- Apr 2024
-
apnews.com apnews.com
-
The Associated Press asked DeSantis’ office for examples of liberal activists abusing the law and it provided one: Chaz Stevens, a South Florida resident who has often lampooned government. Stevens raised challenges in dozens of school districts over the Bible, dictionaries and thesauruses.
-
- Jan 2024
-
www.wnycstudios.org www.wnycstudios.org
-
Annotations are on the Transcript tab of this web page
Abstract
Last month, it seemed like Moms for Liberty, the infamous political group behind the recent push for book bans in schools across the country, might be on the wane. In November, a series of Moms for Liberty endorsed candidates lost school board elections, and in local district elections, the group took hit after hit. In Iowa, 12 of 13 candidates backed by the Moms were voted out, and in Pennsylvania, Democrats won against at least 11 of their candidates. But recently, Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice claimed in an interview, "we're just getting started," boasting about the group's plans to ramp up efforts in 2024.
-
- Sep 2023
-
www.economist.com www.economist.com
-
The importance of handwriting is becoming better understood
Nothing new here; just spitting out @Mueller2014 with minor commentary and no concrete evidence or details beyond that.
-
- Aug 2023
-
Local file Local file
-
In the end, it turnsout that this legend was also true and the accepted history was in fact a false account,manipulated by a former Hogwarts headmaster to save his own reputation. I read thisas an affirmation of the potential of fictional stories—and particularly children’s stories,folklore and fairy tales—to transmit knowledge without necessarily claiming to holdthe absolute truth as other types of narratives masquerading as history or fact do.
-
- Feb 2023
-
www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
-
“Zuck Got Me For,” a site created by a meme account administrator who goes by Ana, is a place where creators can upload nonsensical content that was banned by Instagram’s moderation algorithms.
-
- Nov 2022
-
www.wnycstudios.org www.wnycstudios.org
-
BROOKE GLADSTONE In the Tennessee State Assembly last April, Representative Jerry Sexton took on this question. [CLIP] JERRY SEXTON Let's say you take these books out of the library. What are you going to do with them? You can put them on the street, let them on fire. JERRY SEXTON I don't have a clue, but I would burn them.
Tennessee State Representative would burn banned books
It's true: Representative says he would burn books deemed inappropriate by state – Tennessee Lookout
-
- May 2022
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
Every bit of new information fills in the blanks of a time that has long since passed out of living memory.
Our written records have increased incalculably because our living memory doesn't serve us or our society or culture the way it previously did in pre-literate times. The erasure of cruelties and tyrrany is all to easy when we rely only on literacy, particularly when book banning and erasure can easily become the norm.
-
- Jan 2022
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
-
Books can indeed be dangerous. Until “Close Quarters,” I believed stories had the power to save me. That novel taught me that stories also had the power to destroy me. I was driven to become a writer because of the complex power of stories. They are not inert tools of pedagogy. They are mind-changing, world-changing.
—Viet Thanh Nguyen
-
- Jan 2021
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
- May 2015
-
www.kurzweilai.net www.kurzweilai.net
-
Transhumanists are at war with the bioconservatives. This just sounds like a William Gibson sci-fi novel. We live in amazing times. That said, global bans on technology and science never work; they just really mess things up. Regardless of what the bioconservatives think, there are cultures that will embrace these technologies (and already do). Historically, and possibly without exception, countries that ban or hobble new technologies eventually regret it because at least some of their neighbors will not follow suit. Further, by outright turning their back on the technology, they lose any voice they might have had in determining how it will be employed.
-