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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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More true every day
Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
February 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
An important point to keep in mind.
February 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Lmfao
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Feb 15
If only someone had warned them
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February 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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alicemerry.bsky.social
I volunteer at a food bank. We are already at record numbers of families needing assistance. I don’t know if we’ll be able to keep up if SNAP and WIC benefits are reduced.
November 18, 2024 at 7:26 PM