James Anwyl

I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.

Oliver Jeffers: 'I want to be able to look my kids in the eye and say that I tried'

Since becoming a father, Oliver Jeffers has felt a need to write and illustrate stories that truly make a difference.

Thoroughly appreciated your discussion, in particular navigating the increasing debasement of critical thinking, skepticism & maintaining discourse founded upon evidence based interrogation, not just 'both-sidesing' every discussion to fall into the trap of always establishing dichotomies

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My new essay on AI (www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/) includes quotes from, or links to, writings by @emilymbender.bsky.social, @palan57.bsky.social, @stopgenai.com, @ddmeyer.bsky.social, @zachczaia.bsky.social, @lutzfernandez.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social, @garymarcus.bsky.social ....

*via magical thinking

Why do we persist in romanticizing failure, particularly where students are concerned? A look at the ideology behind this tendency - and how it's contradicted by research - in the latest episode of Kohn's Zone: "The Failure of Failure." (All episodes are available here: www.alfiekohn.org/podcasts/)

Blumenthal to Patel: "I'm not going to mince words -- you lied to us."

This seems a simple and sensible approach to saving Meanjin:

An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin

It wasn’t about the money

logo of podcast "Kohn's Zone"

A new episode of my podcast (Kohn's Zone) just dropped: "Confusing Harder with Better."
Why do corporate school reformers fetishize "rigor"? Why do we assume that AP classes are the best classes in a high school? Why have kindergartens come to resemble bad first-grades?
Listen here: is.gd/JiaK2w

Authoritarians weaponize stupidity to undermine trust in expertise, institutions responsible for safeguarding and dispersing knowledge, and consensus reality, because doing so makes people more dependent on the authoritarian leader or party as the sole arbiters of “truth.”

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…

This is the only thing you need to read about AI

The part about being too emotional and putting words in people’s mouths ESPECIALLY

When you see news stories day after day about Israel's deliberate policy of creating mass starvation & shooting desperate civilians, please realize this can't be blamed exclusively on a handful of monsters in charge.
(Sources for the figures below: is.gd/hrAf4T & is.gd/TMTHTx)

[Guardian headline] Gaza is 'hell on earth' with doctors fainting from hunger, UN says, as 1,000 people estimated to have been killed seeking food

It's not just a protester's slogan: A Jewish Holocaust scholar (who served in the Israeli army) explains that "Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza." It's not a war or even just ethnic cleansing: It is genocide; Israel is "beyond the pale of humanity": is.gd/26p4ud

Shocking satellite imagery of the total destruction of the town of Khuza'a, southern Gaza, by the Israeli army over the last few months.

Happy to point out that @albomp.bsky.social deciding to release the highly contentious special envoy's report - a report he has known about for many months - just before he departs for a large, publicity sucking tour of China, is in fact, not a coincidence.

#duckandrun #pfffft

Helping Ahmed Nashwan and his family This is Julia, I have set up this campaign for Ahmed Nashwan. His story in his own words is below.My name is Ahmed Nashwan. I am a 29 year old accountant who has lost everything in the Gaza massacre. ...

Helping Ahmed Nashwan and his family chuffed.org/project/1325...

one of the most effective and highly bought corporate propaganda campaigns ever was convincing individual people that turning off the lights and recycling were the solutions to climate change and not dismantling corporate polluters brick by brick and demanding policy and regulation

relative perspective

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Among the many people Israel slaughtered today, these two families were nearly wiped out. I documented them for you to witness.

what a twat

Countries all over the world are looking at Iran and thinking.

"I need to build a nuclear bomb."

Well done.

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2023-23 TAX STATS SPREADSHEET SHOWING 91 PEoPLE WITH A TOTAL INCOME OF $1M+ who paid $0 tax

The 2022-23 tax stats just dropped. And there we have it:

91 millionaires who paid ZERO tax

"Private debt is much bigger than government debt. It’s private borrowing, not government spending, that actually drives crises and inflation." . - Steve Keen

For those tired of the Neo-Liberal lies about debt and the economy from the media, Steve Keen will speak with Hannah Appel and Michael Hudson about Debt, Empire and the Economy.

30th June.

Elon Musk's huge popularity over the years is a great reminder of an often forgotten truth: nerds are exactly as dumb and gullible as everyone else.

as if the illusion of individual choices have any chance or bearing against system-level responses to market economics & the distorted values it both incentivizes or manufactures - including profits via fossil fuels, consumer culture & modulating human behaviour through ads...

attn: israel stenographers & media 'both siders' that enabled israel to commit vile atrocities against Palestinians with impunity

IF JUSTICE DOES NOT FIND YOU FIRST

May the guilt eat at you,
excuses of 'editorial censorship' fail you
& your conscience gnaw voraciously upon your future, forever.

Greens hammered by legacy media spin on Gaza Voters weren't sick of hearing about Gaza — legacy media journalists seem tired of talking about it.

Voters weren't sick of hearing about Gaza — legacy media journalists seem tired of talking about it.
~ Tom Tanuki @tomtanuki.bsky.social

Greens hammered by legacy media spin on Gaza
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

Israeli Finance Minister doubles down on ethnic cleansing.

The quiet part out loud. This is colonization. This is apartheid. This is ethnic cleansing. This is genocide. Free Palestine.