webcams for christ posted:

shipping profits:

Cheesus posted:

https://centreforfuturework.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/BC-Port-Dispute-Report.pdf

Scarabrae posted:

now thats a franchise that destroyed itself overnight

Precambrian Video Games posted:

Oh no, the narrative has been disrupted:

The article continues. I was glad to have an ally even if it's this guy:



Gleb Tsipursky is CEO of the future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts and the author of best-sellers “Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams” and “ChatGPT for Thought Leaders and Content Creators.” He is a freelance contributing columnist for the Star and based in Columbus, Ohio.

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author of best-sellers “Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams” and “ChatGPT for Thought Leaders and Content Creators.”

DickParasite posted:

It turns out many in the last few decades weren't actually taught to read. Whoops! The last few pages of the Doomsday Education thread were pretty nuts.

The OP I quote has the entire article quoted, which I won't do here, but it's worth reading. Instead of teaching kids to sound-out words to learn how to read, we taught them to guess what a sentence says. If that sounds insane to you congratulations you know better than 75% of America's teachers.

Frosted Flake posted:

I'm not sure what this means. If you don't know grammar and the parts of a sentence, and can't read the words to identify what they are grammatically (ideally knowing the vocabulary) what are you guessing based on?

I'm not being glib, I really don't understand. I had to read English Grammar for Students of Latin to finally pass Latin because I could not understand Wheelock's to save my life, so I'm not judging, just confused.

Frosted Flake posted:

But you can't guess the vibes if you don't know the vocabulary or grammar?

A spoken language, sure, you can guess based on the tone*, but there are no vibes in written English.

*sometimes, some languages, some contexts etc etc

Frosted Flake posted:

But what I mean is, there must be a material cause?

Because, as far as I can tell, you could teach children out of the Didascalicon, or those Egyptian and Babylonian manuals for training children to be scribes, and get better results. Minus the corporal punishment, what needed to be innovated at all? Clearly producing people who could read was something that has been figured out since... as long as people needed to read.

Per Malcolm B. Parkes, “The Literacy of the Laity,” in Scribes, Scripts, and Readers: Studies in the Communication, Presentation, and Dissemination of Medieval Texts, "Girls and boys began by learning the letters of the Latin alphabet and the sounds they made. In this way they acquired the basic skills of early reading, called contemporaneously sillibicare (sounding out syllables) and legere (sounding out words), even if they didn’t understand what those sounds or words meant."

Which sounds an awfully lot like what American children did before teaching was "innovated".

It's surprisingly hard to find a good edition of the Didascalicon online but I enjoy it, so a threw up a copy:

"The things by which every man advances in knowledge are principally two — namely, reading and meditation. Of these, reading holds first place in instruction, and it is of reading that this book treats, setting forth rules for it. For there are three things particularly necessary to learn for reading: first, each man should know what he ought to read; second, in what order he ought to read, that is, what first and what afterwards; and third, in what manner he ought to read. These three points are
handled one by one in this book."

...

"Aptitude is a certain faculty naturally rooted in the mind and empowered from within. It arises from nature, is improved by use, is blunted by excessive work, and is sharpened by temperate practice. As someone has very nicely said:

Please! Spare yourself for my sake — there’s only drudgery in those papers! Go run in the open air!

Aptitude gets practice from two things — reading and meditation. Reading consists of forming our minds upon rules and precepts taken from books, and it is of three types: the teacher’s, the learner’s, and the independent reader’s. For we say, “I am reading the book to him,” “I am reading the book under him,” and “I am reading the book.”’ Order and method are what especially deserve attention in the matter of reading."

Ted Wassanasong posted:

If anything this should be motivating them too read, how can they be addicted to internet if they cant read internet?

Ted Wassanasong posted:

But outside of it being frontpage content, how would you find andrew tate if you heard about him but literally cannot spell andrew tate?

Azuth0667 posted:

Yeah, this is something a 6th grade student could do.

triple sulk posted:

math is harder for americans because english is lovely for expressing numbers

SKULL.GIF posted:

https://twitter.com/DRBoguslaw/status/1756720123975548930

FirstnameLastname posted:

every system that can have any backdoor that allows any form of exploitation will have it happen as often as it is possible for it to occur

Beached Whale posted:

Not sure how they're making ends meet with all this anti-landlord phobia in modern America

https://twitter.com/Gritty20202/status/1757064952773312674

LionArcher posted:

this year unless it’s things like older Zelda’s coming to switch, I’m trying to not buy any games until Black Friday or if/when I build a gaming/AI PC I’ll drop at most $100 on steam on my wishlist. instead, I’m slowly going through my backlog of “great games”. and you know what? it’s a great experience. never beat Elden ring. going back to it is great. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to go back to have to have the newest right now. (minus Nintendo games).

Rexicon1 posted:

we will all be in Willa’s shoes soon enough. just let me pick out a good spot in the forest and I’ll be happy.

anonumos posted:

I figure I'll either be able to retire or I'll die hunting down the 1%. I see no middle ground.

Don Pigeon posted:

But companies now consider AI to be responsible for its own actions, so it must mean that AI is sentient. Somehow I don't think sentient robots will be easier to manage than sentient humans in the long run.

Warmachine posted:

Can we use the hot takes to boil water though?

LionArcher posted:

I write in the indie book space. A ton of the covers that sell have been generic fantasy esc covers for awhile. The fact that AI can more or less do the heavy lifting for those type of covers but that makes the cover artists who overcharge/underdeliver on what we talked about is both sad (because indie cover artists need to eat too) but as a publisher also appealing. As soon as somebody starts yelling about how that AI art is stealing, it 100% doesn't have to be. I can draw a crude sketch, and using AI tools make it into something good. Again, it's using Math it's trained on, not pixel per pixel it's copying). I get why folks are using AI art for that sort of thing. On the flip side, all of those, "look, I made Tomb Raider hotter and also in a porn" is just IP theft and dumb. That's why building an AI PC has appeal to me. It would just be a stable diffusion box for artwork that I started in the first place, to make a better product for my business.

(You all have already lined me up next to the billionaire's when the shooting war starts, and I get it, I'm just saying as a small business person, there are uses.) AI is also super useful for editing and voice dictation as well.

Scarabrae posted:

a large portion of this updated annual training from HR is about hows its very bad and unethical to work another remote job while doing your current remote job

Woke Mind Virus posted:

THIS IS THE CRASH WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. IT'S OVER!!!!!

Karach posted:

Third-stage guild navigator: Post-unfolding, venture the modality of bud to emit a glimpse of within. The verve was... dimensional, but gallant.

Flavahbeast posted:

Chad Sexington posted:

I hated tiktok too until I used it and then I was like oh it gets me, this rules

if the vids it shows you are dumb and bad it's because you're dumb and bad

HallelujahLee posted:

you have the right to post and thats it

Mr Hootington posted:

May get a surprise to upside inflation report this week. I'm starting to get curious. Seeing lots of very cautious posts about cpi.