These people lack anything better to do than to engage in this bizarre form of play.

There’s that theory floating around that this very weird moment is a product of mass boredom, and while I don’t ascribe total explanatory power to that, I feel like it’s definitely a lot of what’s going on *here*

Yeah yeah fair

I think you could have ended that differently and done something very interesting, but the ending as executed was certainly very effective.

Rian Johnson is a committed crowd pleaser, and packs a lot into that format, including gestures at a version of this story that I kept grasping for.

Netflix has been fucking disastrous with these releases this year.

The most we’ve gotten is discussing if she wants to wait to travel internationally until It Happens

Man that sucks because there’s not much you can do at home that isn’t like…just giving him additional homework. I hate the Chromebook thing so much.

We are, at the very least, strongly considering having a desktop set up in the dining room and otherwise pretty strict policies around devices at home.

I have 10 and 11 year old kids. My 6th grader is doing his first physical book-based course this year and it's his worst grade ever, causing him major anxiety. Schools have abdicated teaching to software programs on Chromebooks. It's a travesty. Thankfully my kids can actually read and enjoy books.

It's like they just keep...forgetting? Or they read the instructions and completely disregard them, even knowing that they can't pass the assignment without demonstrating really clear skills (citing material, writing on a course text, etc.). They just...don't do it. And don't seem to care.

I am forever explaining assignments which, to me, feel fairly basic. I do offer some creative options, which need a bit more context. But so many of my students seem unable to follow instructions, even when I return to them multiple times, write them down, or turn them into games or quizzes.

I say iPads, but really it’s the software: I think the last fifteen years of consumer software design has basically been asbestos for the mind. A bunch of “best practices” for commercial objectives are basically fucking poison.

I don’t know enough about what K-8 looks like to speculate about what might be happening there, other than the obvious disaster in reading instruction, but I do legitimately wonder if this is the real effect of iPads (and everything associated) on developing brains.

I say iPads, but really it’s the software: I think the last fifteen years of consumer software design has basically been asbestos for the mind. A bunch of “best practices” for commercial objectives are basically fucking poison.

I don’t know enough about what K-8 looks like to speculate about what might be happening there, other than the obvious disaster in reading instruction, but I do legitimately wonder if this is the real effect of iPads (and everything associated) on developing brains.