John Pooley

Big antenna energy. My dog Conway says hi. Emerson Meme School, Norwood High School. (he/him)

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. A network of prominent news outlets, including The Oregonian, The Plain Dealer, The Star-Ledger, have quietly published more than 17,000 articles since 2022 pushing promo codes for sports books and prediction markets

Advance Local, which owns these outlets, claims this is journalism.

[Natalie Wolchover @nattyover]

On billionaires, please read this by Cory Doctorow, summarizing Thomas Piketty's 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 21𝘴𝘵 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺.

[John Pooley @W1JPI]

@C_Hendrick Even in 2014 everyone knew the stars on RMP were meaningless and you have to read the comments. Just like Amazon

[John Pooley @W1JPI]

@JayaGup10 You've hit the nail on the head but these forces were already well cemented in niche technology industries years before we saw frontier GenAI models. Look at Blackmagic Design's influence

[Jaya Gupta @JayaGup10]

https://t.co/yiGW8jKKXk

[Gregory Royal Pratt @royalpratt]

For one attorney’s work over a 24-hour stretch, a law firm billed city of Chicago for 69 hours. The city paid it. Now the city is clawing back after @chicagotribune questions but concerns remain over their processes. Amazing digging by @joemahr @jmetr22b
https://t.co/PTP6YUfC5T

[John Pooley @W1JPI]

Good test of did you write something well - if you give it to an LLM and ask the LLM to improve it, does it get worse? I've been doing this for a year now

[keysmashbandit @keysmashbandit]

Please, I'm begging you, try to critically examine the differences between these two pieces of writing.

ChatGPT editing did not improve this. Every single change only served to weaken your claims significantly. Everything is now hedged into oblivion: no longer have you outlined a "problem," now it's merely a "flaw." "It is true" now demoted to "it appears to be the case." "Is" gets a "usually" tacked on. A thesis statement at the end of the first paragraph gets run over by noisy, out-of-context example-whittling. All for fear of being misconstrued.

And at the end, the argument that gets spat out isn't even yours anymore! You argued that Graeber failed to create a true account of work because he did not understand Chesterton's Fence. ChatGPT is arguing is that it is possible some apparently bullshit jobs could be secretly load-bearing if you squint. These are two different statements. The second is weaker and less compelling. It says less. And it's fucking longer!

Don't do this anymore! Stop doing this! It's worse!!!

[John Pooley @W1JPI]

@hjluks No one but Jay Shah talks about nerve sensitization which is a common influence for people considering cortisone vs PT. Pain neuroscience education is not profitable!

[John Pooley @W1JPI]

@tombennett71 @rpondiscio You just aren't looking or trying hard enough

https://t.co/a0MlAyHfUs

[John Pooley @W1JPI]

@cryptopunk7213 This has always been relatively easy except for the idiot buyers agents who won't show it to their buyers because they don't know how to handle their side of the transaction without handholding from the sellers' agent

[John Pooley @W1JPI]

@sciencegirl Radical Aces

[John Pooley @W1JPI]

@teachthemx3 I used to fall asleep in classes that didn't allow laptops and had long lectures about LOTR or clubbing in Ibiza which had no relevance to the curriculum. Honestly I wish I paid more attention to the Ibiza story, but that prof gave me a C with the highest final exam score. Ass

[John Pooley @W1JPI]

I need to hear @ehanford and Barbara sit down

[Tiffany Hoben @taoneal]

Well said, Barbara. Every school leader should make this article mandatory reading. 👇🏻

The efficacy, or lack thereof, of student-centered learning is the most exhausting argument in education.

If you think about the things you learned from your parents - tying your shoes, riding a bike, cooking an egg, cutting with a knife - how did they do it? This was not child-led inquiry-based learning. You’d never figure it out! And in some cases maybe do real harm to yourself and others.

There’s a logical time to allow students to think freely and explore their own ideas but that’s well after the basics have been mastered through explicit instruction.

[John Pooley @W1JPI]

The wisdom of The Ghetto Boys... "I ain't going to war for a shit-talking president"

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

https://t.co/tjmbT5ytUN

[Sam Allard @SceneSallard]

Imagine being a bright-eyed J-School grad eager to launch your reporting career, and the editor of Cleveland's metro daily puts you on blast for wanting to be a journalist instead of an AI content farmer. https://t.co/sUbhYi9LwO

[Ammar A. Merhbi @AmmarMerhbi]

The Teaching Method That Can't Fail
by Barbara Oakley

"We have more research than ever on how the brain actually learns. And yet, in country after country, the teaching methods being promoted are the ones that research says work least well for beginners."

https://t.co/ADtnl8RARx

[Collin Gross @CollinGrossWx]

Check this out! 👀🧊 Visible satellite imagery showing the massive ice sheet on Lake Erie cracking and breaking apart this afternoon!

[Lizzie Johnson @lizziejohnsonnn]

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.

[John Pooley @W1JPI]

@cullend @lauriewired What you're saying is that while people may see the same footage, they're interpreting it differently. The same shared viewing experience exists as it did on 9/11. The phenomenon you describe is a good substitute for the one that Laurie described https://t.co/5vxmAh26DN

[John Pooley @W1JPI]

@lauriewired @cullend I disagree about Broadcast Zero. Everyone was watching the same footage on Twitter on Jan 6th