Incremental_anarchist [he/him, he/him]

I’m not a fan of slop and the whole attention economy / arms race social media has created, but fwiw I think it’s less important to make sure people are literate and more important to ensure our society does not require literacy. Iirc over half of Americans are already considered at least partially illiterate, and they’re not really accommodated for adequately.

Also, language and mediums do shift over time and preferring video over text isn’t an inherently bad thing imo.

I like this; it aligns with my preference for restorative justice before punitive justice. I do wonder how they would handle cases like Israel v Palestine though.

Honestly I think the solution for combatting AI is just finally removing the reasons for cheating: the extrinsic motivation. Grades based education, tests that determine your entire life trajectory, etc. all put the emphasis on getting good grades rather than learning itself. Kids are going to optimize for the metric being measured, which means cheating.

If instead, education was more student led, and mastery based rather than grades based (like what Khan academy does for its math section), I think kids would be far less inventivized to cheat.

Actually implementing that is tricky, especially if we still want some form of standardized education, and it’s hard to imagine the kinds of changes required happening via a single school acting independently (perhaps a private school like the Montessori system does, but not a public school that has to follow state/federal guidelines).

Plus, because of those extrinsic motivation, any students who have been fully prevented from cheating are technically at a disadvantage to those who aren’t.

So tbh I don’t really think there’s necessarily anything we can do “on the ground” on this issue - it needs to come top down, unfortunately. I think your influence within the school system might be better spent trying to get stuff like materialism added to the curriculum somewhere or something.

I switched from obsidian to logseq and prefer logseq a lot. The whole atomic notes thing never really worked for me, but using an outliner does (and tbh on some pages I just write in prose anyways).

Honestly I would love this. Replace comms with tags (which side note: should work with mastodon tags), posts can be in as many tags as possible, and those tags should be editable after posting, including my moderators.

I think the main issue would be that currently moderators are per-comnunity, and having moderators per-tag just feels weird.

Additionally, the blurring of content could be done like bluesky labelers, where you can specify that certain tags should make content fully hidden, blurred, or fully visible.

I watched a leftist cooks video essay that brought up the argument that (perhaps - Neilly makes clear she hasn’t fully resolved her thoughts on the matter) insults are inherently hierarchy reproducing. Insulting elon by calling him fat or ugly or autistic is going to reinforce the idea that those are negative things to be.

Perhaps an image of David Bowie or Wheatley? Also this photo of Gerard way: https://x.com/tomorrowimight/status/1654609865183035392