I imagine the picture editor said to their assistant: “You see, it WAS worth googling ‘Ghislaine Maxwell and Kevin Spacey at Buckingham Palace on thrones’!”

Look what I learned on Duolingo in 2024! #Duolingo365

While England endeavours to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavour to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally? HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1854)

This looks like the before and after of a procedure that makes you look more Irish

Seems important that in Fahrenheit 451, books were still “available” in single-paragraph summaries—“read Hamlet in five minutes!”—but the books themselves had been banned for being too difficult. Tech boosters see a warning and think it’s an instruction manual.

oooo you wanna hire mia wasikowska as your female lead so bad, I know you do robert

I find it incredible that we now have little devices in our pockets with which we can read almost any book, research any topic, and learn any language. Make the most of this age of information. Get drunk on knowledge.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1778 that literacy was vital to the health of a nation and “tyranny” would follow if enough people were uneducated, and I do worry that the decline in reading skills is having consequences we’re only beginning to grapple with.

This thread is a case-in-point of some agents seeing $$$ before they see their clients as human beings with individual desires, ethics and beliefs. The persuasive language and power play too?! Ugh. Scary and worrisome. Let’s absolutely f*cking NOT accept or normalise this!!!

Mrs. Sussex said she would buy the flowers herself. 💐 🥰 #WithLoveMeghan #VirginiaWoolf #MrsDalloway

Rachel Zegler’s crimes apparently: - not supporting a genocide - asking to be paid fairly - being “annoying” (if that’s a crime lock me tf away) - being simultaneously too white and not white enough - calling a movie that came out 88 years ago outdated

This is not to disparage all short-form video content, but our brains are heavily affected by the mediums through which we receive information. It’s important that you not get all your information from videos, important that you retain the capacity for deep, focused reading.

Feels bleak that we have people trying to shut down funding for libraries and PBS at the same moment when record numbers of students are unable to finish a book and use machines to write essays. This is the world Fahrenheit 451 predicted. Knowledge and truth are under attack.

This should, in normal times, be a disqualifying scandal, removing any element of trust from what they're doing notus.org/health-science…

My unpopular opinion is that even tho cheating is evil and unethical it should not have legal/professional repercussions

When a YouTube commenter comes out of nowhere and absolutely nails it

“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” —Virginia Woolf, from The Letters of Virginia Woolf

There are many reasons to resist AI (e.g. environmental harm, the power it gives to states/corporations, intellectual theft), but perhaps the biggest one for me is that, despite it all, I still believe that the human intellect is miraculous, irreplicable, & worth fighting for.