Today, I often think about what could be arbitraged, what could be brokered, and how we could regain our attention from the black mirrors in our hands.
Today, I often think about what could be arbitraged, what could be brokered, and how we could regain our attention from the black mirrors in our hands.
The Average child – by Mike Buscemi
I don’t cause teachers’ trouble;
My grades have been okay.
I listen in my classes.
I’m in school every day.
My teachers think I’m average;
My parents think so too.
I wish I didn’t know that, though;
There’s lots I’d like to do.
’Cause, since I found I’m average,
I’m smart enough you see
To know there’s nothing special
I should expect of me.
I’m part of that majority,
That hump part of the bell,
Who spends his life unnoticed
In an average kind of hell.
The unsettling truth is that these points of friction, these mundane things, are actually what give us purpose.
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Predator or Host? - by Jessica Hagy - This Week’s Top Ten
Every holiday party, get-together, meet-up, and sit-down holds the potential to be either a scene from a horror film or a feel-good Hallmark movie meet-cute. The difference lies in how you host your guests. They can be afraid, VERY AFRAID, or they can feel comfortably at home. Up to you. Entirely up to you. A few examples:
In the first minute row 1 calorie.
In the second minute row 2 calories.
In the 3rd minute 3.
And so on until you are unable to complete the calories in 1 minute.
Such an interesting workout. The early roads are almost boring but then it suddenly it starts to pick up and you’re getting less time to rest each time. Obviously it’s cumulative so each round quickly adds up.
Really happy to beat my previous score of completing the round of 20. At the end your rest is 0 and you’re just going pretty hard. This time I got 18 calories into the round of 21. So am obviously annoyed I couldn’t finish 21. Next time!
all that worry past
leaving only a hole, and
no life to fill it
Novelty chalk bags for the kids since we’ve been getting into bouldering recently. I think I did not realise how big the red panda would be.
No Sir I replied:
I am feeling too good
to report to work today,
Telephone Booth (number 905 1/2) by Pedro Pietri • Read A Little Poetry
Whiskey and guns
Do we want young people to think critically and speak their minds, or do we mainly want them to think like us?
Had this stuck in my head today.
Why do coffeeshops, book covers, office buildings, and YouTube thumbnails all look the same? “People are less weird than they used to be. We’re in a recession of mischief, a crisis of conventionality, and an epidemic of the mundane. Deviance is on the decline. Creativity is just deviance put to good use. It, too, seems to be decreasing.”
The real deadline isn’t when AI outsmarts us — it’s when we stop using our own minds.
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Trevor chats with the audience after the show
Enjoyed this a lot, so much that after sending it to a friend I’m currently watching it again. Made me laugh and think too.
Saudi Comedy Festival, Charlie Kirk - Between the Scenes - YouTube
I’m not sure how I’m as invested as I am in this series, but here we are. It’s taken me a while to get through this one but now I have a decision. To wait for the next book or sign up to the Patreon to read the book as the author writes it…
Finished reading: This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman 📚
I teach 5 year olds, which is worlds away from this teacher but still, this is lovely.
Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus
Really enjoying bouldering again regularly. Issue is that I haven’t worked out how to balance it with also going to the gym. Not the worst problem in the world though.
We want the naturally perfect relationship, but the ones that endure are renewed each morning.
Have this thought stuck in my head. Reminds me of my sister telling me to “never go to bed angry”, which is something I agree with, but struggle with.
The average age of teachers is 45,
I did not expect that.
My brother ands sister join us to talk about massages, food and walking through buildings.
education cannot rely solely on vocation. A profession as vital to society as this deserves a solid and sustainable contract. Otherwise, teaching risks becoming a job only for those willing to burn themselves out. That is hardly a model on which to build our future.
Have been thinking about this a lot, going nowhere with the thought but I’ve been thinking about it a lot.
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New Slow Horses!
Read this to our class today. So so so so good. Them experiencing it for the first time was awesome.
“AI developers haven’t figured out a way to train their models not to scheme. That’s because such training could actually teach the model how to scheme even better to avoid being detected.” (The same is true for children.)
OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild | TechCrunch
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The Zebra Sarasa Clip Gel Retractable pen is my favourite too. When I buy online I often get offered them for cheap at the checkout. Hence, I have loads everywhere, in all my bags.