Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)

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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)

Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)

@kingsepp

Catholic Homeschool Dad. Classics, Medieval Europe, Anglo-Saxons, Theology, Philosophy, Languages, Tolkien, D&D, Africa, Baltics, 🇩🇪🇪🇪🇱🇻🇮🇪–🇺🇸, pro🇺🇦

Washington, DC–ish Katılım Nisan 2008
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
The media cycle is an invention of modernity, as is its corollary: the lie that you are obligated to express an opinion about every news item. There is more legitimate outrage in the world than it is healthy for you to be outraged about. Turn off the spigot and read Books.
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Joshua D Phillips
Joshua D Phillips@JoshPhillipsPhD·
Most of my students in the last 5 years just openly admit to using audiobooks or not reading at all In a class of 25, maybe 3-4 students actually read the assigned books fortune.com/2026/07/26/why…
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
Fr. Cassidy Stinson@TheHappyPriest·
Look, I'm still not the kind of priest to say things like "they're putting demons in the robots," but the chainsaw-wielding black drones with eyeball horns are making it harder to argue my case
Drone Wars@Drone_Wars_

U.S. company Satyress is developing threehalves, a centaur-style robot designed for dangerous environments such as wildfires, rubble searches, toxic areas and confined spaces. The system combines a humanoid upper body with a quadruped mobility platform. #USA #Robotics #UGV #AI

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Phil Hoyeck
Phil Hoyeck@PAHoyeck·
@kingsepp Well, I'd say that, but just as a matter of the meaning of terms.
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Phil Hoyeck@PAHoyeck·
It always astounds me how people will encounter a word they don’t know while reading and just keep going without looking it up. People like to say they understand it from context, but more often than not, they don’t! This is a great learning opportunity. Just look up the word!
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
@PAHoyeck ^ This. Reading doesn't mean mechanically passing your eyes across the page, it means internalizing the meaning. (This is why I think it's superficial to argue that listening to ebooks isn't reading. The point is the meaning. Period.)
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Phil Hoyeck
Phil Hoyeck@PAHoyeck·
More often than not, I just get crickets. They have no idea. Well, how did you read the sentence if there are words in the sentence you don't know? How do you have any idea what you just read? And in that case, by what bizarre metric can you claim to have done the reading? 2/
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
@EWErickson I don't get this. The common good has been central to discussions of political philosophy and statecraft for thousands of years.
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Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson@EWErickson·
Whispers: We're only having the "common good" discussion because society is collapsing into post-Christian paganism, and too many in the church are more interested in holding on to political power as the tide shifts than in spiritual revival.
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James Lindsay, anti-Communist
James Lindsay, anti-Communist@ConceptualJames·
In the 1790s, it was common to hear Americans refer to our new country as "our American Israel." I learned something new today. I knew the Founders strongly saw America as a kind of new Hebrew experiment, but I didn't know it was that profound or widely believed.
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Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺
Would be nice. They'd rather just make money and yell at the teevee.
Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)@kingsepp

@AviWoolf So the only hope for society is to put the right "people willing to do the work" in charge of the people not willing to work hard to ensure good education. For over a century, that's been aggressive Deweyite leftist ideologues willing to experiment on kids at a national level.

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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
@AviWoolf "common good", not "common" good. I don't know what I was doing with the quotation marks, but I'm not going to pay Elon for the privilege of fixing it.
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
@AviWoolf He makes it sound like people didn't talk about the "common" good until the modern era, when really it's been a central concept of political philosophy for over two millennia.
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Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)
@AviWoolf So the only hope for society is to put the right "people willing to do the work" in charge of the people not willing to work hard to ensure good education. For over a century, that's been aggressive Deweyite leftist ideologues willing to experiment on kids at a national level.
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Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺
It's still reversible. There's a huge turnover of both teachers and admins. If we had a pipeline of dedicated people, it would do so much. But no, it's all "AI will replace you all" without thinking who will make the AI.
Éadric Scúsmiþ (Eric K.)@kingsepp

@AviWoolf The right lost when it gave up the arts and education fights, not the political ones.

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@AviWoolf Also someone needs to shine a very bright light onto the early Soviet-era efforts to push western arts scenes left. It didn't work quickly enough to save the USSR, but it did real damage to what should have been a more balanced artistic exploration of social ideas.
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Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺
Populist: "Conservatives didn't conserve anything!" Conservative: "You've been ten years in power within the right. What have you conserved?" Populist: "Well, we wrote lots of manifestos! Also, we destroyed the left's DEI apparatus!" Conservative: "What have you CONSERVED?" Populist: "..."
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