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The Torment Nexus!

https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/peter-thiel-bill-gates-steve-jobs-steve-chen-tech-billionaires-publicly-shielding-their-children-from-tech-products-social-media/

Food for thought

Ah, that rings a bell. I must've misrembered it. Corrected my comment.

Silicon valley billionares all send kids to Steiner/Waldorf schools with no phones cos they know how evil the shit they shill is

For image generation it does. They give negative prompts like "wonky", "creepy", and "ugly", and the image generator evaluates how well the generated image matches those prompts, and produces images opposite those parameters.

Some poor artist in the training data not only had their work stolen to train the AI, but also had it labeled ugly and wonky.

It won't affect the output meaningfully except by rerolling whatever training data ends up being associated with that or whatever. It may end up getting the model to "check" its work which just compares previous output to training data.

I don't know if you meant "thinkering" but I like that word

Yeah, many schools use some sort of online learning platform. Parents can access their kids grades and the assignments themselves at any time. Very useful for when little Jimmy has not turned in a single thing all year - “all of the assignments are available online, you can print out extra copies at home.”

I’ve just had too many parents expect me to reach out personally any time a kid doesn’t turn something in or starts failing. I’ve got ~100 kids, and two part time jobs on top of this - the live accountability should be sufficient for that.

I only ever ask "what did you have for lunch" and both kids will say "don't remember" or "check on your phone"

I think of Dubai more like Las Vegas. It even shares events, like in Las Vegas. California has farming, where Dubai has to lease out its farming elsewhere to make its farming work.

Somehow my teachers were obsessed with silence. Stealing, bullying, breaking shit, nobody cares. Whispering to your neighbor though: the worst crime you could commit.

Our 15-minute break was mostly trying to avoid the bullies.

I like hearing what my daughter is learning just to get a sense of where she currently is because while I remember a lot of what was taught, I don't still have a good sense of what is taught at what grade. Like it's hard to still see calculus as top end high school math because it was introductionary level for university, though at least that one I remember that it was one of the top level math classes in high school. For the earlier stuff I have no idea, like trigonometry or polynomials. No idea if they were first introduced in high school or grade school lol.

Though that's just curiosity. When I'm asking if her day went well, it's pretty much about all the other stuff (unless she had particular trouble with some school subject to the point it became a major thing for the day). Though now that I think about it, I'm not sure she knows that, so I'll have to communicate that better.

Teacher here.

For the littles, when we reflect on our day, I like to ask things like these:

• What was your favorite part of the day?
• What was the most interesting thing that you learned today?
• What was one kind thing that you did for someone today?
• What was a kind thing someone else did for you today?
• Did you solve any problems today?
• How were you honest today?
• How were you responsible today?
• What work were you proud of today?

Obviously not all on the same day.

Usually in the classroom I'll choose one question for reflection at the end of the day and let the kids share their answers. At home, you could talk about two or three at dinner or at bedtime.