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Promises, promises...

The University of Tennessee launches UT Promise. The flagship leveraging its resources to assist students from families earning less than $50,000 is a good thing for students. Less so for the rest of Tennessee's universities. I can't imagine that new interim President Randy Boyd wasn't the driving force behind this initiative. From the Tennessean.

University of Tennessee to launch free college program that mirrors successful Promise, Reconnect programs

Thousands of Tennessee students soon will be able to attend a University of Tennessee school free of tuition and fees through a new initiative modeled after the state's popular Promise program. 

University of Tennessee system interim President Randy Boyd announced the UT Promise program on Thursday at the annual State of UT address in Nashville.
The program will cover tuition and fees for students with a household income of less than $50,000 a year. 

Boyd said the UT Promise program will begin in fall 2020 and will ensure the university continues to fulfill its founding mission to provide a gateway to success for Tennessee's low-income and middle-class residents.

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Those zany Baby Boomers

Ruining America for everybody else. Joe Oliveto, writing in Cracked, lists five ways Boomers keep getting worse. Here's the fifth, which seems absolutely true. And it's why I quit Facebook.

5 Ways Baby Boomers Keep Getting Worse

They're The Ones Spreading Fake News 

Anyone who has made the mistake of having both an extended family and a Facebook account knows there's no shortage of fake news out there. Whether it's a blog like RedWhiteAndTrue.com telling them Obama is vaccinating their kids with gay, or a meme that says shit like "Liberals are against Trump's wall, but their own homes have at least four of them!" it's only going to get worse as the next election heats up.
And ironically, while lots of those memes are about young people destroying the world with their Instagram addictions and gender-neutral restrooms, it's the boomers who are ruining society by sharing bullshit. A study found that they are four times as likely to share fake news on Facebook, and twice as likely as the second-oldest age group that was looked at. 

It sort of makes sense. Younger people grew up with the internet, and so hopefully are a little more familiar with what viral bullshit looks like. Boomers lived most of their lives without it, and now every single bit of information in the history of humanity, real or otherwise, is at their fingertips. Learning to separate real stuff from troll nonsense can be a process, and it's not even clear that they're trying. 

And remember, this isn't just a handful of grandparents complaining about the Deep State. The number of Facebook users over the age of 65 in the United States is now greater than that of users between the ages of 13 and 17. Baby boomers control the flow of information on the largest social media platform, and they're terrible at it. Also ...

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