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The next key ingredient in scaling free learning is to disseminate appropriate social learning norms, which in principle may be replicated at zero cost.
I launched my Socratic Michael Strong YouTube channel to share the norms of intellectual dialogue that I’ve found effective at developing children’s minds for free.
Alana's journey shows what’s possible.
Her father began asking me about educating her when she was three.
I began recording my conversations with her when she was four (you can find hundreds of these on YouTube).
She turns thirteen next month and is:
✔️ Near completing Harvard’s CS50
✔️ Scored 680 on the SAT verbal (top 1%)
✔️ Having fun, casual conversations on Book I of The Odyssey
The Socratic Parenting course at The Socratic Experience is now finishing up its third cohort.
Parents currently pay for it, but the ultimate goal is to open-source all of our content.
The pattern replicates itself:
– Alana is engaged in Socratic mentoring with a younger student.
– Our team actively hosts or participates in seminars with people around the world.
– Parents from our 6-week course keep in touch with each other’s parenting journeys.
What might the next generation of young people be capable of if they grew up surrounded by questions instead of answers?
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Why did this change? I can see such beauty in the older tombstones. The older cemeteries have so much character.
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Built this from scratch.
No team of 10,000. No venture funding.
Just a stubborn idea and a lot of late nights.
Physical keyboard. E-Paper Display.
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modern loneliness: infinite connections, zero presence.
we're all touching screens instead of grass and wondering why we feel nothing
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Jack Dorsey says AI must be permissionless because constraint kills innovation.
Five CEOs shouldn't dictate what brings humanity forward.
Open source is the answer.
To protect ourselves, we have to race ahead. Eliminating single points of failure before they become civilization's choke points.
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oops. TestFlight full (10,000 people).
app is still in review for full release.
my weekend project to learn about bluetooth mesh networks, relays and store and forward models, message encryption models, and a few other things.
bitchat: bluetooth mesh chat...IRC vibes.
TestFlight: testflight.apple.com/join/Qw…
GitHub: github.com/jackjackbits/bitc…
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We reject: kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
—David Clark, 1992
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Watch "Borrowing Time" - My Most Involved AI-Generated Narrative Short Yet.
This is based on a true story from My Father's life during the 1960s dealing with the hardships of being Black and in the wrong place at the wrong time. I won't spoil it any further. Enjoy!
It's incredible what AI tools + Storytelling can achieve.
Thanks for taking the time to watch my film.
#AIart #ai #GenerativeAI #aiartcommunity #Filmmaking #Civilrights #Scifi #Ainimation #Midjourney #Aifilm
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Elizabeth Warren: #Bitcoin has no value because it’s not backed by governments, less valuable than art because you can’t “throw darts at it” 🧐
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The end of corporate journalism is now in sight.
If you want a quick writeup, ChatGPT will do it faster.
If you want original reporting, Twitter will do it cheaper.
And if you want serious fact checking, on-chain analysis will do it better.
Citizen journalism will win.
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I’m confused.
How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into a setting where they are organized by age, into grades, and forced to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 12 + years?
Huh?
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Freedom won’t be won with better tweets but with better Twitter.
That could be Clubhouse, Substack, capsule.social, Bitclout, Ghost, mirror.xyz, a decentralized Twitter itself (@bluesky!) and/or new tools.
The goal: move the discourse into better venues.
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✨What Co-ops and DAOs Can Learn From Each Other✨
I wrote this article for @FWBtweets explaining thoughts on how both models could be inspirations for creating equitable, democratic, and collectively-owned organizations.
fwb.help/wip/what-co-ops-and…
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Contempt for it on the merits aside, one has to acknowledge the propagandistic genius of exploiting harmless-to-power identity politics as the feel-good cover for perpetuating and even strengthening the neoliberal order and further entrenching corporate and imperial power.
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The web3 rabbit hole is a one way journey. Once you jump in there is no going back.
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