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@juliathequixotic.bsky.social
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Truthout @truthout.org · 8h
An NFL official reportedly threatened to remove Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair from his game earlier this month unless he removed his memorial for an 8-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israel in Gaza.
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NFL Threatened to Ban Player From Game for Honoring Slain Palestinian Girl
Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair wrote Wafaa Akila, the name of an 8-year-old girl killed by Israel, on his face tape.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 8h
Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
LRP: additionally important to know that if you’re allergic to coconut, you’re also allergic to most activated charcoal products. Many of them are made using burned down coconut husks, but no one advertises that/it’s extremely hard to find out. So be careful this Halloween season!
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Prism @prismreports.org · 28/09/2026
100+ people were arrested outside the U.N. amid mass protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech, @alexmar.bsky.social reports. Protesters demanded Netanyahu’s arrest, referencing his ICC warrant for war crimes & called on U.S. leaders to cut off funding & arms shipments to Israel.
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Over 100 arrested outside U.N. amid protest of Netanyahu’s speech
Some activists criticized New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani whose police department detained protesters despite his previous pledge to arrest the Israeli prime minister
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.
A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/09/2026
AI companies would have you believe that the tools they are building are so powerful that they may set out to disempower and even destroy humanity of their own volition. But this obscures the truth: It is AI companies that are building those tools, making decisions to disempower other humans.
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AI Company Leaders Capitalize on Fear to Lobby for Regulations That Suit Them
We can’t let AI companies launder responsibility for tools they created.
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Post Mo Thóin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's a very famous sketch about an Alexa controlled elevator in Scotland and the vocal contortions folks need to use to get it to work. AI is forcing conformity on more than just the accents though. Structure and syntax must fit its parameters. It forces homogenization.
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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A photo of a sign that reads: people rooted media
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Prism @prismreports.org · 28/09/2026
“A photo saved on the phone, or a copy sent by email or messaging apps sometimes became the only remaining proof that an original document—now lost or burned—had ever existed.” As Israel destroys all signs of what Gaza once was, Palestinians depend on phones as archives of life, writes Malak Hijazi.
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Smartphones hold entire archives of life in Gaza
As Israel destroys all signs of what Gaza once was, Palestinians hold on to records and memories on their devices
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 28/09/2026
A federal contractor appears to be recruiting for ICE's planned ERO ONE contract. It is advertising intelligence analyst jobs in every city where ERO ONE would place its staff, although the ads do not name the agency. 🧵
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This strikes me is a common misunderstanding of the argument for humanities education, which is not that it serves as some sort of individual inoculation, but rather than it produces a citizenry more capable of self-governance when distributed widely, especially for decision-makers of every kind.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 26/09/2026
"Unlike large math or physics courses, humanities courses are often best delivered as discussion seminars, which place a natural cap on their size . . . if done well, there will in fact be a need to hire more faculty to lead small-group seminar discussions." www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Opinion | The Humanities Need to Do More to Reach Non-Majors
What we can learn from the “service departments.”
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To support @womenjournos.bsky.social, please bid on these two vases for our online auction, which happen to be created by mother! Starting bid is at $25 (which is lower than she sells them at craft fairs). Vase 1: givebutter.com/c/jaws-camp-... Vase 2: givebutter.com/c/jaws-camp-...
A white vase with a floral design on it.A blue and light blue design on a vase
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Beauty! Day 669 of #GeorgiaProtests! 📷 @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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screaming until the void tells me to shut up @mutedscreaming.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll never forget the student journalists at Columbia who continued to cover the university bringing in an army of cops to dismantle the Pro-Palestine student encampments. Even when the folks at the SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM were prohibited from covering it, they stayed and kept covering. Amazing kids
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
happy Jim Henson’s birthday from the museum of the moving image
A display case with the Statler and Waldorf puppets above one of Henson’s sketches
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 26/09/2026
Want to look smart? I just restocked a bunch of silk science scarves in my shop #sciart 🧪 The purple ombre neuron scarf! artologica.etsy.com/listing/5745...
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Purple Ombre Neuron Scarf in Silk Chiffon - Etsy
This Scarves item by artologica has 95 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Washington, DC. Listed on Sep 26, 2026
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 26/09/2026
This October, in collaboration with @pmpress.bsky.social, we'll be hosting an evening of conversation about resistance and resilience in rural places with three authors: Ian Byers Gamber, Mitch Troutman, and Gordon Simmons!
A photo of three books nestled in a flowering landscape of Abelia. The titles are Ian Byers Gamber's "I Come Creeping", Mitch Troutman's "The Bootleg Coal Rebellion," and Gordon Simmons' "Mutiny in the Mountains."
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/09/2026
Thousands of people have marched in Madrid to protest against Spain’s housing crisis and ask for protective measures for tenants, anti-fraud measures, and a ban on evictions without alternative housing.
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Thousands march in Madrid to protest Spain's housing crisis after eviction of 87-year-old woman
Thousands of people have marched in Madrid to protest against Spain’s housing crisis and ask for protective measures for tenants, anti-fraud measures, and a ban on evictions without alternative housing.
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404 Media @404media.co · 27/09/2026
In reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media has learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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christa 🌻 @christapaolucci.com · 19/03/2026
cats n leaves
a digital illustration showing a series of tiny blue cats drawn next to acorns, leaves & various dried flowers
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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
drew a drawer #art #illustration
A digital drawing of a little brook running through a green landscape with flowers, plants and rocks. There are also some little ladybugs around the drawing.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 25/09/2026
The connection between online ID check policies and restricting VPN use is an unholy marriage. Rather than admit that censorship and social media bans doesn't keep us safe, lawmakers have put VPNs on the chopping block. Explore the toolkit to find ways you can help stop this: DefendVPNs.com
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Defend VPNs from government bans!
VPNs make it safer to use the Internet. Governments are trying to ban them. Sign to renew your commitment and tell world leaders: using the Internet safely and privately is a human right. Don’t ban VP...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 26/09/2026
Ahmad Joudeh is a ballet dancer of unusual grace and grit. to.pbs.org/4AzeWKU
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Syrian dancer reflects on escaping ISIS and finding freedom through ballet
Ahmad Joudeh is a ballet dancer of unusual grace and grit. He was born stateless in a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, Syria. He has traveled far on the power of his dreams and the elegance of hi...
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have been preaching this for years now: people need belonging and joy to get into and stay in the work!
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen
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Shivani T’gai Seth @shivaniswriting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am a bisexual but I am very tired and also a mom today, so if you want to snag something from the shop, go for it! And if not, there will be new stuff friday! www.adornedbyshivani.com
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Adorned by Shivani
A place to find unique fun things to add to your style and express yourself in all your wild glory.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 25/09/2026
“I’ve been getting ready to vote,” says Djvan Carter, who is incarcerated in Maine, where prisoners never lose the right to vote. “But the facility itself, the administration, they don’t help us or guide us. It’s all on us.”
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Maine Prisoners Organize to Protect Their Rare Right to Vote - Bolts
Maine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process.
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 25/09/2026
"Vote blue no matter who" is DONE. We're demanding more of our leaders, and we're WINNING.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:
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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"I need the world to come to my release for real” Josh Williams is finally getting out in November!! He’s only raised $675 of his $5000 goal. Let’s raise those numbers up. givebutter.com/support-ferg...
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Support Ferguson Uprising Political Prisoner Josh Williams Returning Home!
Josh Williams is being released in early November - let's put some funds together to help smooth his transition back to freedom!
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 25/09/2026
It's this, btw. 900 square foot modular detention cells.
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ICE seeks ‘modular’ detention units for 50 field offices, saying increased arrests have exceeded its space
A request for information seeks ready-made detention, interview and courtroom units, with no limits on how many people the units would hold or for how long.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.
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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts
Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.
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Leslie Levings @leslielevings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Friday, 9/25 at noon pacific! A shop update of fossil mugs, pond vessels, seals, and a few other treats. See you tomorrow! Leslielevings.bigcartel.com
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Ziggy West @ziggywest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For 25 years, Truthout has painstakingly built and maintained one of the most enviable traffic-centered business models in the journalism industry. We publish 365 days a year and every single article is free for anyone to read, without ads or a paywall.
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Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of the best things about UBI would be eliminating the Byzantine bureaucracy disabled people must navigate to access even the most basic financial assistance
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
In the latest development among anti-trans wings of the Democratic Party, the Ohio Democratic Party is now deleting criticism from caucus members of Kaptur's anti-trans ad calling transgender people an "ideology." It appears any dissent over the ad is practically banned on caucus social media.
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The Ohio Democratic Party Is Silencing Its Pride Caucus Over Criticism Of Kaptur's "Transgender Ideology" Ad
The Ohio Democratic Party suppressed dissent from within its own Pride Caucus, activists said.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...
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How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Baltimore Beat now publishes online obituaries for a $5 contribution, giving families an affordable way to tell the story of someone they loved. baltimorebeat.com/a-life-deser...
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A life deserves more than a line item: Baltimore Beat launches $5 online obituaries
BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 9, 2026. Baltimore Beat now publishes online obituaries for a $5 contribution, giving families an affordable way to tell the story of someone they loved. Publishing an obituary…
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 24/09/2026
#OtD 24 Sep 1918 the revolutionary @IWW union in Canada was declared illegal due to its opposition to WWI. However it survived and continued to have successes organising lumber workers and coal miners, amongst others. Learn more about the union in Canada: workingclasshistory.com/2021/05/17/e...
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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