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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
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I do love that the people who built bluesky learned nothing about running a social network beforehand and are thus committed to making all the same social network mistakes as everyone who came before them, from first principles
October 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I do love that the people who built bluesky learned nothing about running a social network beforehand and are thus committed to making all the same social network mistakes as everyone who came before them, from first principles
@hebelkins.bsky.social @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social replies are disabled in that thread, but the piece is by Emily Witt (London Review of Books): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Witt · Do you feel like a failure? In the Manosphere
The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather jacket...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
@hebelkins.bsky.social @alexanderlambrt.bsky.social replies are disabled in that thread, but the piece is by Emily Witt (London Review of Books): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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September 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Le chanteur de Clair Obscur est un anti-avortement fan du neo-nazi Charlie Kirk.
September 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Le chanteur de Clair Obscur est un anti-avortement fan du neo-nazi Charlie Kirk.
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I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Already, the US measles case count for the year is at a 33-year high.
Child dies of horrifying measles complication in Los Angeles
SSPE is a rare but always fatal disease that destroys a child’s brain.
arstechnica.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Already, the US measles case count for the year is at a 33-year high.
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rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
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The whole point of computers was to not be unpredictable unreliable black boxes. I'm going crazy every day. Everything that originally interested me in computers is being starved. I'm stuck in an industry where no one wants what I care about. My life is a mistake.
September 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The whole point of computers was to not be unpredictable unreliable black boxes. I'm going crazy every day. Everything that originally interested me in computers is being starved. I'm stuck in an industry where no one wants what I care about. My life is a mistake.
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I used to love computers. Computers reify math/logic into reality. Silicon Valley exists to chase money but at least it offered a living working on math/logic. Now not even that. Hard logic is old-fashioned. Silicon Valley is for vibe coding with $$$s in your eyes and little else.
September 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I used to love computers. Computers reify math/logic into reality. Silicon Valley exists to chase money but at least it offered a living working on math/logic. Now not even that. Hard logic is old-fashioned. Silicon Valley is for vibe coding with $$$s in your eyes and little else.
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This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.
I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.
On a recent podcast Gavin Newsom tells Shawn Ryan how the Trans sports issue opened the door for him to change his mind on GAC for Trans Youth.
As someone who adored him since 2004 and voted for him 5 times, I can't wait for him to leave office.
There is no way I will be voting for him a 6th time.
As someone who adored him since 2004 and voted for him 5 times, I can't wait for him to leave office.
There is no way I will be voting for him a 6th time.
July 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.
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The pseudonymous account Rev. Howard Arson accused Saeed Ismail of being a fake, AI-generated person. After I wrote about how Saeed is real, Arson is now creating AI videos of Saeed and his blanket. I don’t know Arson’s goal with all of this, but it strikes me as incredibly cruel.
![rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social: [AI-generated image of a man with glasses draped in a blanket alongside some kind of green mannequin head]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreictcrnzuy7w6vkn5jin5r2ccfeww237ywpnh22tqob6uxmfvfzyp4@jpeg)
July 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The pseudonymous account Rev. Howard Arson accused Saeed Ismail of being a fake, AI-generated person. After I wrote about how Saeed is real, Arson is now creating AI videos of Saeed and his blanket. I don’t know Arson’s goal with all of this, but it strikes me as incredibly cruel.
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everyone should do this, the guy running it currently is a full on fraud, ppl you like and haven't seen in a bit are probably missing from your feed because he put them on his lists to settle a personal score
Oookaaay unfollowed Sky Sentry and unsubscribed to his lists for acting in bad faith. I have my own lists anyway, and I have Skywatch Blue's labeler to notify me of the nature of certain accounts.
July 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
everyone should do this, the guy running it currently is a full on fraud, ppl you like and haven't seen in a bit are probably missing from your feed because he put them on his lists to settle a personal score
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.
June 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.
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vance has the absolute worst case of "i am the smartest person in every room" syndrome i have ever seen.
June 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
vance has the absolute worst case of "i am the smartest person in every room" syndrome i have ever seen.
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the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable
Vance: I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents
June 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable
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If you missed it yesterday, I wrote about a terrible idea I had that makes terrible sense of a certain terrible type of guy: defector.com/toward-a-the...
Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector
“You can’t be a serious critic,” New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose wrote on Tuesday, on Bluesky, about artificial intelligence, “if you’re in denial about how useful it is.” Narrowly, in ...
defector.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If you missed it yesterday, I wrote about a terrible idea I had that makes terrible sense of a certain terrible type of guy: defector.com/toward-a-the...
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I don't need to hear another word from anyone defending the NYT ever again and I have to assume the talented reporters and writers employed there will understand.
This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.
This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.
"pro-vaccine groups"
NYT editors are the fucking enemy
NYT editors are the fucking enemy
June 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I don't need to hear another word from anyone defending the NYT ever again and I have to assume the talented reporters and writers employed there will understand.
This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.
This is Jenny McCarthy shit. Shameful and pathetic. Both sidesing scientists vs the stupidest people on earth. National Enquirer shit.
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Remember in the Bluesky Dying discourse:
they had the regulars WAVING HANDFULS OF CASH AT THEM and BEGGING THEM TO SET UP MEMBERSHIPS
... until Jesse Singal came along and they chose to protect him specially instead.
so yeah fuck 'em lol
they had the regulars WAVING HANDFULS OF CASH AT THEM and BEGGING THEM TO SET UP MEMBERSHIPS
... until Jesse Singal came along and they chose to protect him specially instead.
so yeah fuck 'em lol
May 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Remember in the Bluesky Dying discourse:
they had the regulars WAVING HANDFULS OF CASH AT THEM and BEGGING THEM TO SET UP MEMBERSHIPS
... until Jesse Singal came along and they chose to protect him specially instead.
so yeah fuck 'em lol
they had the regulars WAVING HANDFULS OF CASH AT THEM and BEGGING THEM TO SET UP MEMBERSHIPS
... until Jesse Singal came along and they chose to protect him specially instead.
so yeah fuck 'em lol