An increasingly terrible culture. I think Neal Stephenson was right — in the future, the majority of people will be illiterate again. We’ll regress to the long-term mean of about a 10-20% literacy rate and everyone else will use glyphs/emojis and communicate with video only.
We’re already on that path and accelerating down the hill; little to nothing will stop it now.
Read McLuhan! https://t.co/6JYDpwjLPt
— Katherine Dee 🐬/acc (@default_friend) April 21, 2025
Yes, all of you need to shut up and read McLuhan! You’re all constantly and usually vaguely-incorrectly “discovering” things he said over 50 years go. He did a much better job of it than all of you are, obviously, and a more thorough one too.
I’m constantly amazed by how culturally illiterate supposedly-literate people are.
Watching Ian Welsh become a consistently-wrong Jew-hating Putin-worshiping mega-putz, I hope someone would tell me if I went down such a bad path.
Lord, please tell me. I don’t wanna go out like that.
Funding cut for landmark study of women’s health. Another moronic thing in the long list.
A 2,000-year-old battle ended in fire, and a tree species never recovered.