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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably some ASD-ish adjacent, but it just breaks my brain every time. It seems like there’s a large proportion of people who don’t seem to actually care whether they have an accurate understanding of the world or not? The amount of times online I’ve been able to show someone evidence that they demanded, and then they double down. At best they’ll go silent, but then you’ll see them making the exact same claim later.

  In general right now it seems like there are a lot willing to call evil good, and good evil. Everything is backwards. The Moral Majority voted in a pedophile rapist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Flex Loans offer borrowers up to $4,000 at 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of people in debt that can land them in court.

  Payday loans in the states are horrifying. It got so bad that the US government stepped in to limit the interest rates they could charge military members.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey - don’t stand so close to me.

  Nabokov is fun, because he had an opinion on basically every author ever. If you feel frustrated about something you read in an English class, you can probably find an essay by Nabokov reading that author as filth.

  “Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre- Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human English words expressing several, although by no means all, aspects of poshlost are, for instance,” cheap," “sham,” “smutty,” “highfalutin,”“in bad taste.” dignity - all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of “sinning their way to Jesus" or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, "spilling Jesus all over the place.”

  Like c’mon man - if you don’t feel something reading the Grand Inquisitor in Karamazov - are you human?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You say in another comment that this is indicative of a failed American education experiment, and that there’s a generation of illiteracy.

  Yes, I’m alluding to a larger context outside of that study. In addition to the obvious harms of COVID/virtual school, many US schools switched to a model of teaching reading that omitted phonics entirely. This simply does not work for the vast majority of students, and this had already been demonstrated in the 1970’s.

  The authors refer to that larger context here -

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  My remarks on generalizing the study to Kansas undergrads was to point out that is an entirely acceptable sample size. In statistics, when you think about sample size, you have to think about the population you are studying. This study was specifically studying the literacy of Kansas English undergrads, which I imagine is a small enough population that you can generalize that study to. This would indicate that many future English teachers in Kansas are struggling readers.

  We can put that as a data point next to several other studies about the US’s current literacy crisis.

  As far as why they chose Bleak House:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  N of 85 is entirely reasonable for that kind of study. You could safely generalize that to the population of Kansas English undergrads - run that through G Power and tell me otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words.

  It is so goddamn frustrating. I had one on here claiming that the US had not deported US citizens, while linking the article saying that the US had deported four children who were citizens!

  I read fast and have been following this shit for so long that I can call a lot out. But it never changes their minds, they never concede defeat. They just jump from place to place. Or “you libs always assume i’m MAGA” is a funny one I keep seeing on here - like, if you are supporting Trump’s policies, you are a Trump supporter. It’s so goddamn slimy and disingenuous.

  TERFs are the worst about it. They’ve started spreading Holocaust denial. I saw one claim the the Nazi government issued transvestite passes! Like no! It was the Weimar Republic! The Nazis used those passes to track down and kill trans people!

  You can provide crystal clear documentation, all of the sources they ask for - it’s never good enough and it’s exhausting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nabokov seemed to think that the fog was important. I guess it’s a novel about a legal case, and maybe the metaphor is the “fog” of legal confusion.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Feel free to stick your head in the sand and ignore the world around you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a discussion of the history context too:

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  These were college students who were seeking English majors. People who are going to go on to teach Dickens - and hopefully have read Great Expectations or Tale of Two Cities at some point in high school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorta like how “awesome” and “terrible” in their current usage are very weak words.

  A youth pastor and Cotton Mather could both say “God is awesome” and mean very different things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah - it’s what’s linked at the end of the OP

  It is fascinating and scary. The “whole literacy” experiment the US did - where we ignored decades of research on how to teach children to read while filling the pockets of educational consultants - seems to have created a generation of near illiterate adults.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That last link is a study, where researchers provided English undergrads with that passage, and asked them to think aloud while reading it. They had access to dictionaries and could look up words.

  Here are the results:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I would not be surprised if that was the title of Kanye’s next album.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not even close to a thought out response, just reactive defense of the current administration fascistic policies and desire to erase history.

  Is it normal that they are removing women from military history?

  Does the boot leather taste that great?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  How many of the at least 600 women that were sexually assaulted by “John of God” saw him because of Oprah platforming him?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, it should. American educations don’t touch Africa barring a dip into Egypt, which usually compresses the dynasties in a way that does nothing for a deeper understanding. Even as someone with a BA in history, that watched the course listing like a hawk for “history of the Sahel” or “history of the Mali empire” or some lovely 3000-4000 course - nothing.

  I should have been taught who Nkrumah was. And Léopold Senghor, and Kenyatta…

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  Instead, I lean on The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith. Which is a good book, but by a journalist, not a historian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s not like we’ve got a government administration that is actively seeking to remove mentions of women and people of color from their websites.

  Its not like the Smithsonian is returning artifacts to people against their requests, and pulling specific items from view to please the current administration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It also be “both sides have something to learn from each other!” Oscar bait a la Crash or Green Book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Pre medieval knitting bothers me immensely. Stockinette is too recognizable and too taken for granted to not be driving me crazy constantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Look up who Alec McGuiness played in Lawrence of Arabia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun story - I went to a troubled teen facility, and we had “group.” There was no actual qualifications required for the people running “group.”

  We watched Tyler Perry movies. (Also at one point Ip Man which is Goated.) I learned the phrase “give head” or similar while watching How Did I Get Married. I was asked to think about the lessons that this movie could apply to my interpersonal relationships - I had never considered how the frequency of oral sex would decease after marriage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh - if you do any academic study of history, that’s what it all starts to look like.

  I tried to watch Spartacus because Kubrick and… I couldn’t. Those fucking hairdos. The depiction of Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator upset me - like no, the man was not a proto Thomas Jefferson (and even the IRL Jefferson was made his money on child slavery and raped children.) Wuxia is so much fun but there’s never going to be a period accurate Three Kingdoms (which is a 17thish century novel anyway)

  Medieval history especially…. That’s pages and pages, and I’m not even really that much of a medievalist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Halle Berry, or hallelujah

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Klara? The usury company? The “preys on kids who failed the Algebra 2 test on interest” company?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had the final resources and executive functioning to do so, I would.

  I have already experienced torture. The apartment I have right now is the first time in the thirty-ish years of my life that I have not been under the control of an abusive and dangerous person.

  I can’t make my brain work enough to finish the 2 hour class I need for my masters. I can barely make it work to find another job, so I can get health insurance, and afford the help making my brain work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a thing on social media already.

  Lots of bad faith conservatives will just output AI garbage. They don’t care about truth, they just want to waste your time. You spend time researching their claims, providing counter evidence - they don’t care, because they don’t even read what you say, just copy and paste into an LLM.

  It’s very concerning with the Trump administrations attack on science. Science papers are disappearing, accurate/vetted information because sparser - then you can train Grok to claim that all trans women are rapists or that global warming is just Milkanovitch cycles.

  It is and has been an info war. An attack on human knowledge itself. And AI will be used to facilitate it.