• jjjalljs
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    11 months ago

    On poor reading skills, this was a really interesting read/listen: https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ - We’ve apparently just been teaching kids how to read poorly, and not because of like a sinister agenda. That almost makes it worse, that it started with good intentions.

    Also I think about how a lot of the people who are, as you’re alluding to, bad at language simply won’t show up on a platform like this that’s all text. That’s probably why visual platforms like youtube and tiktok are hugely popular. There are a lot of people who simply cannot comfortably operate in a text-first medium.

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          11 months ago

          effectively calling at least a quarter of the population some kind of mentally handicapped is certainly a novel strategy…

          i wonder why politicians don’t typically run on such a platform? /s