Gym bros swagger into Pilates studios expecting light exercises with toy dumbbells—and leave as broken men, much to their female companions’ delight.
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This is what students at Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville, a classical school in Texas, are asked to read. This is what serious education looks like:
5th Grade:
— Don Quixote (select episodes for young readers)
— Prince Caspian
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream
— Sherlock Holmes
— Little Women
— The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
— Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (abridged)
6th Grade:
— Greek Myths (summer reading)
— The Children’s Homer
— Julius Caesar (adapted)
— The Scarlet Pimpernel
— The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged)
— The Prince and the Pauper
7th Grade:
— The Jungle Book (summer reading)
— The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
— The Call of the Wild
— Fahrenheit 451
— Cyrano de Bergerac
— A Christmas Carol
— Romeo and Juliet
— Animal Farm
— The Diary of Anne Frank
8th Grade:
— Frankenstein (summer reading)
— Lord of the Flies
— Uncle Tom’s Cabin (selections)
— To Kill a Mockingbird
— Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
— Much Ado About Nothing
— The Red Badge of Courage
— Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography (selections)
9th Grade:
— The Odyssey (summer reading)
— The Iliad
— Oedipus the King
— Antigone
— The Clouds
— The Aeneid
— Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
— Metamorphoses (selections)
10th Grade:
— Tales of King Arthur
— Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
— Beowulf
— The Canterbury Tales
— Hamlet
— Paradise Lost
— Shakespeare’s Sonnets
11th Grade:
— The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
— The Scarlet Letter
— Walden
— Self-Reliance
— Moby-Dick
— The Tempest
— My Ántonia
12th Grade:
— Pride and Prejudice
— Metamorphosis
— Heart of Darkness
— Crime and Punishment
— King Lear
— Murder in the Cathedral
This is what students at Founders Classical Academy of Lewisville, a classical school in Texas, are asked to read. This is what serious education looks like:
5th Grade:
— Don Quixote (select episodes for young readers)
— Prince Caspian
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream
— Sherlock Holmes
— Little Women
— The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
— Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (abridged)
6th Grade:
— Greek Myths (summer reading)
— The Children’s Homer
— Julius Caesar (adapted)
— The Scarlet Pimpernel
— The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged)
— The Prince and the Pauper
7th Grade:
— The Jungle Book (summer reading)
— The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
— The Call of the Wild
— Fahrenheit 451
— Cyrano de Bergerac
— A Christmas Carol
— Romeo and Juliet
— Animal Farm
— The Diary of Anne Frank
8th Grade:
— Frankenstein (summer reading)
— Lord of the Flies
— Uncle Tom’s Cabin (selections)
— To Kill a Mockingbird
— Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
— Much Ado About Nothing
— The Red Badge of Courage
— Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography (selections)
9th Grade:
— The Odyssey (summer reading)
— The Iliad
— Oedipus the King
— Antigone
— The Clouds
— The Aeneid
— Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
— Metamorphoses (selections)
10th Grade:
— Tales of King Arthur
— Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
— Beowulf
— The Canterbury Tales
— Hamlet
— Paradise Lost
— Shakespeare’s Sonnets
11th Grade:
— The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
— The Scarlet Letter
— Walden
— Self-Reliance
— Moby-Dick
— The Tempest
— My Ántonia
12th Grade:
— Pride and Prejudice
— Metamorphosis
— Heart of Darkness
— Crime and Punishment
— King Lear
— Murder in the Cathedral
"Hay que temerlos incluso más de lo que ya los tememos, por el hecho de que saben que conocemos lo que tienen en la cabeza y sin embargo ni se inmutan".
(Cicerón. Catilinarias)
In response to the deteriorating security situation, 🇨🇭 has three objectives: strengthen resilience, improve protection and enhance defence capabilities. The Federal Council has adopted Switzerland’s Security Policy Strategy 2026. https://t.co/VzEujnJzNr @vbs_ddps
Vladimir Putin is preparing to escalate his war against Ukraine, which includes attacks on Kyiv’s allies in Europe.
Western intelligence officials believe the Russian leader is laying the ground for a “stealth mobilisation” after elections this weekend, in which thousands of Russians could be drafted.
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No em sorprén. Els Uffizi és una merda de museu (com altres museus italians) en matèria de conservació preventiva. El darrer cop que hi vaig anar era estiu i hi havia finestres obertes a les sales. Cap control de clima.
Que puedas trasplantar depresión de un humano a una rata solo con su microbiota intestinal es de las cosas más fuertes que ha dado la neurociencia reciente. Cambia del todo cómo entendemos el ánimo: no todo empieza en la cabeza, buena parte se cocina en el intestino.
Gen X defined:
Ages 45-61
Looks 35-40
Will 100% throw hands
Doesn't care about your feelings
Cusses a lot
Will make you cry with words
Great work ethic
Pragmatic
Zero tolerance for stupidity
Skeptical of authority
Doesn't trust anyone at 1st
Extremely loyal friend
Figures shit out
Most likely your boss
Works hard, plays hard
No fear
Sarcastic as fuck
Still listens to the same music
Knows lyrics to Rock, Rap & Country
Proficient in analog & digital tech
Self reliant
Adaptable to any environment
Just wants to be left alone
MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.
A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.
Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.
The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.
The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.
Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.
The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.
The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.