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t1: parasite
t2: oppenheimer, everything everywhere all at once
t3: shape of water, nomadland
t4: green book, anora, one battle after another
haven't seen: moonlight, coda
Matt Neglia@NextBestPicture
How would you rank the last ten #Oscar Best Picture winners? 2016: Moonlight 2017: The Shape Of Water 2018: Green Book 2019: Parasite 2020: Nomadland 2021: CODA 2022: Everything Everywhere All At Once 2023: Oppenheimer 2024: Anora 2025: One Battle After Another
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Make $1m by graduation.
Or get 100% of your tuition refunded.
That's the promise of the new high school for entrepreneurs Cameron and I are launching this fall through @AlphaSchoolATX.
We need 2-3 coaches to help make it happen.
DM us or apply!
Cameron Sorsby@CameronSorsby
We’re launching a new @alphaschoolatx high school for aspiring entrepreneurs. Our promise: Make $1m by graduation, or receive a full tuition refund. Yes, this will be the coolest high school in the world. And we're building the best team in the world to make it happen. We’re looking for 2-3 exceptional coaches to help us guide the students towards achieving this aggressive but achievable goal. You won’t be giving lectures or assigning homework. You’ll be grilling them on their P&L, driving them to the car wash they bought, critiquing their email funnels, pushing them to do things 99% of the world doesn't believe is possible. Job posting is live and DMs are open.
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I’m nearly finished with CS Lewis’ Space Trilogy (recommended by @zslayback), and am surprised it hasn’t been more discussed in conversations about globalization, transhumanism, AI, antihumanism, “The Machine”, etc—particularly That Hideous Strength, the final book. Recommended!
Geoff Graham@ggraham
@cognazor I have been reading CS Lewis’ Space Trilogy and am now well into the final book, That Hideous Strength. Incredibly timely. Prophetic even.
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At an art show featuring teenagers’ work from all over Georgia, the first is what the judges (a panel of professional artists) selected as “best in show” and the second is “the people’s choice”.
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I can't believe humans were gifted a planet full of famine, disease, and death and invented fusion, vaccines, moon rockets, and so much food that most people die from obesity.
le.hl@0xleegenz
I can't believe human were gifted a planet with full of trees, fruit, water, animals and sunshine and then they invented debt, capitalism and war
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oog can't sleep. walk outside cave. middle of night.
papa already there. sitting. looking at nothing.
oog: "papa?"
papa: "sit."
oog sit.
long quiet. bug noise. sky big and close.
oog: "papa can't sleep?"
papa: "papa just thinking."
oog: "about what?"
papa: "cold season coming. need more hide. need more dried meat. fire pit cracking, need new stone. koom need new wrap, growing too fast. fru need new spear, old one splintering."
papa say all this flat. like reading from wall scratching. not complaining. just... listing.
oog: "papa think about this every night?"
papa look at oog. little smile. tired one.
papa: "papa think about this every MOMENT. just only say it out loud at night when nobody listening."
oog: "oog listening."
papa: "...yeah. oog is."
quiet again.
oog: "papa. when does it stop? the list?"
papa laugh. real laugh. the kind that surprise him.
papa: "oog. it don't stop. you just get better at carrying it while smiling at breakfast."
oog sit with this. heavy thing disguised as a sentence.
one day oog will have own list. own night sitting. own bug noise and big sky and a head full of everyone else's needs.
and oog hope... oog hope someone sit next to oog and say "what papa thinking about." so the list can live outside oog head. even for one minute.
that what papa needed tonight. not solution. just a witness.
love, oog
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My son’s screen time today:
- 45 minutes on IXL
- 45 minutes on Math Academy
- 60 minutes playing chess and studying openings on YouTube
- 60 minutes building Truist Park in Minecraft
- 60 minutes writing Chapter 3 of his novel
Screens aren’t bad for kids. They are the best tools for learning that have ever existed.
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Schools do not kill (extinguish) creativity. They limit it by forcing kids to apply creativity to school-centric problems, and that's bad enough. Most kids would not choose those problems if given the choice.
Vala Afshar@ValaAfshar
Do schools kill creativity?
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Shot on his Polaroid 600 Instant Camera, naturally.
Jonathan Haidt@JonHaidt
This is the most beautiful snow storm I've ever seen. Washington Square Park last night:
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@_cturner We homeschool our daughter. She’s 5 and just started IXL a couple of weeks ago. I’m so impressed by how focused she is! She feels proud every time she sees those little gold ribbons. We do other things too, of course, but she’s really flying through IXL on her own!
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There's nothing special about IXL. It's just that the bar for K-12 is so low you can fully replace the academic part in two hours per day for $30/mo.
Matt Bateman@mbateman
Lots of people are commenting on the ways that education is hard to scale etc. etc., and, sure, I agree, it is hard. But… …you could in fact get test scores up across the board, nationally, at scale, by having schools truly commit to a basic IXL regimen.
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@_cturner Very cool. How old is he? Wondering when my kids should be setting goals
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There are hard days with homeschooling, and there are days when you find a note in your son's bedroom.
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@_cturner Today is the first day I start homeschooling our 7yo. 😬
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My best investment over the past 5 years is a company you’ve never heard of.
Hammers and shovels for data centers
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