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Side effect of viewing the education system as an elaborate social sorting and job training system, rather than a mechanism to impart broadly useful knowledge to subsequent generations
December 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Side effect of viewing the education system as an elaborate social sorting and job training system, rather than a mechanism to impart broadly useful knowledge to subsequent generations
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I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855
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![Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kok4aqdr3qnsj6ktfkq76kqz/bafkreibv56orcjfhjc2czd5kkydlzapnuem3xkzbhna4fia27pyajprzvq@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...
Similar to high school, where we’re told both to increase rigor and to achieve our district goal of 98% graduation rate. Kinda hard to do both at the same time with no additional resources.
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Similar to high school, where we’re told both to increase rigor and to achieve our district goal of 98% graduation rate. Kinda hard to do both at the same time with no additional resources.
It might surprise you but world history teachers, at least where i teach, teach that fact as part of our unit on early civilizations
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It might surprise you but world history teachers, at least where i teach, teach that fact as part of our unit on early civilizations
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The whole point of all that noise about pushing for American energy independence, which we now basically have, was that we would no longer be so economically dependent on Middle Eastern oil. That was the pitch to people. OK, we're now a net energy exporter. Mission accomplished! Cut them loose.
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The whole point of all that noise about pushing for American energy independence, which we now basically have, was that we would no longer be so economically dependent on Middle Eastern oil. That was the pitch to people. OK, we're now a net energy exporter. Mission accomplished! Cut them loose.
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My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have this.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have this.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have this.
I cannot search three words in quotes.
Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.
And now we have this.
Donated! And I just wanna say that I really appreciate that you do this every year.
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Donated! And I just wanna say that I really appreciate that you do this every year.