It is critical thinking that really worries them, and almost by definition you cannot 'indoctrinate' students to think critically. The fact that they think education equates to indoctrination says more about their own model of education than about the reality of what happens in universities.

What about these totally regular everyday young voters?

Gareth Kearns of NE Bylines also picks up on this. Worth reading. northeastbylines.co.uk/power-tradit...

Power, tradition, hysteria, and manipulation: protest in “Remembrance Weekend”

"Don't make the mistake of believing that we are talking about the rot of a spent administration that is now out of power. Don't assume you're now safe. It really isn't about a couple of stray individ...

I see that it is now 'Remembrance weekend' rather than the usual Remembrance Sunday.

Debate seems to encourage a "winner takes all" zero-sum mentality (a set of monlogues), which can quickly become toxic on social media. Dialogue, as a more constructive approach, would be preferable but it is difficult to achieve once a platform heads in the direction of incessant debate.

"Meta’s latest microblogging platform tops the list of invasive apps that collect and share 86 per cent of the user data with third parties.... The report also suggests that Threads... is said to collect 72 per cent more personal data than X." indianexpress.com/article/tech...

Facebook, Instagram, & Threads reported to be among the top invasive data collectors app list

As per the report, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger collects 86 per cent of personal data

I know that @t0nyyates.bsky.social has given out some and was looking for more.

The Brexiters would probably insist on a supermajority clause in any Rejoin vote, so of course they think that now 🤔 What would they have been like if they had a majority for Brexit but didn't meet the 60% threshold? It would have been called a fix. Referendums are not the answer to social divisions

This post by Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor, looks back thirty years and includes part of a speech he gave in 1994: "Once unbottled, mass resentment can poison the very fabric of society — the moral integrity of society.” post.news/@/rbreich/2X...

Thirty years later

By Robert Reich Friends, As Israel readies a ground invasion of Gaza — which in my view is likely to be a dreadful mistake, substituting revenge for strategy and killing many more thousands of innoc...

Although my personal preference is for Mastodon, I think that Bluesky looks best placed at the moment to inherit the Twitter mantle once that place finally goes into meltdown. The question is whether Bluesky will inherit the trolls and abusive posters too. Hopefully not, but I would not bet against.