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my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

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One of the weird things about longform book writing is the way you have to create a plan for yourself in detail, then work through the plan piece by piece, often even when it feels off. It's like Present You has to have a lot of faith in Past You's ability to make strategic calls.

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A comparison to show something important: - Post blackout, headlines blamed renewables (directly, suggested or framed as debate) - Post Spanish gov't report showing 9 coal/gas/nuclear plants failed to provide voltage control: framing is about management, planning rather than the generation type

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Nigel Kneale's 🌌 THE STONE TAPE (1972) #TPTVsubtitles Friday 20th June 10:10pm on #TalkingPicturesTV Part of #TheCellarClub hosted by #CarolineMunro

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Documentaries about these two heroes are being shown on Sky Arts this Tuesday (17 June). Pauline Black: a 2-Tone Story is at 21:00, followed by Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche at 22:50. Photo taken by Michael Putland in 1980.

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My neighbor told me Silent Hill keeps eating his wifes so I asked how many wifes he has and he said he just goes to the wife store and gets a new wife afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding wifes to Silent Hill and then his daughter started crying.

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Sadier keeping the flame alive jacobin.com/2024/04/laet...

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Please can we fund the NHS and care by taxing the housing wealth of the over 60s? At time of death, if you like. This is huge, unearned money, and going to drive damaging inequality at inheritance. Taxing workers and businesses is much worse for the economy. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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This paragraph is on point. Having known many people whose mental and even physical health issues are CAUSED by work.

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This screenshot of @danthat.bsky.social's Behold the Kickmen just made me cackle.

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Right, fuck youse all. I had the horror struck thought of explaining the full context of this fucking Sabrina Carpenter thing to a bunch of media studies undergraduates and my brain hating me as it does fucking did it anyway, to live the nightmare, so here you are.

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i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable

submitted 9 days ago • 82 comments

Simply one of the funniest things ever. Reduces me to tears every time. (I'm definitely going to try and make broccoli poppers at some point though)

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Luke: Master Yoda, is the dark side more powerful? Yoda: No, not more powerful. Faster, yes. Stronger, yes. Resurrect the dead and time travel, it can. All jedis defeated it has. Kicked my ass it did. Live alone in hiding on swamp planet, I do. [Yoda stares in distance, lost in thought]

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

'Why do we have to learn maths at school?'

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Between Greta Thunberg and her fellow activists being kidnapped by Israel and Trump turning LA into his personal war zone, I hope people realise that protest, no matter how peaceful, will always be met with violence by dying empires.

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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Something worth remembering about immigration: it's not a choice between values and pocketbook. You get both. The best evidence is that immigration enriches us all. If you want to convince yourself, imagine the USA didn't ban Chinese immigration in 1882, or immigration more broadly in 1924.

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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 11 days ago • 102 comments

the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism

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Taking off my shitposter: the reason we are being SO jokey is we clearly see these terrifying people shouldn't be in charge of everything, are destroying and stealing the entire country, we are powerless to stop it because even the Democrats hate us, and one day people will say no one saw it coming

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"they could have had a wealth tax, they could have put up corporation tax.. but they attacked pensioners, they have attacked disabled people.. if your solution is to attack the most vulnerable, rather than those who can afford to pay, it tells you the direction of travel" Mark Serwotka on #bbcqt

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I see the two people who love all the attention are getting all the attention.

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I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

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Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1

submitted 15 days ago • 93 comments

A good question to ask yourself every day

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aworkinglibrary.com/writing/tool... Found on the other place (mastodon). Incredible writing.

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Cancer Research UK today published a report which highlights changes in cancer survival rates over the last 50 years. Many headlines (like this one from the Guardian) have chosen to report the ‘doubling of cancer survival rates’ since the 1970s. But that's misleading... 1/18

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I recently watched Adolescence on Netflix and at the risk of sounding a bit iconoclastic, I’d like to offer some criticisms and concerns about how the mini-series (perhaps inadvertently) perpetuates some myths related to the online radicalization of men and boys.

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It’s cool how the first 10 or so years of hard rock invented so many image/vibe templates that rock/metal bands still use today - mysterious occultists (Zeppelin) - lost souls tormented by demons (Sabbath) - swaggering virtuosos (Deep Purple) - a bunch of stupid assholes who suck ass (Aerosmith)

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Reactionaries are contemptuous of reality. That's what makes them. They know their ideal vision of a white Christian hegemonic patriarchal ethnostate where everybody follows orders just isn't a material possibility, and so they declare war on reality. They hate that it is possible to know things.

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youtu.be/4A7Leaq1R-s?... Not the 'end of history' i assumed from the title, but a different new one, which is exciting.

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The most enduringly successful TV show format is "bald man runs a crystal-powered enterprise"

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Traditionally the Republican Party has used racism to lure in voters to support the agenda of capital, and now what you’re seeing is the agenda of capital being overtaken by the racism.

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