#illiteracy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #illiteracy, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/117124098274185044
JFC
when i wrote earlier
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117123245023000877that what #techbros #slopfondlers are really selling, with #aislop to their investors, is the #illiteracy of the masses; as the only “arrow goes up” for money-making, i hadn’t read this:
❝The decisions that Harvard makes create a permission structure for other institutions to follow suit… Harvard has made it easier for them to decide that original writing—and, by extension, original thought—isn’t worth the cost.❞
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BTW
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117123784602548407#techbros are not selling #usability by getting rid of keyboards. they know that, to fleece you & make you poorer, they have to make sure you give up your creative & intellectual agency & freedom.
today i realized why "Alexa" bothered me so much: the future techbros are selling is one of #illiteracy and uncreativity ―because it’s the only way they believe they can continue making money.
Silicon Valley dont want your kids to know how to read and write.
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*Heart Sūtra* from Tachibana Nankei's *Tōzai yūki* (1795), from Tōzai yūki.
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/49fe700b-9d48-48f5-8233-a4ab505316b6
#reading #pictograms #manuscripts #religion #illiteracy #buddhism #rebus #bookillustration #art #publicdomain
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Charlie Angus, shares thought provoking insight. Always working to understand and create communities resistant to the rot of popular mass media culture. #resist #resistance #literature #illiteracy #elbowsup
https://open.substack.com/pub/charlieangus/p/my-summer-with-the-brothers-karamazov
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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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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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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 -
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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"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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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 -
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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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
