Alfie Kohn
alfiekohn.bsky.social
Alfie Kohn
@alfiekohn.bsky.social

author and lecturer on topics in #education, #parenting, and human #behavior....
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Alfie Kohn is an American author and lecturer in the areas of education, parenting, and human behavior. He is a proponent of progressive education and has offered critiques of many traditional aspects of parenting, managing, and American society more generally, drawing in each case from social science research. .. more

Education 68%
Psychology 10%
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"Podcast" comes from the Latin "paudus" (meaning "to half-listen to") and "casteratum" (meaning "while preparing food"). Mine is called "KOHN'S ZONE: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom About Education & Kids." New episodes are posted on the 1st & 15th of each month: www.alfiekohn.org/podcasts/

For that matter, what's wrong with being woke? Their operating theory is that they can turn something into an epithet just by using it as one. And too often they succeed.

They might well tell the story with empathy for Gaetz.

Completely predictable, but still stunning: A key organizing principle of these people - to the point of animating lunatic conspiracy theories - has been their passionate devotion to rooting out pedophiles. Wait, hold on - the leader of our authoritarian cult is deeply involved? Never mind, then...

A phrase Kafka used to describe war comes to mind: "a monstrous failure of the imagination"

Completely predictable, but still stunning: A key organizing principle of these people - to the point of animating lunatic conspiracy theories - has been their passionate devotion to rooting out pedophiles. Hold on, the leader of our authoritarian cult is deeply involved? Never mind, then...

C'mon - next you'll be telling me that he's bringing suit against CA for gerrymandering but not TX...

C'mon - next you'll be telling me that he's having his DOJ bring suit against CA for gerrymandering but not TX...

Krugman tells you everything you need to know about crypto in a couple of sentences
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

I can talk to the dead even without AI. I'm having less success getting them to talk back, however.

Yeah, the free speech crisis they were talking about is that people who disagreed with them had it.

Short excerpts from an Atlantic article subtitled "The False Promise of AI Companionship": www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I've noted that we're in thrall to people who don’t understand the difference between utopia & dystopia, or are willing to conflate the two if there’s a fortune to be made by doing so (www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/), but now they're really viewing Black Mirror as an incubator. Jesus. Watch this:

Similarly frightening efforts by the GOP to control the content of lessons and command ideological conformity in OH, TX, FL, and elsewhere.
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com

"Of all the times I've walked into stores, you're just cherry-picking the few when I robbed them."

I'm just now coming across this 2019 quote from OpenAI's Sam Altman when asked how the company plans to make money: "We have no idea....Once we’ve built this sort of generally intelligent system, basically, we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return for [investors]."

'C'mon, mate. When I said "immigrants," you know I didn't mean people who look like me...'

Or perhaps the better contrast is between those who hate Blacks, Latinos, LGBTQ people, Muslims, women, and Jews, on the one hand, and those who just hate Blacks, Latinos, LGBTQ people, Muslims, and women, on the other hand.

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Normal person in a liberal constitutional democracy: "The state should be judicious in how it uses physical force and these actions seem like overreaches."
MAGA: "Any state actions that constrain MY behavior or the behavior of people like me is tyranny, but it can do whatever it wants to THEM."

See under: Overcompensation

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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

What exactly is the appeal of being well known? Why are we thrilled even to bask in the reflected glory of celebrities? From the archives: "Fame Is the Name of the Game: A Meditation on Why So Many People Dream of Being (or Even Just Meeting) Celebrities" - www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/fame/
Fame Is the Name of the Game
October 16, 2020 Fame Is the Name of the Game A Meditation on Why So Many People Dream of Being (or Even Just Meeting) Celebrities By Alfie Kohn “The question I get asked more than…
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Just sit with this one for a few minutes
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

How odd. The MAGA DOJ just announced that the MAGA military did nothing wrong! Who are we to believe?

I'm reminded of a headline in the Harvard Lampoon's parody of USA Today: "Chromium Is Heaviest Metal, Poll Finds"
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."

This is what Zuckerberg's Meta stands for. If you're still on Facebook (or WhatsApp or Insta), you're standing for it, too.
The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social

www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook
An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.
www.404media.co