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being the friend with a car and a costco membership in nyc feels like controlling the strait of hormuz

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@KVN_03 Soup dumplings, little island, drink a 40 on the Staten Island ferry.

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@JeremyWingert79 The Little Prince, Tales of the Greek Heroes, Pendragon Series

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@GaryHPhillips Read the MTA alerts & decided to have some popcorn to wait out a few trains. Subway was horrific, maybe the worst I’ve ever seen the station once I made it there. Still has to take a D to 170th to transfer to a downtown train for any hope of getting on.

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@yankeestadium Please put angry orchard at other locations than just the one gf stand in the great hall, I have to go on a 2 mile journey for a cold one

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@Captain2Corner 10! Thanks, Giancarlo !

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@sondraa Volpemort

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@fatfabfeminist The North Shore has been diverse for a min. In the 90s/00s I went to school with kids who were Middle Eastern, Albanian, Italian, Chinese, Latino. There were a lot of immigrant families who’ve been on SI for a while. I did move away the second I could and would not go back 😭

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@clairelzbeth @jnnl36 Present 🙋🏼‍♀️

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@biinx_nofrappe Worst is the mom defending him

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@ThatGlowPlug_ @HazelAppleyard You cannot compare fractions of unequal wholes.

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@HazelAppleyard You can’t compare fractions of unequal wholes, this is a foundational conceptual understanding. 1/2 of a large pizza is not equivalent to 3/6 of a size small pizza.

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@pranavsf @hbolton @LinkofSunshine Lived here 32 years never been to either 😭

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@YanksTreehouse @BurdenBurner Last year they only did it for big games & others are still first come

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

[rachaelsacks.eth @RAnSacks]

Places where the veil is insanely thin:
- The Vatican
- Venice
- New Orleans
- Denver
- Dubai
- the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell on Jamaica avenue
- Myrtle-Broadway Dunkin
- Chambers St JZ platform

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

And this is why education is stuck in such a rut, and constantly regresses back whenever we make an inch of improvement: because the progressive tropes are so intuitively attractive, easy, and simple, and the reality of learning is much more complex and difficult.

You don't learn very well by watching an amusing or entertaining video; you retain the information in it like a river running through you. You're aware of it temporarily until it is replaced by the next packet of facts, but you don't retain it well or in a way you can retrieve easily later. You might remember novel, surprising, amusing, or shocking parts well enough, but miss the details that weren't obvious, or the links between them.

Knowledge and skills are acquired through scaffolded explanations/ demonstrations followed by the student processing it, using it, thinking about it. The teacher then checks their understanding and offers high quality feedback, reinforces, corrects, redirects or reconstructs. Then the next lesson connects meaningfully with the last one in a similar way, infused with retrieval and revision of prior concepts to ensure deep learning.

Videos can be part of that, but they are not that. We actually do know a lot now about how we learn, and how we teach, and collectively they tend to be called the Learning Sciences, or Evidence-Informed Education. It's urgently required across the world as an antidote to both the winner-takes-all grindhouse of poorly led-lecturing, or more commonly, the inane performative pantomime of progressive flim-flam.

Mr B's references here demonstrate the old Keynesian adage of how so-called practical men who believe themselves free from bias, are usually in the grip of some long dead economist or philosopher. He trots out the most pedestrian and reactionary dogma about learning while believing himself to be a common-sense revolutionary. It's not his fault. I don't know anything about being a social media megastar.

But tech, no matter how shiny, cannot replace the architecture of the human brain. There is a 1300g bag of neural porridge inside every one of us that isn't going anywhere fast, so we better get busy using it to understand how to replicate and build on how we already actually learn, rather than what we wish it was like- or what sells content.

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@17776ers You wouldn’t see a Yankees fan retweeting to talk about the tigers…

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@ErynsBraves

[G @gabelli35]

Can the Mets take Volpe next