Peter Greene
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Peter Greene
@palan57.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Find me at original flavor curmudgucation.blogspot.com or fancy new substack curmudgucation.substack.com
Approaches like "classical academies" and Heritage Foundation's Phoenix Declaration embrace a version of learning that assumes there is one Truth, one correct answer to all things, and students just need to have that One Right Answer pounded into them. 1/
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Approaches like "classical academies" and Heritage Foundation's Phoenix Declaration embrace a version of learning that assumes there is one Truth, one correct answer to all things, and students just need to have that One Right Answer pounded into them. 1/
AI moves most easily into spaces where the humanity has already been hollowed out. Boost the humanity of the undertaking, and AI is pushed back into its proper place.
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
AI moves most easily into spaces where the humanity has already been hollowed out. Boost the humanity of the undertaking, and AI is pushed back into its proper place.
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"Everyone knows data centers use a lot of water. What’s less known is how they can poison the drinking water that remains."
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Everyone knows data centers use a lot of water. What’s less known is how they can poison the drinking water that remains."
The Quiet Collapse of Information Access
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The Quiet Collapse of Information Access
How disappearing federal support, shrinking databases, and uneven digitization limit what students and AI can access.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Quiet Collapse of Information Access
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The Quiet Collapse of Information Access
open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
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The Quiet Collapse of Information Access
How disappearing federal support, shrinking databases, and uneven digitization limit what students and AI can access.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Quiet Collapse of Information Access
open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
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Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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"Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are—a Russian nesting doll of bullshit." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are—a Russian nesting doll of bullshit." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions. n.pr/49F5HOn
New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn
Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions.
n.pr
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Under new Trump administration rules, students won't be able to borrow as much for medical or nursing school or some other health professions. n.pr/49F5HOn
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After Trump’s ‘Quiet, piggy’ moment, we’re done asking why survivors don’t come forward, right?
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
Heidi Stevens: After Trump’s ‘Quiet, piggy’ moment, we’re done asking why survivors don’t come forward, right?
If we’re going to become a nation that truly protects children and women, we have to stop giving a pass to sexual abusers, writes Heidi Stevens.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
After Trump’s ‘Quiet, piggy’ moment, we’re done asking why survivors don’t come forward, right?
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/19/h...
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Childhood in the past was SOOOO anxious. The archives are dripping with disorders:
Here's a line from the diary of Sally Ripley, an affluent white girl in MA in 1799:
“I am now enjoying what are called the juvenile years of life, yet no one can ensure me my life in this world for one moment.”
Here's a line from the diary of Sally Ripley, an affluent white girl in MA in 1799:
“I am now enjoying what are called the juvenile years of life, yet no one can ensure me my life in this world for one moment.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Childhood in the past was SOOOO anxious. The archives are dripping with disorders:
Here's a line from the diary of Sally Ripley, an affluent white girl in MA in 1799:
“I am now enjoying what are called the juvenile years of life, yet no one can ensure me my life in this world for one moment.”
Here's a line from the diary of Sally Ripley, an affluent white girl in MA in 1799:
“I am now enjoying what are called the juvenile years of life, yet no one can ensure me my life in this world for one moment.”
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I don’t think you can teach kids to care for their neighbors via school projects—but you can teach them to think about inequity and compassion. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/11/24/g...
Gratitude and Canned Goods—Teaching Children to Care
From one of my must-reads, Culture Study, on November 12: ‘If you’re not on TikTok, you might not have heard about the woman who’s been calling religious organizations to see how …
teacherinastrangeland.blog
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I don’t think you can teach kids to care for their neighbors via school projects—but you can teach them to think about inequity and compassion. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2025/11/24/g...
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Ohio, continuing to work hard to ensure MAGA control of schools:
Ohio bill would add political parties to school board races, reduce State Board of Education seats • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio legislature brought back up a bill that would add party names to local school board elections, and added an amendment that would eliminate elected seats on the State Board of Education, makin...
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Ohio, continuing to work hard to ensure MAGA control of schools:
Grok Hilarious Fiasco Is A Serious Reminder
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Grok Hilarious Fiasco Is A Serious Reminder
Grok is the Elon Musk version of AI, a chatbot that is supposed to be less woke.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Grok Hilarious Fiasco Is A Serious Reminder
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Pa.’s cyber schools face big changes, as they adapt to weekly ‘progress checks’
.@ORMorrison .@PennLive
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Pa.’s cyber schools face big changes, as they adapt to weekly ‘progress checks’
These changes could upend longstanding practices about how students are allowed to complete their school work at cyber charters.
www.pennlive.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Pa.’s cyber schools face big changes, as they adapt to weekly ‘progress checks’
.@ORMorrison .@PennLive
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.@ORMorrison .@PennLive
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"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.
"...Head of Security Operations for R.I. Superior Court, confronted the agents. ... After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen...."
"...Head of Security Operations for R.I. Superior Court, confronted the agents. ... After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen...."
RI judge intervenes after ICE wrongfully detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.
"...Head of Security Operations for R.I. Superior Court, confronted the agents. ... After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen...."
"...Head of Security Operations for R.I. Superior Court, confronted the agents. ... After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen...."
People just gonna keep writing "This time Trump is really in trouble" takes until one sticks. 11,290,564th time's a charm!
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
People just gonna keep writing "This time Trump is really in trouble" takes until one sticks. 11,290,564th time's a charm!
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"I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government."
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government."
ICYMI: Health Care System Edition (11/23)
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ICYMI: Health Care System Edition (11/23)
My 92-year-old mother has spent most of this week in the hospital, and as always when I encounter the health care universe, part of me wonders how the hell people who don’t have A) decent insurance, B...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
ICYMI: Health Care System Edition (11/23)
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Surprisingly, this post got traction last night. So now I want to tell you about Clay Shaw, and Jim Garrison's horrific homophobic prosecution of him, a nightmare of Les Miserables-like proportions.
This thread may be long, but there are lessons for us today in knowing what happened. Here goes...
This thread may be long, but there are lessons for us today in knowing what happened. Here goes...
That Oliver Stone made a movie lionizing Jim Garrison's ludicrous prosecution of an innocent man (Clay Shaw) is one of the most egregious historical transmogrifications in cinema. Imagine in 20 yrs a Stephen Miller hagiography starring Chalamet, that's the artistic crime level we're talking.
We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Surprisingly, this post got traction last night. So now I want to tell you about Clay Shaw, and Jim Garrison's horrific homophobic prosecution of him, a nightmare of Les Miserables-like proportions.
This thread may be long, but there are lessons for us today in knowing what happened. Here goes...
This thread may be long, but there are lessons for us today in knowing what happened. Here goes...
Commentary by actual parents. School voucher confidential: Yes, the other parents are talking about you arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
School voucher confidential: Yes, the other parents are talking about you - Arkansas Times
Now that the voucher issue has moved beyond politicians and into the hands of parents, we wanted to know what real people really thought. Who’s using these vouchers, and why? Who’s still out there sin...
arktimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Commentary by actual parents. School voucher confidential: Yes, the other parents are talking about you arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
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"After years of being told that the department is to blame for everything from the collapse of reading scores to the rise of litter boxes in schools, now we’re hearing that ED does nothing at all." educationwars.substack.com/p/rip-depart...
RIP Department of Education
Why it matters that K-12 education will now be housed within the 'Department of the Boss'
educationwars.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"After years of being told that the department is to blame for everything from the collapse of reading scores to the rise of litter boxes in schools, now we’re hearing that ED does nothing at all." educationwars.substack.com/p/rip-depart...
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“We stopped paying journalists and started rewarding performers.”
"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“We stopped paying journalists and started rewarding performers.”
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Kids will get sick because of what the CDC just did. Some of them will die.
But the even bigger story is that the U.S. govt is no longer a reliable source of information. The consequences of this corruption will ripple through American society for years. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-rfk-jr-...
But the even bigger story is that the U.S. govt is no longer a reliable source of information. The consequences of this corruption will ripple through American society for years. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-rfk-jr-...
What If the Most Dangerous Man in the Administration Isn’t Donald Trump?
The U.S. government is now pushing misinformation.
www.thebulwark.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Kids will get sick because of what the CDC just did. Some of them will die.
But the even bigger story is that the U.S. govt is no longer a reliable source of information. The consequences of this corruption will ripple through American society for years. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-rfk-jr-...
But the even bigger story is that the U.S. govt is no longer a reliable source of information. The consequences of this corruption will ripple through American society for years. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-rfk-jr-...
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"The school choice movement has relied on its own version of “crying wolf” to convince the public that traditional K–12 public schools are failing. In many ways, the movement’s messaging mirrors the boy" who cries wolf-- ultimately, false wymang.substack.com/p/celebratin...
Celebrating Traditional K-12 Public Education
Public Education and the Illusion of the Free Market: Part 3 - Marketing
wymang.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"The school choice movement has relied on its own version of “crying wolf” to convince the public that traditional K–12 public schools are failing. In many ways, the movement’s messaging mirrors the boy" who cries wolf-- ultimately, false wymang.substack.com/p/celebratin...