(J)Remy🔱

Going elsewhere.

[Ryota Kanai @kanair]

Great to see this on X. This is something I created during my PhD time 20 years ago.

[Brandon Zicha @ProfBZZZ]

A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's.

This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates.

This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages.

What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime.

This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12.

Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.

[Sean Murray @NoMansSky]

We did it

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

If you gave away $126 billion to subsidize free flights between LA and San Francisco at current demand levels, you could fund roughly 150 to 200 years of travel before the money runs out.

[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

Cost to build high speed rail between L.A. & San Francisco: $126B

Artemis II mission: $4B

Moon base: $20B

It's literally easier to send people to the Moon, and build stuff there, than it is to build in California.

We could have 31-32 Artemis missions at that cost (they'll rapidly get cheaper), or build 5 Moon bases with money left over.

This is a problem across the Western world, but nowhere is worse than California, where all that money could be "spent" without a single mile of track being laid.

[Fabrizio Bustamante Escudero @Fabriziobustama]

No hands.
No rain.
No limits. ☔🤖

A floating umbrella in the middle of nowhere.

The future doesn’t wait for cities…
it shows up anywhere.

#Innovation #IoT #5G #Drone #Drones #AI #Technology #Bigdata

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

The greatest civilization in human history produced something no other society ever has: a system so free that you can make a living destroying it.

Every day, thousands of Americans wake up in homes built by capitalism, eat food delivered by capitalism, pick up devices created by capitalism, open apps funded by capitalism, and post anti-capitalist content to audiences assembled by capitalism. Then they collect ad revenue, sponsorships, and donations generated by the very system they are denouncing. The machine they hate is the machine that feeds them.

What made this possible? A culture that never taught them what capitalism is or why it works. They were educated in government schools that taught them to resent the producers, pity the unproductive, and view wealth as something taken rather than created. They graduated with strong opinions and no rational frame of reference. So they did what the system allows: they monetized their ignorance.

The irony is not that they are hypocrites. It is that capitalism is so productive, so resilient, and so generous that it even feeds the people trying to kill it. No socialist system has ever been secure enough to tolerate its own critics, let alone pay them.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Rocky's “Amaze, Amaze, Amaze” catchphrase was mentioned in NASA communications with the Artemis II crew.

[(J)Remy🔱 @JRRmack]

how do i play Hexen in 2026

[Lucía Lobosvilla @LuciaLobosvilla]

Yoda is the Boomer stuck in his ways.

Windu/Qui Gon are opposing types of Gen Xers.

Obi Wan is the Millennial who followed the rules and did everything he was taught was right only to end up homeless, broke, and single anyway.

And Anakin is the fatherless radicalized GenZ.

[Max @minordissent]

this is true. to expand on it:

“empathy” vs “theory of mind” are two perpendicular axes that together make up EQ. Empathy cares about how others feel while theory of mind actually models it.

Without theory of mind, “empaths” just golden rule maxx. Trouble is that what you want and what i want are frequently different and without an ability to truly grok this, empaths frequently harm themselves or others in an attempt to help.

In contrast without empathy, “theory of mind”ers become psychopathic. They know exactly what others want but without a care for their well being, they just use this to exploit them.

It is only high theory of mind combined with high empathy that leads to low time preference pro-sociality.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[YoDanno #DragonlanceDragonlance @YoDanno]

So I was aware that Vince Vaughn was the winning bidder for this Jeff Easley painting in the Gary Con Charity auction. It the will serve as the new D&D sourcebook Melf’s Guide to Greyhawk.

What I did not know, is that Vince then gifted it to @lukegygax .

Stay classy, Vince.

[Marielle Redclaw @MarieleRedclaw]

If they really wanna make a stir, and upset all the right people, they should do this book.

The High Crusade

In 1345, silly blue aliens land in medieval England expecting an easy conquest. Instead, angry knights introduce the technology of iron gauntlets to the alien's sad little loser faces, storm the spaceship like its France, capture it, and launch an interstellar crusade, conquering planets and toppling empires. Deus vult… in space!

[bea jumpup @Bea_Jumpup]

u have the potential to make someone else's favorite thing. and i think that is really beautiful.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Educators don't talk about the Kansas City experiment.

[yatharth ༺༒༻ @AskYatharth]

ok maybe i WILL watch the lord of the rings movies

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Holy fuck

[(J)Remy🔱 @JRRmack]

does Japan know about Horse the Band?

https://t.co/xD0IwXg3vP

[Daddy Warpig @DaddyWarpig]

Because Horror is a visceral thing and "smart" people are intellectuals and wanna-be intellectuals and if you spend the movie all in your head or up your rear, you never allow the emotions to materialize or affect you.

Normal people who just watch and feel are moved more by movies than people who do not allow themselves to experience the emotions that movies evoke, no matter the genre. True for Romance, War, Mystery, Thriller, Action, Adventure, etc.