🧐 "Perhaps what we need is not technology training but technology un-training – the former is cognitive surrender; the latter will be the only way we can actually pursue learning. Of course, what anti-democratic billionaire technoauthoritarian would ever pay for that?" — Audrey Watters is spot on, as usual. 👇

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#education #edtech #ai #learning #medialiteracy #AudreyWatters #errs #errssocial

Secret Agent Man

Some weeks, the education technology news is incredibly grim, and sorry to say this was one of those weeks. (Warning: this is a long email.) Indeed, anytime education- and child-related tech stories fill a Garbage Day newsletter as they did on Monday -- Garbage Day describes itself as a publication

Second Breakfast

1. That AI image is the viral propaganda from Iran about the current war being waged on their country. The image itself is newsworthy.
2. Epstein file singular is perfectly fine for specifying a dossier. You can also refer to its component documents as files plural. Both are correct.
3. Are they implying that this is somehow antisemitic? Really?

Just be normal, please I'm begging.

#ai #uspol #iran #leftist #mediaLiteracy #epstein #epsteinClass

My wife and I, watching the ubiquitous pharmaceutical commercials on our #TV feed...

W: Honey, do *you* have plaque psoriasis?
M: Mm-hm. Pretty sure I have "moderate to severe..."
W: When did you get that?
M: Some time after "Mild...", I suppose...

#MediaLiteracy #Humor

🔍 Pre-Bunk Alert: The Transition-Window Legitimacy Attack

A new narrative is forming: demanding ECJ compliance from Magyar's incoming Hungarian government is being framed as EU overreach.

Technique: vocabulary capture — democratic-process language used to obstruct enforcement of a settled legal outcome.

How to spot it: "sovereign choice" deployed after "but."

Full alert:
https://codeberg.org/ReclaimAllies/reclaim-allies/src/branch/main/alerts/pre-bunks/2026-04-22-prebunk-transition-window-legitimacy.md

#PreBunk #TransRights #ReclaimAllies #MediaLiteracy

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Codeberg.org

Your clicks, likes, location, interests, all of it can be tracked, analyzed, and even sold for ads. That’s how many “free” apps really make money.

So next time you download one, ask: what am I paying with?

If it’s free… you’re the product.

Stay aware.
#DataPrivacy #MediaLiteracy #digizenlk

🔍 Pre-Bunk Alert: The "Constitutional Coup" Frame

A new narrative is pre-positioned for ECJ ruling day. Here's how to recognize it before it reaches you:

The technique: novelty-inversion — treating a Treaty provision's first *application* as evidence of its unlawful *creation*.

How to spot it: language of invention, seizure, overreach, power grab applied to Article 2 TEU reasoning.

Full alert: https://codeberg.org/ReclaimAllies/reclaim-allies/src/branch/main/alerts/pre-bunks/2026-04-21-prebunk-constitutional-coup-frame.md

#PreBunk #TransRights #ReclaimAllies #MediaLiteracy

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🔍 Pre-Bunk Alert: The "Ruling That Actually Lost" Frame

Tomorrow 09:30 CET, the ECJ rules in Commission v Hungary. Watch for scope-minimization — a narrow ruling spun as "technical defeat."

Key phrases to spot: "mere technicality," "main argument failed," "narrow ruling."

The dispositive finding is the win. Scope is a separate conversation.

Full alert: https://codeberg.org/ReclaimAllies/reclaim-allies/src/branch/main/alerts/pre-bunks/2026-04-20-prebunk-scope-minimization.md

#PreBunk #TransRights #ReclaimAllies #MediaLiteracy

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"TikTok, Instagram and YouTube need to take more responsibility for the algorithms that direct young users toward harmful content but banning teens from using social media wouldn't solve this problem, [Andrew Flood] says.

'If we haven't taught young people critical media literacy skills in assessing content and negotiating their lives online, then they're going to be in trouble'."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/why-we-need-to-stop-using-the-phrase-toxic-masculinity

#DigitalLiteracy #MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #youth

Why we need to stop using the phrase 'toxic masculinity'

Many boys and men who are already feeling defensive mishear the phrase as a criticism of maleness itself, says Australian sociology professor Michael Flood.

RNZ

🔍 Pre-Bunk Alert: "Private Right of Action" as Cover for Bounty Statutes

The technique: statutory-architecture mimicry. Bounty bills borrow civil-rights language but flip direction.

The test: does it let a protected class sue for discrimination — or let the public sue a class for existing?

Full alert: https://codeberg.org/ReclaimAllies/reclaim-allies/src/branch/main/alerts/pre-bunks/2026-04-18-prebunk-bounty-statute-template.md

#PreBunk #TransRights #ReclaimAllies #MediaLiteracy

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