iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Data Centers: not popular

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Emily Hanford did an episode about it (APMreports link in the post below) and Karen Vaites has written lots about it (Karen is an advocate and unabashedly very team-HQIM but doesn't pull punches about where the problems are)

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Sometimes walking out of your history class is the best way to demonstrate that you learned something in your history class. wapo.st/4aF0iqG

"I think that it needs to be known that the youth cares about this," said Maya,who walked out of her AP U.S. History class. "We don't think that any of this is okay, and we do not give our consent to have this kind of government.:

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

there have been a bunch of examples of this with other great, thoughtful, useful curric getting dinged by edreports or by other review entities. (most famously, bookworms, which has actual peer reviewed research behind it, didn't get all green... can't remember why)

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

the reviewers are teachers w fairly limited training (i can't remember if 8 or 16 or 24 hours)... but i think it's really driven by imperfect rubric design. all the curric review processes are ultimately so limited by trying to have a fair/neutral process that anything outside the box doesn't work.

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

so there's now a whole complicated flawed layer of curric adoption processes that forces this cookie cutter approach to design on even the best intentions of curric developers.

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

i did recently hear that one of my fav curric, fishtank learning, got dinged by edreports because its lovely slim lesson plans weren't scripted. (the original lessons, as i recall, were just a core of questions for each lesson)..

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

but i think there are huge design q's about how to build something w space/ breathing room for teacher enactment, interpretation, adaptation, voice, etc. & huge leadership/implementation questions about creating environment for implementation w integrity / understanding, not 'fidelity to a script'.

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

AND the quality of what was happening across classrooms was wildly uneven, a huge equity issue - & in the elementary grades, deeply unsustainable w so much content to plan for. we were burning teachers out left and right. so i view curric as basic infrastructure.

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

yeah i think the venn diagram of our ideas about curric and instruction is probably a very weird one!! :) i was a founding teacher at an expeditionary learning school before they wrote/published 'HQIM' and i loved crafting our own curric (so much that i'm starting a curric nonprofit lol)

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

i don't think of steiner as advocating for excerpts... coleman maybe. steiner's whole thing imo is in a lot of ways pushing back against the way testing/measurement has cannibalized literacy instruction. but the knowledge piece i see falling in favor of real books and meaning-making.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Abolish ICE is merely the starting position. This below is the correct one.

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

anyway obvs there are major flaws w anything like this -- the edreports reviews are deeply imperfect etc etc but i know you are passionate about kids reading great books @annieabrams.bsky.social and the good HQIM are doing a much better job of that than the status quo, i think!

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

the counterfactual that steiner is responding to is very real. go onto any teacher facebook group & you will see people posting truly mind numbing "reading comprehension practice passages". based on the idea that skills are so transferrable that the text content unit context don't matter.

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

the idea is then in fourth grade, i have content literacy unit about erosion, and all that knowledge from 2nd is setting me up to go deeper, add new vocab, and read more complex text. the text i can access is much juicier and more substantive bc of coherent background knowledge i've built.

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

in a content-rich literacy model, the idea is that i'm making inferences in texts that are connected & intentionally sequenced across grade levels. in a second grade unit on rocks & soil, i read about sedimentary on monday, igneous on tues, etc, do some hands on; next week we read & explore soil.

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

getting opportunity to dig into _any_ substantive content. skills based literacy model: my unit is on "making inferences". monday, text about thomas edison. tues, text about sharks. wed, text about history of ice cream. (this is a real example.)

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

disagree on this! there's a ton of cognitive research showing that the way we navigate new information is heavily dependent on our prior knowledge. the important point that steiner makes here (and elsewhere) is that overemphasis on transferable skills means kids don't end up...

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

i'm surprised... i think you and steiner agree about a lot! IMO he is the opposite of focusing on test prep. he has written/spoken a lot about how misuse of/overanchoring on standards has distorted literacy instruction to focus on allegedly measurable skills instead of unpacking meaning of text.

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

and somehow i fell asleep/was nursing/potty mess/something?? and then she was just in the dark cold rain waiting w the dog for 10 min when she got back and i wasn't picking up my phone and she just took my dog back to her house and i didn't realize for like an hour lol. early days are tough!

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

oooh yes great rec. also you got this!!! those super tough moments happen to everyone. one time a new friend offered to walk the dog so my partner would have time to go out and get groceries when baby was in first month..

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

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How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders

SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I have some suggestions on who should replace David Brooks, but only after reminding everyone how terrible he is at his supposed job. biblioracle.substack.com/p/david-broo...

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David Brooks Sucks. This is Who Should Replace Him

David Brooks is heading to a sinecure at Yale. Thank goodness.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

“History shows that wars can be lost [quickly] if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle.”

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13/02/2026

AI is so inherently popular that companies are paying influencers up to $600,000 to tell people how awesome it is: aftermath.site/ai-influencer-...

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

“at no point do they seriously contemplate the structural causes of academic dishonesty:the alienation of students from meaningful intellectual labor, the reduction of education to skill building and credential accumulation,and the pervasive distrust that suffuses increasingly surveilled classrooms”

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A candidate for political office SHOULD run on an “Abolish and Hunt ICE” platform. Reallocate ALL DHS funding for healthcare for all. Public trials that hold them accountable with Nuremberg punishments. Repealing the Patriot Act would be icing on the cake.

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Kwertzy Industries @kwertzy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

GET IN LOSERS WE'RE FLIPPING TEXAS

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

yet again it seems like the ones who are *most trained* are also *most likely* to draw their weapons & fire on civilians, almost as if the training exists to desensitize them to killing or its consequences & moreover to convince them of the necessity & desirability of pulling the trigger

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Khalidi argues that the rise of Hamas was basically a predictable consequence of Israel stringing the PLO along for decades in a “peace process” that continuously resulted in zero meaningful concessions to Palestinian interests. Essentially burning away any sense that diplomacy could work.

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

It is past time for other senate leaders to demand Schumer resign. From the absolute disgrace of a Dem proposal responding to the fascist ICE thugs terrorizing our neighbors to these inexcusable comments… Senator Murray, you must take a stand. We deserve so much better. @murray.senate.gov

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Schumer must resign. There is no path forward with this deeply ineffectual and out of touch man at the helm of the opposition party. #StepAsideSchumer

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/02/2026

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

standwithminnesota.com

Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota

Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

this almost got lost, but also seems important.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Seems bad.

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Councilor Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

BOISE: courage is wearing a Mexican flag cape to the pro-ICE demo

1 person holding a sign, standing alone, wearing a Mexican flag as a cape, facing a small crowd of racists behind their own protective fencing. Most of them are looking towards the lone individual

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Holly @hollyrandersen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I live on the ride route and I cannot emphasize enough that the ride started passing my house 50 minutes ago and is 👏🏻 still 👏🏻 going 👏🏻. ICE OUT.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 31/01/2026

The answer is for WA to become the anti-MAGA. Invest in higher ed, not cut it as Gov. Ferguson wants. Fund the research and health care that Trump and DOGE cut. Hire all the scientists and experts looking for a good job in a good place. Build a lot more housing so people can afford to move here.

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Seattle’s ‘prosperity bomb’ may finally be fizzling. So now what?

It’s the awkward thing about the affordability debate. Nothing makes a city cheaper faster than an economic bust.

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It has become clear that we need to organize our demands in 2 steps: 1) Chuck Schumer must resign immediately. 2) Abolish ICE (& resignations/ impeachments of the whole admin, starting w Noem/Miller). We can’t get to step 2 from here without step 1. Cc @citizensimpeachment.com @indivisible.org

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