the destruction of American education over the past decade is an incredible self-own competence is objective. a child can either do the math or they can’t. but in the u.s., a lot of people have reasons not to say that! parents don’t want to hear their kid is struggling. teachers don’t want scores used to manage them. districts don’t want embarrassment. progressives worry accountability will create inequity. conservatives don’t want federal authorities. so we end up with process, weak standards, and excuses to explain away bad outcomes. people object that it’s phones, covid, demographic change. ok! but we fail globally when others have phones, covid too — vietnam is much poorer than the u.s., yet performs well in international math comparisons. some countries treat math as a basic skill everyone needs to master. here, it is part of a fight about fairness, autonomy, and feelings in the age of AI — if people can’t do basic math, read closely, or think through problems, ai won’t make them more capable. it will become something they rely on without understanding. the countries that come out ahead in the global race won’t just have better technology. they’ll have people who know how to use it, question it, build on it. we need the national ability to decide something is worth doing coherently (teaching math!) the US has the money to teach math well but it has not shown the will. we are failing the next generation

Sony has confirmed that Destruction AllStars is shutting down permanently. The game was removed from the PlayStation Store on May 26, 2026, and players can no longer buy Destruction Points or purchase it digitally. Sony also confirmed that the game’s multiplayer servers are already offline due to ongoing technical issues and will not return. Full server support for Destruction AllStars will officially end on November 25, 2026, at 15:00 UTC. After that, only Arcade Mode single-player challenges may still work for players who already own the game, although some features may stop functioning. Any Destruction Points players already own can still be used in available single-player content until the servers close later this year. Destruction AllStars launched as one of the early multiplayer games for the PS5 and was included with PlayStation Plus at launch, but struggled to keep an active player base.