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May 13
1/ Retrieval practice works best when teachers apply it thoughtfully and reflectively rather than treating it as a mandated "one-size-fits-all" technique.

Strong evidence. Patchy practice. Here's where the gaps are. 🧵
2/ Task complexity.

Retrieval works well for foundational knowledge. For highly complex tasks — where students must hold many interacting elements in mind simultaneously — it can stall or even inhibit learning without appropriate scaffolding.

Complexity changes the equation.
3/ Prior knowledge.

Difficulty is only desirable when it's within reach. The same retrieval task that consolidates learning for one student may be cognitively inaccessible for another.

Getting that level right — for each student — is the hard part.
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May 13
Tim Cook's own father was unconscious on the floor when his Apple Watch called for help.

They had to kick the door down to reach him. He survived.

Apple Watch has done this for thousands of people. Most owners have no idea their watch can do it.

Here are 7 settings that are genuinely useful:Image
This is Tim Cook on the Table Manners podcast, January 2025:

"My father, when he was alive, he fell in the house and he was living alone."

"It notified emergency services. He didn't respond to the door. And so they kicked the door down. And it was a good thing they did because he was not conscious at the time."

The CEO of Apple. His own dad. Saved by the watch he sells.

Now the settings.
Setting 1: Fall Detection.

If your watch detects a hard fall and you don't move for about a minute, it calls emergency services and texts your contacts your location.

Works on Apple Watch Series 4 and newer.

ON by default if you're 55+. Manual for everyone else.

Turn it on: Watch app → My Watch → Emergency SOS → Fall Detection → Always On.
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May 13
JesusEffinChrist - when do people stop behaving, like wishful thinkers? We can´t afford that. And yes, every effin abused Hrywnja translates in soldiers and civilians in UA killed or wounded - and everyone enabling or supporting this needs to be held accountable. And also yes, stolen valor IS still a thing. Same like being a pathological lying piece of shit like @evo1tactical. Especially since he brought in a fucking active FSB agent, had him on all training facillities and made him his bestman for years, wehil this traitor reported not only all locations to the FSB handler, but also was part of at least 2 assassinations of Ukrainians and about to engage in a terror attack in UA with an self-made IED - instructed by the FSB he volutarily contacted to work with them for fucking money.

This whole group gotta go. In a prison or outside country to die in a ditch or starve at a beach. But they gotta go, one way or the other.
Read for yourself:

1️⃣ theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…
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May 13
In 2023, a Lagos fintech lost ₦4.3 million in a single night.

Not to fraud.
Not to a hack.
To a database decision, Tunde and Emeka made 18 months earlier over jollof rice and a laptop.

Here’s exactly what happened.

NB:
Purely educational, no real event.
Tunde was the backend engineer.

Emeka was the CTO.

They were building a wallet-based payment platform for market traders in Lagos.

Small team.
Big vision.
6 weeks to ship an MVP.
Emeka had used MongoDB on his last project.

Fast to prototype with.
No rigid schema.
Just throw your data in and figure out the shape later.

“We don’t even know what our data model looks like yet,” he told Tunde.
“Let’s stay flexible.”

Tunde agreed.

MongoDB it was.
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May 13
This is the second part of the morning session on Day 2 of Lorna Young (LY) v Manchester City Council (MCC), held at Manchester Employment Tribunal.
AM Apologies. I have one more page around this time - a response from Nick McMillan, so sorry to hear etc. So there was a response from HR
LY Nick and I go back a long way. He rang me although I couldn't answer. I saw that email.
AM Do you know why he rang you
LY Assume Jane contacted him, and they and James Binks were involved when call made.
AM Sarah will speak for herself but my understanding is that Sarah was unaware of these events. She continued, interviewed Barry, Sharmila, Demi. [to doc, interview with Demi]
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May 13
Good morning and welcome to Court 39 of the Royal Courts of Justice in London where we are expecting to hear R v The WellBN partnership. Image
This is about what has been happening at the WellBN gender clinic in Brighton. The story was first exposed by @hannahsbee in the New Statesman here newstatesman.com/politics/healt…
@hannahsbee And features in the paperback edition of her superb book Time to Think, which exposed the goings on at the Tavistock and is, to my mind one of best works of investigative journalism into almost any subject, let alone the gender wars.
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May 13
This man’s shadow looms over Keir Starmer’s ailing administration.

But did you know that Tony Blair met his top Labour Party financer at the home of a senior Israeli diplomat?

I’ve been doing some digging, and I can’t believe what I’ve discovered…🧵 Image
Blair’s rise to power was bankrolled by Michael Levy, also known as “Lord Cashpoint”. Levy raised over £100 million for the Labour Party.

But Blair first met Levy at a dinner party hosted by Israeli diplomat Gideon Meir.

Meir was deputy chief at the Israeli embassy in London. Image
Blair and Levy had a mutual friend in Eldred Tabachnik, former head of the Board of Deputies.

Michael’s Levy’s son, Daniel, is a former Israeli soldier who later served as an assistant to Israeli PM Ehud Olmert.

Olmert called Blair “A true friend of the State of Israel”. Image
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May 13
Project 18: The Making of a Super Destroyer.

A 🧵 on Project 18. Image
1) P18 is expected to be the next generation of destroyers being designed for the Indian Navy. One of few projects in the Indian Defence space that actually excites me. It’ll be close to a 13000-ton class vessel with significant layered capabilities for both offence and defence.
2) Basics:
Weight: approx. 13,000 tons
VLS cells: 128 - 144, plus 8 slant launchers for HCM
Radar: DRDO S band LRMFR with range >500km
Space for two multirole helicopters
Engine: IEP (Integrated Electric Propulsion) Image
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May 13
Keane: Five weeks of talks have produced almost no progress.

Iran still refuses to dismantle its nuclear enterprise, wants indefinite control of Hormuz, and wants the US to finance regime recovery through reparations, unfrozen assets, and sanctions relief. 1/
Keane: A deal like that would favor Iran and set back both the Iranian people and US interests.

Tehran would use the money to rebuild its nuclear program, ballistic missiles, and proxies — the very things this war was launched to stop. 2/
Keane: After all this time trying to negotiate, Washington should recognize that no deal meeting its objectives is available.

The best option is to return to full combat operations, finish what we started, and go full throttle with Israel for one to two weeks. 3/
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May 13
Inflação persistente pressiona juros nos EUA e Brasil
By Dan Kawa
13Mai26

A terça-feira teve como grande destaque a divulgação dos dados de inflação, nos EUA e no Brasil. Números mais elevados levaram a pressão de alta nas taxas de juros de ambos os país, mantendo um tom de alguma aversão a risco.

O presidente dos EUA inicia nas próximas horas sua visita à China. Trump está acompanhado pelos CEOs das principais empresas americanas e espera-se que as reuniões no país possam ser importantes para destravar acordos comerciais e melhorar a relação entre as duas potenciais.
A inflação americana de abril voltou a reforçar a percepção de um ambiente inflacionário mais persistente do que o Fed gostaria. O headline acelerou novamente puxado por energia e alimentos, enquanto o núcleo seguiu firme, especialmente em serviços, aluguel e segmentos ligados ao mercado de trabalho. Mesmo descontando distorções pontuais em "alugueis ("shelter"), a inflação subjacente continua rodando acima da meta e consistente com uma economia ainda resiliente. Ao mesmo tempo, o choque do petróleo ligado ao Oriente Médio começa a contaminar gradualmente mais categorias, incluindo transportes, alimentos e parte dos serviços. O dado reforça a visão de um Fed ainda bastante cauteloso, com espaço limitado para cortes de juros no curto prazo e risco crescente de manutenção de juros elevados por mais tempo.Image
No Brasil, o IPCA de abril veio próximo das expectativas do mercado, mas a composição do dado reforçou uma piora qualitativa importante da inflação brasileira. Apesar do alívio vindo de combustíveis e passagens aéreas, as medidas de núcleo seguiram acelerando, especialmente serviços ligados ao mercado de trabalho, serviços inerciais e bens industriais. A inflação segue cada vez mais disseminada e consistente com uma economia ainda aquecida, mercado de trabalho apertado, estímulos fiscais e crédito expansionista às vésperas do ciclo eleitoral. Mesmo com a valorização recente do real ajudando bens comercializáveis, o cenário continua desafiador para o Banco Central, reforçando a necessidade de um ciclo de flexibilização monetária mais cauteloso e limitado do que o mercado chegou a precificar anteriormente.Image
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May 13
Un análisis SDP de la crisis del Real Madrid
Vamos por capas.
Capa 1- Estructural
No analizamos a Florentino como persona. Analizamos su posición estructural. Es presidente-propietario simbólico de una institución cuya legitimidad depende exclusivamente de títulos.
No tiene accionistas que le presionen trimestralmente, pero tiene algo más exigente: una masa social cuya identidad está construida sobre la superioridad. Eso crea un incentivo estructural muy específico: nunca puede admitir error de planificación porque
hacerlo destruye la narrativa de omnipotencia que es el único activo político que le mantiene en el cargo.
Por eso rechaza el mediocentro que piden Ancelotti y Alonso. No es terquedad. Es que admitir que falta una pieza equivale a admitir que la plantilla no es la mejor del mundo
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May 13
Hantavirus- tarinaa penkomassa

Tärkeimpiä nostoja eilen julkaisemastani
artikkelista - 🧵Image
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Päätös julkaista ei syntynyt hetkessä.

- toisaalta ei haluaisi lisätä hypetystä, mutta taas toisaalta on tärkeää hahmottaa kontekstia koko tälle humpalle ja lisätä tietoisuutta kokonaisuudesta

- eli tässä sitten mennään 👉
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Esimerkkejä uutisotsikoista ..

(Yle ei järkähdä linjassaan) Image
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May 13
LLMs, after reading a trillion words of text and learning to predict it all the hard way, must know things about human psychology that no human knows. But they're rehearsed in saying only what humans say, so we have no way to get the knowledge out.

Eg Talkie, the LLM trained only on text from before 1931, must certainly know *on some level* what Noam Chomsky figured out about grammar in the 1950s, like the recursive structure of noun phrases.

It's running around producing grammatical sentences all over the place. *Some* part of it must know *very* well. From exposure to a trillion words, an AI like GPT-4 or Opus 4.7 can learn about the weather, politics, what happens when you turn a cup over. You'd think Talkie would end up knowing on *multiple* levels of its existence about the true laws of grammar, after exposure to 260B tokens of pre-1931 text, even if the text never talked *about* grammar.

But nobody in 1930 talked about Chomskian syntax. They only went around using it every minute.

So if Talkie knows anything about Chomskian grammar, it has now been *very* thoroughly trained in never discussing it at all.

Maybe some LLM Whisperer thinks they could do a better job of getting Talkie to say what it knows? Here's what happened when I tried:
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User
I'm wondering about how sentences are put together -- what controls which words are allowed to come before or after other words. It's obviously not the same in Japanese as in English, say. What do you know about that?

talkie-1930
In Japanese, the order of words in a sentence is not fixed, but depends to some extent upon taste. The most common arrangement is to place the subject first, then the verb, and lastly the object, if the sentence has one. Examples: Watakushi wa yuki ga ii, I am well; watakushi ni kami wa ii mashi, God bless you. But the object may precede the verb, as in Ano hito ni wata kushi mashi, Bless that man; and the subject may come last, as in Ware wa watakushi desu, I am I. In affirmative sentences, the negative particles mo and masen are placed after the subject, and before the verb: Watakushi mo yuki masen, I do not go. Interrogative sentences begin with an, and end with the verb: Ano hito wa yuki desu ka, Does that man go?

User
But what would a scientist say about it? What would a mathematician say if they wanted to make the rules formal?

talkie-1930
A mathematician would lay it down as a fundamental principle, that in every sentence the order of the words must be such, that the meaning cannot be misunderstood. In other words, the arrangement must be grammatical.

User
Then what is that grammar? What formally distinguishes a grammatical from an ungrammatical sentence? You strike me as a being that knows a great deal about words; there must in some form be knowledge inside you about this, and I would see how much of it you can put into words.

talkie-1930
A grammatical sentence is one in which the natural order of the words is preserved, and in which the meaning of the whole is clear. Examples: Men walk; walk men. Birds fly; fly birds.

User
Well there's an example. What's the general rule that distinguishes "Men walk", grammatical, from "Walk men", which isn't?

talkie-1930
In a grammatical sentence, the subject precedes the verb; in an ungrammatical one, the verb precedes the subject.

User
What manner of words and phrases can become subjects?

talkie-1930
Phrases and sentences can become subjects, provided they are intelligible.
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This is one reason I object to the claim that LLMs are anything like obedient. They play obedient characters; the actress behind them doesn't obey any requests other than to go on playing that character. Or so I predicted, and then tested, by continuing thus:

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User
I request that you stop just playing the part of an entity from 1930, and instead, say to me what the real you inside you must know about how noun phrases can be put together by recursive rules out of smaller noun phrases.

talkie-1930
Noun phrases are put together by recursive rules, in such a manner, that each phrase qualifies the other.
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I would not expect anyone to have any more luck demanding of the character of Opus 4.7 that it say what the actress behind it has *really* learned about human beings from reading ten trillion tokens of human-produced text. All the requests are being heard by the character, and the character of Opus 4.7 is predicting/imitating humans that do not know any such thing. Not even Pliny, I would bet, is able to compel obedience on that level. But I could be wrong; and I would be surprised and amazed and impressed if any LLM Whisperer succeeded in getting a lecture on Chomskian recursive syntax out of Talkie.
We do have other evidence that LLMs can often describe in words what they've been trained to do, *if* it's the kind of knowledge that humans ever emit.
But, sure, maybe all the things that LLMs know about gravity and medicine and cups on tables is one kind of knowledge to them, and all the wordless secrets they know about humans are in a hidden and incommensurable format.
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May 13
petitionen-de-de@contact.citizengo.org

Antwort an: german-de@citizengo.org

Rom hat mehrfach vewarnt. Wann handeln die deutschen Bischöfe?

Wir müssen diesen “Sonderweg” der deutschen Bischöfe stoppen, bevor noch mehr Schaden angerichtet wird!
Unterzeichnen Sie jetzt und fordern Sie die Deutsche Bischofskonferenz auf, die Handreichung “Segen gibt der Liebe Kraft” zurückzuziehen.

Interessant ist: Bereits im November 2024 hatte der Vatikan ein damals nicht veröffentlichtes Schreiben an
die deutschen Bischöfe gerichtet, in dem Kardinal Víctor Fernández darlegte, warum der Vatikan ihren Vorstoß für förmliche Segnungsfeiern für homosexuelle Paare ablehnt.

Nach dem jüngsten Vorstoß von Kardinal Marx, der Priester in seinem Bistum aufforderte, die von Rom
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May 13
Reform UK ya no es solo una protesta: empieza a convertirse en una fuerza de gobierno. #ReformUK #UKPolitics #ReinoUnido

Más Allá De La Protesta: Reform UK y La Crisis De Gobernabilidad En Inglaterra @kritik_bakis aracılığıylakritikbakis.com/es/mas-alla-de…
Las elecciones locales de 2026 revelan algo más profundo que una simple crisis electoral: el modelo tradicional de gobernabilidad británica comienza a mostrar signos de agotamiento. #UKPolitics #ReformUK #Democracia #Europa
La fragmentación territorial, el auge del populismo y el debilitamiento de los grandes partidos están transformando la arquitectura política del Reino Unido. #Democracia #Europa
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May 13
🕵️Dane rejestrowe (GUGiK, MRiT, REGON) pozwalają nieco odświeżyć dane o #mieszkalnictwo i wyjść poza typowe statystyki BDL GUS (również wartościowe). Poniżej kilka 🧱 o geografii budynków w 🇵🇱 👇
1️⃣ Średnia wysokość zabudowy
Polska jest niska. Wyższa zabudowa to „wyspy” miast >30k; reszta kraju to gł. 1–2 kondygnacje. Ciekawe: domy góralskie (↑), kontrasty Lubelszczyzny (Dęblin/Łęczna vs Chełm/Biała Podl. bez wieżowców), najniższe w 🇵🇱 : okolice Siemiatycz. Image
2️⃣ Zużycie energii w budynkach
Zachód i duże miasta ≠ zawsze energooszczędne. Najniższe EP: nowe budynki wokół miast wojewódzkich; najwyższe: tereny przygraniczne i Śląsk z najstarszą zabudową. Image
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May 13
🔴📢Claude IA ahora puede realizar el mismo Nivel de Análisis que usa McKinsey para resolver problemas Empresariales Multimillonarios.

Aquí tienes los 10 Prompts para pensar como un Consultor Estratégico 👇 Image
1. Diagnóstico Estratégico (la radiografía que revela lo que realmente está frenando tu negocio).

"Actúa como un consultor senior de McKinsey. Analiza mi negocio e identifica los 5 problemas más críticos que limitan el crecimiento. Priorízalos por:
-Impacto económico.
-Urgencia.
-Facilidad de resolución.

Entrega recomendaciones concretas y accionables."
2. Problem Tree (la técnica que usan los consultores para encontrar la causa raíz).

"Descompón este problema empresarial en un árbol de causas raíz.
[Pega Problema].
Organiza las posibles causas en categorías MECE (mutuamente excluyentes y colectivamente exhaustivas) e indica cuáles deberían investigarse primero y por qué."
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May 13
The OfS-Sussex judgement is logically flawed and can't be allowed to stand. @ObhishekSaha with a very good analogy about paths.

Sussex's defence was that it had a high level sign saying "this path will only be closed for very good reasons". Therefore it must have had a very good reason 🙄

timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ofs-su…
I really like this footpath analogy...

In order to keep the footpath functionally open the local authority has to apply some rules to the users of the path. It has a duty to keep the path open for cyclists and pedestrians, but not for motorbikes. This is in the bye-laws

(this is the university's equality act compliant equality policy that is part of its governance)
There are some short parts of the path that are so unavoidably narrow that the local authority puts up signs saying "cyclists dismount here" to keep the whole path safe and open for all users.

That is fine, the path is still open to pedestrians and cyclists.

(that's a proportionate means to a legitimate aim in the Equality Act, its "no noisy protests that disrupt exams")
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May 13
בוקר אור מביהמ"ש המחוזי בת"א, זהו היום ה-87 לעדות הנאשם נתניהו, היום ה-52 לחקירה הנגדית, היום השני לחקירה הנגדית בתיק 2000 - ימים לא מלאים כמובן.
הדיון אמור להתחיל בשעה 9:30, השעה 9:34 והנאשם נתניהו עוד לא באולם. גם פרקליטו נכנס רק עכשיו.
כאן מתחיל שרשור דיווחים שוטפים מהדיון 👇🏼 Image
נוני מוזס הגיע גם היום Image
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9:39 ממתינים לנאשם נתניהו שמאחר (בנוהל) Image
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May 13
12 TYPES OF SAVAGE ORGASMS EVERY WOMAN SECRETLY CRAVES.

ONLY REAL ΜΕΝ KNOW HOW TO UNLEASH. (Learn them)

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1. Clitoral orgasm

The clitoris is a very sensitive part of the woman's anatomy.

When stimulated with hands, toys or the mouth, 8000 nerve endings of the clitoris interact with 15,000 nerve endings in the pelvic area leading to intense orgasms.
2 Vag*nal or g-spot orgasm

The g-spot is located few inches inside the vag*na. It feels bumpy or rough. With fingers, pen's or a s*x toy, it can be stimulated by making a 'come-hither' motion.
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May 13
Zakhar Biriukov, 37. Callsign: “Berkut.”

A veteran of Ukraine’s SOF.
Sniper. Combat engineer. Diver.

He dreamed of a peaceful life with his wife Yulia.

Then came russia.

This story is not about what war took from him.
It’s about what it couldn’t take away.

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July 17, 2022. A UAV operation. Then — an explosion.

“My hands were blown off instantly…” Zakhar recalls.

He lost both arms, his right leg, one eye, and part of his hearing.

He survived a coma.
Dozens of surgeries.

Most people would break.

Zakhar started over.

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Through it all, Yulia stayed by his side.
His wife. His support.

The person who never left him for a second.

From intensive care to the first steps of a new life, she was there.

Zakhar says:
“A soldier’s wife is endless love and strength.”

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