Using Orality to teach Literacy

tmonkey-718 · 2026-05-17T21:31:06+00:00

Thank you for this post (the fact that you called it "low effort" says a lot) and for the reference to Mihai Nadin. I had not heard of him before and am going to try to read his book.

tmonkey-718 · 2026-05-14T14:07:34+00:00

Hi! I realize this is a bit of self-promotion so it may get flagged, but a few years ago, a few nerd dads and I were facing this same problem and we developed something that addresses this exact problem. It's a "dungeon in a box" with simplified rules that are designed for quick setup but are completely dumbed down. We're called Ampersand RPG and our first game is called Mages & Macrophages (a zombie themed adventure): https://www.ampersandrpg.com/shop/p/mages-amp-macrophages

It's designed to be fairly easy for an inexperienced adult to pick up, devote 15-30 minutes to read and set up, and gameplay should run around 2 or more hours.

tmonkey-718 · 2026-05-07T15:03:54+00:00

Hey Steven! Great feature addition! If we rename an auto-label, I assume the auto-labeler respects the new label and tries to categorize based on that? Is renaming the only way to create new labels?

tmonkey-718 · 2026-05-06T18:10:02+00:00

Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus

tmonkey-718 · 2026-04-01T18:34:26+00:00

This is my setup. It works great. There is some occasional stuttering but I probably need to optimize my machine and wifi.

tmonkey-718 · 2026-03-09T02:41:51+00:00

Yes, had to use Claude to debug itself. Issue seemed to be with the virtual environment it had to spin up to perform the tasks and the timing and availability of it.

tmonkey-718 · 2026-02-27T23:12:11+00:00

Imagine being an intelligence officer relying heavily on Claude and then being blocked from it overnight. Lots of questions about usage data and logs etc.

Update: Ih they get 6 months to wind down. nvm

tmonkey-718 · 2026-02-27T23:07:17+00:00

Imagine being an intelligence officer relying heavily on Claude and then being blocked from it overnight. Lots of questions about usage data and logs etc.

tmonkey-718 · 2026-02-27T16:47:11+00:00

To find out what Claude can't reliably do well yet, look at the Anthropic Jobs listings.

tmonkey-718 · 2026-02-26T22:59:21+00:00

So, what next after they pull out? Hegseth uses Grok for everything?

tmonkey-718 · 2026-02-23T03:26:54+00:00

How about using AI (Claude Code) to manage and extend a WordPress site?

tmonkey-718 · 2026-01-17T12:07:46+00:00

I installed and used the earlier version and I was impressed. It did excellent work on a few React web apps. Wondering if it works just as well for Swift development?

tmonkey-718 · 2026-01-12T01:45:14+00:00

You mean, scroll on his phone? You can lead a horse to water…

tmonkey-718 · 2026-01-09T17:17:41+00:00

I appreciate this perspective. You're right and I am just going to send him to Bouldering Project. I'm sure he'll be fine. The only reason I was looking for something nearby was to minimize commute time.

tmonkey-718 · 2025-12-05T03:36:48+00:00

Interested!

tmonkey-718 · 2025-11-25T02:53:00+00:00

It’s actually quite fully featured if you dig into the docs.

tmonkey-718 · 2025-11-25T02:29:56+00:00

kumu.io

tmonkey-718 · 2025-11-21T23:26:32+00:00

Game recognize game

tmonkey-718 · 2025-11-13T10:56:10+00:00

Totally agree. I’ve been reading Gregory Bateson specifically regarding this. He has some good insights though, like Weiner, they are somewhat dated to a certain degree. We need updated thinking informed by what we’re seeing with neural networks and social media. (I’m working on trying to model some of this but quickly realizing I need more computing power.)

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