Mix Mistress Alice💄<p>The last generations have no idea how much more fun the 80s were without cell phones, when anyone could ring a friend's doorbell and simply be told if he or she had time for a visit; and there was no drama if declined. Today, many folks lose their temper if some idiot blocks them online.</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/SocialRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialRelations</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/HumanRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRelations</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/isolation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>isolation</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/smartphones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smartphones</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/cellphones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cellphones</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/doorbells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doorbells</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/visit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visit</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/friends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>friends</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AsocialNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsocialNetworks</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Relational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Relational</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DumbingDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DumbingDown</span></a></p>
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xs4me2<p>Well that was so spot on and what I have been witnessing in the last 25 years…</p><p>“Astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan managed to predict a lot of the things the challenges America faces in the year 2021 all the way back in 1995 when he was writing a book published just before his death in 1996.”</p><p>MSNBC's Brian Williams shares the details.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>populism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dumbingdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumbingdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MSNBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSNBC</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=nGanLUnjoPI&si=lAixDcT4RXY4aN-V" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=nGanLUnjoP</span><span class="invisible">I&si=lAixDcT4RXY4aN-V</span></a></p>
xs4me2<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@i0null" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>i0null</span></a></span> </p><p>Well that was so spot on and what I have been witnessing in the last 25 years…</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>populism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dumbingdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumbingdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a></p>
Mix Mistress Alice💄<p>"The most dangerous aspect of this trade-off isn’t the loss of privacy—it’s the loss of awareness that we’re losing anything at all. We’re not just losing skills and privacy; we’re losing the ability to recognize what independence feels like. The question isn’t whether convenience is worth the cost of liberty—it’s whether we’ll recognize what we’ve lost before we forget we ever had it."—Josh Stylman ></p><p><a href="https://truthunmuted.org/digital-control-how-engineered-dependency-erases-our-autonomy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthunmuted.org/digital-contr</span><span class="invisible">ol-how-engineered-dependency-erases-our-autonomy/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/dependency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dependency</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/convenience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>convenience</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/amnesia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amnesia</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/smartfeatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smartfeatures</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/disconnection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disconnection</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/appintegration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>appintegration</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/CBDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CBDC</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/compliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compliance</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/atrophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atrophy</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/dumbingdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumbingdown</span></a> vs <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autonomy</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/awareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>awareness</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/craftsmanship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>craftsmanship</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/problemssolving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>problemssolving</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/skills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skills</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/makers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>makers</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/literacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literacy</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/wellbeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wellbeing</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>independence</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/capability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capability</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/selfagency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfagency</span></a> <br><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DigitalControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalControl</span></a></p>
kjaerulv<p>We got a sky packed chock-full of beaming satellites - but still we want more "streaming" = aka big energyhungry datacenters? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dumbingdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumbingdown</span></a> <br> <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/11/tyson-paul-fight-glitches-netflix-1236178632/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">deadline.com/2024/11/tyson-pau</span><span class="invisible">l-fight-glitches-netflix-1236178632/</span></a></p>
zombywoof<p>You can nit pick & scratch away at whatever it was that <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democrats</span></a> did wrong<br>But<br>With who they were up against, it should have been enough<br>Cogitation is on the wane, as a result of 40yrs of the <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/dumbingDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumbingDown</span></a> of society<br><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/stopTheSteal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stopTheSteal</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/poli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/USpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>
Richard Rathe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@LindaCollins11" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>LindaCollins11</span></a></span> </p><p>I am SO glad I'm RETIRED from the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/University" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>University</span></a> System! 🙏 </p><p>Twenty years ago we had the ingredients to become world leaders in education and research.</p><p>Now, not so much... doomed to <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/mediocrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mediocrity</span></a> and <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/dumbingdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumbingdown</span></a> </p><p>The people of Florida deserve better than what they are getting from these <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> yo-yos... 🙄 </p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeSantis</span></a> is Bad for Florida!</p>
Mojo ♻️<p>A new report from the Australian Education Union (AEU) has highlighted the extent of the funding gap between <a href="https://aus.social/tags/private" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>private</span></a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/publicschools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicschools</span></a>.</p><p>It found about 1% of Australian public schools are meeting minimum funding standards, compared to 98% of private schools.<br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/dumbingdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumbingdown</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/EducationForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EducationForAll</span></a> <br><a href="https://thedailyaus.com.au/stories/funding-gap-public-private-schools-union-research/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thedailyaus.com.au/stories/fun</span><span class="invisible">ding-gap-public-private-schools-union-research/</span></a></p>
kurtsh<p>The premise of "idiocracy" was a funny Mike Judge bit until 2016. Then it suddenly wasn't in a very, VERY real way.<br>Opening Intro to Idiocracy:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDH</span><span class="invisible">A</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gop</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dumbingdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumbingdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mikejudge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mikejudge</span></a></p>
Kent Borg<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lauren</span></a></span> Part of why I went cold turkey on NPR—after decades of loyal addiction—was Trump's win, and the fact hearing his voice made me feel ill.</p><p>Another reason: NPR had become mass market & dumbed down; their stories were more background on whatever happened today than reporting of the new news. I figured 120-minutes of ATC had only 20-something minutes of real content for me. (So much of the background was stuff was stuff I remembered hearing first-hand on NPR!)</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/MassMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassMarket</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DumbingDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DumbingDown</span></a></p>
Ry Chaz<p>A good article about how dumbed down, education-aversive people now pose as if they are 'smarter' and cause havoc. Then politicians and media, especially right wings, export it in an attention grab and call reality 'woke'. This says so much:</p><p>"Can you name two living sports players?<br>Two movie stars?<br>Two musicians?<br>And now, Can you name two living scientists?<br>How about two mathematicians?<br>There’s the problem."</p><p><a href="https://cliffberg.medium.com/the-great-dumbing-down-1fe738b18570" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cliffberg.medium.com/the-great</span><span class="invisible">-dumbing-down-1fe738b18570</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/dumbingdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumbingdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/dumbeddownbritian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumbeddownbritian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/dumbingofamerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumbingofamerica</span></a></p>
Matthew<p>The question: Why are gun owners so blind to reason, that they seem mentally impaired to logic?</p><p>Simple answer: lead toxicity<br>Citation: <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001393512300511X" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/abs/pii/S001393512300511X</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/firearms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firearms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2ndamendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2ndamendment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/childendangerment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>childendangerment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adhd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adhd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dumbingdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumbingdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/guncontrolispeoplecontrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guncontrolispeoplecontrol</span></a></p>
Bunkunin<p>PATRICK LAWRENCE: Dimming the Lights <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/09/patrick-lawrence-dimming-the-lights/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">consortiumnews.com/2023/01/09/</span><span class="invisible">patrick-lawrence-dimming-the-lights/</span></a><br>Well-written, timely, appalling. The quotations he employs are relevant and devastatingly accurate. <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DumbingDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DumbingDown</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a></p>
Nuncio Bitis ✷ ✅ 🏳️🌈<p>Because people literally want to see movies like "Ow! My Balls!" or "Ass"</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/business/media/oscars-films-box-office.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2022/12/09/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/media/oscars-films-box-office.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dumbingdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumbingdown</span></a></p>
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)● NEWS ● <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/counterpunch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#counterpunch</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/gop" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gop</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/dumbingdown" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dumbingDown</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/ignorance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ignorance</a> ☞ <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Is Unbeatable in the Race to the Bottom and So Is the GOP <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/trump-is-unbeatable-in-the-race-to-the-bottom-and-so-is-the-gop/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/29/trump-is-unbeatable-in-the-race-to-the-bottom-and-so-is-the-gop/</a>
Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)● NEWS ● <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/teenvogue" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#teenvogue</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/dumbingdown" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DumbingDown</a> ☞ American Federation of Teachers: Three Years of Betsy <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/devos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeVos</a> Has Been Bad for <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.site/tag/education" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/american-federation-of-teachers-betsy-devos-three-years-bad-for-education-op-ed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.teenvogue.com/story/american-federation-of-teachers-betsy-devos-three-years-bad-for-education-op-ed</a>
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