"All organizations appear to be run by agents of their enemies."--Robert Conquest

"Hey, Facebook, why don't you keep changing your format as soon as people get comfortable with the old one?"
"OK, Google +, if you'll take the stupid real names policy we pretend to have and really enforce it."

Cynical theory

Suppose Facebook is selling quantity of posting to its advertisers, and stirring up the animals with otherwise stupid format changes is good for the numbers.

Schooling

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I come from a family of teachers and unsurprisingly think they take too much of the blame. The school system has a set of goals as incompatible as those of the prison system (not the only thing the two have in common). The teachers are supposed to Leave No Child Behind, a goal that makes as much sense in schooling as it would in a track meet. They are evaluated on the performance of their students on an objective test (a grotesque idea in itself) and then told they must not teach for the test. They are subject to the pressures of idiots who want their offspring protected from godless heliocentrism evolution. Their unions are probably no worse about protecting incompetent and harmful members than the AMA. Nobody has a clear idea of what they should do, but everyone knows they're doing it wrong.

Elizabeth Warren gets it right.

I want this person in the Senate.

Thanx to Hanne Blank on Facebook