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seaners··on Study reveals correlation between repeated falsehoods and public misperceptions
Hi Reddit
seaners··on Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical
What sort of argument is this? I prefer a corporatocracy to a democracy? You elect officials for your government, you have no say in what Google does.
seaners··on Flipper Zero banned by Amazon for being a ‘card skimming device’
Kinda the same. I opened it and loaded one of the jailbroken OSs but haven't had much use for it.
seaners··on Senate Bill to Ban TikTok
Seems to be a suspicious number of people in this thread purposefully "point missing" and slinging whataboutisms instead of talking about what the CCP (specifically) can do with that type of information...
seaners··on Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
I would like your wisdom (and Oliver's) but unfortunately I have added both to a Notion webclipper that I will not see for 2-3 years.
seaners··on Honestly, It's Probably the Phones
Yeah, as I was reading it I was like, "This is basically a low-res version of what Jon Haidt has been writing about for years..."
seaners··on Honestly, It's Probably the Phones
Why didn't Noah link to the best work being done on this right now? There's a huge, collaborative Google Doc https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...
seaners··on Less than half of California students read or do math at grade level
No, it's a standard that is based on what a child should be able to perform at a certain age. Otherwise everyone could get exceptionally dumb and illiterate, which has already happened in CA apparently. As someone who went to CA public school, I can tell you that very little learning is going on (at least where I was).
seaners··on An astonishing regularity in student learning rate
"Prior knowledge" is a strange way to write IQ.
seaners··on OpenEnroth – Open reimplementation of the Might and Magic 6, 7, 8 game engine
I would love to see this done to the original Hero's Quest by Sierra