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Sky's own Alex Dubcek
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
you are a mad scientist who has invented a time machine in the 1870's. desperate to escape the political turmoil of italians shooting one another and the french government collapsing, you leap forward in time hoping for a more enlightened era. you land in 1962, to find the french government collapsing and italians setting off bombs. well, you can make one more jump, surely this can't keep happening
December 10, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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hausofdecline.bsky.social
Here is my record! It is exceedingly good. If you are a Zoomer with no reference to Rock/Roll music, it's basically like the vibe of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
hausofdecline.bsky.social Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Nov 15
My album Psychogeography is now available on Bandcamp. It is one of the best albums of the year (actually).
anti-spectacular.bandcamp.com/album/psycho...
Psychogeography, by Anti-Spectacular
10 track album
anti-spectacular.bandcamp.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Reposted by Sky's own Alex Dubcek
spavel.bsky.social
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
July 6, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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leftatlondon.com
as a lover of websites & a hater of things that are categorically incorrect we must ask ourselves if what we are all dunking on is “discourse” or not. I think we often confuse it for “something dumb that one person said & now we are all talking about it”
June 19, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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wendyxu.bsky.social
YES YES YES YES YES YES
The Magical Multiracial Past is one optimistic solution to this conundrum. We want to include everyone in our storytelling, but we are not always prepared to change the kinds of stories we tell. So we simply suspend disbelief; we imagine that everyone who is currently a part of our Anglophone culture has been there, a valued and equal participant, all along. Thus have all of us, from around the globe, been retconned into the history of the West. Now we can watch ourselves speak languages we did not speak in rooms where we were unlikely to have been welcome. We are included, but our actual history is erased. We seldom see the stories of nonwhite people who, like my ancestors, lived on their home soil, or the complex stories of nonwhite people in the West in centuries past. The world’s history is reduced from many to one.
March 31, 2024 at 7:29 PM