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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

tbf it's not really centralized, but also it's not really decentralized

ATproto is the liminal space of social networking

Cover of book in black and white that says "A proposed traffic ordinance for the city of Los Angeles, withAnnotation and Recommendations for the Remedy of Street Traffic Conditions by Miller McClintock Traffic Consultant, October 8, 1924"

NEW EPISODE: "The Creation of America's Car Culture." Producer Ilana Strauss talks to @norton.bsky.social about the two men who, in the 1920s, teamed up to sell more cars and shape the way cities handle traffic. Their legacy can be felt across the country today. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/t...

every game is a dress-up game

the Sims 4 has rainbow as a color option on the goth clothes and it's 💯

also fuck me, I am not ready for people younger than me to be elected to public office. what have I been doing with my life

I know the target audience for that shit doesn't care but jfc, Zohran Mamdani was 9 years old on 9/11

o dam 👀

Los Angeles November Weather, Average Temperature (California, United States) - Weather Spark In Los Angeles during November average daily high temperatures decrease from 76°F to 70°F and the fraction of time spent overcast or mostly cloudy increases from 25% to 35%.

I don't even think it's particularly unusual for November in LA

the high here today was 79°F lmao

worth trying at least once though

just keep it away from small children

I've also put the gummies in the freezer and while I enjoy the resulting texture, it's probably not the best for my teeth

I've started keeping my fruit snacks and electrolyte gummies in the fridge

so good

stacking together three fruit strips to eat all at once

I hereby name it: fruit strap

50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago

Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live threat Library of Congress employees were informed to take caution when emailing the office of the congressional scorekeeper.

Politico is reporting that the breach at the Congressional Budget Office is "ongoing."

“Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.

also, there are plenty of text to speech tools that just record and don't analyze and they've existed for nearly my entire life. we've got to stop allowing people to conflate direct, non-generative tools with genAI when they have a financial incentive to do so

serious answer/educated guess: shift change? or some other scheduling quirk that caused several people to take bathroom breaks all at once

gender is a performance and it’s The Muppet Show

YouTube video by MartianBoy87 What's a GYM? - The Simpsons

"gym" as pronounced by Homer Simpson

I wish that going to a website's helpdesk/knowledge base/blog didn't make it impossible for me to get back to the main website.

Perhaps I'm the only one, but I feel like clicking on the logo should bring me back to the homepage.

Linda Evangelista - Wikipedia

for those who aren't familiar with the reference

I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.

wait y'all didn't have classmates in high school who wore period-accurate costume every day? huh

gender is a performance and I don't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day

In addition to actively impeding me from doing the thing I’m doing, summary is an action that requires intelligence and intent. I don’t read everything the same way or for the same reasons, so an automated summary cannot address my concerns even if I don’t need to read every word of a document.