Morgan

Elon Musk is an extremely skilled propagandist.

When I first retired, I served as a middle school substitute teacher. I lasted one semester. The pay was $85 a day. If you had a “teaching certificate” it was $125. I have a MS, was writing my PhD dissertation, had a 40 year career, had been a soldier, politician, and business executive, even a CEO twice. I got $85. Basically $10 an hour. I was forced to take “training” that taught we should never discipline. If a student acted out, it was our fault and we had to give them something else to do which would interest them and then they’d behave. Try that in a class of 25 when you’ve been called in that morning and have no lesson planned. Good luck. I made the mistake of expecting the kids to listen and then do their own work. That’s when I was gently reprimanded and shown how you had to do the work for the kids. They just were to copy what you wrote. There was literally an overhead projector where the kids could see my hand writing on the page. They’d copy what I wrote onto their ridiculous ditto sheets. That way everyone could get a 100%. And don’t get me started on those ditto sheets. Mostly it was woke nonsense and DEI influenced versions of reality. In history, for example, minor characters and events were elevated while major ones ignored based on “inclusion.” All of it, regardless of subject, was aimed at the least capable students. I learned that the “special needs” kids were just there. I wasn’t to expect anything from them as they had their own teacher (1 per child) who did anything they wanted. I’m not sure why they were in my classroom, as we didn’t interact with them at all. I suspect it was all for show. I learned there was no way to rid the class of the unruly, indisciplined, and poorly socialized kids. You could send them to the office, but they’d be right back the next day, maybe even the same day. Short of an actual crime, they could never be removed from the school. They ran the place, and the empathetic, nearly 100% female staff, catered to them. They knew their names, and basically kissed their a**es to get them to cooperate even a little. Other kids, who wanted to learn, sat silent and nameless, while the teacher focused, by necessity, on those few who refused to do any work or behave in a civil manners. These few disrupted every attempt at real learning. Every minute of every day was frustrating chaos. Half the kids were functionally illiterate. Very little of substance was being taught. We needed men in public education fifty years ago. I fear it’s too far gone by now. You should homeschool. I teach college now.

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the dumbest GOP talking point is deployed by John Barrasso

🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 24 hours? > A Chinese lab made AI 25% cheaper and gave it away for free. OpenAI charges you $200/month for worse. > A robot got arrested in China. Not shut down.. Arrested... Catching charges before GTA 6 dropped. > JPMorgan told Meta to fire 20% of staff.. Meta did it that night.. The stock went UP but 14,000 people lost their jobs and Wall Street clapped. > Elon poached the engineers who built Cursor and said SpaceX will "far exceed" everyone in AI.. > xAI is paying Wall Street bankers to teach AI how to replace Wall Street bankers... They're taking the money. 💀 > Jensen said Nvidia will hit $1 TRILLION in revenue by 2027.. Lost $600B in January and recovered in two weeks.. Then named his price. > OpenAI gave AI agents the power to spawn OTHER AI agents.. The AI now hires its own employees. > Manus put a full AI agent on your desktop.. Every $15/month SaaS tool just became obsolete. > An AI CMO launched that replaces your entire marketing team for $99/month. Your social media manager, SEO guy, content writer - all of them for $99. > Nvidia launched DLSS 5 - AI that upgrades your game graphics in real time to worse And it's only Monday. See you tomorrow. It'll be worse.