Some have co-opted the term “woke” and distorted its meaning beyond recognition. Perhaps some new terminology is in order at this time.

Woke is thoughtful. Anti-woke is thoughtless.
Woke is listening. Anti-woke is yelling.
Woke is patient. Anti-woke is rushed.
Woke is savoring. Anti-woke is despising.
Woke is fearless. Anti-woke is afraid.
Woke is balanced. Anti-woke is tilted.
Woke is hope. Anti-woke is despair.
Woke is morning. Anti-woke is darkness.
Woke is truth. Anti-woke is lies.
Woke is seeking. Anti-woke is aimless.
Woke is knowledge. Anti-woke is ignorance.
Woke is seeing. Anti-woke is turning away.
Woke is a pronoun. Anti-woke is a rude interjection.
Woke is feeling. Anti-woke is numb.
Woke is warm. Anti-woke is ICE.
Woke is alive. Anti-woke is dead.

Stay alive, America.

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Patrick Rhone writes with timely thoughts about trust:

a loss of trust in society — trust in government, trust in institutions, trust in each other — is the cause of a break down and, if left uncorrected, end to that society.

Well put.

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What would you call a curriculum that combines math and science topics to play off of and enhance each other rather than separating them along traditional boundaries? Would it be scmathience class? Or mascienthce?

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iPhone headset plays music but calls revert to speakerphone

If you have ever experienced this strange headache, I finally found a solution that worked for my wife’s phone. I posted to the Apple community discussions where I first looked for a solution in hopes that someone else might benefit from my act of technology-repair love. I’m leaving a copy here on Valentine’s Day for posterity.

This just happened with my wife's phone (an iPhone 15 Pro running iOS 17.3.1). Searching Apple discussions here and elsewhere unearths lots of questions about this issue and few solutions. I tried everything suggested: restarting the phone, updating iOS, swapping adapters and headsets (she is using the USB-C to headphone adapter with a beloved wired headset) – and more – but nothing worked. She had to switch to another phone to be able to use her headset. The odd thing was that, as described above, music played in the headset just fine.

This told me it had to be an obscure iOS system setting, so I started methodically trying anything that might work. I eventually found this:

  Settings -> Sounds & Haptics -> Headphone Safety -> Lightning Adapters

The setting screen here contains a toggle labeled "Connected To Headphones," but only when the headphone adapter is plugged in and there is a headset plugged into that. On my wife's phone with this brand new adapter, this toggle was off. Switching it on fixed the problem.
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