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Erin Vanderhoof

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trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 26d

after reading media theory about this for MONTHS, i present my Grand Unified Theory of why video essays are so good these days! With many thanks to @lindsayellis.bsky.social, who provided her thoughts on the matter www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Where the “Woke” Debate Burns Hottest: In Incredibly Long YouTube Essays on the Likes of RFK Jr. and Ms. Rachel

Why are audiences flocking to feature-length examinations of Joe Rogan with academic-quality citations? Creator Lindsay Ellis has some theories.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry but touting 1.5 million readers and 170k subscribers is so funny. That is not that many!!!!

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 4d

somebody needed to just reach out to me through my benadryl haze and say "iconic synth bass" and i would have been able to do it

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 4d

lmao update, i'm listening, it's great, fuckin taylor swift has done it again

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 4d

i am generally a big swiftie, but i haven't yet listened to life of a showgirl, partially because i was sick yesterday and also partially because the advance lyrics of "actually romantic" i saw made me realize this is the taylor mode i don't like (vindictive, complaining about being rich)

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 4d

Big gap between “you need to be exposed to views you disagree with” and “the loathsome liberals in my audience need a steady stream of bad faith reactionary slop”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 6d

Nicole Kidman Retires Drag King Persona ‘Keith Urban’

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

But like literally, good country music comes from people who have listened to Jason Molina and Eric Church, mid country music comes from those who have only heard Church

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

Tbh all modern country music is people who have never heard Farewell Transmission trying to recreate it from first principles! And I love that for them! And yet

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

Again tonight!!!! Listen!!!!

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve literally already written an essay about how I constantly rediscover that Farewell Transmission is the best song of all time, and yet! I keep on discovering that it’s the best song ever all over again!!!

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

yeah, I think that is great and I would imagine that if I stay in NYC, i might send my kids to a school that has a mandarin program because it's a heritage/extremely used language for the people I'm around. But that's different than the normative "teaching mandarin for the future" idea

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

What do you mean? I'm just saying that the fact that I got to go on incredibly cool field trips and my classmates who learned to read later did not was ridiculous, not talking about accomodation/differentiation

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, yeah, I definitely don't think kids necessarily need to learn a language in elementary school for us to consider them well-educated

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

I 100 percent agree with you here. Latin is AMAZING and Greek especially for Bible nerds, I just think it's a nice to have, especially in an era where there are very few latin teachers on offer

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, exactly! I will be saving this post to refer to in the future because I think people just don't understand how counterproductive so much of the conventional wisdom about education is!

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

lol yes, language teachers are hella expensive. Especially at the k–12 level

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

In places where the resources exist, totally. I just don't think it's true to say that kids who don't have that option are necessarily getting a worse education. I have seen kids with many language options getting a shitty education and also the obverse

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

see i don't particularly care about diplomatic and economic competitiveness, i care about kids and getting a high-quality education to as many of them as possible

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

i agree, but I do think that it's really important to also acknowledge that kids deserve to have culturally relevant education! They need to be emerging into a world they can recognize through their education, so it makes sense to teach them the language they might hear walking down the street

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

I agree with that to a certain extent, but go to, say, Tulsa and try and hire a k-5 mandarin language teacher and see how much it costs you. Language teachers are insanely expensive, and I've watched an arms race between private schools around the country trying to lure new teachers to their school

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

It got to be very expensive for a while because demand wayyyyyy outstripped teacher supply! Haven't checked in on that in about a decade though, I imagine it has gotten more normal now

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

The corollary to this is that if you love to code, teach your kid to code and code with them. If you love current events, talk about them. If you love TV and technology, find ways to share it. If you love world history, teach it to them. It's about giving them a lineage and a culture

Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

No, your kids don't need to stay abreast of current events. They don't need to learn to code in middle school. They don't need to do their schooling on a tablet. They don't need to have a comprehensive knowledge of world history by 13. Make it simple, make it relevant, make it fun

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 6d

If an adult is doing the project for them, they are not learning. Any circumstances that could possibly lead to the adult doing the project should be stamped out IMMEDIATELY

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