@rodjnaquin Okay, figure all this stuff out, prove that it works with real, longitudinal studies, and then we can try it. Until then, stop ruining kids lives for profit by destroying the educational system that has worked for 100 years
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Simon
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@SimonDaedalus
Some of my means are trivial, while others are quadrivial. -James Joyce.
เข้าร่วม Mayıs 2025
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Whitney Whealdon pushes back on the "technology is bad for kids" narrative. While she acknowledges real concerns about screen time and social media, she argues EdTech fails because schools just add it on top of existing systems instead of thoughtfully integrating it. The real issue isn't technology itself—it's poor implementation and buying solutions without understanding what problems actually need solving.
open.substack.com/pub/whitneywhe…
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@richmond3000 @mattyglesias Then why were Parisians eating rats in 1870?
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@mattyglesias Why France lost the Franco Prussian war wasn’t much to do with napoleon iii and a lot to do with needle rifles and mobilisation planning. So wtf are you talking about? Nap iii was a pretty competent leader
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@chriswithans @conor64 If you can't tell the moral difference between a funeral elegy that shares the deceased's politics and saying "I am glad he's dead", you shouldn't be allowed with 1000 feet of a child
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Not a word about how Obama went on a political rant during Jesse Jackson’s funeral. Biden too. By “presidents” he means “Republican presidents” who do not get nonstop media praise.
Conor Friedersdorf@conor64
Presidents shouldn't behave publicly in ways that set a bad example for children. If a president does this regularly, you should not support him. If you do, you'll be likelier to compromise your own morals to accommodate his degeneracy.
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@TPCarney I like Shapiro and I like cell phone bans but I’m not sure why we should care about whether schools teach cursive
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@Gok @nobodyknows2322 So something even shorter-lived than the Paris Commune is the best they can do? Haha
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@SimonDaedalus @nobodyknows2322 No the Shanghai Commune was a particular event during the Cultural Revolution.
(tldr, radicals decided their local government was not Maoist enough, overthrew it, Mao said "good job" then 2 weeks later changed his mind and sent in the PLA who killed everyone)
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Oh, shit guys. This is it. It's finally here. The spark of The Revolution
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@nobodyknows2322 If it wasn't for needing US support in WWI, the Brits would have come down on the Irish much harder after the Easter Rising.
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And Washington was Ireland's ace in the hole in the negotiations to end that conflict for this reason.
Which makes Irish whining about American Jews and Israel rather rich. They had no problem with an ethnic diaspora lobby in the US when it benefited *them*.
Bird on 🔥 🇺🇸🇹🇼🇯🇵🇩🇪🇺🇦🇮🇱@nobodyknows2322
Irish-Americans took a keen interest in the Northern Ireland issue. It waa a sore point of Anglo-American relations for years
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@HalSinger Hal, you moron, Tucker believes the Mossad killed Charlie Kirk. Of course he is a racist
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We really need to quit with the notion that anyone critical of Israeli influence on U.S. policy is antisemitic. I’ve even seen the label attached to American Jews. Can they also be antisemitic? A self-hating Jew? One should be free to criticize an unjust war—and how we arrived at this horrible place—without being stigmatized as racists.
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Love how we're trivializing child rape now for Palestine. Everything is for Palestine. Lie about a man that broke his back for Palestine and spit in his face. At least it makes you consistent with Arafat.
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan
Liar. Epstein Class member.
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@CartoonsHateHer You mean I bought that Minotaur mask and lock-pick kit for nothing?!?
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@sunrisemvmt @MelatKirosCO Why aren't you posting about climate? Do you think Zionists control the weather like Marjorie Taylor-Greene does?
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BREAKING: Rep. DeGette gets heated with a constituent pressing her on why she voted to send bombs to Israel:
"If this the only issue that you care about is this issue, then you should not vote for me"
DeGette, who's 68, is facing a primary challenge from @MelatKirosCO.
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I can't get over the fact that Dune is about an oppressed people fighting for their homeland, waging a jihad to bring down a hegemonic empire by threatening to cut off the flow of their most precious commodity after the empire had assassinated their religious leader's father.
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I bought this poster and put it in my new classroom immediately once I moved out here
Kurt Steiner@Kurt_Steiner
The progressive West.
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@dilanesper Or maybe people just love stories about other, somewhat famous people doing self-degrading shit. This isn't dark, twisted fantasy stuff, just reality television delivered via Twitter
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The fact that all these articles are clickbait tells you something about people's actual preferences (or at least their fantasies) compared to what they might publicly espouse.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The polyamory articles will continue until you stop clicking and sharing them!!!
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@baytifirasik @arash_tehran Tamurlane still pretty popular in Uzbekistan too; "Tamurlane" is even a popular name among Turks, even though it's an English corruption of "Timur the Lame"
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@arash_tehran Not in Mongolia. I even listened to a singer performing part a very long epic poem about him there. They love him.
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I hope we can now get a consensus that Genghis Khan was evil
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@FeserEdward @SohrabAhmari @unherd So Sohrab admits what David French was telling him 10 years ago. Ahmari is such a fake Catholic pathetic trend-follower who sounds like a girl
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From @SohrabAhmari: “Trump…has now fully given way to his liberal caricature: venal, erratic, childish, a chaos agent…The scale of [his] failures...return[s us] to the character problem that first gave rise to the Never Trump movement” unherd.com/2026/03/trump-… via @UnHerd
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Simon รีทวีตแล้ว
average election in isratine
Adolf Al-Hitler (Hamas): 34%
Baruch Kahane (Lehi): 29%
Rachel Cohen (Liberal): 13%
Mahmoud Yahudkiller (Socialist): 10%
Moshe Sinwar (Kill All Gays): 7%
David Obama (Labor): 5%
RUNOFF:
Adolf Al-Hitler 51%
Baruch Kahane 49%
Richarduels@Richarduels
@alt_ccc I think the saddest realization is that a one state solution, especially in this climate, will not be possible, and people who believe it sadly are naive. A one state solution just leads a runoff election between people like Ben Gavir and Yahwya Sinwar.
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@nick_clevelands If you're going to criticize an article or op-ed, shouldn't you at least provide a link or even mention the author's name?
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NYT just published an op-ed by a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which was founded to "enhance Israel's image in North America." The author argues for more war, saying "at least another two weeks of attacks will be necessary to ensure the regime cannot pose a serious military threat for several years — if it survives at all."
Nick Cleveland-Stout@nick_clevelands
Americans largely oppose the war on Iran. But the war is very popular among Washington think tanks, who are flush with more than $44 million from weapons companies since 2019 and act as the war’s loudest cheerleaders across major media networks 🧵
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@trad_west_ What it's like to teach classics in a "diverse" university
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