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mahatmakanejeeves

(67,590 posts)
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 08:31 AM Yesterday

"Oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate."

Reposted by Kevin M. Kruse
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Holly Brewer
‪@earlymodjustice.bsky.social‬

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
Nov 20, 2025, 7:22 PM

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Holly Brewer (@earlymodjustice.bsky.social) 2025-11-21T00:22:28.710Z
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"Oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate." (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday OP
"A college degree is not just about a job afterward -- you have to be able to think, solve problems and apply..." OldBaldy1701E Yesterday #1
The beginning of the Robopocalypse... MiHale Yesterday #2
Exactly why the fascist R's want to end free education in America. nt lark Yesterday #3

OldBaldy1701E

(9,588 posts)
1. "A college degree is not just about a job afterward -- you have to be able to think, solve problems and apply..."
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 08:42 AM
Yesterday

Yes, but that is exactly what has been removed from education.

We are not taught to think anymore. We are taught to be good little wage slaves. Nothing else is allowed to interfere with that outcome.

MiHale

(12,382 posts)
2. The beginning of the Robopocalypse...
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 08:47 AM
Yesterday

If or when Artificial Intelligence gains some level of sentience we are in trouble.

Interesting novel by Daniel H. Wilson, ’Robopocalypse’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robopocalypse

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