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The main problem with programs like Provo Canyon Schools is that those in power in #Utah think abuse is a good and right way to treat people who don't conform.
#utpol #abuse

Voices: I survived Provo Canyon School. Utah must stand firm on its closure.
“Children deserve safe help,” Jen Robison writes in an op-ed. “That cannot happen until we stop allowing them to be abused for profit while calling it ‘care.’”

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her.
Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
It was a kind of note that Joan Birman had received many times: a plea from a high school student, asking for help learning mathematics.
After enjoying freshman geometry class, the student wrote, she had recently read her first real mathematical proof. It made her think there might be something more to math than what she was lear…

The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.

I'm wondering if September is real New Year. I don't think I'll ever lose that back-to-school start of something feeling at this time of year.

Thanks to seeing posts here after I woke up, I finally didn't forget and didn't oversleep too much and made it to the electronics flea market.
This gauge was $1. I used to have a few analog meters when I was in elementary school (I think 3v & 15v), and recently after upgrading a multimeter was reminiscing about them.
I'm not sure what I'd use this one for, but it was too pretty to not get at that price. I got a more boring 25A range one that maybe I'll use…

Lierally; three fellow students at my high school died when they were experimenting in the shed or garage. (I can't remember all the details anymore, they may have made napalm?)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qdzhpxeql7myqv5j3jynm5ru/post/3mpkrva3kz22f

r o o (@jakepaulsartre.bsky.social)
When people talk about taking kids' devices away w/o addressing how they have fuck all else to do, I think about the insane shit all the bored suburban kids I knew got up to before cell phones You can't just take their phones away or they're gonna get into making homemade napalm & burn a field down

Screenshots of my beeb series 7 yesterday booting off my restored Cumana floppy drive. The last one, the Teletext editor is I think by my high school Maths Teacher at the time.
#retrocomputing

Awesome thread.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w6emm3joedcqyrpylg6sgxzz/post/3mpealhqih22x

CE (Catie) Murphy (@cemurphy.bsky.social)
I know a writer with an absolutely heartrending & uplifting story of someone she knew casually who hadn't finished high school, didn't think of herself as bright, lived in a cycle of bad choices & dead ends, who tried reading one of the writer's books, a book which is not an easy read. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration