Yes. I read it as a child. Because it’s a children’s book.
We keep lowering standards for children’s media and then wonder why kids can’t read or grasp complex concepts.
Running into words you don’t know is part of the learning experience. Not an insurmountable obstacle.
Not exaggerating when I say the future depends on this catching on en masse. Kids, adults. Book clubs, silent reading groups. For the past twenty-five years tech has corroded our attention, intelligence and basic pleasure in living, and books are the key to winning them back.
cinema is not simply an art form, it is a mechanical-industrial process powered by laborers. The medium cannot be divorced from the labor of the millions of human beings that have delivered it into the world. There is no cinema divorced from industrial labor anywhere on earth
It’s such a crazy coincidence how the people in Hollywood advocating for use of AI are the ones who already have enough resources to exploit it for personal financial gain
Vince Gilligan on pitching the original concept for #Pluribus when execs were asking, “What’s next in the ‘Breaking Bad’ world?”:
“We live in a world of IP, where the safest thing to do is reboot something that has an audience. I wanted to prove to myself I wasn’t a one-trick pony. It’s harder than it’s ever been to get something made that’s not based on a previous movie or comic book or video game. Every generation deserves its own stories, instead of just the stories of their grandparents.”
https://t.co/GD0aEwp3jf
The whole point of writing an essay in school is to practice structure and critical thinking while forming and supporting an argument. If you use Chat GPT you are only robbing yourself of that skill
Even more worrying than the decline in literacy is the total lack of interest in learning. People are so eager to never have to think, read or study again. The human brain is a remarkable thing and they are weary of it. Ignorance can be cured, but incuriosity is death.
MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for reporting the truth about the things Charlie Kirk said, but a Fox News anchor can just casually suggest we systematically murder homeless people using lethal injection and no one even bats an eye. This country is fucked.
He was the worst President in history. And when he got voted out, he tried to stage a coup. Then he stole national secrets and sold the ones he didn't store in the bathroom.
He was convicted of fraud, found liable of sexual assault and convicted of 34 felonies. He is half a billion dollars in debt, owned by God only knows who, and the biggest national security risk the nation has ever had.
But at least he's not a Black woman.
I share the shock — and worry — that its not national news that a non-binary student was beaten to death in an Oklahoma school, with the school refusing to call an ambulance despite their head being smashed repeatedly into the ground of a girl’s bathroom
https://t.co/sZ7eXanDmh