dad, prof, writer. director @stugreatbooks (say it like "dine in")
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For @nytimes, I wrote about how great teaching in the algorithmic age involves getting a little weird: nytimes.com/2026/08/17/opini…
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I think I broke a toe this morning because now that my back is better I was becoming too powerful, and needed to be reminded of my frailty
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Matt Dinan retweeted
10 minutes of TikTok was enough to impair people’s ability to remember and carry out intentions.
Twitter and YouTube didn’t show the same decline.
Rapid context-switching may be where most of cognitive cost is.
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Ezra Klein: "Are you at all worried AI will make people less intelligent and cultured?"
AI CEO: "well I don't know anything, and I'm fine. I don't know where I am right now! I have never read a book. I don't watch movies."
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Facebook just showed me an ad for my old Honda Odyssey, which I traded in last month, and is now for sale again. I have my suspicions, but how precisely did it "know" to show me an ad for my own van?
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Fine things for everyone--hard to argue with that
Never been to the opera before?
Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @MetOpera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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14y/o: Can you email my teacher and let her know I have an appointment during first period today?
Me: Sure, what's her name?
14y/o: Don't worry about it, just let me type her address for you
Me: What? Why?
[14y/o types her teacher's email address]
... (continued)
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I enjoyed chatting about the class that launched my NYT piece with Katrina, who was an excellent interviewer, for this piece in @begiantca
"It was all anybody was talking about,” professor
@second_sailing says of his “pedagogical breakthrough” – getting his class at @StThomasU obsessed with Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. @KatrinaBolstad begiant.ca/stories/people/br…
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"It was all anybody was talking about,” professor
@second_sailing says of his “pedagogical breakthrough” – getting his class at @StThomasU obsessed with Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. @KatrinaBolstad begiant.ca/stories/people/br…
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When will the racists start trying to figure out why so many successful men (Joe Biden, Mark Carney, Matt Dinan) are descendants of County Mayo?
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Reading (and teaching) Aristotle about magnificence and failing in the virtue of gentleness (which comes soon thereafter) when I consider the good this virtue could do here and now
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Still getting used to daycare policies. They make us label EVERYTHING: a real pain when sending loose cigarettes!
We questioned it, but they explained the babies all smoke different brands, so it makes sense.
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