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You literally can't make this shit up... if you misspell your country/title, does it nullify an Accord? x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 13h

Talking with a parent who, in essence, wanted an "i do, we do, you do" teacher centric math class for their kid Reminded me of when i taught AP Calc. I gave a worksheet on the 1st day which basically had them exploring all of conceptual calculus with no instruction drive.google.com/file/d/1U4_w...

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Day 1 - What is Calculus_.pdf

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 17h

Do yourself a favor... put this on in the background as you get ready to face the day, have your morning cup... You're welcome www.youtube.com/watch?v=trDq...

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Jon Batiste - I Won’t Back Down (Tom Petty) Changes (Tupac) / Hallelujah Medley @ Ohana Fest 9.26.26

YouTube video by XOPJBC

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

America sometimes celebrates things for a day, sometimes a week, a few rare occasions signs of celebration are around for a month or two. I think it's safe to say Pumpkin Spice is our longest celebration which aptly is observed by an abundance of shitty, fake, processed flavors.

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're doing a term abroad so we're working with my son's school back home to make sure he's good when we get back They use OpenUp math I worked for Image Learning & had a heavy hand in their adaptation of IM (who wrote OpenUp 5-7) It's bizarre teaching my kid with print material I had a hand in

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: admin decided to bring in a local female CEO to speak about women empowerment in a male dominated world. She turned out to be the CEO of Spanx.

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes, the song that played as Rubio entered the room, right before DJT arrived to sign the Greenland deal with Demark at the UN General Assembly was “Send in the Clowns” Unfortunate timing or epic trolling? One may never know. www.youtube.com/live/5fTPNJG...

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Trump along with representatives from Denmark and Greenland sign security deal – watch live

YouTube video by Guardian News

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That was unexpected and kinda cool

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Spanish (mis)named a street after him!

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In 1994, venues threatened Green Day over their opening act Pansy Division, an openly gay band. Even though they were just getting started, Green Day told the venues to fuck themselves & venues backed down Green Day had less power but more spine than Sheeran magnetmagazine.com/2009/04/08/m...

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Memoir: Pansy Division's Jon Ginoli - Magnet Magazine

Pansy Division was an openly gay rock band at a time when the very notion of an openly gay rock band seemed shocking and political. And the early ’90s weren’t even that long ago. Pansy Division is sti...

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Friends & I are having a heated discussion regarding the claim that AI will "kill all humans" We have 1 friend in tech who is downplaying it (trust me im closer to this) & shared this piece as a more eloquently write up of his perspective I like my reply Piece: bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

I appreciated the piece, and the fear contagion point is real. But I think there's a fairly large hole in his argument worth exploring

Cantrill spends the whole post discrediting Coxon for lacking domain credentials; not an expert in this domain, so don't trust him. Then he asks us to trust his own credentials instead, "from my narrow domain of expertise: building computers." That's the exact same move, just pointed in the other direction. He's not rejecting "pick a domain and demand trust," he's doing it too.

And I don't think "trust the experts" even applies cleanly here in the first place. It works fine for questions with a checkable answer, does this bridge hold weight, does this piece of code do what intended… It falls apart for genuine forecasts about something that's never happened before, especially when real domain experts disagree with each other. If the experts don't even agree, "trust the experts" doesn't tell you anything, it just tells you to pick a side and pretend it's neutral.

At the same time, this isn’t how society work. One cannot pick and chose their domain to say “trust me/them… I/they know more than you.”

I cannot begin to tell you how many times people have come to complan about “new math” without any true understanding of what it is (anything but new), why approaches are being put front and center, or even engaging in a personal reflection (“i hate math… maybe because I was taught in a way that didn’t resonate with me”). I can explain the research all day, but I've learned that leading with "trust me, I know the pedagogy" almost never lands and honestly isn’t the move, because what's actually underneath their frustration is something real and specific to them. Their lived experience is not something I can out-argue with data, and dismissing it as "just trust the expert" would be missing the point entirely. The two claims, is the method sound, and did this person have a bad experience, aren't actually in conflict, but collapsing them in…

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of my favorite bands, The Barr Brothers, released a behind the scenes about how they wrote one of their most popular songs... dude basically drafted it in an hour. Ridiculous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGIq...

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The Barr Brothers - Even The Darkness Has Arms (Behind The Song)

YouTube video by The Barr Brothers

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're spending the term in Spain. We have a list of topics my 11 yo needs to know upon our return. For math, Open Up grade 7, units 1-5 One of which is proportional relationships. Pretty sure I know how we're going to do that one. Euros/kg.

Fish counter at our local grocery store. Prices are in euros per kg

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Shana Tova to all who celebrate. Today I realized that Rosh Hashanah always occurs on a new moon... Which makes sense given that Judaism uses an adapted lunar calendar... but somehow it never clicked.

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just so we're on the same page... did he-who-shall-not-be-named just make a pledge that if voters defeat socialism in November, they will each get an equal redistribution of wealth from the government?

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just saw a post on Reddit - which would make for a fun geometry exploration. Using the shape of the pieces in a Tony's Chocolonely bar, how does one break up a bar so that it's more or less evenly split between n people

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How big is this Paella pan? How do you know?

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

First local soccer professional game. Apparently the fans of Valencia FC hate the owner- there were protests before, during and after the game. The guy next to me reminded me of a fan from the movie Major League, basically bitching & moaning every time they messed up (which, to be fair, was often)

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The irony is that I grew up really close to the geographical center of the places I supposedly sound like.

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New country. New coffee routine. New view Same 10min of calm to start the day.

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My 11yo wanted a milk shake wife says she gets a quarter I say I want a fifth Son- Hey, that's not fair Me- how much are you still getting? He thinks for a minute "four and a half tenths" Is that what we get, or you get? Oh, I get 5.5 tenths. Mom gets 2.5, you get 2, and I get the rest

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My son went to a bilingual (English-Spanish) elementary school & is an avid reader. It's made for some fun pronunciations over the years. Most recently we were at Costco & he proclaimed "ON-days! Can we get some?" Took me longer than i'd like to admit that he was talking about Andes chocolate.

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Okay, I stumbled onto this wormhole this morning... This guy, among other things, does guitar covers of classic songs in another bands style. It's really throwing my 90s brain, with my boomers parents musical influence, into a tailspin youtube.com/shorts/8MqVE...

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Guns N' Voltage - Knockin' on Angus' Door

YouTube video by Kfir Ochaion

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Teachers- do you write questions with specific students in mind? I had a S obsessed with birds I wrote a problem about it 6yrs later he posts on LinkedIn how he finished an AmeriCorps program about birds I sent a screenshot "Congrats, if only we saw it coming" "I remember that one" It matters.

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Doing a deep deep house clean. Going through the basement bathroom cabinets that i never look in... but is one of the wife's (not so) secret stash locations. Guess how many expired covid tests i just found/ tossed?

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I slept like shit and woke up to find I'm out of coffee... Now I'm wondering 1. if I can make a one step mocha using the packet of trader joes chocolate cover espresso beans in the cabinet 2. How do I grind said beans without ruining my grinder?

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

13yrs ago we got married at a funky NorCal retreat center We hired a small band to play the reception They played by the campfire until 6am Today they announced they're hanging it up We asked them to play this as the 1st song to get the party started (vid is not our wedding) tinyurl.com/nv99vvwk

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Fruition & Shook Twins - Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher (Higher and Higher) - String Summit 2012

This is Fruition playing at the North West String Summit in North Plains, OR, at Horning's Hideout, which took place on 8/9- 8/12/12. A review of the show will be posted at Concertconfessions.com shortly. Copyright Note: I do not own this video. This is used only for entertainment purposes.

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The morning queue (Yes, I know, I cannot figure out how to stream oat milk... Not that I've really tried)

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Full moon lunar eclipse? Who knew? Or at least that's what I'm hoping this is or the world is definitely ending...

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We're spending the term in Spain. The 11yos bday request was to see Barcelona FC Just figured out logistics & got tickets. Told the kiddo "tix are stupid expensive so I just got you one. We'll walk you to the the stadium" The joy of being full of shit is he doesn't know if I'm telling the truth

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Insurance isnt cooperating. I think of a loophole & text our agent "Wow, youre on it, thinking of things I should be" “I taught HS for 20yrs... hate to say it, but being able to predict what loopholes kids are going to try to exploit extends pretty well to understanding insurance coverages”

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I signed into Reddit and saw a post asking what operation should be applied to both sides to remove the factorial... I may have replied that he inverse of ! is ¡

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Whole Foods sells day-old baked goods at 50% off. Most cookies. brownies... come in packs of 4. I sometimes get a pack, eat one item on the drive home & then tell my 11yo that they were on sale because there was one less item than there should be- what a deal, pay 50% for 75% of the product!

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Anybody want to figure out how my son's soccer tournament determines points? Traditionally soccer is scored by 3pts for a win, 1pt for a draw, 0pts for a loss. This is not that... Key: Matches Played Win Losses Draws Goals For Goals Against Points Points Per Game #math

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Stupid, but amazingly practical, scrap wood project of the day... What is it? Hint: it can hold a couple of static pounds, but isn't made to support any significant "real" weight.

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wow, this recruiting email really makes me feel [special]...

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

After nearly 20 years we've reached a point in our relationship where my wife doesn't get offended when I say " I don't really care" "When I get home could you help me unload the car?" "Sure" "I have the A, B, C, D...." "IDRC, see you soon"

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'm getting ready to sell my car & took off my (lesser known brand) roof box. Today, while meandering around the Home Depot parking lot, i realized that roof box was basically how i found my car in a busy parking lot...

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Describe your music taste in 3 artists, no genres 🎵 * Greensky Bluegrass * The Word * My Morning Jacket Pretty sure I'm the only person in the world to have that trio (Probably the only one to have The Word who has like 2k monthly listeners on Spotify... which is a shame bc they're AMAZING)

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I ordered something last weekend. It took 57 hours for USPS to move the package through 3 Texas cities and arrive in Denver. It then took 59 hours for the same package leave the Denver distribution center.

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The 11yo asked for truffled oil noodles with dinner... I've said it many times... you can take a kid out of SF, but you can't take the SF out of a kid (we moved before his first birthday).

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Just got off the phone with insurance trying to get 3mo of Rx. According to them * Dr writes a Rx for 90 days * CVS runs it through insurance & it gets rejected * I call insurance back & they will approve it * I get the Rx Not sure why i have to call them back when theyve already said it's fine

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I have yet to read it, but "Project Maven" by Katrina Manson comes recommended in thinking about AI & warfare, where things started & where they're headed I learned about this report on @democracynow.org which captures the current picture in an easy-to-view, quick way ai-killchain.airwars.org

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Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain

Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Day 2 of having a drip coffee machine... 1. I was so focused on the ridiculousness that 1 cup of coffee is 4.5oz I forgot to add grounds... & made a pot of water. Well a pot that filled a 12 oz mug... aka 3 cups. The espresso machine 2. is way sexier 3. makes a way better cup

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

47 yrs old and I just got my first drip coffee machine. Can somebody explain "coffee machine cup math" to me? A "standard" coffee mug in our house holds 10-12oz. But this is 2+ cups according to my machine? Which means it's programmed so "one cup" is a cappuccino sized? Make it make sense

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

We're getting ready to rent out our house while we spend the semester abroad The amount we've spent getting ready for other people to enjoy our space That salad spinner that hasn't worked properly for years? The sheets we've been talking about replacing? Let's get strangers nice, new, things

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Carl @mathowitz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I probably have 4-6 TI-8x calculators laying around. I have a numworks demo calculator. Desmos is a thing. Yet i have to track down a TI-30iix for my son's schooling. I get it, having uniform equipment makes instruction easier... just feels a silly purchase.

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