Far-right candidate poised for shock win in Romania presidential election In another shock, Romania's current prime minister looks set to be left out of the run-off race.

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Valget i Romania er også veldig interessant. En helt ukjent Pro-Russisk kandidat vinner plutselig valget (første runde), kun ved hjelp av TikTok?

Kartlegging av uønsket, utenlandsk valgpåvirkning i Norge Blir norske valg utsatt for uønsket påvirkning fra utlandet?

FFI har et nyoppstartet prosjekt for å kartlegge utenlandsk valgpåvirkning i Norge. Jeg er spent på hva de finner! Antageligvis prøver Putin å hindre oss å selv velge våre ledere, bl.a. gjennom å skape splittelser i befolkningen?
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Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or kee...

New: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments

From birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes, these are just some of the belongings cities take when they clear homeless encampments.

Make Polluters Pay! We can push it over the line!

This is a very significant Avaaz campaign

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There's a place for everyone OR: fantastic niches and where to find them

There _is_ a place for everyone.

"In 2022, a record half of all Americans spent more than 50% of their income on rent..."
"Currently, the 1998 Faircloth Amendment in effect prevents the federal government from funding new public housing, ..."

Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Members At a rally on Saturday, the former president announced he would tell the Russians “to do whatever the hell they want” to states delinquent in their bills.

This should be the story tomorrow, and every day:

The leader of one of America’s two major political parties has just signaled to the Kremlin that if elected, he would not only refuse to defend Europe in World War III, but he would gladly support Vladimir Putin.

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How to Build Democracy — in an Authoritarian Country | Tessza Udvarhelyi | TED "Today, Hungary is in the gray zone between a dictatorship and a democracy," says activist Tessza Udvarhelyi. "This did not happen overnight." In a rousing t...

This is an interesting educational resource. Do you live in a democracy? Do you feel that change is possible from below? On all issues? #Edusky

What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies | G... The Atlas Network’s dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

This week's column is about the billionaire-funded network that delivers the same political outcomes all over the world. It's about how democracies are transformed by the network into new aristocracies.
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How Will AI Affect the 2024 Elections? with Renee DiResta and Carl Miller Listen to this episode from Your Undivided Attention on Spotify. 2024 will be the biggest election year in world history. Forty countries will hold national elections, with over two billion voters hea...

The democratic threat of AI is not misinformation, but manipulation. Or do you see it differently?
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Alternative strategies to COP are needed. I'm intrigued by the #fossilfueltreaty that Monbiot made me aware of here.

How to talk about Trump's Dictator Remark You defeat a strongman by revealing their weakness

Dan Pfeiffer argues that it is important to talk about Trump as weak, and connect it to people's lives.

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A Second Trump Term Would Be Very Bad! Too many Americans are not worried enough about the consequences of a second Trump term.

This is also a pretty good summary for why Trump cannot become president again: Death of democracy, reproduction freedom, economy, and Obamacare.

I'd add the climate and international security to that list.

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A drawing of a tardigrade that says “Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to”

The decline of play | Peter Gray | TEDxNavesink In this talk, Dr. Peter Gray compellingly brings attention to the reality that over the past 60 years in the United States there has been a gradual but, over...

This is why I care about reducing screen time for my children.

Teaching your students to spell, the right way

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I completely agree.

I used to think that good teaching is filling all the holes in the subject. That comic illustrates why it might not be a good idea. Now I try to leave holes that the students must fill themselves: promote learning agency.

Good teaching be like

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I'd like to try an experiment. What do you notice with this picture?

(It is from Google Earth View)

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I like that there is little emphasis on fact checking: in many cases fact checking is missing the target, and it is not really a viable strategy in today's digital world.
I would add a question on sincerity.

Social Media Victims Lawyer Up with Laura Marquez-Garrett Social media was humanity’s ‘first contact’ moment with AI. If we’re going to create laws that are strong enough to prevent AI from destroying our societies, we could benefit from taking a loo...

This was a scary listen. I worry, because as a parent and teacher I feel really badly equipped to deal with the threat of the attention economy.

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Growth Mindset | LearnStorm | Khan Academy The LearnStorm growth mindset activities are fun and age appropriate, providing a structured way for students to explore the science behind the idea that "You can learn anything.” Along the way they...

"Take risks with a growth mindset"

I love that.

Have you seen the resource on growth mindset on Khan academy?

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Hampshire College Butchers the Psychology Classics: A Retrospective Last semester (S23) I taught a class titled CS-0232: Hampshire College Butchers the Psychology Classics.

There is so much I love about this approach. Authentic science, taking the students seriously, differentiation without learning ceiling. #EduSky

I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop The conundrum in every classroom

Mastroianni has a pretty good take on this issue. Personally, I feel that we are starting to feel the wind of a revolution in education, somehow.

Video game addiction is a zombie idea that keeps recurring. It distracts from the growth of the attention economy, which I feel is far more dangerous.

It’s somehow deeply weird that you can take a camera with a nice but normal-sized zoom lens, point it at space, click the button, and take pictures of other planets. They’re apparently just RIGHT THERE??

That's super interesting. It could be fruitful to analyze with the CHAT framework. I'm curious about contradictions between rules and tools in that type of situation.