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Leaving for . Coffee supertaster. Story gatherer at an interfaith climate change org. Writer/author. Ancient coin collector.

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

if you’ve ever worn black to a protest, used Signal, or carried a first aid kit, a federal jury just decided that can all be evidence of terrorism. a quick thread on the Prairielands convictions from last week, and what they mean for the right to protest in the US:

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@John_F_kJr Yeah, I’m sure it’s gonna be stellar…

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@BrilynHollyhand You’re in the running for the dumbest post of the day, but fortunately for you there are plenty of other stupid conservatives competing with you.

[Kyronis @kyronis_talks]

A community college professor named Marty Lobdell taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years. The video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings online, with over 10 million views.

He spent his career watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because no one had taught them how their brain actually works when learning something difficult.

The lecture, “Study Less Study Smart,” contains a powerful framework.

Your brain cannot sustain focus the way most people believe. Studies show the average learner hits a wall between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency collapses. You’re still sitting there, but almost nothing is being absorbed.

Lobdell told the story of a student who planned to study 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week. Thirty hours total. She failed every class. She was not lacking effort. She was confusing time near books with actual learning. The fix is simple: when focus drops, stop, take a 5 minute rewarding break, then return. That reset makes a massive difference.
He also destroyed the myth of highlighting and re reading. Recognition is not the same as recall. To prove it, he read 13 random letters. Almost no one remembered them. Then he turned them into “Happy Thursday.” The entire room recalled them instantly. The brain stores meaning, not repetition.

This is why elaborative encoding works so well.

Finally, he shared the most important principle: 80 percent of study time should be active recitation. Close the book and explain the material in your own words. Teach it to someone else or an empty chair. Retrieval is where real learning happens.

His closing line stuck with me: If this information does not change your
behaviour, you have not actually learned it.

The best students do not study more hours. They stop confusing the feeling of studying with the reality of learning.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

In case you haven't been keeping track, a quick update.

Nino 3.4 is now predicted to peak at roughly 3.6°C over the 1991-2020 baseline in late October or early November.

Climate change is not good for children and other living things.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Southeast Asia would be uninhabitable at 4°C global warming due to being underwater (red) or because of unendurable desert/storm conditions (yellow/brown) which would appear quite likely to occur by 2060-2090 if deforestation continues and emissions keep rising through the 2020s.

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@RepJackKimble Most intelligent, moral, deep-thinking people I’ve met in my life make far less than that. I think you’re overstating your capacity & have way too low an opinion of Americans & way too high an opinion of yourself.

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@nicksortor We stole the land from native peoples. We stole blacks from other countries & made them slaves. We steal parents away from their kids & deport them. Now we steal votes from citizens. It’s a stolen land, and those who support that have had their common sense stolen from them.

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@DanielTurnerPTF Are you honestly that obtuse?

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@SandDyLife Some 1 in 20 people don’t have Long Flu. They have Long Covid.

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@FFT1776 So you’re ok with a pedo as potus? Says a lot about your character. Maybe sit this non-issue out.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank.

It just published a 30-year study showing immigrants paid 14.5 trillion dollars more in taxes than they received in government benefits.

Every single year. For thirty years. Without exception.

The country was lied to.

Here is what the study found.🧵

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@SenRickScott It's a Republican who's throwing our lives away with this stupid war. It's Republicans who put us in deep debt & have for decades. It's Republicans who cut public health funds, leading to millions dying here & abroad. If you think otherwise, resign & let smarter people lead.

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@TomCottonAR Tom voted for the OBBB, which has led to the unnecessary deaths of an estimated 1 million people (so far) from hunger, malnutrition & easily-preventable diseases. He should sit ALL discussions of morality out & resign because he's complicit in these murders.

[Avery Edison @aedison]

one of the best metafilter comments of all time gets more relevant every day

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@BoLoudon Within the margin of error, so basically flat.

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

The ceasefire isn’t “breaking down"

It’s doing exactly what zero-sum conflicts do:
revealing the next phase of war

What happens in the next 72 hours won’t be random.
It will follow a pattern

Here’s the framework almost no one is using

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@Boldtruth11 @westmiwx And since @boldtruth11 can’t actually handle said truth because he’s apparently science illiterate, yes weather modification exists, on very small scales. But it’s not an alternative explanation for global climate change any more than a garden hose explains a rising ocean.

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@Boldtruth11 @westmiwx No conspiracies necessary. It’s climate change. Extreme weather events, drought & fire are growing more & more likely. We’re all responsible, though billionaires, big oil & Republicans in power are most of all.

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@JoshHall2024 Translation: he’s worried about keeping his job so he’s making stuff up to appease an increasingly senile & petty potus.