Eric Turner
@radicalteacher.bsky.social
That teacher Fox News warned you about. Also, baseball, games, beer, and history.
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Dudes Rock
December 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Dudes Rock
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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
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I have been thinking a lot this year about how to bring folks to games — especially TTRPGs.
There’s lots of paths, & most of them require a lot of patience — the long game, as it were.
I know many folks who are connoisseurs, restless maximizers.
But love people first, & meet them where they are.
There’s lots of paths, & most of them require a lot of patience — the long game, as it were.
I know many folks who are connoisseurs, restless maximizers.
But love people first, & meet them where they are.
December 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I have been thinking a lot this year about how to bring folks to games — especially TTRPGs.
There’s lots of paths, & most of them require a lot of patience — the long game, as it were.
I know many folks who are connoisseurs, restless maximizers.
But love people first, & meet them where they are.
There’s lots of paths, & most of them require a lot of patience — the long game, as it were.
I know many folks who are connoisseurs, restless maximizers.
But love people first, & meet them where they are.
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To no one’s surprise, the secret history of RPGs has always been women innovating ideas that men “discover” anywhere from 10-400 years later! Fantastic thread from one of the hobby’s coolest academics.
Indeed. The purchaseable *product* we call the TTRPG begins in the 1970s with Western Gunfight, Chainmail, and D&D.
Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D.
Parlor games were feminized...
Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D.
Parlor games were feminized...
December 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
To no one’s surprise, the secret history of RPGs has always been women innovating ideas that men “discover” anywhere from 10-400 years later! Fantastic thread from one of the hobby’s coolest academics.
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On the blog: Speed, games, academia, and AI. The annoyance is building to inescapable levels.
stuckness.ghost.io/ai-is-speed-...
stuckness.ghost.io/ai-is-speed-...
AI is speed and speed is bad
Judging from my social media, which contains a lot of academics furiously sharing posts by other academics, some sort of dam feels like it's cracking on academia and AI. Not that academics were primed...
stuckness.ghost.io
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
On the blog: Speed, games, academia, and AI. The annoyance is building to inescapable levels.
stuckness.ghost.io/ai-is-speed-...
stuckness.ghost.io/ai-is-speed-...
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Gert Biesta just published a brief reflection on his important 2007 article, "Why 'What Works' Won't Work" in Education:
"...whereas policy argues that practice should take research findings seriously, the same doesn't seem to hold for policy."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A 🧵:
"...whereas policy argues that practice should take research findings seriously, the same doesn't seem to hold for policy."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A 🧵:
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Gert Biesta just published a brief reflection on his important 2007 article, "Why 'What Works' Won't Work" in Education:
"...whereas policy argues that practice should take research findings seriously, the same doesn't seem to hold for policy."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A 🧵:
"...whereas policy argues that practice should take research findings seriously, the same doesn't seem to hold for policy."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A 🧵:
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
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@schumer.senate.gov but they promised, right Chuck, & they always follow through with their promises…
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
@schumer.senate.gov but they promised, right Chuck, & they always follow through with their promises…
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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We've now had two unpublished studies of #cellphonebans get ballyhooed as if they were evidence in support of the bans. A closer look at both has revealed that the impact was basically indistinguishable from zero.
Thus it is with moral panics. Be wary, we'll be seeing more of the same.
Thus it is with moral panics. Be wary, we'll be seeing more of the same.
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We've now had two unpublished studies of #cellphonebans get ballyhooed as if they were evidence in support of the bans. A closer look at both has revealed that the impact was basically indistinguishable from zero.
Thus it is with moral panics. Be wary, we'll be seeing more of the same.
Thus it is with moral panics. Be wary, we'll be seeing more of the same.
The moment when your district rolls out a new thing that you agree with most of, but it’s backed by a huge regressive corporation.
October 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The moment when your district rolls out a new thing that you agree with most of, but it’s backed by a huge regressive corporation.
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a thing that drives me totally cuckoo bananas bonkers is these center-right motherfuckers go around NEEDING everyone to think they are "the left." they're only doing this to present their viewpoints as the leftmost acceptable position and i cant believe so many people fall for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
a thing that drives me totally cuckoo bananas bonkers is these center-right motherfuckers go around NEEDING everyone to think they are "the left." they're only doing this to present their viewpoints as the leftmost acceptable position and i cant believe so many people fall for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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every take I've ever seen trying to defend curbing youth phone usage is like this
and its not like kids aren't creative, social or read etc.
It's just that they use technology to do these things and it doesn't look like what Andy and other adults remember a childhood looking like.
and its not like kids aren't creative, social or read etc.
It's just that they use technology to do these things and it doesn't look like what Andy and other adults remember a childhood looking like.
Many people were creative as children, played out with friends, had freedom to roam, and also had quiet time alone too. Read books and listened to music, sometimes with friends, a physical record/tape.
I think all people should reduce their phone usage.
I think all people should reduce their phone usage.
July 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
every take I've ever seen trying to defend curbing youth phone usage is like this
and its not like kids aren't creative, social or read etc.
It's just that they use technology to do these things and it doesn't look like what Andy and other adults remember a childhood looking like.
and its not like kids aren't creative, social or read etc.
It's just that they use technology to do these things and it doesn't look like what Andy and other adults remember a childhood looking like.
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This. My youngest spent most of yesterday creating incredibly complex contraptions in Minecraft and then played daft games with his pals in a group call. Much more technical, creative and social than 11-y-o me.
every take I've ever seen trying to defend curbing youth phone usage is like this
and its not like kids aren't creative, social or read etc.
It's just that they use technology to do these things and it doesn't look like what Andy and other adults remember a childhood looking like.
and its not like kids aren't creative, social or read etc.
It's just that they use technology to do these things and it doesn't look like what Andy and other adults remember a childhood looking like.
Many people were creative as children, played out with friends, had freedom to roam, and also had quiet time alone too. Read books and listened to music, sometimes with friends, a physical record/tape.
I think all people should reduce their phone usage.
I think all people should reduce their phone usage.
July 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This. My youngest spent most of yesterday creating incredibly complex contraptions in Minecraft and then played daft games with his pals in a group call. Much more technical, creative and social than 11-y-o me.
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Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
July 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
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Jeffries, still going strong 8 hours in: "Extraordinary to me, Mr.
Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."
Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."
July 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Jeffries, still going strong 8 hours in: "Extraordinary to me, Mr.
Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."
Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."
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There is an eviwioned trilogy of all the guys who were labeled at some point "The Hero of Two Worlds"
Hero of Two Worlds (Lafayette)
2 Hero 2 Worlds (Kosciuszko)
H3ro of Two Worlds (Garibaldi)
Hero of Two Worlds (Lafayette)
2 Hero 2 Worlds (Kosciuszko)
H3ro of Two Worlds (Garibaldi)
And announcing a Garibaldi book, please?
June 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
There is an eviwioned trilogy of all the guys who were labeled at some point "The Hero of Two Worlds"
Hero of Two Worlds (Lafayette)
2 Hero 2 Worlds (Kosciuszko)
H3ro of Two Worlds (Garibaldi)
Hero of Two Worlds (Lafayette)
2 Hero 2 Worlds (Kosciuszko)
H3ro of Two Worlds (Garibaldi)
Dissertation defended. “Freedom,Agency, and Relevance: Finding the path to revolution in a traditional suburban high school”.
June 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Dissertation defended. “Freedom,Agency, and Relevance: Finding the path to revolution in a traditional suburban high school”.
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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
June 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
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The talk I’m attending now at #TheGradingConference is by Jeff Anderson and it’s called “Letter Grades Cause Learning Cancer.” I love the boldness of the statement. He’s a math professor.
#ungrading
#ungrading
June 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The talk I’m attending now at #TheGradingConference is by Jeff Anderson and it’s called “Letter Grades Cause Learning Cancer.” I love the boldness of the statement. He’s a math professor.
#ungrading
#ungrading
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Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.
June 8, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.
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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.
June 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.