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@ToKTeacher @WTSmith17 Yes so the first few minutes in the shorter clip is meta discussion: ‘I’m just glad you were honest with me’ - ‘you’re a woke person’ - ‘you’re going to get the society you’re asking for’. In the longer clip they ask about his qualifications and what he’s read.

@l1berty @WTSmith17 (I just watched the clips from Warren again to check. So it must be in the fuller version that he demonstrates a larger share of meta and ad hominem...because in that video he's meta & more (Eg: 7:16 "I am the one looking at facts - you are the one who is leaning on emotion -").

Putting aside the special union of ignorance and arrogance polluting this mind, for a cameraman he seems completely clueless about how one might appear on camera once the video is published:

@ToKTeacher He walked off and then returned to have a discussion with them. It's the final chapter in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=XOkbzy…

@l1berty Is that the one where he simply walked off the set?

Brett (@ToKTeacher) and I discuss thorny issues in education, including teachers' roles in political activism, democratic classrooms, and freedom and coercion. youtube.com/watch?v=nEOaZ0…

@dchackethal @grahamscheper @colingorrie No.

@grahamscheper @colingorrie @l1berty can you understand this 😂

Can you understand ACTUALLY SPOKEN Old English?? Here are a few snippets from my conversation with @colingorrie , the first recorded conversation between two advanced OE speakers in over 800 years! Check out the whole episode here: youtube.com/watch?v=Ww6hoK…

@ConjectureInst A great list of recommendations. I hadn’t heard of several of them and it’s nice to have the context of who has recommended them.

Books We've Learned from📚 Below are some books that Conjecture Institute affiliates have enjoyed, both in 2025 and during the course of our lives. Thread🧵

@leoselivan Now I see why you were asking about 'webquest'. 😁

As per tradition, for the 1st lesson in the new year... News Quiz 2025 - in 2 levels - in 3 formats - with 10 page teachers' notes leoxicon.blogspot.com/2025/12/news-q… #esol #eltchat #AusELT

@leoselivan I hadn't heard of it, but it seems like a useful term.

Teachers, Do we still say "webquest" or ...?

@akuhayum What channel did this video come from? I could like to seek permission to play it on my podcast.

This English exam from Japan is impossible 😭

Podcast episode discussing the first two chapters of Mike Long’s book, Second Language Acquisition and Task-Based Language Teaching YouTube: youtu.be/RB-wY6carww?si… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7nNfyH…

Heard on a YouTube video: “Your body simply doesn’t deserve what we literally call junk.” A correct but perverse use of the word ‘literally’. We literally do call it that. Figuratively.

@dchackethal What was the place you referred to where you would keep talking to Benjamin about the AI doom scenario?

@dchackethal @tomdnassis @atse_zola Yes, I’ve put forward a theory which says it itself has mistakes, but we don’t know what the mistakes are. If you agree we don’t rule things out unless we (a) know what the mistake is and (b) have a better idea, it’s not self defeating in the way you’re implying.

@l1berty @tomdnassis @atse_zola The theory that all theories are false rules itself out. That’s its mistake, I think. Whereas the theory that not all theories are false does not make that mistake. So it’s a viable replacement.

@dchackethal @tomdnassis @atse_zola No, nothing is ruled out unless you actually know what the mistake is. And even then you might not have a better theory to replace it with.

@l1berty @tomdnassis @atse_zola If it’s mistaken, it’s not true. It rules itself out. In which case not all theories are false. The alternative idea, that some theories are true, does not rule itself out. And I think it’s true, meaning it has zero mistakes.

@dchackethal @tomdnassis @atse_zola Yes, it surely has mistakes. But so do the alternatives.

@l1berty @tomdnassis @atse_zola But if all our theories are false, then so is the theory that all our theories are false, no?

@dchackethal @tomdnassis @atse_zola All of which means we can improve these theories (guesses) indefinitely — an inspiring idea.

@dchackethal @tomdnassis @atse_zola Yes, truth is objective and absolute. But our theories are only partly true in that sense. They are inevitably partly false too, because we use fallible guesses and reasoning to interpret limited information checked with unreliable sense perceptions.

@tomdnassis @atse_zola @dchackethal I think this is just correct for propositions because the negation of a false proposition is true and vice versa? But it’s not true of explanations. There are many more ways of being wrong than right and you don’t get a true explanation by negating a false one.

@atse_zola @dchackethal @l1berty From The Myth of the Framework, "This shows that of all propositions one half will be true and the other half false. So we can be sure that there will be lots of true propositions, even though we may have great trouble in finding out which they are."

@dchackethal Thanks for reminding me of the name! It has been added to a list.

@l1berty Let us know if you end up watching The Prestige

@BrunoLeys So in that case the present simple would be a sort of default or placeholder. I think that’s true of all verb forms to some extent - they’re easier to define in relation to others.

@l1berty I believe it actually is a kind of umbrella tense for many factual statements, regardless of time. It’s probably easier to define in how far the use of other tenses stands apart from the present simple.

Present simple for a past event in news headlines. An example showing that we use the tense for much more than just present time reference. #reallyrealgrammar