the Unlearning Channel

To inspire critical awareness of white supremacy by challenging, re-contextualizing, & broadening perceptions of race, identity, culture & diaspora.

[the Unlearning Channel @unlearningchanL]

Fred Hampton: A Young Warrior of the Working Class: https://t.co/hhI3azobFH

[J Hunter🍁 @MrJoKeR604]

Michelle Rempel, Conservative MP, is on the leaked list of Palantir CEO Peter Thiel's "secret society" Dialog.

[CCMF @CanadianCMF]

The family of an 11-month-old Cree baby from Attawapiskat who died in a Fort Albany hospital in northeastern Ontario this month says he would still be alive if he had received the health care he needed and deserved.

#racismincanada https://t.co/qMVophKaKk

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

@atRachelGilmore @sabaeitizaz This is why I haven't been on CBC since. A bunch of white men conspired, in writing, to keep me off the network, basically to silence my advocacy for women and other marginalized group. The fact it's a bunch of white men bullying a black woman out of journalism is not lost on me

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A community college professor taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years, and the video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings on the internet.

His name is Marty Lobdell. He spent his career as a psychology professor watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because nobody had ever taught them how their brain actually works under the pressure of learning something hard.

The lecture is called "Study Less Study Smart." Over 10 million views. Passed around in Reddit threads, Discord servers, and university study groups for over a decade. And the core insight buried inside it has been sitting in cognitive psychology research for years, waiting for someone to explain it in plain language.

Here is the framework that completely changed how I think about effort.

Your brain does not sustain focus the way you think it does. Studies tracking real students found that the average learner hits a wall somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes.

After that, efficiency doesn't just decline. It collapses. You're still sitting at your desk, still looking at the page, but almost nothing is going in.

Lobdell illustrated this with a student he knew personally. She set a goal of studying 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week, to pull herself out of academic probation. Thirty hours of studying per week. She failed every single class that quarter.

She wasn't failing because she lacked effort. She was failing because she had confused time spent near books with time spent actually learning. The 25-minute crash hit her at 6:30pm every night. She spent the next five and a half hours sitting in the wreckage of her own focus and calling it studying.

The fix sounds almost too simple. The moment you feel the slide, stop. Take five minutes. Do something that actually gives you a small reward. Then go back. That five-minute reset returns you to near full efficiency. Across a six-hour window, the difference is not marginal. It is the difference between thirty minutes of real learning and five and a half hours of it.

The second thing he taught destroyed something I had believed about how memory actually works.

Highlighting feels productive. Going back over your notes and recognizing everything feels like knowing. But recognition and recollection are two completely different cognitive processes, and your brain is very good at making you confuse them.

You can see something you've read before and feel completely certain you understand it, even when you couldn't reconstruct a single sentence from memory if the page were blank.

He proved this live in the room. He read 13 random letters to his audience. Almost nobody could recall them. Then he rearranged the same 13 letters into two words: Happy Thursday. The whole room got all 13 without effort.

Same letters. Same count. The only thing that changed was meaning.

The brain stores meaning. Not repetition. The moment new information connects to something you already understand, the retention changes entirely.

This is what the cognitive psychology literature calls elaborative encoding, and it is the mechanism underneath every effective study technique.

The third principle was the one that hit me hardest, and the one almost nobody applies.

Lobdell cited research showing that 80 percent of your study time should be spent in active recitation, not passive reading. Close the material. Say it back in your own words.

Teach it to someone else, or to an empty chair if no one is around. The struggle of retrieval is where the actual learning happens. Reading your notes again is watching someone else do the work.

His parting line has stayed with me longer than almost anything else I have read about learning.

He told the room that if what he shared didn't change their behavior, they hadn't actually learned it. It would just live in their heads as something they had heard once and felt good about.

He was right. And most people leave every lecture exactly like that.

The students who remember everything aren't putting in more hours.

They stopped confusing the feeling of studying with the fact of it.

[ELECTRIC PROPULSIVE SPACECRAFT SYSTEMS @TMBSPACESHIPS]

Idiocracy 2026.

U.S. Air Force C-17's transport Micro Nuclear Reactors.

No disclosure coming,
Hyper-expensive FUEL based Nuclear and Fusion for the PLEBES.

The energy in a lightning bolt is a Local non-linear Discharge of the adiabatic Field,
that is always flowing and
always available in locality.

Electricity can be free.

https://t.co/QQ1AvDaJYv

[the Unlearning Channel @unlearningchanL]

Considering the impact of AI on water tables, causing water advisories how can the CPL host a residency for “Artists working in any discipline that utilizes AI technology ethically”. ⁦@calgarylibrary⁩ Please share what ethical use of AI means https://t.co/gtSg5kukyU

[CJFE @CJFE]

Threatening, surveilling, or harassing journalists for reporting in the public interest is an attack on press freedom, on democracy, and on the public’s right to know.

CJFE stands in solidarity with Gilmore and calls on authorities to act. 2/2

#protectjournalists #cdnmedia

[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳China has set up nearly 200,000 24-hour Labor Union Stations nationwide, offering free services such as drinking water, device charging, rest spaces and meal heating for outdoor workers including sanitation workers, couriers and food delivery riders.

[Jenaro Abraham @JenaroAbraham]

We have to stop playing this game of saying, “I don’t support the Cuban regime, but I’m against invading it.” The same logic gets recycled for Venezuela, for Palestine when Hamas is invoked, and for Iran and its regime. 🧵1/4

[Malak @malakjalhoam2]

When someone says: "I don't know how to help"?

But all I'm asking is for people share and leave a dot.

3 replies — even dots — can save my children 💔
To donate 👇👇
https://t.co/FEX3s08KaN

[Predictive History @Pred_History]

The goal is financial oppression.

(via David Lin/YouTube)

#PredictiveHistory

[the Unlearning Channel @unlearningchanL]

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[CCMF @CanadianCMF]

Who is on UpScrolled?

Let’s build a community so we can leave X

[6ixBuzzTV @6ixbuzztv]

44-year-old father of three d*ed in an Edmonton hospital emergency room from an apparent cardiac arrest after waiting 8 hours and being given only Tylenol, an ECG, and a blood pressure check

[Savage @Savage16May]

@Bratt_world We should all start posting videos of what we are experiencing & witnessing in our emergency 🚨 rooms here in Canada.

Our healthcare system is broken .

[Brattani @Bratt_world]

This is so so common in Canada. It’s scary.

This is just the first time someone took a video and posted it for evidence. Shame.

[Yousra Elbagir @YousraElbagir]

We have the data.

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

Boycott the UAE. Boycott Dubai. I don't care who they are, boycott the celebrities, social media influencers and politicians who ignore the UAE government, and Emiratis funding the RSF in the genocide of the Sudanese people and theft of their land and resources.
#KeepEyesOnSudan