Phil

Phil

@drphildowns.com

Prof in the Franks School of Education at Trine University. Retired Public School Superintendent and History Teacher. Opinions herein are mine, not yours, nor theirs. Fan of #plaidurday, Detroit sports, #COYS, and Purdue, the #CradleOfSuperintendents

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Phil
@drphildowns.com

In Phaedrus, Plato shares Socrates’ fear that the written word would weaken the minds of the youth: they would lose the capacity to memorize due to laziness. Well, after countless books, I still have the whole Lamb Lies Down on Broadway album memorized! Eat it Socrates!

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦
@jvipondmd.bsky.social

today's essential read for all Canadians. “Human rights and respect for constitutionally protected Aboriginal rights and title, in addition to Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination, must not be spun as inconveniences to Canada’s economic aspirations,”

indigenousinsider.substack.comWhose Nation Is Being Built?Carney’s first “national interest” project is an oil pipeline through Indigenous territories. Consent was not part of the announcement.

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Acyn
@acyn.bsky.social

Ruffalo: Keep the bastards away from our most vulnerable people, our beloved, beloved immigrants. Because if you ain’t Native American, you’re an immigrant, a beautiful immigrant.

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Peter Sagal
@petersagal.bsky.social

this is remarkable

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

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Jared Yates Sexton
@jysexton.bsky.social

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

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Bill McKibben
@billmckibben.bsky.social

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social did the country 2 big favors this week His talk with the Nvidia CEO revealed a shallow, glib, defensive man (and thus a technology) nowhere near safe maturity His talk with Abdul El-Sayed revealed a humane, responsive, and morally rich man ready for leadership

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John Scalzi
@scalzi.com

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

With the midterm elections shaping up to be a massive reckoning for the Republican Party, it's worth remembering that they had a fairly easy offramp from Trumpism in the immediate aftermath of the January 6th riot but they completely chickened out.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
@nothoodlum.bsky.social

A CNN investigation reveals Russia likely provided crucial satellite information about U.S. bases, giving Tehran a major advantage in the war. And not a word from Senile Satan.