via The Atlantic:
Thou Shalt Not Post the Ten Commandments in Classrooms
by Elizabeth Bruenig
published on April 26, 2026
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Apocalyptic belief behaves like its own psychological operating system. It’s not just pessimism or generalized anxiety with a religious coat of paint. People who believe humans will cause the end see global threats as more urgent and support far more extreme measures to avert them. Those who think God has circled a date on a divine calendar are much less inclined to risk radical action. Why swing the steering wheel if the crash was scheduled before you were born?
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Interesting Read
via The New York Times:
How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)
by By Dana Goldstein with Visuals by Lauren Lancaster
published on April 30, 202
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The bounded rationality of each actor in a system may not lead to decisions that further the welfare of the system as a whole.
~ Donella Meadows
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Macau University of Science
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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University of Connecticut
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It is a cliché that we live in an information age. And it is true that much of what we interact with today comes in the form of information. But an unfortunate side effect of the information idiom is the idea that everything is a form of speech and therefore exempt from regulation.
~ Tim Wu via The New York Times
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Singapore University of Technology
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The increasing control of U.S. mass media by a mere handful of corporations has — rather counterintuitively — created a situation of extreme fragmentation, a kaleidoscope of information options.
~ David Foster Wallace
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