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read Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. The book critiques sound-bite information, which is the entire premise of Twitter and Bluesky. Summarizing the book is antithetical to the book’s argument. You need to read the whole book!
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"This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t."
haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
October 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t."
haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
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Hey, I wrote a book.
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
August 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Hey, I wrote a book.
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
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Because conservative freakouts since 2017 have completely warped the media landscape, I want to compile a thread of some contemporary instances of fascist violence against antifascists that were hugely influential on everyone I know 🧵
October 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Because conservative freakouts since 2017 have completely warped the media landscape, I want to compile a thread of some contemporary instances of fascist violence against antifascists that were hugely influential on everyone I know 🧵
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Say it often, say it loud:
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education
Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...
nepc.colorado.edu
September 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Say it often, say it loud:
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
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a detail that appears with fairly regular occurrence in many personal accounts of the Nazi regime is how many individuals died from stroke, heart attacks, and similar health complications because of the stress and despondency that was inflicted on those whose lives were ruined by the regime.
NEW: Recently we reported on L.A. honor student and track star Nory Sontay Ramos and her mom Estela, deported after a routine immigration check-in. Weeks after we met them in Guatemala, where they were in hiding, Estela died suddenly. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
The death of Estela Ramos Baten
Nory Sontay Ramos and her mother Estela were deported after a routine check-in. Two months later, Estela was buried with Guatemalan and U.S. flags draped over her coffin.
www.msnbc.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
a detail that appears with fairly regular occurrence in many personal accounts of the Nazi regime is how many individuals died from stroke, heart attacks, and similar health complications because of the stress and despondency that was inflicted on those whose lives were ruined by the regime.
Not to tell you what to do, but “truly living” is subjective. What may be truly living for you may not be truly living for someone else. Especially if that someone else is allergic to red meat and gluten. I truly live by not eating junk.
-30 minutes less of "healthy life"
+2-5 minutes of truly living
Worth it
+2-5 minutes of truly living
Worth it
August 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Not to tell you what to do, but “truly living” is subjective. What may be truly living for you may not be truly living for someone else. Especially if that someone else is allergic to red meat and gluten. I truly live by not eating junk.
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A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable
A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality
archaeologymag.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
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Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘
April 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘
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Some thoughts on Capitalism, from the book;
THE ULTIMATE
HIDDEN TRUTH
OF THE WORLD (page 104)
THE ULTIMATE
HIDDEN TRUTH
OF THE WORLD (page 104)
March 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Some thoughts on Capitalism, from the book;
THE ULTIMATE
HIDDEN TRUTH
OF THE WORLD (page 104)
THE ULTIMATE
HIDDEN TRUTH
OF THE WORLD (page 104)
I’m selling this Boba Fett style jacket made by Columbia Sportwear. It’s totally unused. The tag is still on. I got it for $450 in 2022. I’d like $500 for it. Thank you.
December 29, 2024 at 5:53 AM
I’m selling this Boba Fett style jacket made by Columbia Sportwear. It’s totally unused. The tag is still on. I got it for $450 in 2022. I’d like $500 for it. Thank you.
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You know, I used to teach criminology and I would show this 46 minute video to my students in every intro to CJ class www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o...
Yours here is much more succinct
Yours here is much more succinct
Don't Talk to the Police
YouTube video by Regent University School of Law
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2024 at 1:15 AM
You know, I used to teach criminology and I would show this 46 minute video to my students in every intro to CJ class www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o...
Yours here is much more succinct
Yours here is much more succinct
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i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
November 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
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November 26, 2024 at 6:40 AM