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@textsavvy.org

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Explicit instruction, AI technologist, arteest.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · Sep 2

What I should have said here is that this is a clue (bsky.app/profile/text...). Consciousness is a mystery in part because it lies in between behaviorism and individualistic psychologism. It was BUILT for and functions through communicative sociality.

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Josh Fisher, A Function-First Account of Human Social and Individual Consciousness as Cultural Evolution Engine - PhilPapers

This article advances a function-first account of social and individual consciousness as the engine of cumulative cultural evolution. At the social level, joint attention (a We-mode) objectifies share...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 8h

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Eleanor Janega on Medieval Sex!

YouTube video by Dan Snow's History Hit

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 10h

Sal Khan's career is very much a "right place right time" situation and he has not learned a single thing about teaching in all these years.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 11h

sal khan on his true north knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/at-k...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 16h

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 18h

"Between the truth of your life and the truth of my life is the space between us. That space is not shallow, as a corporation would have us think. Nor is it nonexistent, as the internet might have us believe."

Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 21h

John Jeremiah Sullivan! ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/john-jerem...

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d

And it takes us a long time to say, "Listen, maybe we have the wrong fundamental perspective. I know this one makes us look like shamans dealing in strange knowledge that one must know math to make sense of, which is alluring and inflating, but if the planets are going backwards . . . bruh."

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d

There is little difference between the impulse to put the Earth at the center of the solar system and the same to fashion education as esoterica--except that maybe the former is more forgivable. There are near-useless epicycles in both visions--that we love to argue about, obliviously.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d

I have an editor for this. 🙌

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d

Practically havin' a séance over here.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d

"I know nothing more idiotic, barbarous, and unworthy of the times in which we live. But I did not think I could meddle with the custom, although I was often greatly tempted to give public expression to my views." --Prince Alfonso Carlos de Borbón

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The Effort to Abolish the Duel on JSTOR

Alfonso De Bourbon Et Autriche-Este, The Effort to Abolish the Duel, The North American Review, Vol. 175, No. 549 (Aug., 1902), pp. 194-200

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d

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Other(ing) People's Children: Social Mothering, Schooling, and Race in Late Nineteenth Century New Orleans and San Francisco on JSTOR

Joseph O. Jewell, Other(ing) People's Children: Social Mothering, Schooling, and Race in Late Nineteenth Century New Orleans and San Francisco, Race, Gender & Class, Vol. 21, No. 3/4, RGC Intersection...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d

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Why White Women Tried to Ban Native American Dances - JSTOR Daily

In the early 1920s, reformers obsessed over the sexual nature of some Pueblo rituals, and attempted to control their performance.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d

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What We Lose When We Lose Indigenous Knowledge - JSTOR Daily

By mistaking a culture’s history for fantasy, or by disrespecting the wealth of Indigenous knowledge, we’re keeping up a Columbian, colonial tradition.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d

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Wohaw - A Man Receiving Power from Two Spirit Animals - Kiowa - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · 2d

@jstordaily.bsky.social’s roundup for #IndigenousPeoplesDay brings together stories that honor Indigenous cultures and histories, dispels myths, and examines ongoing struggles and resilience.

Read the roundup: https://bit.ly/4n2pvyn

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d

Oh Solitude, where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face?

Better live in the midst of alarms than dwell in this horrible place.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d

Oh my gosh, like Han Solo!
For corn's sake, someone rescue him.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d

Education is complex. It's not physics, where brick no hit back. Be kind to humanity for figuring it out backwards and piecemeal. We'll get there--but not if we don't put the accountability, and the power, squarely where it belongs.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d

It certainly makes sense to pick on the Internet as a causal factor--and a big one. But let's be clear. If we knew what we were doing in education, the Internet wouldn't have been a problem. It can still best hold us in place when big social storms blow over.

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Opinion | Why Are the Democrats Increasing Inequality?

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d

"Ultimately, writes Cook, 'a majority of Union veterans proved willing to substitute an uncritical form of late nineteenth-century nationalism' for the once-powerful story—a usable past—of the victory against the abomination of property in human beings."

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How the Union Lost the Remembrance War - JSTOR Daily

The victors of the American Civil War failed to write their story into the history books, leaving a gap for the mythologizing of the Confederacy.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d

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Scientists discover life-sized camels carved into rocks in the Arabian Desert

The drawings—the oldest dated monumental rock art in Arabia—are the firmest evidence that humans lived there during a dry period about 12,000 years ago.

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 3d

“It is powerful for a boy to see a grown man read. The lesson is best taught passively. My stepfather didn’t so much talk to me about books as demonstrate what it meant to have a relationship with them.” www.thefp.com/p/reading-sa...

Reading Books Made a Man Out of Me

Shiloh Brooks explains why he’s launching ‘Old School,’ a new podcast about great books and how they can make us better men.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 4d

Has a hint of Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? to it.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 4d

Incredibly good.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 4d

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The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)

Paintings illustrating Pliny the Elder’s account of the origins of art.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 4d

Thoughtful piece. To the extent that I have thought along similar lines, I have always wanted curriculum makers to have an unconditional regard for the poor.
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Facing Up To Curriculum Trade-Offs

What will be lost and gained in the new curriculum? Here, I argue that the government's curriculum review must face up to difficult choices.

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