Hoops head. 🏀 Texas resident. Arizona loyalist. 🌵 Working to revive the American Dream. Aspiring anarcho-capitalist. 🇺🇸 Aut inveniam viam aut faciam
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Americans are special. We don't wait around for permission to solve problems. We just dive in and get it done. That's happening in education at a scale that most people still don't believe. Come see it for yourself.
Meet the VELA Connect Austin, TX speakers for: This Is Our Moment — Building the Indie Education Movement from the Ground Up.
The Indie Education movement is being built by founders and families across the country.
Hear from movement leaders and VELA founders as they share what’s driving this momentum, why it matters now, and how each founder plays a role in shaping what’s next.
Join us at VELA Connect Austin October, 26-27.
What seems radical today will be mainstream tomorrow. There's a fiscal cliff coming in public education. The rise of alternatives that are getting more affordable and higher quality year over year is going to lead to a wave of change that blows people's minds.
New York makes it 19 states left to opt into the federal tax credit.
Common sense prevails!
“Education freedom is for every student, and we applaud Gov. Hochul for making New York the 31st state to participate in the federal Education Freedom Tax Credit. Her leadership opens the door to new educational opportunities for New York students. We encourage every governor to step up and give families in their state the same opportunity.” -Craig Hulse, executive director, yes. every kid.
The Dell family just gave 25 million kids ownership in their future. A future they can self-determine. This is the American spirit at its best 🇺🇸 🚀
$6.25 billion. 25 million children. $250 each.
Susan and I believe the smartest investment we can make is in children. That’s why we’re so excited to contribute $6.25 billion from our charitable funds to help 25 million children start building a strong financial foundation through Invest America. 💪📈🇺🇸
onedell.com/investamerica/
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@mattfrendewey nails it on @propublica’s alleged investigation into how “easy” it is to open a school;
They “tested whether its reporters could get started. It never tested whether they could earn a parent’s confidence, help a child learn or give a family a reason to stay.”
mattfrendewey.substack.com/p…
This.
Every new release of new AI tools makes Siri and Alexa feel like trying to communicate with rocks.
guys, hear me out, the new Siri is actually incredible
i asked it to book me a flight to SF and guarantee an empty row to myself
it took 30 seconds to parse my response and said "Sorry, I didn't quite catch that." then when i tried again it told me it wasn't able to set reminders
Apple cooked with this one 🔥
Andrew Clark 🇺🇸 e/acc retweeted
Had to check whether this was a real quote. It is.
The irony that after endless decades of presidents who promised to make government more efficient, it is the president who promised to break the government that actually worked on efficiency 🤷
Chief Design Officer @jgebbia officially unveils America.gov, the new online home for the United States of America
One of the most under appreciated achievements in the last ten years of public policy.
In recent years, Idaho has achieved one of the most dramatic state-level reductions in regulation ever.
Instead of assuming old regulations should remain on the books, it made agencies justify the ones they wanted to keep. Since 2019, the state has eliminated roughly half of its regulatory code.
New report by @ManhattanInst
manhattan.institute/article/…
I appreciate making a dumb system less painful.
I’d appreciate it more if they’d make the system less dumb and just tell us what we owe since they already know more about that than we do.
Andrew Clark 🇺🇸 e/acc retweeted
Abundance in education is possible the same way it is in housing and energy. States don't even need to spend money on it. They just need to get out of the way: accreditation, zoning, building codes, licensing, and the like.
17 states give every family the ability to get money for private education. Many of these same states make it hard to open a new school.
What happens? Limited schools get more expensive.
If you want more kids in better schools, you have to make it easy to build new schools.
Andrew Clark 🇺🇸 e/acc retweeted
The market naturally selects for aligned AIs without the need for government intervention
Do not listen to the Doomers trying to achieve regulatory capture
Mark Zuckerberg: “I don’t think that we need some kind of industry-wide coordination... I think that just each lab needs to take the time, and when it sees that there are issues, you just take the time that you need internally to make sure that you’re proceeding safely…
“we’re entering a phase where trust and alignment is actually going to be the most important next set of capabilities. I think we’re getting to a point where it may not matter that much how much better it gets at math.
“I happen to think that there’s plenty of commercial incentive to get this right.
We delayed the launch of Muse for a few months because we wanted it to be a better product for users. This was not a sacrifice on our part, but rather the right decision for the users and for Meta. I believe this approach would also be correct for other companies working on developing this technology.
“When you hear people in the industry talk about some trade-off between capabilities and getting it aligned, I just disagree with that. I believe that alignment is actually the next most important ability to master if we are going to make this system useful to many people.”
This is the kind of commentary that makes me doubt most politicians even know how to turn on their own computers.
🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for.
That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations.
So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."
You know what’s more dangerous than ai? Government putting itself in control of ai. We should move immediately to prevent politicians from having control of technology they clearly can’t be trust with. Most of them still don’t know how social media works.
