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📚 Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

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2025/02/08

Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves. The novel's themes include morality, leadership, and the tension between civility and chaos. Source: Lord of the Flies – … Continue reading "📚 Lord of the Flies (William Golding)"The post 📚 Lord of the Flies (William Golding) first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🎧 Cover Story: Lay All Your Love On Me (The Music Show)

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2025/02/08

Metal, marimbas, vampires and EDM: ABBA’s Lay All Your Love On Me as you’ve never heard it before, with producer Paul Mac and composer Alice Chance. This is the first episode of Cover Story, a new series from The Music Show in which Andy and his guests take songs of the popular music canon and … Continue reading "🎧 Cover Story: Lay All Your Love On Me (The Music Show)" The post 🎧 Cover Story: Lay All Your Love On Me (The Music Show) first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 Pluralistic: MLMs are the mirror-world version of...

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2025/02/07

The MLM conversation and the union conversation have eerily similar structures, but the former is designed to commodify and destroy solidarity, and the latter is designed to reinforce and mobilize solidarity. Seen in this light, an MLM is a mirror world union, one that converts solidarity into misery and powerlessness instead of joy and strength. … Continue reading "🤔 Pluralistic: MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing (04 Feb 2025)" The post 🤔 Pluralistic: MLMs are the

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💬 Doug on In Waves

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2025/02/05

I totally agree Doug, In Waves is an awesome album. I was really intrigued by Smith’s discussion of the power of mistakes in making the album. The post 💬 Doug on In Waves first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 Twenty Lessons On Tyranny

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2025/01/31

These lessons are the openings of the twenty chapters of my little 2017 book On Tyranny, which has just been lightly edited since in successive printings to account for the Big Lie, the coup attempt, the war in Ukraine, and the risks we face in 2024. The lessons remain the same. Source: Twenty Lessons On … Continue reading "🤔 Twenty Lessons On Tyranny" The post 🤔 Twenty Lessons On Tyranny first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📑 BBC Orbit

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2025/01/31

Support undiscovered artists and find new tracks for your playlists, handpicked by local BBC Introducing teams. No algorithms, no genres and no personalisation – all you need to do is listen to music samples and tune into what sounds good. Orbit provides another means of adding serendipity to your music feed. The post 📑 BBC Orbit first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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💬 Behind the Scenes of My Obsidian Vault: A Knowledge...

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2025/01/31

Managing knowledge effectively is essential in today’s information-rich world. Over the years, I’ve experimented with various tools and systems, but Obsidian has emerged as my primary knowledge management platform. In this post, I’ll take you on a tour of my Obsidian vault, showcasing how I’ve structured it to optimize learning, creativity, and productivity. Remember that … Continue reading "💬 Behind the Scenes of My Obsidian Vault: A Knowledge Management Tour" The post 💬 Behind the Scenes

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💬 Links to Text Fragments

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2025/01/31

I feel father comfortable swimming in HTML and writing the stuff by hand (I thought at one time everyone would learn to write HTML). It never tops being refreshing to learn one more trick. Source: Links to Text Fragments by Alan Levine I never knew that there was an option to select a link to … Continue reading "💬 Links to Text Fragments" The post 💬 Links to Text Fragments first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🎥 Meg 2 – The Trench

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2025/01/31

Meg 2: The Trench (titled Shark 2 in some territories[2]) is a 2023 science fiction action film directed by Ben Wheatley and a sequel to The Meg (2018), based on the 1999 novel The Trench by Steve Alten. Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber, and Dean Georgaris all return as writers from the first film, with Jason … Continue reading "🎥 Meg 2 – The Trench" The post 🎥 Meg 2 – The Trench first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 Outsource & Centralise

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2025/01/29

Centralisation, as Taleb might put it, ensures an organisation becomes fragile. It robs it of the ability to grow knowledge, which eventually makes the organisation dumber and less able to adapt to a changing environment. So, despite what the spreadsheets might say, outsourcing and centralisation significantly harm the organisation as a whole. It adds a … Continue reading "🤔 Outsource & Centralise" The post 🤔 Outsource & Centralise first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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📒 January 2025

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2025/01/28

I am not exactly sure what I want from my ‘Now’ page, but this is a start … I returned to work a few weeks ago. We have been reviewing the system after the recent upgrade and trying to tie up various loose ends before schools starts. All in all, it has been frustratingly slow … Continue reading "📒 January 2025" The post 📒 January 2025 first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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💬 On Transient Slash Pages

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2025/01/28

My post on automating my /now page was very popular and I am proud of what I managed to do but I’ve been thinking for a while it’s very impersonal. It’s data. It’s not a page written by me in any meaningful way. Leon had some similar thoughts on this with an idea for each … Continue reading "💬 On Transient Slash Pages" The post 💬 On Transient Slash Pages first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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💬 You Should Compile Your Own Philosophy

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2025/01/27

Now you know why my hopes of reaching eighty diminish by the day. But it’s not too late to create my own philosophy. I’ve never felt a more urgent need to do something than this. I have been taking notes on how to live and how great philosophers before our time approach life in general, … Continue reading "💬 You Should Compile Your Own Philosophy" The post 💬 You Should Compile Your Own Philosophy first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 Getting Left Behind Makes Me Irrationally Angry

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2025/01/27

So….why is it bad to be left behind? Isolation. Fear. Violence. Is there safety in the future? Is there safety in keeping up with pack? I am pretty confident that I want to be left behind by artificial intelligence. I see AI and the Internet just like I see the automobile. It is a future … Continue reading "🤔 Getting Left Behind Makes Me Irrationally Angry" The post 🤔 Getting Left Behind Makes Me Irrationally Angry first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 Cards Against Pedagogy – Print & Play Professional...

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2025/01/25

This card game is designed as a fun and interactive way of getting teaching staff to know each other while reflecting on different elements of their teaching. It is based upon the popular game, Cards Against Humanity, but this particular version can be used as an effective professional development activity because at the end of … Continue reading "🤔 Cards Against Pedagogy – Print & Play Professional Development Card Game for Teaching Staff" The post 🤔 Cards Against Pedagogy –

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🤔 Things made and in-the-making

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2025/01/24

My attitude toward the works I have completed — at at this point that’s fifteen books and a couple of hundred essays and reviews — is that I have never finished anything to my own satisfaction, I have only been forced to abandon it. That’s why I am psychologically incapable of re-reading anything I’ve written. … Continue reading "🤔 Things made and in-the-making" The post 🤔 Things made and in-the-making first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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🤔 David Lynch was America’s greatest conservative...

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2025/01/24

There is an assumption that great artists, especially subversive ones, live radical lives and embrace progressive politics. But Lynch was closer to Ralph Ellison, another artist from America’s heartland who peeled back the veneer of the political consensus to show both the fundamental cruelty and tender humanity of ordinary life. He was a filmmaker for … Continue reading "🤔 David Lynch was America’s greatest conservative filmmaker" The post 🤔 David Lynch was America’s greatest conservative

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📚 The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

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2025/01/24

The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press. The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class “Greasers” and the upper-middle-class “Socs” (pronounced /ˈsoʊʃɪz/ SOH-shiz—short for Socials). The story is told in first-person perspective by teenage protagonist … Continue reading "📚 The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)" The post 📚 The Outsiders (S.E

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📆 Gemini in Education – How can Gemini help you?

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2025/01/21

Although I have used chatbots like Gemini and CoPilot in passing, I have never used any of this in the classroom. It was therefore interesting to hear the presentation explore Gemini, presented by Steve Smith. Google provide two options for engaging with Gemini: App (free) Workspace (paid) However, even with the free, when using an … Continue reading "📆 Gemini in Education – How can Gemini help you?" The post 📆 Gemini in Education – How can Gemini help you? first appeared on Read Write

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📆 Google classroom – Wow you have changed

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2025/01/21

I attended a webinar offered by Google run by Steve Smith to go through the various changes associated with Google Classroom. Over ten years old, the suggestion given Classroom as Grand Central Station. It serves as the hub for learning and teaching. In addition to core Google applications, there are a range of add-ons that … Continue reading "📆 Google classroom – Wow you have changed" The post 📆 Google classroom – Wow you have changed first appeared on Read Write Collect.

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