William Finney Jr

Rising IT Infrastructure Engineer. Storage, Networking, VMware, Servers, Security, and I'm the only IT person you know that also has a Finance degree!

[kache @yacineMTB]

you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

When brilliant teachers emerge, they disappear. Jaime Escalante created one of the finest AP calculus programs in the country. He could not scale it. Marva Collins founded an exceptional school. She could not replicate her excellence across ten other schools.

The question is not why these teachers are geniuses. The question is why we have no system to transmit their genius.

If Escalante had been a martial arts master, he would have founded a school. His best students would open branches displaying their lineage. Over generations, a coherent tradition would spread. This happens in martial arts, music, dance, and craft traditions.

It does not happen in education.

I call this absence The Missing Institution. In the absence of government monopoly, we would have seen the spontaneous creation of hundreds of pedagogical lineages, each designed to transmit the artistry of a master teacher.

Instead, teacher training is controlled by education professors who publish research papers, not by virtuoso teachers who practice their craft daily.

Montessori and Waldorf escaped the system. They created their own teacher training lineages outside government control. KIPP Academies created an internal leadership program. Hi Tech High licensed its own teachers. The moment schools escape government domination, they spontaneously create The Missing Institution.

For underprivileged children, this absence is catastrophic. They need schools that transmit cultural capital through immersion in a living tradition.

[Dr. Ose Etiobhio @osemagnum]

IF YOU ARE BLACK... PLEASE, PAUSE... AND HONOUR!

LET'S HONOUR MIDWIFE AND Doctor of NURSING PRACTICE.

JANELL GREEN SMITH.

She fought against Maternal Mortality so much.

Sadly, She would die of birth complications after the birth of her first child 😭😭😭... She died Jan 2... this year!

I'm honestly pained😭😭😭

[Zorka Milin @ZorkaMilin]

RIP US Department of Justice Tax Division
zeroed out in the new DOJ budget memo

Cutting prosecutions of tax cheats is one of the most short-sighted and least efficient moves any government can make

[Ramit Sethi @ramit]

"24% of Americans are scrapping plans to make a major purchase due to tariffs"

Good. Should probably be 75%

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

This spectacularly highlights the braindead nature of Musk’s campaign to dismantle the government. He isn’t doing a careful screen for extraneous positions or underperforming employees. He’s just firing whoever he can: probationary employees who have only been on the job a year

[Quiver Quantitative @QuiverQuant]

We’ve been writing code to track politicians’ portfolios.

Here’s an update:

[🌿O.G. Botanist Johnson 🌿 @Thugg_Speedman]

Bruh my fuckin CHEST

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

We practiced with caskets that were stored outside our barracks building. To simulate the weight of honored remains, we’d toss several full sandbags into the belly of the casket and then, for hours, we’d go through our exact movements.

Over and over and over.

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[Dr. Holly Walters @Manigarm]

It's not harmless. It's not "just an innocent thing" to be fooled by AI. You NEED to be able to discern and differentiate reality. You NEED to know how the world works on a basic level.

Because fooling you with baby animals and flowers is just the start of something much worse.

[Dr. India Jackson @astro_beauty]

It is my honor to announce that I have made history as the first black woman to receive a PhD in Physics from @GeorgiaStateU! During this journey I attained:

BS MATH
MS MATH
MS PHYSICS
MS Computer Science
PhD Astrophysics

[William Finney Jr @WilliamFinneyJr]

@Repealist_ @KingsInns 🎉 Congratulations!!

[Reecie @BlackWomenViews @ReecieColbert]

I'm not gonna argue with Cardi B on her not voting, but her comments motivated me to give a Civics 099 lesson (shout out to @1ericasavage). In under 10 minutes, break down how the co-equal judicial (i.e. SCOTUS), legislative (Congress), and executive (White House) branches of government impact how we solve (or don't) our country's problems. I also tackle how over 10 TRILLION of government expenditures are spent at the federal, state, and local levels. The bottom line is what I always say...if you're gonna be mad, know who to be mad at. If you wanna solve ish...know who the decision makers are. Also, not voting doesn't punish politicians... it rewards them with having one less person standing in the way of their election. #ReecieColbertShow

[The Jobfather ® 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇬🇧 @TheJobfather__]

No matter if you're a year into your career or a decade deep, there's a compelling narrative woven through your professional experiences. Uncovering and articulating this narrative is a strategic skill pivotal for ascending the corporate hierarchy.

[The Neighborhood Finance Guy 📈🚀💵 @GQ_Accountant]

The US is facing a literacy crisis, with 21% of adults illiterate in 2024 and 54% of adults reading below a 6th-grade level. This crisis is especially concerning for children, as the NAEP found that only 43% of 4th graders in 2023 were proficient readers.

[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

Does this help?

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

First claimed successful replication of LK-99

Accomplished by a team at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and posted 30 minutes ago.

Why this is evidence:
The LK-99 flake slightly levitates for both orientations of the magnetic field, meaning it is not simply a magnetized piece of iron or similar 'magnetic material'. A simple magnetic flake would be attracted to one polarity of the strong magnet, and repelled by the other. A diamagnet would be repelled under either orientation, since it resists and expels all fields regardless of the polarity.

Caveats
There is no way to verify the orientation of the strong magnet in this video, also, there are yet to be published experimental measured values of this sample. Diamagnetism is a property of superconductors but without measured and verified data, this is just suggestive of a result.

Take-away
If this synthesis was indeed successful, then this material is easy enough to be made by labs other than the original research team. I would watch carefully for results out of Argonne National Lab, who are reported to be working on their own synthesis of a sample.

This overall corroborates two independent simulation studies that investigated the original Korean authors claim about material and crystal structure, and both studies supported the claims.

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: https://t.co/1Blls3VcgL
Shenyang National Lab: https://t.co/I0NHAP3KsR

The attached video shows a small flake of their sample responding to an external magnetic field. I scroll through the video to skip to the relevant part.

original video credit to: @altryne

[nill @nillkitty]

That popping sound you hear when you open a @Snapple is the license activating.