kathy lapointe

love my family, my horse samson and my dogs. love the outdoors, reading, riding, biking, skiing. Small business owner

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Palantir CEO Alex Karp just exposed the absolute mathematical failure of the American education system.

We’re actively filtering out our apex builders.

The system is still training the biological workforce to be compliant, administrative cogs for an industrial machine that superintelligence is currently overwriting.

Karp: “All of our tests are built around things that were valuable in the Industrial Revolution.”

Sitting perfectly still and memorizing compliance metrics is a zero-margin commodity.

The highest-output operators of the next decade are the exact people the archaic system actively punishes.

The neurodivergents. The dyslexics. The hyper-kinetic builders.

Karp: “Everybody who can’t sit or needs to build or wants to build have to go into a separate slot.”

Don’t force apex cognitive talent to beg for a mid-level banking job at Goldman Sachs.

Weaponize their chaotic, non-linear execution to build the physical infrastructure of the future.

And here’s the brutal reality check.

Karp: “Vocational training in Germany is very technical. The people building the cars at BMW or even in the French version Airbus, very complicated jobs, they didn’t go to college. They went to a very, very high-end high school. And they come out without any debt.”

The elite establishment treats vocational training as a biological failure state.

It’s the ultimate sovereign moat.

We’re mass-producing millions of debt-saddled knowledge workers whose entire skill set is about to be absorbed by an LLM.

The algorithm cannot manufacture a jet turbine.

It cannot secure a power grid.

The nations that win the next decade will completely bypass the bloated university system.

Aggressively route the highest-IQ operators directly into elite, zero-debt physical execution.

Karp: “You also need to change our testing system. Different forms of intelligence. Pull out all the dyslexics, all the neurodivergent.”

Standardized testing doesn’t measure cognitive velocity.

It measures biological obedience.

The system measures the entire species on a single, archaic axis of compliance.

Fail to sit in a chair and memorize the curriculum?

The system discards you.

The AI arms race won’t be won by compliant valedictorians who are excellent at filling out rubrics.

It’ll be won by hyper-obsessive, neurodivergent builders who mathematically cannot tolerate the friction of a traditional classroom.

By actively filtering these operators out, the current education system is bleeding out its most valuable resource.

And it doesn’t even know it’s doing it.

Karp: “We should have gotten you before you got turned down at Goldman and said this is a waste of your time. You could be building something important.”

Identify the builders before the system breaks them. Hand them the compute.

Because the system is filtering out the exact people who will build what replaces it.

They won’t come back to reform it. They won’t ask for permission.

They’ll just build over it.

And they already started.

[Golnar Jahanbani. 𝒻𝒶𝓃 @golnarjahanbani]

If it were you in their shoes, being unfairly arrested just for asking for freedom and then sentenced to death, would you want people on social media to simply scroll past your name?Or you wanted them to be your voice?

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[kathy lapointe @klapointe23]

@Capitana_espana Wow, this feels so good...wish we could go back in time
Everything feels so plastic, vapid and empty compared to this

[SIZWE-BANSI @SizweBansii]

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[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

This survivor of the Maduro regime should be required viewing for every American and it should be played on every news station in America before anyone forms an opinion about the Venezuela op.

[kathy lapointe @klapointe23]

For a breath of fresh air, take a look at this beautiful film made by a talented female Canadian documentarian.
Its worth a watch.

Echoes of the Ice https://t.co/0NwuD4ntlX via @YouTube

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

A message from a Kindergarten teacher:

After forty years in the classroom, my career ended with one small sentence from a six-year-old:

“My dad says people like you don’t matter anymore.”

No sneer. No malice. Just quiet honesty — the kind that cuts deeper because it’s innocent. He blinked, then added, “You don’t even have a TikTok.”

My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind me.

When I started teaching in the early 1980s, it felt like a promise — a shared belief that what we did mattered. We weren’t rich, but we were valued. Parents brought warm cookies to parent nights. Kids gave you handmade cards with hearts that didn’t quite line up. Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic.

But that world slowly slipped away. The job I once knew has been replaced by exhaustion, red tape, and a kind of loneliness I can’t quite describe.

My evenings used to be filled with construction paper, glitter, and glue sticks. Now they’re spent filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children — one filming me with his phone while I tried to calm another child mid-meltdown.

And the kids… they’ve changed too. Not by choice.

They arrive tired, anxious, overstimulated. Their tiny fingers know how to swipe a screen before they can hold a crayon. Some can’t make eye contact or wait in line. We’re expected to fix all of it — to patch the gaps, heal the trauma, teach the curriculum, and document every move — in six hours a day, with resources that barely fill a drawer.

The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.” A young principal once told me, “Clara, maybe you’re too nurturing. The district wants measurable results.”

As if kindness were a weakness.

Still, I stayed. Because of the small, holy moments that no spreadsheet could measure —
a whisper of, “You remind me of my grandma.”
a shaky note that read, “I feel safe here.”
a quiet boy finally meeting my eyes and saying, “I read the whole page.”

Those tiny sparks were my reason to keep showing up.

But this last year broke something in me.

The aggression grew sharper. The laughter in the staff room turned to silence. The light went out of so many eyes. I watched brilliant teachers — my friends — vanish under the weight of burnout, their joy replaced by survival.

I felt myself fading too, like chalk on a board that’s been wiped one too many times.

So today, I began my goodbye. I pulled faded art off the walls and tucked thirty years of handmade cards into a single box. In the back of a drawer, I found a letter from a student from 1998:

“Thank you for loving me when I was hard to love.”

I sat on the floor and cried.

No party. No applause. Just a handshake from a young principal who called me “Ma’am” while checking his notifications.

I left my rocking chair behind, and my sticker box too. What I carried with me were the memories — the faces of hundreds of children who once trusted me enough to reach out their hands and learn. That can’t be uploaded. It can’t be measured. It can’t be replaced.

I miss when teachers were partners, not targets. When parents and educators worked side by side, not in opposition. When schools cared more about wonder than numbers.

So if you know a teacher — any teacher — thank them. Not with a mug or a gift card, but with your words. With your respect. With your understanding that behind every test score is a heart that cared enough to try.

Because in a world that often overlooks them, teachers are the ones who never forget our children.

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Charlie was shot because he was honest.

America, we can’t keep doing this.

[kathy lapointe @klapointe23]

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[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

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[kathy lapointe @klapointe23]

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[kathy lapointe @klapointe23]

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[love drops @lovedropx]

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Ben @freedomanddogs]

I want a government small enough to have neither the time nor the resources to conduct a 5 hour raid over a pet squirrel.

[Leanna Organics @LeannaOrganics]

"There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

[Genius Business @GeniusBusiness_]

The rare people in your life who root for you to hit your goals are more valuable than the goals themselves.

[kathy lapointe @klapointe23]

How to Overcome Fear of Failure https://t.co/uS98TeVrDv via @YouTube

[books 📖 @bookpoets]

things you won’t regret doing

[kathy lapointe @klapointe23]

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[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Remake yourself into a character of power. Working on yourself like clay should be one your greatest and most pleasurable life tasks. It makes you in essence an artist - an artist creating yourself.