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Nate O
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An ‘academic’ per Daily Mail ✡️ 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him)
Hahahaha ah yeah--duh!--I completely missed what you were saying at first!
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Wait, that hasn't happened to you before? Navigating through a physical space in one direction (say, by car or train, North to South), and travelling through it by other means (East to West, walking or on a bike), then suddenly the two different mental maps slam together into one?
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This is like the experience of learning two conceptually distinct geographic domains are in fact isomorphic with one another, you've just been always travelling through the space in two different directions. Wow, the fuckin' bean
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Wait *vantablack* Anish Kapoor also made the bean?!

What?

What?
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Reposted by Nate O
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
I was getting Pontypool Changes Everything vibes but absolutely, hard agree
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Concepts untethered! Congratulations, the chatbot made you sound like you have word aphasia, and now you’ve become another vector in the dissemination of the language/concept virus!
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM