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NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...

submitted 2 days ago • 130 comments

I miss DEI

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Rather than violate their oath or comply with Musk’s illegal requests, 21 civil service employees resigned today from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (formerly the United States Digital Service), stating they would not use their technical expertise to dismantle critical public services.

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bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d... Interesting and would explain loads…I like @bylinetimes so hope the sources have been double checked

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Some updates: 1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction. 2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.

submitted 5 days ago • 119 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 6 days ago • 5087 comments

Exeter visit.

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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 11 days ago • 345 comments

Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...

submitted 11 days ago • 581 comments

To the right-wing pundits crowing over Vance's speech: if you are really "less worried" about a dictator-state that's invaded its neighbour, killed tens of thousands of people, reduced cities to rubble & engaged in mass rape and child abduction, than you are about "wokery", then you are truly lost.

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 12 days ago • 1087 comments

This video sheds light on how autism often goes unnoticed in girls due to masking & stereotypes. Such an important, informative video 📹 Watch, share, & join the conversation youtu.be/GVrq9EL0mzg?... #AutismAwareness #Neurodiversity #AutisticGirls #Edpsychs #Edusky

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1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

submitted 16 days ago • 1068 comments

The growth mindset problem aeon.co/essays/schoo...

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

'Leadership – at all levels – in my view is about bringing out the best in others through a judicious balance of support and constructive challenge, lifting those you lead, rather than grinding them down' Love this from @jillberry102.bsky.social terrific post!

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Musk isn’t making government smaller. He’s shutting down the parts of the government that have been investigating his companies for safety violations and ties to Russia.

submitted 18 days ago • 142 comments

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

submitted 20 days ago • 2290 comments

made a useful one

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articl.... If you haven’t seen these - and are touching on the topic of migration , these short films are powerful #TeamEnglish

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

A private citizen shutting down a government agency is a coup. Do not normalize this.

submitted 23 days ago • 54 comments

This comment in the Ofsted proposals is very revealing. It rests on the assumption that Ofsted can and should 'support continuous improvement and drive high and rising standards.' I am far from convinced that this is the case or that such an aim is compatible with other Ofsted responsibilities.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Thread by Christopher...read it.

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To reflect changes to AQA GCSE English Lang P2 for 2026 onwards, here’s a folder of 10 specimen papers. Help yourself and please re-post to reach a wider audience. Thanks 😊 #teamenglish www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/egpxh...

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

IQ is a poor measure of anything www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Possibly the toughest month yet in my time as HOD. It's not possible to be all things to all people. There is no capacity in the system but as leaders we are trying to plug the internal and external gaps. Sending strength of mind to all those in similar situations

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

'Niece' and 'nephew' aren't the original English words. They were borrowed from French and supplanted native 'nift' and 'neve', direct cognates of German 'Nichte' and 'Neffe'. The French words have the same Proto-Indo-European ancestors so they're cognates too, but very distant ones. Here's more:

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I’ve been trying to pinpoint my unease with some modern practices in education. I think it’s the focus on pedagogic efficiency. I am not against being skilled teachers. I rely on a lot of TLAC techniques myself. I just don’t want my kids education ordered from Temu. 🧵1/

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Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked." She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.

submitted 34 days ago • 187 comments

Here's how the mind of a conspiracy theorist works: Graham Linehan once noticed that the people criticising him appeared to be quite eloquent. But that would mean they were intelligent, and that couldn't be!? So, he came up with the theory that they were using "Grammarly" to appear intelligent. 1/

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The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 33 days ago • 247 comments