathon on his 70th in his 50th state!

04/21/2025

BILLIONAIRE COVER ORGANIZATIONS are funding the Free State Project and Liberty Alliance to move more libertarians here to take over the state. The NH Liberty Forum starts Friday. See some of the scheduled talks below:

03/30/2025

Group of wealthy Americans includes member of the Disney family, founder of Seventh Generation, heir to the Rockefeller family and more

03/27/2025

Can we fight the libertarian oligarchy instead of each other?

02/28/2025

MUSK & SUPERHUMAN AI; plus how to fight misinformation, protect your pocketbook, and help avert a likely grid shutdown.

02/19/2025

THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER SEEN anyone accurately report how the libertarian billionaires in Silicon Valley think about humankind:

Some unusual techie ideas about the human future are raising questions in the GOP coalition.

02/16/2025

WHAT HAPPENS IF THE PRESIDENT DEFIES THE COURTS? Two legal scholars detail the sequence of escalating responses that could result. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/opinion/what-if-trump-defies-courts.html

How the escalating measures available to courts would work.

02/09/2025

As of 2:43 Sunday, the bill to cut arts, engineering, civics, computer literacy and other subjects from school requirements has received: Support: 51 | Oppose: 26058 | Neutral: 6

HB 283 would cut SKILLS MOST CRUCIAL AS AI TAKES OVER MANY JOBS

IMPORTANCE OF THE ARTS
TURNING IDEAS INTO REALITY: How does an art major end up as CEO of an intelligent robotics company? My art training taught me how to turn ideas into tangible reality. This will be one of the most crucial skills in a world where people will manage multitudes of AI bots to do their calculations, model their concepts, and spew out cost-benefit scenarios. It is peoples' ideas and values that will decide when they have enough information and what to do as a consequence.

FIGHTING LONELINESS & ALIENATION According to NH DHHS, 40% of NH students reported that they had persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in 2023. Four in 10! (Loneliness and alienation are typically prime motivators of school shooters.) School plays, music groups, and other arts help.

IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL FINANCES
Students need to understand the impact of choosing monthly payments instead of paying off a credit card bill. This can make the difference between someone who can take care of their family, as an adult, and someone who relies on TANF. And the most important reason for the breakup of families is financial difficulties. How can the state say that they have educated a student without having taught them to handle personal finances?

IMPORTANCE OF ENGINEERING
How many know what is taught in the Engineering department? It's where students learn quality control, 3D design and laser printing. NH Business and Economic Affairs says the state will have a workforce shortage in quality control. 3D design is the basis for almost all manufacturing. It models parts from the crowns on your teeth to microcatheters manufactured in NH for heart surgery.

IMPORTANCE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & DIGITAL LITERACY
The name of this requirement might be changed to digital media and AI literacy. However, anyone who does not understand how TikTok affects their mental ability to concentrate, or how AI can be an incredible tool for you to use, but also a tool others can use to use you, is not prepared to thrive in this world.

IMPORTANCE OF WORLD LANGUAGES & CULTURES
Our youth will compete in a multi-lingual, multicultural world. NH Business and Economic Affairs says that general and operations management will be the state's greatest workforce need in the coming years.22 These are jobs that require people and communication, as well as financial and logistics skills. And AI will be handling most of the finance and logistics. So, while our students will be able to get an instant translation of what people say, they will not understand what those words mean without an understanding of world cultures and language in context.

IN SUMMARY
Youth today will have powers at their fingertips to calculate, research, analyze, and model options for action that could massively improve our state's economy and their personal wellbeing. We would be doing them an incredible disservice to strip away programs crucial to their futures.

02/05/2025

KANSAS REPUBLICAN SAYS 100s OF MILLIONS IN FOOD AID is rotting on the docks due to Musk closing US AID. (The Lever claims it's because US AID investigated StarLink equipment in Ukraine for s*x trafficking.)

Billionaire businessman Elon Musk is on a collision course with lawmakers on Capitol Hill who are starting to challenge his authority. Senate Republicans acknowledge they need to cut government spe…

02/04/2025

U.S. lawmakers join the "Nobody Elected Elon" rally outside the U.S. Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., to protest the actions of the Trump administratio...

02/04/2025

https://www.youtube.com/live/_ZsEhTmXP5M?feature=shared

U.S. lawmakers join the "Nobody Elected Elon" rally outside the U.S. Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., to protest the actions of the Trump administratio...

01/30/2025