#dumbingdown — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dumbingdown, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: grumble
also why would anyone remove the search field and merge it with the url field 😡
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CW: grumble
also why would anyone remove the search field and merge it with the url field 😡
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The deliberate theft of free education by successive governments is one of the greatest acts of intergenerational theft in our history. I know, because I was one of the lucky ones who benefited from Whitlam's vision. We must restore it.
#FreeEducation #Whitlam #AusPol #LNPFail #EducationForAll #dumbingdown
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The deliberate theft of free education by successive governments is one of the greatest acts of intergenerational theft in our history. I know, because I was one of the lucky ones who benefited from Whitlam's vision. We must restore it.
#FreeEducation #Whitlam #AusPol #LNPFail #EducationForAll #dumbingdown
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2 observations on watching the lunchtime news from the BBC:
As journalists, it's your job to question assumptions. Please don't present as established fact the assumption that the importance of releasing prisoners from jail by mistake depends mainly on the nationality of the prisoner.
What's happening on Celebrity Traitors this evening is not news, it is a TRAILER, and doesn't need to take up several minutes of a news bulletin.
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2 observations on watching the lunchtime news from the BBC:
As journalists, it's your job to question assumptions. Please don't present as established fact the assumption that the importance of releasing prisoners from jail by mistake depends mainly on the nationality of the prisoner.
What's happening on Celebrity Traitors this evening is not news, it is a TRAILER, and doesn't need to take up several minutes of a news bulletin.
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Listening to The Curious Cases of Not Rutherford and Fry.
As a licence payer I demand that the #BBC re-hires Adam. It would be so much better with his comments on the crow item.
#CuriousCases #HannahFry #Radio4 #enshittification #DumbingDown #science -
“The use of AI appears to have left a lasting impression on people’s brains.”
#AI #ChatGPT #Technology #Science #DumbingDown -
It has gotten to the point that even good science reporting sucks. It’s simplified down to the usual 8th grade vocab & comprehension, so I’m left wondering thru all the oversimplification what exactly was discovered?! Sure in this wondrous Information Age I could look up the paper, but, like, not while driving & listening to the radio where I heard the science report. #dumbingdown #sciencejournalism #moreinfoplease
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"This is exactly the kind of thing that happens when AI gets deployed as a way to cut costs. And it's going to keep happening."
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"The Chicago Sun-Times just published a summer reading list with one major problem: most of the books don't exist. Titles like Tidewater Dreams by Isabel Allende and The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir sound plausible enough, but they're completely fictional—fabricated by AI and published without anyone catching the error. Of the fifteen books recommended in the list, a full ten of them are entirely made up."
~ Parker Molloy
#AI #media #DumbingDown #illiteracy
/1https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-chicago-sun-times-published-an
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"The Chicago Sun-Times just published a summer reading list with one major problem: most of the books don't exist. Titles like Tidewater Dreams by Isabel Allende and The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir sound plausible enough, but they're completely fictional—fabricated by AI and published without anyone catching the error. Of the fifteen books recommended in the list, a full ten of them are entirely made up."
~ Parker Molloy
#AI #media #DumbingDown #illiteracy
/1https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-chicago-sun-times-published-an
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Well that was so spot on and what I have been witnessing in the last 25 years…
“Astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan managed to predict a lot of the things the challenges America faces in the year 2021 all the way back in 1995 when he was writing a book published just before his death in 1996.”
MSNBC's Brian Williams shares the details.
#populism #neoliberalism #dumbingdown #oligarchy #authoritarianism #MSNBC
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Well that was so spot on and what I have been witnessing in the last 25 years…
“Astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan managed to predict a lot of the things the challenges America faces in the year 2021 all the way back in 1995 when he was writing a book published just before his death in 1996.”
MSNBC's Brian Williams shares the details.
#populism #neoliberalism #dumbingdown #oligarchy #authoritarianism #MSNBC
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Well that was so spot on and what I have been witnessing in the last 25 years…
#populism #neoliberalism #dumbingdown #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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Well that was so spot on and what I have been witnessing in the last 25 years…
#populism #neoliberalism #dumbingdown #oligarchy #authoritarianism
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We got a sky packed chock-full of beaming satellites - but still we want more "streaming" = aka big energyhungry datacenters? #dumbingdown
https://deadline.com/2024/11/tyson-paul-fight-glitches-netflix-1236178632/ -
We got a sky packed chock-full of beaming satellites - but still we want more "streaming" = aka big energyhungry datacenters? #dumbingdown
https://deadline.com/2024/11/tyson-paul-fight-glitches-netflix-1236178632/ -
I am SO glad I'm RETIRED from the #Florida #University System! 🙏
Twenty years ago we had the ingredients to become world leaders in education and research.
Now, not so much... doomed to #mediocrity and #dumbingdown
The people of Florida deserve better than what they are getting from these #GOP yo-yos... 🙄
#DeSantis is Bad for Florida!
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I am SO glad I'm RETIRED from the #Florida #University System! 🙏
Twenty years ago we had the ingredients to become world leaders in education and research.
Now, not so much... doomed to #mediocrity and #dumbingdown
The people of Florida deserve better than what they are getting from these #GOP yo-yos... 🙄
#DeSantis is Bad for Florida!
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A new report from the Australian Education Union (AEU) has highlighted the extent of the funding gap between #private and #publicschools.
It found about 1% of Australian public schools are meeting minimum funding standards, compared to 98% of private schools.
#auspol #dumbingdown #EducationForAll
https://thedailyaus.com.au/stories/funding-gap-public-private-schools-union-research/ -
A new report from the Australian Education Union (AEU) has highlighted the extent of the funding gap between #private and #publicschools.
It found about 1% of Australian public schools are meeting minimum funding standards, compared to 98% of private schools.
#auspol #dumbingdown #EducationForAll
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@CloudyMrs Sounds like Countryvile - the godawful replacement to our Sunday lunchtime compulsory viewing. Mind Landward is heading groundward at 10m/s^2 right now too #dumbingdown
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@CloudyMrs Sounds like Countryvile - the godawful replacement to our Sunday lunchtime compulsory viewing. Mind Landward is heading groundward at 10m/s^2 right now too #dumbingdown
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Was perusing the archive section of the New York Times for today's date for the year 1969 while enjoying my morning coffee when I stumbled across this article on insulin research. What really startles me is the “complexity” of the article. The assumption is the denisity of its contents is perfectly reasonable for the average reader in 1969 to understand. This isn't in a subsection; it's in the front section. The rest of the article is more of the same.
#reading #science #dumbingDown -
Was perusing the archive section of the New York Times for today's date for the year 1969 while enjoying my morning coffee when I stumbled across this article on insulin research. What really startles me is the “complexity” of the article. The assumption is the denisity of its contents is perfectly reasonable for the average reader in 1969 to understand. This isn't in a subsection; it's in the front section. The rest of the article is more of the same.
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The premise of "idiocracy" was a funny Mike Judge bit until 2016. Then it suddenly wasn't in a very, VERY real way.
Opening Intro to Idiocracy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA
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The premise of "idiocracy" was a funny Mike Judge bit until 2016. Then it suddenly wasn't in a very, VERY real way.
Opening Intro to Idiocracy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA
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A good article about how dumbed down, education-aversive people now pose as if they are 'smarter' and cause havoc. Then politicians and media, especially right wings, export it in an attention grab and call reality 'woke'. This says so much:
"Can you name two living sports players?
Two movie stars?
Two musicians?
And now, Can you name two living scientists?
How about two mathematicians?
There’s the problem."https://cliffberg.medium.com/the-great-dumbing-down-1fe738b18570
#stupidity #dumbingdown #dumbeddownbritian #dumbingofamerica
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We have people leaving, even though they have degrees, to go drive a truck, because you can earn $60,000 in early childhood and $100,000 as a truck driver, #education #dumbingdown #inflation #ausbiz
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-22/early-childhood-educators-crisis-wages-rise/101997336
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We have people leaving, even though they have degrees, to go drive a truck, because you can earn $60,000 in early childhood and $100,000 as a truck driver, #education #dumbingdown #inflation #ausbiz
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-22/early-childhood-educators-crisis-wages-rise/101997336
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#DeathSantis variant continues intensive effort to ban #truth and encourage #hate & us/them-ism, cultism vs."woke" to reality...
Article: Biden Slams Gov. Ron DeSantis' Relentless Push To Dumb Down Florida Education
#Dumbingdown #WarOnReality #woke vs. #GQP #disinformation and #fascism waiting to be unleashed (again) #TrumpVirus
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#DeathSantis variant continues intensive effort to ban #truth and encourage #hate & us/them-ism, cultism vs."woke" to reality...
Article: Biden Slams Gov. Ron DeSantis' Relentless Push To Dumb Down Florida Education
#Dumbingdown #WarOnReality #woke vs. #GQP #disinformation and #fascism waiting to be unleashed (again) #TrumpVirus
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A scathing review of #Australia's #education system, critical of so-called 'reforms'.The report found the strategy adopted in 2018 has done very little to improve student outcomes. #Education4All #freeeducation #dumbingdown
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A scathing review of #Australia's #education system, critical of so-called 'reforms'.The report found the strategy adopted in 2018 has done very little to improve student outcomes. #Education4All #freeeducation #dumbingdown
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Dimming the Lights https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/09/patrick-lawrence-dimming-the-lights/
Well-written, timely, appalling. The quotations he employs are relevant and devastatingly accurate.
#DumbingDown #Education -
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Dimming the Lights https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/09/patrick-lawrence-dimming-the-lights/
Well-written, timely, appalling. The quotations he employs are relevant and devastatingly accurate.
#DumbingDown #Education -
Numbers going the wrong way: #maths #teaching and #research in #Australia #dumbingdown
https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/maths-teaching-research-australia/
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Numbers going the wrong way: #maths #teaching and #research in #Australia #dumbingdown
https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/maths-teaching-research-australia/
