TracingWoodgrains
@tracewoodgrains
Storyteller. Pragmatist. Pursue excellence. Cofounder @CenterforEdProg. Eng/中文
Welcome to all my new followers, and thanks for spending a bit of attention on me! I suppose now is as good a time as any to refresh my pinned tweet. If you're wondering what I'm about, this thread is a good place to start. x.com/tracewoodgrain…
lore recap for 4k followers > grow up Mormon in Utah > strong community, loving family, everything good > love competition math, love writing, hate school. feel like it keeps smart kids behind > bounce around schools looking for one I wouldn't hate. never find one > go to Mormon…
Did you suffer the indignity of attending a school with an honors program? The NEA has your back if so: they list ability grouping as one thing that makes Educational Reparations mandatory.
I just found the National Education Association's 2025 handbook.
I can’t help but respect the man in the arena
The Victorian Socialists support breaking into homes and squatting so I thought I would take a sleeping bag and pillow and try sleep in their front office for a few nights. They threatened to call the police on me even though I told them I was in need of housing. So fucked up
me describing my new project
Trump: "He has these think tanks. They build buildings for people that think."
what happened to Claude the other day? out of nowhere it went from responding in the style I prefer based on my system prompt to giving much more generic, soulless basic-AI responses what did Anthropic do?
what are the five British values? wrong answers only
"There are five British values" is just unimprovable post-Blair deracination. 'We've reduced the last thousand years of your history into a checklist designed to avoid excluding anyone in an effort to fix the mess we've made of the country. You have five values now.' 'ok'