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More like Kristi Noem-More.

I'm so fucking worried about Britney.

Kristi Noem's "Open to Work" LinkedIn Profile

Sometimes it's worth remembering that Ben Franklin would lose his goddamn mind over using a radio, let alone a television or streaming or wifi or bluetooth or watching a video or, or, or...

The architecture we've built around all of it being key makes so much sense. I think this essay uses language so many of us hadn't quite been able to pin down.

"The choice isn’t between books and screens. The choice is between intentional design and profitable chaos. Between habitats that cultivate human potential and platforms that extract human attention."

"Your inability to focus isn’t a moral failing. It’s a design problem. You’re trying to think in environments built to prevent thinking. You’re trying to sustain attention in spaces engineered to shatter it."

"The fatalism, however beautifully expressed, serves the very interests it condemns. The technology companies would very much like us to believe that what they’re doing to human attention is simply the inevitable result of technological progress rather than something they’re doing to us"

"We give them tools designed to fracture attention and blame them when their attention fractures. We built a world that profits from distraction and then pathologise the distracted."

"The people who cannot sit through novels aren’t broken. They’re adapted to an environment we built. We hand them infinite information and wonder why they drown. "

"We’re not abandoning literacy. We’re discovering what literacy meant all along: not just the ability to decode symbols on a page, but the capacity to move fluently between all the ways humans encode meaning."

"These aren’t concessions to declining attention spans. They’re recognitions that human understanding has always been richer than any single medium could contain."

This essay is GREAT!

"I used to believe, as I was taught, that literacy was primarily about decoding text. But watching how people actually learn and think has convinced me that literacy is about something deeper: the capacity to construct and navigate environments where understanding becomes possible."

Article screenshot: Others are drowning, attempting sustained thought in environments engineered to prevent it. They sit with laptops open, seven tabs competing for attention, notifications sliding in from three different apps, phones vibrating every few minutes. They’re trying to read serious material while fighting a losing battle against behavioural psychology weaponised at scale. They believe their inability to focus is a personal failure rather than a design problem. They don’t realise they’re trying to think in a space optimised to prevent thinking.

I have worried about what I've seen as my own decreased ability to focus but this article has really shifted my thinking. It's so so interesting. aeon.co/essays/what-...

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

i don't know how to teach people to be more curious but i think that's what we desperately need

The Censored University Panel discussion Tuesday, March 10, 5:30pm Bass Lecture Hall LBJ School of Public Affairs

Austin area peeps: @penamerica.bsky.social is coming to UT next Tuesday, March 10th. It’ll be a great panel discussion, featuring @jonfreadom.bsky.social, SEAT representative Cameron Samuels, Professor Karma Chavez, and author/journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Helluvan opening line for a horror or romance.

CDC Issues Travel Advisory for 32 Countries, Including Several in Europe, Over Spread of Paralyzing Disease The CDC has issued an alert about traveling to Spain, Germany, Finland and Poland, as well as the U.K. and 28 other countries — due to the spread of polio. They encourage travelers to be up to date on...

I didn't have "get a polio booster because I'm traveling to Germany" on my 2026 Bingo Card.

people.com/travel-advis...

Libraries worried about property tax ballot issue Levies fund 22% of Findlay, 28% of McComb libraries

Late last year, I wrote about the new tactic to defund libraries, which is through state-level tax reforms (see here: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...).

Guess what libraries are worried about now in Ohio? Exactly that. State already changed their budgeting last year.

thecourier.com/news/799947/...

Pullman specifies on budget cuts Cost-cutting measures affect Neill Public Library, Parks & Rec services, part-time and seasonal staff

Pullman, Washington, may need to have shorter hours in their public library due to budget issues: www.lmtribune.com/local-news/p...

Lawsuit Filed Over Goddard Library Closure A lawsuit was filed on 19 February in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

"A lawsuit was filed on 19 February in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia concerning the closure of the NASA Goddard library and the disposition of records and research materials housed there."

nasawatch.com/trumpspace/l...

Working school district budget draft closes schools, eliminates librarians The cuts are being proposed as school board members trying to reconcile a roughly $8.5 million forecast budget shortfall, and come as community members fervently advocate to keep their programs.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (AK) is looking at totally eliminating library positions to solve a budget crisis: www.kdll.org/local-news/2...

Marblehead weighs deep cuts, new fees to close $7.7M budget gap - Marblehead Current Town Administrator Thatcher Kezer told the Select Board Wednesday night that the town faces a $7.7 million deficit for fiscal 2027, presenting two stark budget scenarios that would either dramatically...

Due to budget issues, Marblehead, Massachusetts, may defund their public library: marbleheadcurrent.org/2026/03/04/m...

Workshop on Investigating Prison Book Bans In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to request records, clean up data and shed light on carceral book bans.

The Marshall Project is offering a workshop on investigating book bans on the 18th. If this is something you're interested in or want to learn more about, here's the info --> www.themarshallproject.org/events/works...

Several rural states changed child labor laws beginning around 2021 so that they could force (Brown and Black) kids into jobs no one else would take.

Nebraska, just weeks ago, voted to cut minimum wage requirements for minors.

This party cares about child labor and exploitation, not children.

Yes it is because 1. it doesn't, and 2. AI hasn't rotted my brain. It did, however, STEAL MY ACTUAL WORK.

Thinking about this in context of growing up in the era where child rapists were **creating** the thin-is-everything culture makes it even harder to rest. Those of us of a certain age have never been left alone about our bodies.

RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved posting a thread 🧵🧵🧵 (1/95)