Patrick Jones

Content Strategist & Exec Producer of Brand Inspired Marketing, Communication & Entertainment. Founder/CEO of VOCATIO. Lover of Liberty & Free Markets. Speaker.

[Patrick Jones @VocatioCEO]

“Don't wait around hoping a random opportunity will find you...” https://t.co/Z1mk3Qk5h8 via @myvocatio

[Patrick Jones @VocatioCEO]

@mattvanswol First of all no one runs forensic tests on a couch for a non criminal charge… that’s your first sign that this poster doesn’t know shit 💩

There may be an ethics investigation but not criminal. 🤦🏽‍♂️

[Patrick Jones @VocatioCEO]

@RpsAgainstTrump Probably means he’s gay/bi as everything the GOP does/says is projection.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

It’s hard to imagine a greater irony: a celebration of the American Founding—whose entire purpose was rejecting kings, personality cults, and leader worship—being transformed into a vanity project for one man. The Founders fought a war to escape this kind of politics.

[Patrick Jones @VocatioCEO]

“It’s something #highereducation especially needs to confront much more urgently:

#Careeradvising is no longer a peripheral #student service.

It is becoming vital infrastructure.”

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[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. https://t.co/cQz8oU5Wkh

[Patrick Jones @VocatioCEO]

Los Angeles owns one of the largest public real estate portfolios in the country, approximately 9,000 parcels across the city.

#LosAngeles #LA #RealEstate #Housing

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[Rimsha Bhardwaj @heyrimsha]

A Wharton economist ran a randomized controlled trial on almost a thousand high school students in Turkey.

The result was so brutal for the AI-in-education narrative that it had to be peer-reviewed by PNAS before people would believe it.

Her name is Hamsa Bastani. She teaches operations and information at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the study she published in 2025 alongside her co-authors is one of the cleanest experiments anyone has run on what AI actually does to learning when you remove it from the equation and check what is left.

The setup was a randomized controlled trial, the same methodology used in clinical drug trials. Nearly a thousand high school math students in Turkey were split into three groups and put through four sessions of ninety minutes each. One group practiced with GPT Base, a standard ChatGPT-4 interface that could answer any question directly. One group practiced with GPT Tutor, a version of the same model that had been prompted to guide students with hints rather than hand them the answer. One group practiced with nothing but their textbook and their own head.

During the practice sessions, the AI groups looked like a miracle. The GPT Base group solved 48% more problems than the students working alone. The GPT Tutor group solved 127% more. Every administrator looking at those numbers would have written a press release about the transformative power of AI in education and moved on.

Then the actual exam came, and AI was not allowed.

The students who had practiced with GPT Base scored 17% worse than the students who had practiced alone. Seventeen percent worse, despite having solved nearly half again as many problems in the sessions leading up to it. The students who had struggled the most, who had sat with the confusion and worked through it without a tool to rescue them, were now the only ones who could actually do the math when it counted.

Bastani's team read through the chat logs to understand what had actually been happening during the practice sessions, and the answer was exactly what the exam results had already implied. The GPT Base group had not been learning. They had been extracting answers and moving on, and every moment that felt like understanding was actually the model doing the cognitive work while the student's brain waited for the next problem to arrive. The paper describes it precisely: without guardrails, students attempt to use GPT-4 as a crutch during practice, and subsequently perform worse on their own.

The detail that should follow every conversation about AI in education is the one buried in the post-test survey results. The students who had relied on AI the most during practice were also the most confident they had understood the material. The tool had not just failed to teach them. It had convinced them they had learned something they had not, which is a different kind of failure entirely and a much harder one to correct because the student has no idea it is happening.

The crutch had made them confident and weak at the same time.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump’s Greenland envoy and Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry to Greenlandic children:

“If you come to the Governor’s Mansion in Louisiana, you can have all the chocolate chip cookies you can eat.”

What the hell is this?

[Patrick Jones @VocatioCEO]

“…Organizations are increasingly expecting employees, especially early-career hires, to contribute faster, adapt quicker, and operate with more autonomy earlier in their careers.

Why?

Because AI changes the economics of productivity…”

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#FutureOfWork

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “Recently fired and sidelined employees in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have started sounding the alarm that the Trump administration is no longer, just bluntly, no longer enforcing a federal law known as the Fair Housing Act…another pillar of the civil rights movement and its achievements. Fair Housing Act (FHA) dates to 1968. It says you can’t refuse to rent to someone or refuse to sell a house to someone on account of their race or their color or religion or national origin or any other factor against which we are supposed to be protected from discrimination. According to current and former HUD employees under Donald Trump, they have DROPPED, they have dropped enforcement of FHA.”

[Patrick Jones @VocatioCEO]

@ForecasterEnten

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

It is not that hard to think of many things that the health care providers, the pharma sector, and the insurance companies need to give up to improve the system. What about the rest of us?
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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Young people represent the hope of a country and the Church. Investing in education, training, and entrepreneurship for young people is a strategic choice for peace. It is also the only way to combat the scourges of drugs, prostitution, and apathy, which devastate too many young lives in an increasingly dramatic way. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

#Peace is everyone’s responsibility, beginning with civil authorities. To govern means to love one’s own country as well as neighboring countries. The commandment “love your neighbor as yourself” is equally applicable to international relations! #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/C4zkA2S0YB

[Patrick Jones @VocatioCEO]

@Bruce_Cares #Oscarville. Never forget ✊🏽

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat to Peter Magyar after "painful" election result, ending 16 years in power. https://t.co/y35vYF2Wf1

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Godspeed to the people of Hungary today, who deserve to escape the misrule of a corrupt Kremlin lackey. May they return to the path of democracy and prosperity without bloodshed. 🇭🇺

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

The kids want hope and optimism.
https://t.co/DyKexP49uf

[Patrick Jones @VocatioCEO]

@ChrisCarr_Ga Antifa cartels??!! Are you serious right now?? This White Tiger notion that Antifa is even a “thing” beyond a collective of anti-fascist protesters??!!

How about being a governor that protects people’s civil liberties and due process?? Rather than boasting about boogeymen…🤦🏽‍♂️

[Patrick Jones @VocatioCEO]

@Last_Nice_Guy @officer_Lew https://t.co/fxPWEQ6m4p