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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 04/05/2026

My Fractions Lesson 1 idea (outline): start with whole numbers. I'll try to have some more soon.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 01/04/2026

observatory.wiki/How_Consciou...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 03/02/2026

www.amazon.com/Born-History... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 24/01/2026

When life hands you ice and rock salt . . .

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 22/01/2026

Woot! I submitted my consciousness paper for this. Seasoned research people-friends, are there funding sources I can tap into to get me to this conference?

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 19/01/2026

This book, Radical Cartography, is so good (www.amazon.com/Radical-Cart...). I'm going into Chapter 4 mostly a believer in Betteridge's Law, but I suspect I'm not going to come out of it that way.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 09/01/2026

I wrote this and some people liked it: The buttery shuffle And cold steaming of morning’s mute gloaming. Perhaps we will fish And drink coffee We are free to do as we wish. Perhaps we will again fish.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 19/12/2025

This statement means nothing until we know what was taught.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 16/12/2025

The great Ariana Huffington has weighed in on education, y'all. And her offering is the pyramid of myth. How delightful.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 14/12/2025

www.amazon.com/Survival-Fri...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 12/12/2025

(www.amazon.com/Survival-Fri...)

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 02/12/2025

This one was for graphing ratios in Grade 6. I used the idea of a perceptron updating its linear decision boundary (the "just-right" ratio that is ultimately graphed). These are attempts at making bread--not the most exciting but no one gives a shit about 'exciting' word problems.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 23/11/2025

More of my greatest hits. 🙂

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 23/11/2025

Someone cat-call this hoddie!

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 21/11/2025

From Twain's "What Is Man?" Y. = young, O. = old, M. = man. www.textsavvy.org/blog/vanishi...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 21/11/2025

Education is comedy plus tragedy at the same time.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 19/11/2025

I think this one's gonna be 'tuff,' as the kiddos say.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 17/11/2025

The description--quoted from former congressman Samuel McCall--sounds . . . contemporary. All the more interesting that Twain believed it to be an "exact portrait" of President Theodore Roosevelt.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 17/11/2025

Ah, my old blog logo Kilroy, showing up here in a clip from the movie "Greyhound."

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 31/10/2025

Heads-up on the new e-book @nautil.us. Just on the versos.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 28/10/2025

From Twain's autobiography. He inserted sections of his daughter Suzy's attempts at a biography of her father also. This entry is from December 28, 1906 (and Suzy's was of course written 20 years earlier. (Twain outlived her.) @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 26/10/2025

Beginning work on my man cave: www.etsy.com/market/cave_...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 24/10/2025

My daily view (in the fall). I've been wanting to write about a concept I used to write about--'precision,' in telling and teaching. It does not mean (to me) to describe or explain anything perfectly, exactly, objectively--which is as nonsensical as dividing by zero.

View of a rooftop and a backyard shed surrounded by dense green and yellow trees in early autumn.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 24/10/2025

arthur.io/art/andrey-r...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 20/10/2025

And this guy just reiterated a theory I've heard that H. sapiens's stronger drives for affiliativity (my word probably) allowed them to simply outcompete H. neanderthalensis, being able to cover more area, etc.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 20/10/2025

"Doodles still seem to apparently be culturally directed . . . even if they're just doodling for fun or not really paying attention, they're still replicating things that are culturally known." www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4el...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 19/10/2025

www.amazon.com/Book-Noises-...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 18/10/2025

Sometimes I really need it all in one post ('posts'--what do we call these over here, Rayleigh scatterings?).

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 11/10/2025

Practically havin' a séance over here.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 10/10/2025

Oh my gosh, like Han Solo! For corn's sake, someone rescue him.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 06/10/2025

From Brantôme's Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies (Vol. 1!). The murderer, revealed by Footnote 8, was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%.... The link tells us that the murdered was pregnant. The King praised the crime as the murder of a "fame whore." There are 9000 pages of this.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 02/10/2025

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_I_d... I want to teach about a duel, and I find this to be an acceptable use of AI to make the characters more interesting to think about--because it's a matter of creativity and we don't care about accuracy.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 30/09/2025

Non-examples are important. Pythagoras doesn't have the last word on everything--in fact, on nothing.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 27/09/2025

I absolutely agree with the first sentence (which is one reason why my consciousness paper is so bizarre; how do you write a paper for all of those folks?). And I agree with the rest too, just not so much with the parenthetical. This thinking, again, casts 'display' as more important than it is.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 27/09/2025

Miller, Geoffrey F. The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (p. 81).

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