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[America250FL @America250FL]

George Washington’s Farewell Address was published #OTD in 1796 at the end of his second term. While not required to leave office, his decision to retire represented the first transfer of power from one President to another.

As part of America250FL, Florida unveiled two statues of George Washington, one in Florida’s Capitol and the other in Washington County.

Learn more about the America250FL Monuments on our website https://t.co/WJCet0ALrX.

[Camilo Montoya-Galvez @camiloreports]

An Afghan general who led an 11th hour attempt to stop the Taliban from seizing control of Afghanistan is now—like so many other evacuees—an Uber driver in DC.

An important story by @margbrennan and team five years after the fall of Kabul.

[Sam @mythical_sam]

@smartereveryday I was really inspired by your team's grit to complete the mission of made in USA down to the last screw. 💪

[Sam @mythical_sam]

@skdh Eine in meiner familie hat mir heute gesagt es war 31 in ihrem Büro heute Morgen um halb 7. es ware nett wenn sie A/C hatten. Sie ist Beamten in NRW.

[Sam @mythical_sam]

@cremieuxrecueil Can someone share the link? Having a hard time finding it.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I broke my own rule to never post about AI detection as it is fraught in many ways.

The problem is that if you use AI a lot, you know AI writing on sight, which makes the difficulty of objectively proving that AI use to others very frustrating

[Sam @mythical_sam]

@skdh Glückwunsch!🎉

[Sam @mythical_sam]

@SnazzyLabs @msnofficial_on My Intel 2020 Mac Pro has terrible rest battery these days

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Two weeks without mobile internet improved mental health more than antidepressants and reversed roughly 10 years of attentional decline.

Screen time dropped 49% (314 to 161 min/day).

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

This is why speeding is stupid, btw

[James Clear @JamesClear]

You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

I don’t think a lot of people understand how bad it has gotten in elementary school

Parents are fighting to keep their kids away from screens and junk videos only to have their public schools give away the game

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Still more evidence that EdTech harmed American education: Across states, the year that the state imposed mandates requiring computers/tablets, that's the year that test scores stopped rising and in most cases started falling.

From Jared Cooney Horvath
https://t.co/TSH1bfp8lA

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

This is a contemporary permutation of the 'why do I need to teach things that kids can just Google?'

A car can get you somewhere faster than walking, so why bother learning to walk? Because you need to walk to the car. Walking takes you to places cars can't reach.
If you travelled everywhere by car, you would think the world was just a connected grid of roads and motorways. Your world would be diminished, and eventually people would forget there was even anything but roads.

One reason we teach children art, science, literacy etc, so that they understand how to use the tools we have created. If we outsource thinking to AI then we lose the capacity to think. We need to use AI to help our thinking, not replace it. If you don't run the room, the room runs you.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Everything should be free: horrible, terrible idea, entails lots of suffering for all of us.

Everything should be cheap: wonderful, great idea, entails broad human flourishing.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Calculators are for those who have already mastered the calculation. Using tools to bypass understanding is just borrowing intelligence at a high interest rate.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Many college professors are discovering that students learn less when they have laptops open. Many of us are banning their use in class.

Putting computers and tablets on students desks in K-12 may turn out to be among the costliest mistakes in the history of education

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Peter Thiel confirms that tech execs generally place severe restrictions on tech use by their own children.

His limit for his kids: 1.5 hours per week.
(kids were 3.5 and 5 at the time)

As we say in The Amazing Generation, the "tech wizards" want YOUR kids to spend all day.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

🇩🇪 Germany's Chancellor Merz says it was a 'serious strategic mistake to phase out nuclear energy'.

[Sam @mythical_sam]

@howie_hua Yo onk, I saw in a recent video that you made a delineation between multiplier and multiplicand. I've been giving a vocabulary quiz to my students for years where they have to use these words in classic format:

x
y
_______

Would x or y be the multiplier in your opinion?