Lady, I teach High Schoolers. The phones are 100% poisoning these kids’ minds. They suck up all their attention and they are straight-up addicted to them on a chemical level. I have 17 y/o illiterate kids who literally talk almost only in slang because it’s all they comprehend.

The funny thing about nostalgic remembrances of the post war liberal order was how many low-key mass killings the US committed and/or backed: (Greece 100k; Korea 2 million; SE Asia 3-5 million; Indonesia, 1 million; Guatemala, 300k)

Same energy

ok that's not bad

we need the kids to go back to thinking it was loser behavior to text their parents during school. that was the reigning theory in 2012 and it kept phones in pockets.

Children have to have smartphones at school in case they happen upon a cache of historically significant films and need to do preservation by tweeting out a download link

Not a "return to tradition" guy but I do think technology in school should never progress beyond a large box TV that has to be wheeled into the room. Want to play games on your phone? Sorry kid, we're watching Remember the Titans in math class.

Hearing that the U of Chicago cuts to the humanities come from the university taking out loads of debt to expand over the past two decades and being unable pay the interest. The problem with the Chicago School of Economics is that eventually you run out of other people's money?

Poem by Peter Levi who was a Jesuit priest as well as a poet. This is one of the last pieces in his Collected Poems 1955-1975, published by Anvil in 1976. (He left the priesthood the following year.)

15 year-olds in 1990 watched TV for an average of 23 hours per week. 15 year-olds in 2024 were on their phones 52.5 hours a week.

Tom Cruise is transforming into Norm Macdonald before our very eyes

Having children dress as characters for book week teaches them to embrace naive mimesis. They should be encouraged to personify formal categories like omniscient naration, free indirect discourse, etc

The very existence of "phones in school" discourse can distract us from the insanity of the idea of the first place. There's a frog-boiling effect but imagine in 2007 if you were like "btw I think kids should be able to watch infinite amounts of 10second videos all through class"

my husband spent four days with 9 of his oldest friends. i asked him if there was any news about their marriages, kids, families, jobs, etc. he said no. i asked what they talked about. he said they mostly tried to name every state capital and then every african country

Spike Lee’s films have various contradictions but they’re interesting because he’s a real deal artist and it doesn’t hurt that he’s a great filmmaker

Checking in on the world’s most normal country

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

Twin Peaks