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The Ruffian on the Stair | Entrepreneur Seeking Standards (perhaps The Standard)

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A timely and engrossing conversation. When considering the uniqueness of the American Project, it’s hard not to believe strongly that it could (and should) form the core of an essential and necessary reboot of U.S. schooling (history, politics, science, ideas, civics) — speaking as a naturalized citizen, no less. @JDVance @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy

[National Constitution Center @ConstitutionCtr]

This week on #WeThePeoplePodcast, explore John Adams’s constitutional vision and learn the importance of resurrecting the Adams tradition of self-mastery and self-improvement.

Listen: https://t.co/6T2e81ecQ7

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@ljupc0 @FukuyamaFrancis ⬆️ This.

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@SecScottBessent @SenWarren As close as you can get to an affirmation of the Second Amendment.

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@havivrettiggur Terrific talk with Dara Horn. Succinct and universal: Everyone’s Queen Esther moment is here. https://t.co/JCo6bVvxxh

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@MikeBenzCyber So he’s always in godhead mode then.

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@carney You mean a top.

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@whignewtons The unbearable lateness of Woke 1.0 media culpas.

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@GovofCO @CoHigherEd @usedgov

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Agreed. Conspicuously missing in Eli's conversation: role for parents and indeed concerned college students themselves. To my mind, the lack of properly nurtured meaning in today's colleges goes deeper. Not only are institutions failing liberal education (a through-line for the past), they are also missing the opportunity to embed a parallel sequence for all students that is devoted to the emerging technological economy (our present/future). Students need to understand and examine the societal implications—which then ties us to revitalizing liberal education—of autonomous agents, blockchain technologies, digital trust infrastructure, and the evolving architecture of the world's economic systems. Nor is my vision merely top-down. Universities should intentionally create environments where 1) faculty mentor students in judgment, while 2) students help faculty remain conversant with rapidly evolving technologies. This would allow colleges themselves to discover new and relevant meaning, and properly channel the role of faculty without disenfranchising them. I shared my thoughts in more detailed form with the President of Colorado State University where my son is a sophomore. Waiting for her response.
@EliLake

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Agreed. Conspicuously missing in Eli's conversation: role for parents and indeed concerned college students themselves. To my mind, the lack of properly nurtured meaning in today's colleges goes deeper. Not only are institutions failing liberal education (a through-line for the past), they are also missing the opportunity to embed a parallel sequence for all students that is devoted to the emerging technological economy (our present/future). Students need to understand and examine the societal implications—which then ties us to revitalizing liberal education—of autonomous agents, blockchain technologies, digital trust infrastructure, and the evolving architecture of the world's economic systems. Nor is my vision merely top-down. Universities should intentionally create environments where 1) faculty mentor students in judgment, while 2) students help faculty remain conversant with rapidly evolving technologies. This would allow colleges themselves to discover new and relevant meaning, and properly channel the role of faculty without disenfranchising them. I shared my thoughts in more detailed form with the President of Colorado State University where my son is a sophomore. Waiting for her response.
@EliLake

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Another Friday, another emasculated (super)hero in inescapable therapy.

“Are you okay?”
”Tell me you understand.”
“I need you to breathe.”
“Just because you’ve lost someone, doesn’t mean you have to do this alone.” (Sorry, that is the whole point.)

Spider-Man BND, whose arc then elevates not one but two female superheroes who openly assert their superiority over Spidey in his own movie.

Is the whole culture Nolanized?

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Motor City—see it. Minute for minute, a joy to watch after Nolan's shipwrecking tedium—and a kind of an Odyssey all its own, a bloody voyage back to a home that doesn't even exist. If briskly paced existentialist 1970s action movies were a meme, Motor City would be its prime avatar. It's Sin City for our times, chockfull of crane shots that defined a decade and which here establish a key visual signature for a killer soundtrack. It's a relief to see a plot propelled so defiantly visually. Netflix to its eternal damnation corrupted viewers to prize stultifying talk over propulsive narrative. This exhilarating movie—about the damage of escalated vengeance—represents a corrective, disappointingly short-lived in theaters. Major and minor characters alike tower with unexpected purpose and tragedy, unlike Nolan's dwarfed Odysseus, a comparison that sears itself while watching Motor City. @ThatChrisGore

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@alexpriou Thankfully, we still have The Iliad, as yet un-Nolanized.

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The movie is punishingly inert. Nolan has deliberately charted characters—and not just Odysseus—visibly weighed down by their own psychology. The “me”-ism is rampant, and wholly undeserved. It’s not just that necessary heroism is lacking but, equally, kinetic thrust—anything that might bear us along. We need not contrast with Homer to feel constantly offended by Nolan’s pervasive puniness. On film terms alone, this lethargic anti-epic is a failure. @mypalal

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@DrJStrategy A Canadian conversation that gets continually raised, over decades now. The whole thing might echo a tragicomic play or two about the never-ending propensity for meaningless resolutions over solutions—playing out on a national scale with continental consequences.

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@Cernovich A question for @Jason and @theallinpod bros

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@sentosumosaba @Evernorth @Ripple Large investors in Evernorth include SBI Holdings, Arrington Capital, Pantera Capital, Kraken, and GSR. Other key participants: Ripple itself, Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen. Good reason to lean bullish.

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Ref @havivrettiggur 's recent podcast with @Gil_Troy re: Canada's current anti-Semitism (s)train. @AbeGreenwald

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

The chief of cardiac surgery at the Jewish General Hospital has tendered his resignation and plans to move to Atlanta in September, citing rising antisemitism in Montreal and worsening problems with the province’s health-care system. https://t.co/1wtSJBpVWT

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@panosmek @krippenreiter Worth an episode.

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@ClayTravis @dsonoiki Now do Canada.

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@ATCAlberta Select merch, pls.