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I still think about how much fun I had playing Enemy Territory with my friends.

Palantir repeating a central myth behind speculative whiteness: white, western culture produces the high-tech future; other cultures regress into the past.

This is bleak.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

I am writing a talk in which I begin working out a positive philosophy of humanistic education for the left aiming at social freedom and human flourishing through gentleness (ethics), the ability to give an account of oneself (epistemology), and the cultivation of sensibility (aesthetics)

Waiting for Godot or My Dinner with Andre are also solid options.

This would save Red Lobster.

The way Ben Starr says it too is just so heartbreaking.

Brutal. Just brutal.

descriptively, lit studies is not a matter of virtues or ethics. normatively, i increasingly believe it ought to be part of our task pedagogically, in the classroom, to think in terms of the good life and human flourishing and to consider how close reading and cultivate associated virtues

movements don’t need heroes. history should never be built or taught around great men, or women.

the collective is why change happens—that is what should be celebrated.

An image from Marathon's launch trailer, showing Thief looking surprised as she explores an area. Cropped.

One of Marathon's best tricks? It dodges the "Blorko" problem that doomed Concord and Highguard.

www.eurogamer.net/marathon-bun...

The “learning goals are dumb” thing is a cliche at this point but it’s true—people who think every 45m needs to produce evidence of some new skill or practice, regardless of discipline, inevitably trivialize learning

What’s most annoying about this is it assumes economic insecurity is a product of individual “skills gaps” as opposed to a structural condition of our political/economic systems.

So now Ss are trapped in a system obsessed with job prep at a time when every company is gutting their future jobs.

Just saw a post dunking on semicolon placement as an outdated form of knowledge, and it’s honestly dispiriting at times trying to communicate how language works to people who don’t think the world exists as anything more than keys on a keyboard.

There's a fundamental attribution error here: does AI actually "do" research? It's an automated pattern-recognition, algorithm-drivem machine learning tool. It can't think, and anything it produces resembling "research" is in spite of, rather than because of, the way it's constructed.

This game is about to release into Early Access TODAY and I have a spare giveaway key. I'll post it into the replies for anyone to grab once this post reaches 500 reposts

I say not wanted, but I mean not wanted by the people signing paychecks. Most teachers I talk to wish they had more freedom.

It seems there isn’t much of it wanted. Relative autonomy, maybe. It is… bad.

Landscapes of Learning is a breath of fresh air to this day - “What shall we teach them? How can we guide them? What hope can we offer them? How can we tell them what to do? … Mustering their own resources, each one must embark … upon the formation of a self.” - Wide-Awakeness and the Moral Life

We’re constantly asking Black athletes to step up for social justice and advance society and we have to start holding white athletes to the same standard.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Varieties of literary experience never end, and I appreciate every day I learn something, someone new. What a gift.

The reason these failures are so predictable, of course, is that real educators know how hard the work really is. Whenever you see some founder claiming to have solved the problem using technology, you can immediately know they fall somewhere between naive to outright frauds.

I would have hoped by now that some dude would have written an op Ed about how straight women’s reaction to Bad Bunny - a man at peace with himself, emoting publicly + queer culture - underscores that the Manosphere bros are performing heterosexuality for other men and have no idea what women like.

An important enabling structure that is helping slop makes its way into institutional life is several decades of built in bullshit bureaucratic bloat that is not meaningfully attached to advancing institutional goal but nonetheless has to be ground out week after week. It’s a natural home for slop.