@aresnick

working to start a different kind of university

 Somerville, MA
alecresnick.com
Joined May 2007
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OK, via prompt by @vgr, 1 like = 1 opinion about unschooling xitter.cf/vgr/status/12063347610… …maybe more.
Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr15 Dec 2019
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unschooling
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Susan Swartz@beadmomsw8 Nov 2025
Aaron Swartz should/would be 39 years old today.
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Aaron Swartz@aaronsw9 Jan 2013
Philip Diehl, the most respected U.S. Mint director America's ever had, joins the campaign to #mintthecoin: buff.ly/Zp58iM
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Susan Swartz@beadmomsw11 Jan 2025
12 years. RIP my darling boy.
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Susan Swartz@beadmomsw8 Nov 2024
Aaron Swartz would/should be 38 years old today.
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★7@TatianaSnead12 May 2024
are people boring or do you not inspire vulnerability & depth from those you’re engaging with?
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sark@afoolswisdom11 Apr 2024
Only if you are an dualist is abstraction per se a problem: so as there are useless material things, there are also useless abstract things. There is still the need to do the hard work of judging usefulness in either case.
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Powderhouse
@powderhs18 Mar 2024
🥳 Happy fifth anniversary to all who celebrate! 🎉 xitter.cf/powderhs/status/110804…
Screenshot from the broadcast of the Somerville School Committee's rejection of Powderhouse Studios' Innovation Plan proposal in 2019. Full video available at https://somervillecityma.iqm2.com/Citizens/SplitView.aspx?Mode=Video&MeetingID=2862&Format=None

ALT Screenshot from the broadcast of the Somerville School Committee's rejection of Powderhouse Studios' Innovation Plan proposal in 2019. Full video available at https://somervillecityma.iqm2.com/Citizens/SplitView.aspx?Mode=Video&MeetingID=2862&Format=None

Powderhouse
@powderhs19 Mar 2019
Last night Somerville's School Committee voted to reject Powderhouse Studios' proposal for a new, in-district Innovation School. It's an incredible disappointment after nearly seven years of effort. And frankly, an incredible lesson in how impossible this work can be. [1/4]
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a lot of people that want to "have impact at scale" should try having a really profound impact on one person first
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr1 Dec 2021
The costliest signal is simply showing up repeatedly
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Aaron Swartz@aaronsw9 Jan 2013
Philip Diehl, the most respected U.S. Mint director America's ever had, joins the campaign to #mintthecoin: buff.ly/Zp58iM
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sark@afoolswisdom2 Nov 2023
Sufficiently advanced metagame is indistinguishable from morality.
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Susan Swartz@beadmomsw8 Nov 2023
Aaron Swartz would be 37 years old today.
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experts agree that for kids under 12 it's important to have firm boundaries when it comes to language time if your kid is using symbolic thought and verbal expression for more than three hours per day, their brains become harmfully enmeshed in sophistry and conceptual illusions
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ZIZEK: that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this, I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, & I plug it into my grading AI, & we are free! While the 'learning' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to learn whatever we want
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obsession goes a very long way, much further than intelligence does. – at Ribera, Sicilia
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hinterlander@yoltartar22 Jul 2023
personal growth is a team sport
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sark@afoolswisdom12 Mar 2023
You cannot grasp the thing in itself, but you do not interact with it in itself either! Focus on how you interact, not what is "objective" or "subjective". This is "abstract", since you focus on relations and not things, yet also "practical", since you work with your exposure.
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sark@afoolswisdom5 Mar 2023
The lesson from structuralism isn't that isomorphic objects are identical, or that structures exist, but that identity and existence are instrumental stances which may be adopted for certain things according to fittedness to context.
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Aaron Swartz@aaronsw9 Jan 2013
Philip Diehl, the most respected U.S. Mint director America's ever had, joins the campaign to #mintthecoin: buff.ly/Zp58iM
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