Dubious Beginning

If Herodotus posted this you guys would say he was making it up

@misterminsoo x.com/tile3b/status/…

just ate at a restaurant and the table next to me was talking about puppets and i found out there’s an entire diy puppet scene doing counter-programming for the fest here and there are 14 shows (free, pwyc). then they gave me a zine… chicago is the goated puppet city 🙂‍↕️

Hey babe are you an intangible cultural heritage? Because you seem traditional (contemporary and living at the same time), representative, inclusive, and community based.

My other cultural heritage is intangible

Honk if you love intangible cultural heritage

@fire_toolz from a site of Christian song demos (most aren’t worth it), but this one has got a something to it that has stuck with me for years: deuceofclubs.com/tunes/demos/zo…

listening to people sing way off key is so stimulating to me. it gives me crazy body feelings. out of tune guitar solos too & school orchestras too. if anyone has any real cringers please lmk, i want to feel something

UNESCO-maxxing today

It is possible for me to consume 3,000 calories of bauducco chocolate wafers in a single sitting

@GRRLmusic x.com/scootmcgoof/st…

trip hop is great for when you want to feel sexy but also extremely paranoid

@whynotqat Kneejerk complaining about “sociologists” is the easiest way to demonstrate that you’re not actually a curious person, don’t read all that much, or might actually be bad at understanding things.

the problem with vivid void is that he's not very wise x.com/vividvoid/stat…

@moultano @AlexGodofsky @KelseyTuoc @ClaytonNall @peterlorentzen @NielsHoven @TonyNicalo I remember a line from a Richard lewontin in 1968 talking about behavioral genetics like “we’ll have to wait for psychology to get its house in order before we can really get started”

@AlexGodofsky @KelseyTuoc @ClaytonNall @peterlorentzen @NielsHoven @TonyNicalo Perhaps replace "someday" there with "inshallah."

Can't make this thread up. Academia, paraphrased: > "What if it's just a coincidence that kids are learning to read while using Mentava?" > "How can you know if you taught them to read without a randomized controlled trial?" > "Kids used Mentava, and then they could read. That's just correlation! You didn't prove causation!" Here's what academia doesn't understand: 1) Free trials fix everything You don't need an RCT to pick a car. You just test drive them both and see which is better (for you). Try a $17 book. Then try Mentava. Decide which is better (for you). 2) We aren't making any claims about superiority to other systems Mentava is just phonics. Most phonics systems are basically the same: learn letter sounds, blend them together. I recommend a $17 book as a cheaper alternative to Mentava ALL THE TIME. We've tried hard to make Mentava easier and more fun than other methods, but that doesn't mean we're going to be better/faster/easier/etc for everyone Parents don't care about generalized averages. They care about what works best for THEIR KID. Hence, free trial. 3) Every kid is different and we're not trying to serve them all If schools insist on one-size-fits all curriculum, then yeah, they need to know which method is statistically most likely to have a good outcome. Guess what? The one-size-fits all model sucks. Use Mentava with the kids it works for. Don't use it with kids for whom it doesn't. Hence, free trial.

@misterminsoo “I’m easy to please”

Shitposting on Twitter is fun and what it’s meant for. I think it’s fine that people don’t take me seriously and ignore my actual writing—people just want slop fed to them. It’s like how people only know Mica Levi for the Under the Skin OST when everything else is way better.

@nise_yoshimi You must mean the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service

most militaries around the world consist of an army and a navy. Rumours persist of some having an apparent third service branch, but no one has ever been able to find evidence of it or what it might be useful for

Sorry about that twentieth century cultural institution you were fond of. We had to send that bad boy into the Maw. Yeah, nothing for it. No, I know, we all did, but I mean...what can you do? It was Maw time. At the end of the day you just gotta feed the Maw

the Mrs. Dalloway extended universe novels

“We like to pack coffee and a few sandwiches and spend the day out here watching the ore ships get loaded.” Marquette, Michigan

i think we’re allowed to worry about the effects of giving every child in the world a jiminy cricket that sucks

RIP the consumer surplus of my gym membership

@GoodWillsmith I had a 16 minute experience like this in high school with a roni size & reprazent CD

was kinda disappointed to figure out that this moment from the first track “The Eighth Wave” on Suzanne Ciani’s 1986 album The Velocity of Love was not in fact a prototypical instance of glitch composition but just my CD skipping. Nobukazu Takemura would be proud tho

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