It's good for American schoolkids to learn about the use of these blood libels to excuse genocide, but these pamphlets are a slog. Even with glossaries in the textbooks, it's a slow, word-by-word matter to parse these out. I can't imagine anyone learning a single thing about how speech persuades people just by reading that text.

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The standardization of American education has produced all the downsides of standardization - a rigid, often suboptimal, one-size-fits-all system - without the benefits. With teachers across America teaching in lockstep, often from the same set texts (especially in the AP courses), there's a massive opportunity for a #commons to go with the common core.

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We've continued our pandemic lockdown tradition of my wife cutting my hair in the back yard, and just tracking the three different charger tips for the three clippers she uses is an ongoing source of frustration. I'd happily trade slightly sub-optimal charging for just being able to plug any of those clippers into the same cable I charge my headphones, phone, tablet and laptop on.

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Think of the EU's requirement for USB-C charger tips on all devices. There's a lot of reasons that manufacturers prefer different charger tips for different gadgets. Some of those reasons are bad (gouging you on replacement chargers), but some are good (unique form-factor, specific smart-charging needs).

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Undoing this is above my pay-grade. I've already got more causes to crusade on than I have time for. But there is a piece of tantalyzingly low-hanging fruit that is dangling right there, and even though I'm not gonna pick it, I can't get it out of my head, so I figured I'd write about it and hope I can #lazyweb it into existence.

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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#5yrsago In LA, the teachers of America’s largest school district are on strike

#1yrago Kate Beaton's "Ducks"

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#5yrsago From the empty, shutdown #IRS, automated processes are sending out property seizure notices, and no human can stop them

#5yrsago #GoogleWalkout meets #MeToo in a new anti-#arbitration campaign

#5yrsago #AlexandriaOcasioCortez reaches more people on Twitter than the press and establishment Democrats

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#15yrsago #Wingsuit base jumpers are human flying squirrels — video

#10yrsago RIP, #NealBarretJunior

#10yrsago Patent mess goes to the Supreme Court

#10yrsago Requirements for #DRM in #HTML5 are a secret

#10yrsago #NSA official: mass spying has foiled one (or fewer) plots in its whole history

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Hey look at this

• It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up #Boeing

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Moreover, the leaders now presiding over the rapid unscheduled disassembly of once-useful products are the same people who oversaw their golden age. As to Mercury? Well, I'm a Cancer, and as everyone knows, Cancers don't believe in astrology.

The Great Enshittening isn't precipitated by a change in how greedy and callous corporate leaders are. Rather, the change is in what those greedy, callous corporate leaders can get away with.

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@narF I doubt it.