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Benet Fusté retweeted
Orwell's great observation in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was that to shrink a person's vocabulary is to shrink his capacity to think.
An impoverished version of English removes the mental tools needed to formulate and communicate complex (and dissenting) ideas. Such is the deep, complex relationship between language and thought.
We don't read "difficult books" to say that we've read difficult books. We read them because they expand the boundaries of what we are capable of thinking and feeling — we ascend to their level. Vocabulary helps us to recognize truths otherwise beyond our grasp.
This revelation is worse than you may think. This must be reversed.
I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher...
Vocabulary has collapsed.
Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab.
New SAT: 15%.
The old test forced students to know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context.
Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300–340).
The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it.
This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means.
If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these.
If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now.
This cannot go on.
Benet Fusté retweeted
A classic chart to counter the wisdom of crowds idea. US Americans are absolutely clueless about how common things are. They think over a quarter of Americans are Native Americans, one in five Americans is transgender, over a quarter of the population are Muslim, one in five households earn over half a million dollars. The right answer to all of these questions is 1%. They build their worldview on totally incorrect assumptions towards reality. Data literacy matters.
Benet Fusté retweeted
The chances of being killed by a landmine delivered by a bear are low, but they are never zero.
Benet Fusté retweeted
There has been either an inadvertent or deliberate effort in Spain to focus attention on an individual rather than on management or ministerial failures (such as the failure to complete LZB replacement on this line).
Human error is always a symptom and never a cause.
🔴Antonio Tobal, responsable de seguridad en la circulación de UGT en ADIF
🗣️"El compañero estaba gestionando la incidencia con ocho trenes detenidos. Hay llamadas de teléfono constantes. Eso conlleva una serie de procesos mentales, bajo la presión y el estrés, un profesional, por muy preparado que esté, puede cometer ese lapsus."
Benet Fusté retweeted
Hello @elonmusk and @tylercowen ,
You have just decided to publicly attack our research, six days before the vote on the California billionaire wealth tax.
Your attempt to discredit our work and that of our numerous academic colleagues is pathetic.
Let’s take a look. 🧵
Benet Fusté retweeted
Simply put 🚨 Javier Milei & Marco Rubio collaborated to exfiltrate Brazil’s most high-profile criminal from grave charges of large-scale corruption and electoral fraud. This is the true function of the Reactionary International, working across borders to corrode our democracies.
Benet Fusté retweeted
As I reported hours ago, Flávio Bolsonaro has arrived safely in United States.
The mastermind behind this operation is U.S. Secretary of State @SecRubio .
From the United States, free and safe, Flávio will lead the opposition against Lula.
Benet Fusté retweeted
voter turnout in israel at highest by midday since 1977
normally a good thing. for netanyahu, high arab turnout is an ‘emergency’
(…and an excuse to claim election was stolen, of course)
Benet Fusté retweeted
New from me: The US has faced a higher cost than any other country from the global Hormuz oil shock, with the crisis adding $160 billion to its fuel bill — or $471 per person on average — despite being the world’s largest oil producer.
Benet Fusté retweeted
Quan els serveis d'informació policial es converteixen en serveis de desinformació alguna cosa se'ns escapa. Mossos porten tot el dia alertant a comerços de Sants d'un suposat atac de vàndals que es produiria a les 17h. Esperant assegut...
Benet Fusté retweeted
No, no sirve y lo sabe.
Da igual la tonelada de evidencia que hay. Estamos a la izquierda de la curva.
Si no hay recorte de gasto bajar los impuestos elevará el déficit y la deuda. Y quien me venga a decir luego que hay 60 mil cuquis donde ajustar que no espere respuesta.
Abascal: “Nuestro programa económico tiene el sello de un reputado economista, Arthur Laffer. La rebaja fiscal sirve para aumentar la recaudación porque ayuda a la actividad (…) Es un proceso paulatino de dar libertad a la sociedad y permitir prosperar”. lavanguardia.com/politica/20…
Benet Fusté retweeted
Entre el 18 i el 19 d'octubre es van crear 20 perfils de TikTok per reclutar joves i portar-los a grups de WhatsApp/Telegram (~700 a Madrid i Barcelona) per incitar a vandalitzar les ciutats. Algú està manipulant la desesperança dels joves.
Benet Fusté retweeted
Detienen a un manifestante por crear disturbios y lo sueltan cuando les dice que es policía.
Provocando la violencia.
Benet Fusté retweeted
“Let me die,” American photojournalist Heidi Levine repeats to journalists Jasper Nathaniel as they try to outrun masked Israeli settlers who attacked her on Friday while she covered the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah.
Around 80 settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah.
Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah.
"The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him.
Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalists” armed only with a slingshot.
Benet Fusté retweeted
This is not exactly my idea. This is better. The Iranians have designed their compellence plan as a deterrence plan:
IF YOU KEEP UP CAT AND MOUSE, we're gonna hit your bases.
But the underlying diagnosis is the same. They have lost the Battle of Hormuz. And therefore they must find another channel of cost-imposition.
From what I can tell the escalation is designed correctly. Now they have escaped their strategic incoherence. This can work.
The ball's in the US court. And I am not long enough.
Benet Fusté retweeted
BREAKING: Iran announces it will now attack US bases in the region if any more commercial vessels continue to transit the US-backed southern Omani corridor of the Strait of Hormuz.
"This is a serious warning," the statement adds.
Benet Fusté retweeted
A colleague asked me today if Israel ever came close to a military coup. Looks like we might heading into a variety of one just now.
🚨The sortie involved dozens of Israeli fighter jets and refueling aircraft, the sources said
🚨It followed a flight path consistent with a potential strike against Iran, passing through Syrian and Iraqi airspace
🚨As the aircraft approached the Iranian border, they turned around and returned to Israel, the sources said
Benet Fusté retweeted
The inability to get soldiers out of isolated frontline positions for months on end has produced scenes like this - I can’t imagine the psychological damage to these guys
Benet Fusté retweeted
Some U.S. sources said they had the impression that Israel was hoping the Iranians would fire at the aircraft, providing a justification for launching strikes against Iran
🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷Israeli air force conducted on Monday a massive "power projection" operation near Iran's border. My story on @axios
axios.com/2026/10/21/israel-…
