this is one problem, but not the sole source of the problem. The shift in high school away from books/ novels to shorter texts contributes, the focus on standardized testing contributes, the COVID year contributed, etc.

And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.

She has unfortunately had a very strange trajectory after that video. Internet famous leftist, then dirtbag leftist, then pop fascist, then Succession recurring character, then Charli XCX muse

(You will almost certainly have to cut it)

Please ask Zack while the mic is on

You are blessed

The podcaster

Yeah, no other pictures of her exist, and she looks like they photoshopped a blazer onto a Skyrim mod. It’s some weird prank.

slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse

oh my god, please post some of the "translation". I'm sure it's just a guy copying and pasting the text into chatgpt and telling it "make it simpler" over and over again

They're playing bagpipes outside again;
the sound is wafting through my yard,
and I find myself inexplicably remembering,
the way you held the keys to my carrrrr

Tini Howard knows her stuff!