Max Kling

@aishdoingthings humina humina humina

life is often a dream 📍institute for advanced study

The tragedy of late capitalism is that its very success has enabled the proliferation of grifters like AOC to profit from socialist slop.

i just want a covered porch so i can sit outside in thunderstorms like an old lady with my coffee and mumble "we needed this"

@JeremyTate41 @flowidealism

Ben Sasse went to Harvard and then realized he needed to go to St. John’s in Annapolis to get a serious education Full episode dropping Tuesday

Those who treat humans as machines are also treating machines as humans.

@lukeburgis wow you don't strike me as a red bull guy, but I get it

Recording audio book for 8 hours today in studio

@JeremyTate41 Between Provost Schnell and President Beilock, Dartmouth may be the only Ivy still taking its role as a place for learning seriously

Last night Ben Sasse confirmed my suspicion that Dr. Santiago Schnell, provost at Dartmouth, is quickly becoming the single most influential voice in higher education. If you haven’t already read his essay on AI that broke the internet you should. “AI has not created new educational problems; it has made old ones impossible to ignore. The habit of rewarding performance over understanding, fluency over depth, and polish over genuine engagement was already present in our institutions before the first language model was trained. AI simply industrializes and accelerates those habits until their emptiness becomes undeniable…” ncregister.com/commentaries/s…

4-time Cy Young Award winner. 355 wins. World Series champion. First ballot Hall of Famer. 🍿 #MLBNPresents One of a Kind profiles the career of Greg Maddux

В Италии есть социальный феномен, который называется «умарелл». Это мужики на пенсии, которые часами наблюдают за стройками, заложив руки за спину. Они следят за работой машин и людей, иногда давая непрошеные советы. К ним стараются относиться сдержанно и с пониманием, а некоторые компании делают специальные окошки в заборах, чтобы дедулики могли нормально наблюдать. Умарелл происходит из болонского диалекта итальянского языка и означает «человечек».

Tom Brown, a retired engineer, dedicated 25 years to preserving approximately 1,200 apple varieties from extinction.

A beautiful and powerful conversation between @BenSasse and @DouthatNYT. Ben Sasse has 280k followers here. Catturd has 4 million. If you are expecting or waiting for justice in this life, I suggest you look to the next one. nytimes.com/2026/04/09/opi…

@sbkaufman @analoguegroup

This is one of the most interesting theories I've seen in a long time. Could aging be partly a cybernetic problem? In other words, we run out of goals, meaning, purpose, and that accelerates the biological aging process. There is some evidence for this in my own research.

John Adams on the Jews. Wow.

I know what you mean by engagement, but curious what you'd say to the classically-minded parent or teacher who'd ask: surely there's valuable knowledge a kid doesn't know they want yet? If you only teach what they're already interested in, aren't you telling them their current horizon is the edge of the map? Doesn't someone still have to point them toward the things worth knowing that they don't yet know exist?

Forcing people to learn something reduces their engagement with it. If half the class hates guitar, it ruins the guitar class. Yet we force kids to sit through classes they hate and expect them to learn. We've inverted human nature. School forces learning. That single design choice poisons everything downstream. Voluntary learning beats coerced learning by orders of magnitude. Always.

@TheRewatchables Challengers

The least athletic movie moments of all time

They don’t make animations like this anymore

When alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin last won an Olympic gold medal, in PyeongChang eight years ago, her father Jeff—known throughout the skiing community for both his unyielding fandom of his phenom daughter and his passion for ski-racing photography—put his hands on his hat in the South Korea cold. “Oh my God!” he yelled.  Two years later, in 2020, Jeff Shiffrin died suddenly, in an accident in his Colorado home. He was 65. Jeff was the one who put Mikaela on skis when she was 2. So it was only fitting that nearly a decade since that day in South Korea, Mikaela Shiffrin movingly talked about her father on Wednesday, after she won the Olympic gold medal in the slalom race in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Read more here: time.com/7379424/mikael…

Imagine you're a father of a 12-year-old son. Your boy likes to watch and play baseball, so you enroll him in a local league and volunteer to coach on weekends. It's a chance for him to make some friends, learn the fundamentals, and get some exercise. Plus, you get to bond with your son in a way that doesn't involve a screen, and you've been wanting to give back to the community anyway. You expect practice to be at the dusty ballfield by the church. Instead, you pull up to a state-of-the-art Under Armour-sponsored baseball complex 20 miles out of town. Half the roster has had private hitting coaches since they were 8. One dad casually mentions his 11-year-old's "training regimen." Another kid is wearing a biometric sleeve that tracks his arm stress in real-time. Everyone's angling to get their kid noticed by the elite travel teams, the ones that cost $10K a season and promise exposure to college scouts. You just wanted to teach them to keep their eye on the ball and take your boy and his friends out for pizza afterwards

They spend $16K on their son’s travel baseball career. The kid has a nutritionist. Parents are spending $16k a year on travel baseball and calling it ‘opportunity.’ It’s not opportunity. It’s parental foolishness & idolatry dressed up as ambition & success. #WormwoodFTW

@BrentBeshore @bobbyjgeorge @ZoharAtkins @joinlightning

You're a father of a 12-year-old son. Your boy likes to watch and play baseball, so you enroll him in a local league and volunteer to coach on weekends. It's a chance for him to make some friends, learn the fundamentals, and get some exercise. Plus, you get to bond with your son in a way that doesn't involve a screen, and you've been wanting to give back to the community anyway. You expect practice to be at the dusty ballfield by the church. Instead, you pull up to a state-of-the-art Under Armour-sponsored baseball complex 20 miles out of town. Half the roster has had private hitting coaches since they were 8. One dad casually mentions his 11-year-old's "training regimen." Another kid is wearing a biometric sleeve that tracks his arm stress in real-time. Everyone's angling to get their kid noticed by the elite travel teams, the ones that cost $10K a season and promise exposure to college scouts. You just wanted to teach them to keep their eye on the ball and take them for pizza afterwards