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GMcatbus.bsky.social

"omg if dockworkers strike it will cost billions!" well shit, that makes it sound sounds like their demands are pretty reasonable! lol

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JBjacobbacharach.bsky.social

It's fascinating how the dismantling of a genuine mass media and the recreation of premodern purely person-to-person information networks via social media has transformed Americans back into medieval villagers in the span of about a decade.

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DOosullyville.bsky.social

I think you could phrase a debate question in such a way that it would trick Trump into saying he knows Beetlejuice personally

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SBsorenbowie.bsky.social

Now, I’m an idiot, but “awful” sounds like it should be even better than “awesome.”

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LOlukeoneil47.bsky.social

If we're being serious here the first thing Kamala needs to do with this groundswell of liberal and moderate enthusiasm is to tamp it down and tack hard right on everything to court the votes of the people who hate her already and would never vote for her in a thousand years.

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JKjasonkirk.fyi

Since Bluesky can't ever have enough Twitter screenshots lemme just brag about this one real quick

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JCdatadrivenmd.social

Project 2025, page 592: make it harder for employees to be paid at overtime rates by allowing employers to average the number of hours worked over 2-4 weeks

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Pspavel.bsky.social

Well this is grim

weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt
and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"

the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine

with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world

but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED
this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me.

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stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h

he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood

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stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h

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it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
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