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Educator. Traveler. Ping Pong Hegemon.

[DOTTORE 🏴 🇰🇵 🇹🇲🎃(halloween arc) @Voiddottore]

In the 30s, images like these were found on the italian books of elementary school.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

[Severin Field 🦅 @sevdeawesome]

Claude 5.5 Opus responding to “AI is a normal technology” is still the best AI-created video I have ever seen

[Jason Kantor @thejasonkantor]

Yesterday I was helping my younger cousin with her fractions homework: turning mixed numbers into improper fractions and vice versa and then adding/subtracting them

Her addition, subtraction, and multiplication isn't automatic - she had to stop and think about each and every calculation which made us pause so much

I told her mom that she needs to be practicing her math facts until they are fluent because as she progresses into more complicated math, she is going to struggle immensely

I recommended https://t.co/66ZHTREKt0 (@sharemath is the math wizard)

Remembering facts is fundamental to learning and its crazy we even have this problem!

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

That girl looks amazing. The way she moves is... captivating. And the way she plays is absolutely talented. And she's having so much fun. ♥️

[Jessiah @thepondering_]

LMAOOOO

MS NOW gives us an amazing slow zoom on GOP Senator Katie Britt and her look of UTTER HORROR as she watches MAGA Senator Eric Schmittstain Schmitt end his career in a most humiliating fashion

She opposes abortion and yet Schmitt just aborted his 2028 VP odds on live TV

[i/o @avidseries]

Dylan reserved his praise for only a few songwriters, and he had good taste: Gordon Lightfoot, Randy Newman, Neil Young, Jimmy Webb, Smokey Robinson, and Leonard Cohen.

This particular song is one of the most beautiful ever written.

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

This is the most incredible moment you will ever see during this sort of testimony. Don't let anyone spoil it for you before you watch!

After you understand the perjury Schmitt is accusing Smith of, you can jump to 4:30. Genuinely have never seen anything like this.

[techbimbo @jameygannon]

Finally sharing my talk from @ValioCon 2025, How to Bulletproof Your Career

This was and is my thesis for how to thrive as a creative in our new AI era.

Really proud of this one, especially with how well its stood up an entire year later.

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

Some melodies aren’t just meant to be heard, they can be experienced visually, too. Pachelbel’s “Canon in D” offers a captivating blend of music and visual beauty.

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

A week later, I'm still thinking about NHJ's article on NYC schools. It was courageous but a huge missed opportunity to call for real reform.

She blames school choice, inequality, segregation, the wealthy and herself. But she seems reluctant to criticize the actors and policies implicated by the failures she documents, perhaps because those conclusions would be uncomfortable for many of her ideological allies.

- She describes absentee teachers, poor instruction, unresponsive administrators, and students who graduate without mastering the material. But she never calls for greater accountability at the district, school, principal, and teacher levels.

- She documents teachers failing to fulfill basic responsibilities but doesn't explore whether tenure and other employment protections allow chronic teacher absenteeism and poor performance to persist.

- She laments the concentration of disadvantaged students but doesn't consider whether NYCPS should consolidate under-enrolled schools, thus allowing more resources towards instruction and increasing socioeconomic diversity.

- She describes her daughter earning As in honors classes despite substantial gaps in her knowledge. Yet she doesn't consider the value of standardized testing as a check on grade inflation and identifying learning gaps before they compound.

- She describes how experienced teachers choose to work in better schools but doesn't salute the districts that have had “reform superintendents” like DC, Dallas, Denver, and Houston that have used cash bonuses to incentivize the best teachers to work in the most disadvantaged schools.

- She notes that eliminating homework harmed her daughter, but doesn't examine how the movement against homework is largely driven by equity advocates who argue that it can turn unequal home circumstances into unequal academic outcomes.

- She condemns school choice yet uses it to secure a better school fit for her daughter, without noting it’s the only realistic escape valve for families who can’t move or afford private school.

- She describes the “impossible balancing act” of teaching students at vastly different levels but doesn't explore how academic tracking can help students at both ends of the academic spectrum.

- She describes disruptive students who harm the classroom environment but doesn’t ask for stronger disciplinary actions to protect other students.

- She documents a school that lowered academic expectations in pursuit of equity but doesn't acknowledge how doing so perpetuates the very achievement gaps those policies seek to eliminate.

Hannah-Jones’ story was powerful. She supplied the evidence for a broad examination of why schools are failing disadvantaged students. It could have been the strongest call in a generation for urban school district reform.

Segregation and poverty are real obstacles. But they cannot become explanations that absolve everyone else of responsibility. We can’t wait to solve all societal issues before demanding higher performing schools.

[Scott Brooks @scotti_brooks]

7 MOVIES EVERY CHILD SHOULD WATCH BEFORE 12..

SCREEN TIME YOU'LL ACTUALLY FEEL GOOD ABOUT.. 👇 🎥

[Mykhailo Fedorov @FedorovMykhailo]

We’re launching the Army of Robots.

In 2022, we launched the Army of Drones. Today, drones account for over 95% of battlefield strikes, and Ukraine has more than 700 UAV manufacturers.

Now we need the next technological breakthrough: the robotization of warfare.

The goal is simple — save lives. Robots should take on the most dangerous missions: evacuating the wounded, delivering ammunition, mining and demining, reconnaissance, defending positions and engaging targets.

The Army of Robots is not one company. It’s an ecosystem. We will invest in defense tech companies, launch our own technology projects, test them with the military and scale what works on the battlefield.

We’re now looking for defense tech companies and engineers working on robotic technologies — as well as a CTO / Tech Lead for the Army of Robots.

Join us: https://t.co/yPbvw0VUmV

[𝟑 𝐞̀𝐦𝐞 𝐎𝐞𝐢𝐥 @_3emeOeil]

📚 Au Japon, des gens vont désormais en boîte de nuit… pour s’asseoir silencieusement et lire un livre pendant qu’un DJ joue de la musique d'ambience.

Le concept s’appelle JUCY BOOK RAVE et se déroule notamment dans un club souterrain de Shimokitazawa, à Tokyo. Ici, pas besoin de danser ni de hurler pour parler à la personne située à 30 centimètres de vous. Les participants viennent avec un livre, s’installent dans la pénombre et lisent pendant que la musique accompagne leur soirée.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

If you like BLACK MIRROR, watch INSIDE NO. 9 (2014).

Both are British anthology shows built around completely different stories every episode, but INSIDE NO. 9 goes in some seriously unexpected directions. Horror, comedy, tragedy, mystery, absurdity, sometimes all within the same half hour.

The genius is that the only real rule is the number 9. A house, a hotel room, a train compartment, a dressing room, whatever the story needs. From there, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith can basically do anything they want.

And some episodes are genuinely unbelievable. The kind where you finish and immediately want to go back and watch it again just to see what you missed.

BLACK MIRROR is great at making you think about where technology could take us. INSIDE NO. 9 is more interested in showing just how strange, cruel and hilarious people can be.

Nine seasons. 55 episodes. Every story is its own little movie.

If you haven’t watched it yet, this is a seriously easy recommendation.

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

A viral video in Japan shows how various professional baseball managers signal that they want to challenge an umpire's ruling and request video view.

[Demetri Kofinas @kofinas]

A lot of people got triggered by this post, because that's what social media is for.

Here's some additional context from the interview about how China's leaders think about their economy, the problem of generating domestic demand, and why structural decay is the easy way out.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

Amazing. Caused by the sun setting at the edge of the Nor’easter cloud canopy.