James Anwyl
@jmanwyl.bsky.social
we can solve all the problems, can't we
sincerely curious, still
sincerely curious, still
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I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.
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Since becoming a father, Oliver Jeffers has felt a need to write and illustrate stories that truly make a difference.
Oliver Jeffers: 'I want to be able to look my kids in the eye and say that I tried'
www.bigissue.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Since becoming a father, Oliver Jeffers has felt a need to write and illustrate stories that truly make a difference.
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My new essay on AI (www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/) includes quotes from, or links to, writings by @emilymbender.bsky.social, @palan57.bsky.social, @stopgenai.com, @ddmeyer.bsky.social, @zachczaia.bsky.social, @lutzfernandez.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social, @garymarcus.bsky.social ....
My new essay on AI (www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/) includes quotes from, or links to, writings by @emilymbender.bsky.social, @palan57.bsky.social, @stopgenai.com, @ddmeyer.bsky.social, @zachczaia.bsky.social, @lutzfernandez.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social, @garymarcus.bsky.social ....
The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym
EDUCATION WEEK September 22, 2025 The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym By Alfie Kohn [This is a significantly expanded version of the published article, which was given a different ti...
www.alfiekohn.org
September 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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My new essay on AI (www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/) includes quotes from, or links to, writings by @emilymbender.bsky.social, @palan57.bsky.social, @stopgenai.com, @ddmeyer.bsky.social, @zachczaia.bsky.social, @lutzfernandez.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social, @garymarcus.bsky.social ....
My new essay on AI (www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/) includes quotes from, or links to, writings by @emilymbender.bsky.social, @palan57.bsky.social, @stopgenai.com, @ddmeyer.bsky.social, @zachczaia.bsky.social, @lutzfernandez.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social, @garymarcus.bsky.social ....
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Why do we persist in romanticizing failure, particularly where students are concerned? A look at the ideology behind this tendency - and how it's contradicted by research - in the latest episode of Kohn's Zone: "The Failure of Failure." (All episodes are available here: www.alfiekohn.org/podcasts/)
Podcast
The Work Of Alfie Kohn
www.alfiekohn.org
September 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Why do we persist in romanticizing failure, particularly where students are concerned? A look at the ideology behind this tendency - and how it's contradicted by research - in the latest episode of Kohn's Zone: "The Failure of Failure." (All episodes are available here: www.alfiekohn.org/podcasts/)
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Blumenthal to Patel: "I'm not going to mince words -- you lied to us."
September 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Blumenthal to Patel: "I'm not going to mince words -- you lied to us."
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This seems a simple and sensible approach to saving Meanjin:
An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin
An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin
openletter.earth
September 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This seems a simple and sensible approach to saving Meanjin:
An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin
An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin
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It wasn’t about the money
It’s ludicrous and insulting to suggest that the richest university in Australia can’t afford the two part-time wages to run Meanjin.
Also: did they even try to save it? Donation drive? Philanthropic efforts? Offering it to another institution?
No.
The university council shut it down intentionally.
Also: did they even try to save it? Donation drive? Philanthropic efforts? Offering it to another institution?
No.
The university council shut it down intentionally.
Exclusive: Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, Meanjin, is being shut down today for "financial" reasons, Crikey can reveal.
September 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
It wasn’t about the money
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A new episode of my podcast (Kohn's Zone) just dropped: "Confusing Harder with Better."
Why do corporate school reformers fetishize "rigor"? Why do we assume that AP classes are the best classes in a high school? Why have kindergartens come to resemble bad first-grades?
Listen here: is.gd/JiaK2w
Why do corporate school reformers fetishize "rigor"? Why do we assume that AP classes are the best classes in a high school? Why have kindergartens come to resemble bad first-grades?
Listen here: is.gd/JiaK2w
August 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
A new episode of my podcast (Kohn's Zone) just dropped: "Confusing Harder with Better."
Why do corporate school reformers fetishize "rigor"? Why do we assume that AP classes are the best classes in a high school? Why have kindergartens come to resemble bad first-grades?
Listen here: is.gd/JiaK2w
Why do corporate school reformers fetishize "rigor"? Why do we assume that AP classes are the best classes in a high school? Why have kindergartens come to resemble bad first-grades?
Listen here: is.gd/JiaK2w
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Authoritarians weaponize stupidity to undermine trust in expertise, institutions responsible for safeguarding and dispersing knowledge, and consensus reality, because doing so makes people more dependent on the authoritarian leader or party as the sole arbiters of “truth.”
August 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Authoritarians weaponize stupidity to undermine trust in expertise, institutions responsible for safeguarding and dispersing knowledge, and consensus reality, because doing so makes people more dependent on the authoritarian leader or party as the sole arbiters of “truth.”
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This is the only thing you need to read about AI
The part about being too emotional and putting words in people’s mouths ESPECIALLY
The part about being too emotional and putting words in people’s mouths ESPECIALLY
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
www.colincornaby.me
August 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
This is the only thing you need to read about AI
The part about being too emotional and putting words in people’s mouths ESPECIALLY
The part about being too emotional and putting words in people’s mouths ESPECIALLY
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When you see news stories day after day about Israel's deliberate policy of creating mass starvation & shooting desperate civilians, please realize this can't be blamed exclusively on a handful of monsters in charge.
(Sources for the figures below: is.gd/hrAf4T & is.gd/TMTHTx)
(Sources for the figures below: is.gd/hrAf4T & is.gd/TMTHTx)
![Around 2/3 of the [Israeli] public think that when planning military operations, Israel should not take into account, or should only take into account to a smalll extent, the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5lyrol4fdf5k3p4owzb5vfs5/bafkreibxwwyoh2i3deiyaj362hwfazpgbwfiwq4co7vyuzywrjjf4elmpq@jpeg)
July 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
When you see news stories day after day about Israel's deliberate policy of creating mass starvation & shooting desperate civilians, please realize this can't be blamed exclusively on a handful of monsters in charge.
(Sources for the figures below: is.gd/hrAf4T & is.gd/TMTHTx)
(Sources for the figures below: is.gd/hrAf4T & is.gd/TMTHTx)
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It's not just a protester's slogan: A Jewish Holocaust scholar (who served in the Israeli army) explains that "Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza." It's not a war or even just ethnic cleansing: It is genocide; Israel is "beyond the pale of humanity": is.gd/26p4ud
![[Guardian headline] Gaza is 'hell on earth' with doctors fainting from hunger, UN says, as 1,000 people estimated to have been killed seeking food](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5lyrol4fdf5k3p4owzb5vfs5/bafkreidsmrxf5nuugktipwgkxw4e24hrty5s36vj7bskhyqvpcx6ksaj4m@jpeg)
July 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It's not just a protester's slogan: A Jewish Holocaust scholar (who served in the Israeli army) explains that "Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza." It's not a war or even just ethnic cleansing: It is genocide; Israel is "beyond the pale of humanity": is.gd/26p4ud
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Shocking satellite imagery of the total destruction of the town of Khuza'a, southern Gaza, by the Israeli army over the last few months.
July 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Shocking satellite imagery of the total destruction of the town of Khuza'a, southern Gaza, by the Israeli army over the last few months.
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Happy to point out that @albomp.bsky.social deciding to release the highly contentious special envoy's report - a report he has known about for many months - just before he departs for a large, publicity sucking tour of China, is in fact, not a coincidence.
#duckandrun #pfffft
#duckandrun #pfffft
July 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Happy to point out that @albomp.bsky.social deciding to release the highly contentious special envoy's report - a report he has known about for many months - just before he departs for a large, publicity sucking tour of China, is in fact, not a coincidence.
#duckandrun #pfffft
#duckandrun #pfffft
Helping Ahmed Nashwan and his family chuffed.org/project/1325...
Helping Ahmed Nashwan and his family
This is Julia, I have set up this campaign for Ahmed Nashwan. His story in his own words is below.My name is Ahmed Nashwan. I am a 29 year old accountant who has lost everything in the Gaza massacre. ...
chuffed.org
July 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Helping Ahmed Nashwan and his family chuffed.org/project/1325...
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one of the most effective and highly bought corporate propaganda campaigns ever was convincing individual people that turning off the lights and recycling were the solutions to climate change and not dismantling corporate polluters brick by brick and demanding policy and regulation
July 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
one of the most effective and highly bought corporate propaganda campaigns ever was convincing individual people that turning off the lights and recycling were the solutions to climate change and not dismantling corporate polluters brick by brick and demanding policy and regulation
relative perspective
July 16, 2025 at 6:26 AM
relative perspective
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Among the many people Israel slaughtered today, these two families were nearly wiped out. I documented them for you to witness.
July 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Among the many people Israel slaughtered today, these two families were nearly wiped out. I documented them for you to witness.
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Countries all over the world are looking at Iran and thinking.
"I need to build a nuclear bomb."
Well done.
🙃
"I need to build a nuclear bomb."
Well done.
🙃
June 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Countries all over the world are looking at Iran and thinking.
"I need to build a nuclear bomb."
Well done.
🙃
"I need to build a nuclear bomb."
Well done.
🙃
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The 2022-23 tax stats just dropped. And there we have it:
91 millionaires who paid ZERO tax
91 millionaires who paid ZERO tax
June 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The 2022-23 tax stats just dropped. And there we have it:
91 millionaires who paid ZERO tax
91 millionaires who paid ZERO tax
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For those tired of the Neo-Liberal lies about debt and the economy from the media, Steve Keen will speak with Hannah Appel and Michael Hudson about Debt, Empire and the Economy.
30th June.
30th June.
June 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
For those tired of the Neo-Liberal lies about debt and the economy from the media, Steve Keen will speak with Hannah Appel and Michael Hudson about Debt, Empire and the Economy.
30th June.
30th June.
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Elon Musk's huge popularity over the years is a great reminder of an often forgotten truth: nerds are exactly as dumb and gullible as everyone else.
May 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Elon Musk's huge popularity over the years is a great reminder of an often forgotten truth: nerds are exactly as dumb and gullible as everyone else.
attn: israel stenographers & media 'both siders' that enabled israel to commit vile atrocities against Palestinians with impunity
IF JUSTICE DOES NOT FIND YOU FIRST
May the guilt eat at you,
excuses of 'editorial censorship' fail you
& your conscience gnaw voraciously upon your future, forever.
IF JUSTICE DOES NOT FIND YOU FIRST
May the guilt eat at you,
excuses of 'editorial censorship' fail you
& your conscience gnaw voraciously upon your future, forever.
May 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
attn: israel stenographers & media 'both siders' that enabled israel to commit vile atrocities against Palestinians with impunity
IF JUSTICE DOES NOT FIND YOU FIRST
May the guilt eat at you,
excuses of 'editorial censorship' fail you
& your conscience gnaw voraciously upon your future, forever.
IF JUSTICE DOES NOT FIND YOU FIRST
May the guilt eat at you,
excuses of 'editorial censorship' fail you
& your conscience gnaw voraciously upon your future, forever.
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Voters weren't sick of hearing about Gaza — legacy media journalists seem tired of talking about it.
~ Tom Tanuki @tomtanuki.bsky.social
Greens hammered by legacy media spin on Gaza
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
~ Tom Tanuki @tomtanuki.bsky.social
Greens hammered by legacy media spin on Gaza
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Greens hammered by legacy media spin on Gaza
Voters weren't sick of hearing about Gaza — legacy media journalists seem tired of talking about it.
independentaustralia.net
May 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Voters weren't sick of hearing about Gaza — legacy media journalists seem tired of talking about it.
~ Tom Tanuki @tomtanuki.bsky.social
Greens hammered by legacy media spin on Gaza
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
~ Tom Tanuki @tomtanuki.bsky.social
Greens hammered by legacy media spin on Gaza
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...