Author: Andrew
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A meme to make sense of things
Watched this and immediately understood it. That COVID “ended” is sort of a misdirection. Or, it’s not the full expression of what we mean by COVID. Not for me anyways. “everything changed” – yeah, it did
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How the Phone Ban Saved High School
It’s probably common knowledge at this point that a lot of the youth’s troubles come from The Phones. As much as Marc Andreessen and others say it can’t be, look at the charts, it’s at least got something to do with it. I read this short article – with quite a strange and abrupt ending…
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K-12 Education Spending
There is very little more essential to a free society than universal literacy and adequate public education. It is a civil rights issue. It is the foundation for absolutely everything else. To fail here is to lastingly abandon a significant fraction of our children to a lifelong struggle. Quote is from The Argument’s post in…
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I’ve been chainsmoking again
This is another one in which the timeline and algorithm are uniformly serving up takes on this Trump post over and over. The result is me looking at Twitter all morning long just refreshing and seeing how it develops. It’s awful, and I know it’s awful. My refresh is some attempt to make this progress…
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Age based reading list
Super cool reading list broken up by age. Get off Twitter and could read. https://educatedandfree.substack.com/p/a-library-to-build-great-americans?r=b8lae
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On reading
Found this interesting. I don’t check as many books out from the library because they feel impermanent that way.
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How do you count the bubbles in a glass of champagne?
“How do you describe moonlight?How do you describe candlelight?How do you count the bubbles in a glass of champagne? I don’t know. I just know when I see it, it’s bloody beautiful.” – Ray Hudson, when asked to talk about how Lamine Yamal is so good You could hardly do better than using this as…
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How much should you take the other side for the sake of it?
“One of the hallmark trends of our generation is the fall of confidence in institutions. From the 1970s until now, people have lost faith in almost every major institution, from government to corporations. Post–World War II, America trusted places like General Motors or The Wall Street Journal as organizations acting in society’s interest, serving as…
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My main question right now
I once sent a reading list to my friend Michael, who is a PhD in philosophy and religion, to get his thoughts on using it to try and create a sort of self-directed masters in history, technology, and religion. He wrote back and said something like, “Cool, yeah lots of stuff you’d expect to see…
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Tariffs tariff-ing?
“Who’s paying for the tariffs? US importers mainly. September import price index data shows that US importers are continuing to pay most of the tariffs. The index shows prices before tariffs are applied. If foreign exporters were bearing a large portion of the tariff burden, we should expect to see a large decrease in the index. Instead, we’re…