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Dear high school English teachers, not every (or even any) paragraph in an essay needs to start with a "topic sentence." In fact, rather a lot of terrific paragraphs in terrific essays have no "topic sentences" at all.

24.09.2025 22:20 — 👍 48    🔁 3    💬 12    📌 7

Can we get the scoop on the grooming products, tools, routine it takes to make the floof look like this?

05.08.2025 20:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Parents: Give this quiz to your school-aged kids. And then share it with your own aging parents. You might all learn how to better spot fakes. And you'll definitely learn why, in the age of AI, we have to be more cautious in trusting our eyes.

30.06.2025 20:17 — 👍 42    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 3

The reason we fight against fascism is because of love. Love for our friends and family. Our children deserve better than this. They deserve not to live in a place where they must fear getting shot. We love them. So we have to win. And in time, we will. The axe forgets but the tree remembers.

25.06.2025 21:21 — 👍 5623    🔁 1185    💬 105    📌 46

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

18.06.2025 07:32 — 👍 3731    🔁 1525    💬 196    📌 375

Oh

time.com/7295195/ai-c...

19.06.2025 01:55 — 👍 5798    🔁 2326    💬 68    📌 174

The highest compliment from someone who disagrees with you is not “You were right.” It’s “You made me think.”

Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity.

The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.

29.01.2025 13:58 — 👍 3105    🔁 762    💬 87    📌 81

A herd of bison crossing a river with a mountain rising in the background covered in a pine forest.

Hang in there, let the lawyers deal with it.

Tatonka Tuesday
All our public lands
Should look like this

21.01.2025 15:23 — 👍 4970    🔁 501    💬 57    📌 16

There is a reason TikTok is so good at figuring out what you want to see, and why it’s better than everything else: it’s a weapon, and the best weapon is one you don’t know exists, or worse, one you think you can’t live without

19.01.2025 17:59 — 👍 32198    🔁 6105    💬 2019    📌 420