Benjamin Pacini
@benjaminpacini
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BYUI Faculty in Ed. Dad. Nerd. Pretends to know things. Civility. Too happy. Inusfferable. So belssed. Views mine. Memes not. Aspiring muppet. Normie/Mormie
Rexburg, ID
Joined August 2009
Because 1) someone asked, and 2) I have work that I'm trying to avoid. Benjamin Pacini's brief guide to twitter civility for Latter-day saints. Thread.
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Make BYU I-DO unironic again
Catholics have dethroned Latter-day Saints for the world’s largest speed dating event. This is the kind of wholesome rivalry America needs.
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My favorite genre is still ChatGPT not believing current political developments when I ask it for a copy edit.
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Meta-analysis in math ed: higher achievement is associated with more enjoyment, hope, and pride—and with less anger, boredom, frustration, and shame. Emotions and outcomes move together, so instructional design shapes more than just scores.
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Ukrainians, Georgians, Moldovans, et al be like
⚡️ The US committed an act of armed aggression against Venezuela, which gives rise to deep concern & warrants condemnation. The pretexts used to justify these actions are untenable. Russia reaffirms its solidarity with the Venezuelan people. https://t.co/vDNHsbKxB9
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And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth He sleep; The Wrong shall fail, The Right prevail, With
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Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence.
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Merry Christmas to each of us! May we all feel God’s love for us and show that love toward our neighbors during this special season.
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People in the comments are denying America is very rich. But America simply *is* very rich! This holds when accounting for things like healthcare, PPPs, and so on.
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Why are Mormons not referred to as Christians? President Jeffrey R. Holland provided a solid answer i haven't heard before.
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Baumol: "Why have services like education and healthcare become so expensive across the rich world? Because the people performing these services reside in affluent societies and dynamic economies where they can rightly command a high wage." https://t.co/0CX8AeNHYC
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The anti-vax movement is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times.
🚨 NEW: One of the largest COVID-19 vaccine studies ever (28 MILLION people in France) just dropped. Results? • 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 • 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality • No increase in 4-year mortality • Vaccinated people had lower risk of death
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Mormon’s high praise of Captain Moroni always stands out: “If all men [were] like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever”. But what was it about Moroni that impressed Mormon so much?
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Minutes of work at the average wage to purchase one can of Campbell's tomato soup: 1898: 46 minutes 2025: 2.5 minutes
“One of the more straightforward ways to show debasement is via the price of Campbell’s tomato soup. Rather than relying on a complex set of estimates and substitutions, it’s just a history record of what the same can of soup cost over time.”
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The first full year that Florida's in-school cellphone ban was in effect, student test scores went up by as much as 10% of a standard deviation.
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Math anxiety: meta analysis of longitudinal studies suggests a bi-directional relationship. Being bad at math makes you anxious when doing it AND being anxious about it impairs performance. https://t.co/cUheLRD4CU
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This is some serious negative mental filtering on display. Friends don’t let friends do reverse CBT to themselves (or others). Filtering out the miracles doesn’t make you a clear-eyed realist. It makes you blind!
It's an empirical fact that basically everything in our day to day lives has gotten worse over the years. The quality of everything -- food, clothing, entertainment, air travel, roads, traffic, infrastructure, housing, etc -- has declined in observable ways. Even newer inventions
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People who don't think phones/social media are having a deleterious effect on developing brains -- what's the alternative explanation for this? Did every country put lead in the water at the same time?
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Great story. There was another really good piece on this 2 months ago to check out too https://t.co/t3bLJzJ1MS
Really interesting piece on how University of Chicago professors helped a national network of food banks get surplus food much more efficiently to where it's needed, by creating an internal auction market.
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Really interesting piece on how University of Chicago professors helped a national network of food banks get surplus food much more efficiently to where it's needed, by creating an internal auction market.
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Good intentions matter, but good systems turn generosity into abundance.
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