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I have not had a mobile phone since the Snowden confirmation.

GrapheneOS is the first thing to give me serious consideration of getting one [despite the remaining issues].

Preinstalled devices, increases chance of a snap purchase.

Corroborating

Then it’s not just faster, it’s broader, deeper and further, than narrow metric matching of industrial “educations”'s specialisation’s maximal-ignorance-bar-one; than is sought in employment roles that simply seek a degree. [Which I’m given to understand is increasingly the type of adaptive polymathy sought in many endeavours.]

and such, I’ve come across https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akj4EGPiQEY … interesting for anyone interested in pedagogy and psychology and sociology and so on. Johan Hari on Peter McCormack, “We Built A World Humans Aren’t Designed For”.

It seems like awareness of this is increasing,

and shall increase even more as the mismatch of provision and needs widens as ai and robots increasingly take up more and more of what industrial education had been conditioning us to be the robots for. Our robotification shall become farther out of reach of worth, into redundancy, revealing our real worth.

Johan Hari puts it better than my mangled clumsy verbosity.

So it’s like that line from Good Will Hunting: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”

So much exhausting bureaucratic organisational downtime in college between ladles of info, perchance you’re fit for it when they pour it, compared to just freely swimming in the ocean of information.

It takes some kind of self motivation, be that curiosity, dedication, purpose or something else.

Then it’s not just faster, it’s broader, deeper and further, than narrow metric matching of industrial “educations”'s specialisation’s maximal-ignorance-bar-one; than is sought in employment roles that simply seek a degree. [Which I’m given to understand is increasingly the type of adaptive polymathy sought in many endeavours.]

Also then there’s the perspectives that value education above mere preparation for employment roles.

Leave [that] school.

You can learn more, faster, at your own pace, with a library card and an internet connection (if you use it like a library, not like TV).

You could also try walking your teacher through the user agreement… paying special attention to the deal with the devil clause, where they can change the agreement after you agree. And the parts about how they use all your data, and how they consider your emails their property after 90 days, and and and… So many egregious points. So against the spirit of pedagogy that any educational institute should be about.

Here’s hoping they’re squeezing so tight as to make more people slip out of their grasp, drop their borg boxes, and return to being real humans.

That’s debatable.

That smells like a false dichotomy… but, I’m heading on to other things better to do with my time than to think up examples outside those two possibilities.

But don’t worry, everybody. The national/global digital ID single point of failure will protect us from such fails. :`3

19 years ago.