@tracewoodgrains I don't trust a book with "whiteness" in the title. Seems totally anachronistic.
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Skewed perspectives on random topics
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While there's a difference between building somewhere new up and joining somewhere already built, anti-immigrant rhetoric was pretty similar whether or not people were settling and founding new places.
Thread of a few examples from Utah:
AnechoicMedia@AnechoicMedia_
The colonists didn't "immigrate to" America; They settled and founded it, which makes all the difference.
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$33,000 per student. The data fairly screams that just more money isn't the answer.
MichCapCon@MichCapCon
In 2024-25, nearly all of Flint Community Schools’ students in grades three through eight — 90% — were not proficient in English Language Arts, which is largely reading and writing. michigancapitolconfidential.com/news/at-flint-…
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Has there ever been a movement as counter-productive to its osensible goals as "black lives matter?"
Rafael A. Mangual@Rafa_Mangual
By “changed our city forever,” he means drove Minneapolis (among other cities) into a collective state of psychosis causing leaders to dismantle the barriers that stood between order and chaos, leading to an extended crime spree that disproportionately harmed precisely the communities the dismantling was supposed to help.
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Shouldn't really be surprising at this point, but new large experiments find no beneficial effect of “growth mindset” interventions.
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@SRamirez68083 I don't think MTO tells us about effects of meeting "basic needs," it tells us about effects of peer groups.
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Sadly the evidence for this seems more mixed and not as clean cut as one might expect. Tho there is space for some modest optimism.
For example:
grec@GrecBG
Les mecs de droite quand tu leur dis que les gens ont moins de chances de tomber dans la criminalité quand leurs besoins vitaux sont assurés
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@Lamine__Ryan They were only 9 points from getting to play in europe next year...
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Mallorca go down.
They had 42 points, that's the highest relegation points in last 15 years. Hope they are back soon.
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@greg_ashman Very good conversation...I agree with Bill that you two don't really seem that far apart.
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NEW FREE POST The curse of conceptual understanding
A response to Bill McCallum
Link 👇 👇 👇
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It's all housing. I make 98th percentile income and buying a nice home in a nice neighborhood was financially stressful even for me. It shouldn't cost a million dollars to buy a house in the fourth best neighborhood in a second-tier city
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
The permanent vibecession is here to stay
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Forcing customers to hit no tip after buying a $2 donut or $3 drip coffee introduces socio-emotional labor to the transaction. Multiply that across multiple purchases during the day and a lot of people feel annoyed in a way they wouldn’t if buying stuff in, say, Sweden or Japan.
Bilbo Baggins@BillySakmann
@ajlamesa Hitting no tip is so easy and they don’t expect a tip and it doesn’t matter if you tip. Really a non issue
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Does ability grouping only help top students? 📚
We talk about how the framing around ability grouping needs to change. It can help all students, not just a select few.
🔗 Link below
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@MikeMitchNH Also parents who have experience with one school district think they know what things are like in all school districts.
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One thing you learn as a teacher who is also the father of 3 elementary school aged children is that adults living in households without minor children - young adults, retirees, Republicans, Democrats, black, white - have absolutely no clue what school is like, but think they do.
tomo@tomoparasite
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS ARE GETTING “COMPUTER TIME” INSTEAD OF RECESS AT SCHOOL NOW???
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@moultano Yes most jobs are like that.
OTOH my school district is in the process of layoffs, and they are letting some quality low paid teachers go to keep some much higher paid, much worse teachers. 🤷
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Every time we have immigration discourse I get tired of explaining to the "right" that a job is where you create more value than your wage, not a sinecure. Somehow it never actually gets through.
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@asglidden @feelsdesperate True, good point! But of course that was a Malthusian situation where productivity was limited by the fixed resource of farmland. Perhaps something similar could apply today, at least in the short and medium run.
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@3rdMoment @feelsdesperate ...yes? That's the consensus about the Black Plague.
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I feel like this sort of framing always makes libertarians look bad because it’s so obvious they’re refusing to engage with what’s at issue.
Labor arbitrage favors employers. An expanded labor pool in general leads to lower wages.
You’re not ‘insecure’ or a ‘loser’ for not wanting an expanded labor pool that reduces your earnings. In fact, there’s really nothing more politically legitimate than advocating for your economic interests.
Libertarians need to make the case that expanding the labor pool is good for society as a whole, at scale, and it’s something that they’re having an increasingly hard time doing for a number of reasons.
However, trying to argue people are somehow deficient for pursuing legitimate interests is completely unpersuasive and isn’t going to win anyone over.
i/o@avidseries
It's almost impossible to view these people as anything other than insecure downwardly-mobile losers afraid of competition from more talented immigrants.
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@cszabla @ricardoalatorre Is it possible that students who want an intellectual experience are finding that in economics *more* than they would in the (possibly very ideologically siloed) humanities departments?
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@ricardoalatorre in my day it was far from the most hard to get into because you had to really want the special environment to apply. that probably helped contribute to the flood of people simply going for an “elite” school that initially wasn’t so selective
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there are a lot of causes here, many of which we see everywhere, but a sad and specific thing that happened to this place in particular was being conquered by careerism
Paul Staniland@pstanpolitics
"The Decline of the Liberal Arts at Chicago, by the Numbers" chicagomaroon.github.io/data-visualiza…
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@Red_Nec @feelsdesperate I am just trying to understand the proposed economic mechanisms in the tweet. Of course there are lots of other things people might care about too.
Have a nice day!
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@3rdMoment @feelsdesperate If a question that clearly doesn't make the distinction between a citizen and foreigner is the best you have, you should shut the fuck up.
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Asking whether immigrants are net takers is a bit unfair, because the vast majority of native-born Americans are also net takers.
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My sandwich instructions got 9.3M views
Variety@Variety
The series finale of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” drew 6.74M viewers on Thursday night, making it the most-watched weeknight episode in the show’s history. • The finale was up sharply from the show’s 2026 Q1 average of 2.69M viewers • It’s also above “The Late Show” series premiere on Sept. 8, 2015, which averaged 6.55M viewers • The most-watched episode remains Colbert’s post-Super Bowl broadcast on Feb. 7, 2016, which drew 20.55M viewers variety.com/2026/tv/news/t…
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UPDATE: LAUSD is changing how it uses i-Ready -- the district confirmed to me that from now on, *only* students who are below grade level will have to use i-Ready's weekly personalized lessons
Previously, most LA schools required *all* kids to use it, often for up to 90 min/wk
Tyler Kingkade@tylerkingkade
A growing number of families and educators say they’re fed up with i-Ready’s personalized math and reading lessons, which feature repetitive cartoons and slow voice-overs. Full story --> nbcnews.com/news/education… @NBCNews
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@kitten_beloved @dasanil Even if it were a saving account....
....it wouldn't be a warehouse full of food and housing and health care, it's just a way to keep track of some numbers that will allow you to get future workers to make stuff for you when you eventually retire.
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Indians on H1-B should sue to get their social security payments refunded.
Homeland Security@DHSgov
An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. The era of abusing our nation’s immigration system is over.
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