#illiteracy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #illiteracy, aggregated by home.social.
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A woman feared the worst about her husband. Turns out his new passion was books.
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A woman feared the worst about her husband. Turns out his new passion was books.
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In 2025, an #Arkansas appeals panel severely limited how the Voting Rights Act can be enforced. It eliminates a vital mechanism for communities of color and voters with disabilities to challenge discriminatory voting practices.
The case was appealed to the #SupremeCourt. The Court declined to review, leaving in place the lower court ruling.
The decision strips the private right to sue under Section 208 of the landmark civil rights Voting Rights Act, which allows voters with a disability or those unable to read or write to receive voting assistance from a person of their choice.
They seem to think if they can stop us from voting, they can stop us from rising. They will not.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/22/nx-s1-5863532/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-private-right-arkansas
#VotingRightsAct #uspol #voting #discrimination #disability #StillWeRise #illiteracy
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In 2025, an #Arkansas appeals panel severely limited how the Voting Rights Act can be enforced. It eliminates a vital mechanism for communities of color and voters with disabilities to challenge discriminatory voting practices.
The case was appealed to the #SupremeCourt. The Court declined to review, leaving in place the lower court ruling.
The decision strips the private right to sue under Section 208 of the landmark civil rights Voting Rights Act, which allows voters with a disability or those unable to read or write to receive voting assistance from a person of their choice.
They seem to think if they can stop us from voting, they can stop us from rising. They will not.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/22/nx-s1-5863532/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-private-right-arkansas
#VotingRightsAct #uspol #voting #discrimination #disability #StillWeRise #illiteracy
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Uganda 🇺🇬 needs more #learning spaces to help in combating #poverty, #disease, #illiteracy, #ignorance and irrational #SuperstitiousBelief
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Uganda 🇺🇬 needs more #learning spaces to help in combating #poverty, #disease, #illiteracy, #ignorance and irrational #SuperstitiousBelief
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@oantolin This piece is squarely in the style of the measured, non-alarmist, depoliticized, timid and aloof articulation of a previous consensus.
Every career #academic recognizes this drivel: it's what the LLMs spit out because it's what they are meant to model.
This piece is "faster than expected," but for the people who were screaming bloody murder, for all the fucking good it did, over Bush's education policies before 9/11.
This piece is "Tel Aviv retaliated tonight after clashes with militant Islamists" for people who couldn't find 1982 or 1967 or 1948 on a calendar of the 20th century.
Industrial scale credentialed #illiteracy has been a policy goal for my entire lifetime.
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@oantolin This piece is squarely in the style of the measured, non-alarmist, depoliticized, timid and aloof articulation of a previous consensus.
Every career #academic recognizes this drivel: it's what the LLMs spit out because it's what they are meant to model.
This piece is "faster than expected," but for the people who were screaming bloody murder, for all the fucking good it did, over Bush's education policies before 9/11.
This piece is "Tel Aviv retaliated tonight after clashes with militant Islamists" for people who couldn't find 1982 or 1967 or 1948 on a calendar of the 20th century.
Industrial scale credentialed #illiteracy has been a policy goal for my entire lifetime.
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Buddhist rebus-style text from Japan (Early 20th century), from Hymn of Praise to Kannon for the Illiterate (Kannon mekura wasan).
Source: British Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/95938ada-b100-47da-80a5-b71cf7ececc8
#reading #pictograms #manuscripts #religion #illiteracy #buddhism #rebus #art #publicdomain
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Buddhist rebus-style text from Japan (Early 20th century), from Hymn of Praise to Kannon for the Illiterate (Kannon mekura wasan).
Source: British Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/95938ada-b100-47da-80a5-b71cf7ececc8
#reading #pictograms #manuscripts #religion #illiteracy #buddhism #rebus #art #publicdomain
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Dis u, 'liddle' Marco?
https://youtube.com/shorts/WRhZuacVLlM?si=1FftAFhNMio1gEdE
@PissedMagistus #pissedmagistus #usdefensebudget #wealthinequality #warmachine #968billion #38trillionusdebt #usdebt #medicaldebt #studentdebt #personaldebt #illiteracy #youthunemployment #homelessness #globalrepercussions -
Dis u, 'liddle' Marco?
https://youtube.com/shorts/WRhZuacVLlM?si=1FftAFhNMio1gEdE
@PissedMagistus #pissedmagistus #usdefensebudget #wealthinequality #warmachine #968billion #38trillionusdebt #usdebt #medicaldebt #studentdebt #personaldebt #illiteracy #youthunemployment #homelessness #globalrepercussions -
Mick Egan.
Massive racist. Reform fan. Hates Keir Starmer.
Barely literate 🤣
There's a type.
#racist #illiteracy #reformvoter #ReformUK #reformltd #reformarefascists
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Mick Egan.
Massive racist. Reform fan. Hates Keir Starmer.
Barely literate 🤣
There's a type.
#racist #illiteracy #reformvoter #ReformUK #reformltd #reformarefascists
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@ilumium A reasonable #BuyEuropean mandate makes absolute sense. The FCC-example (for it‘s BuyAmerican counterpart) is NOT reasonable, it‘s what you get when you marry incompetence with ideology and corruption and label it as Divine Will.
Just keep rightwing tech-illiterates out of the equation, and things could truly thrive.
#corruption #MAGAFailure #incompetence #illiteracy #TechIlliteracy
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@ilumium A reasonable #BuyEuropean mandate makes absolute sense. The FCC-example (for it‘s BuyAmerican counterpart) is NOT reasonable, it‘s what you get when you marry incompetence with ideology and corruption and label it as Divine Will.
Just keep rightwing tech-illiterates out of the equation, and things could truly thrive.
#corruption #MAGAFailure #incompetence #illiteracy #TechIlliteracy
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"About 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map. The Pacific Ocean's location was a mystery to 29 percent; Japan, to 58 percent; France, to 65 percent; and the United Kingdom, to 69 percent."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/geography-survey-illiteracy
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"About 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map. The Pacific Ocean's location was a mystery to 29 percent; Japan, to 58 percent; France, to 65 percent; and the United Kingdom, to 69 percent."
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/geography-survey-illiteracy
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Nice to know our commerce secretary would flunk a basic test on percentages:
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Nice to know our commerce secretary would flunk a basic test on percentages:
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No one should ever take an American seriously.
Americans quite literally have the cognitive capacity of children.
#literacy #illiteracy #america #uspol
https://www.sparxservices.org/blog/us-literacy-statistics-literacy-rate-average-reading-level
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No one should ever take an American seriously.
Americans quite literally have the cognitive capacity of children.
#literacy #illiteracy #america #uspol
https://www.sparxservices.org/blog/us-literacy-statistics-literacy-rate-average-reading-level
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"Some experts contend climate change could influence the behaviour of the polar vortex" - #climatebreakdown is happening. To propose that understanding it as such is somehow contentious shows #illiteracy and we deserve more from our national broadcaster. #MediaTellTheTruth
#journalism
BBC News - US winter storm leaves several dead and cuts power - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1klrmz90yjo -
"Some experts contend climate change could influence the behaviour of the polar vortex" - #climatebreakdown is happening. To propose that understanding it as such is somehow contentious shows #illiteracy and we deserve more from our national broadcaster. #MediaTellTheTruth
#journalism
BBC News - US winter storm leaves several dead and cuts power - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1klrmz90yjo -
Marcie Jones quotes an illiterate tweet (redundant to put "illiterate" before "tweet" in his case, I know) in which the man dispensed medical advice about vaccines to parents of small children. Then she responds:
"Do not take medical advice from someone unable to spell 'HEPATITAS,' mkay?"
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #hepatitis #illiteracy #CDC #medicine #science #research
https://www.wonkette.com/p/secretary-whale-juice-directing-cdc
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Marcie Jones quotes an illiterate tweet (redundant to put "illiterate" before "tweet" in his case, I know) in which the man dispensed medical advice about vaccines to parents of small children. Then she responds:
"Do not take medical advice from someone unable to spell 'HEPATITAS,' mkay?"
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #hepatitis #illiteracy #CDC #medicine #science #research
https://www.wonkette.com/p/secretary-whale-juice-directing-cdc
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Half the content online by English-speaking people are functionally illiterate. But yeah, let's call me an asshole for pointing it out. That'll fix it!
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That's how they control the narrative. "America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/?utm_source=feed #uspoli #trump #Project25 #propaganda #illiteracy #education #media
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That's how they control the narrative. "America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/?utm_source=feed #uspoli #trump #Project25 #propaganda #illiteracy #education #media
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America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/
#HackerNews #America #Illiteracy #Education #Decline #Literacy #Crisis #Awareness
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America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/
#HackerNews #America #Illiteracy #Education #Decline #Literacy #Crisis #Awareness
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No... it's not ok...
#Acetaminophen #Autism #Trump #illiteracy #Politics -
"Politics in the age of short form video favours heightened emotion, ignorance and unevidenced assertions. Such circumstances are highly propitious for charismatic charlatans. Inevitably, parties and politicians hostile to democracy are flourishing in the post-literate world."
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"We may be about to find out that it is not possible to run the most advanced civilisation in the history of the planet with the intellectual apparatus of a pre-literate society. ...
The feudal order seems to be fundamentally incompatible with literacy."
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"We may be about to find out that it is not possible to run the most advanced civilisation in the history of the planet with the intellectual apparatus of a pre-literate society. ...
The feudal order seems to be fundamentally incompatible with literacy."
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"Promoters of irrationality and conspiracy theories such as Candace Owens and Russell Brand find vast and credulous audiences online.
Laid out on the page their arguments would seem absurd. On the screen, they are persuasive to many people.
The rise of these emotional and irrational styles of thinking poses a profound challenge to our culture and politics."
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"Promoters of irrationality and conspiracy theories such as Candace Owens and Russell Brand find vast and credulous audiences online.
Laid out on the page their arguments would seem absurd. On the screen, they are persuasive to many people.
The rise of these emotional and irrational styles of thinking poses a profound challenge to our culture and politics."
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"As Walter Ong writes in his book Orality and Literacy, certain kinds of complex and logical thinking simply cannot be achieved without reading and writing. ...
As books die, we seem to be returning to these 'oral' habits of thought. Our discourse is collapsing into panic, hatred and tribal warfare. Anti-scientific thought thrives at the highest level of the American government."
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"As Walter Ong writes in his book Orality and Literacy, certain kinds of complex and logical thinking simply cannot be achieved without reading and writing. ...
As books die, we seem to be returning to these 'oral' habits of thought. Our discourse is collapsing into panic, hatred and tribal warfare. Anti-scientific thought thrives at the highest level of the American government."
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"Because ubiquitous mobile internet has destroyed these students’ attention spans and restricted the growth of their vocabularies, the rich and detailed knowledge stored in books is becoming inaccessible to many of them. ...
The collapse of reading is driving declines in various measures of cognitive ability."
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"Because ubiquitous mobile internet has destroyed these students’ attention spans and restricted the growth of their vocabularies, the rich and detailed knowledge stored in books is becoming inaccessible to many of them. ...
The collapse of reading is driving declines in various measures of cognitive ability."
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"Most remarkably, in late 2024 the OECD published a report which found that literacy levels were 'declining or stagnating' in most developed countries. Once upon a time a social scientist confronted with statistics like these might have guessed the cause was a societal crisis like a war or the collapse of the education system.
What happened was the smartphone…."
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"More than three hundred years after the reading revolution ushered in a new era of human knowledge, books are dying.
Numerous studies show that reading is in free-fall. ...
In America, reading for pleasure has fallen by forty per cent in the last twenty years. In the UK, more than a third of adults say they have given up reading."
~ James Marriott
#Trump #MAGA #fascism #education #illiteracy
/6https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1
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"Even if Trump vanished tomorrow, the functional stupidity remains. Tens of millions have permanently surrendered their capacity for thought. Another demagogue would simply inherit this ready-made army of the cognitively capitulated. The infrastructure of oppression is built. The precedents are set. The population is primed."
~ Patrick
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/07/more-than-60-countries-scramble-respond-donald-trump-latest-tariffs; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/full-list-tariffs-country-rate-donald-trump-executive-order; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/07/trump-tariffs-come-into-force-taxes-us-exports. Trump's #economic #illiteracy in high gear, as he wrecks the #US & #global #economies single-handed. An arch-capitalist spells the doom of #capitalism - how very ironic, @ChrisMayLA6!
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#Politics #military #Illiteracy #Navy #indoctrination ##video #PoliticsGirl
Via CajunBlueAz @Chrisblue Thank you, @politicsgirl.bsky.social.
The Navy no longer requires a HS diploma or GED and has lowered qualifying scores on entrance exams. It is clear what the objective is here.
https://bsky.app/profile/cajunblue.bsky.social/post/3lts47353d22b
