Why would anyone seriously think
the billions of dollars earmarked for the Department of
homeland Security will actually go towards what is said it will be used for? My bet is a small fraction will go toward ICE agent salaries and the vast majority will go toward the existent and persistent "military industrial complex" that views the states of the Union as a new market. Follow. the. money.
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Doc Searls has a blog post that both demonstrates an effective use of chatGPT and has insights on education in the United States. I added this comment:
I think there is one important part missed here regarding thoughts on leaning. Society in the United States establishes intelligence (IQ) as a constraint on learning, but is not and one might argue that intelligence isn’t a real thing. The constraint on learning in the United States, which I think is implicit in all of the above but not explicit is motivation. Children motivated to learn will learn and likely will see learning as fun. Highly motivated children will route around the problems of the current system. Unmotivated children will not learn and will not see the value in learning.
Motivation comes from parents, which makes good parenting so important to society. Problem is the United States society is basically in opposition to parents mostly because those who influence our society want a narrow definition of good parenting and support only that definition.
- The World Wide Web was created for scientists to share information. While the act of sharing is a social function, I think there ought to be an emphasis on the information portion of that mission statement. Information cannot be conveyed well, if at all, in the limit of 500 characters or less. While social networks use the technology of the web, for me their timeline format and size constraints make them something other than the web. Further, I think the social and information constructs are very different. Consequently, I have a hard time thinking of the "social web" as a thing. #
- I get that the now accepted format of what most once called the world wide web is the timeline but the ephemeral nature of timelines make them useful only for a moment. The perceived lack of permanence of a timeline is contributing to a world without facts and because we need facts I think we need fewer timelines. The right view of the web is a garden, ideally one with good soil and well tended within which perennial flowers of information thrive. #