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jash

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Father | Teacher | All-around nerd ELA Teacher, #T1D dx ‘97 #insulin4all

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 05/09/2026
Nathan wrote a good article. I'm quote tweeting in the Black way (to talk about a different point without derailing his thread). 🤔If Ben thinks you need to play football to build character, learn teamwork, leadership, etc, and girls don't play football... what does that say about his view of women?
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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“sex is a fundamental bedrock biological reality that can never ever be changed—unless someone hides a secret code in the video game ad”
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/08/2026
This shift to computerized state tests was made possible by schools' adoption of one-to-one devices. Which mostly happened with Covid. And yet, we rarely discuss the possibility that computerizing tests--without first teaching computing skills--might've contributed to subsequent test score declines.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.
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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Legitimate answer: Who hangs out in a Nazi bar?
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jash @defaultprof.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I did a thing.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/06/2026
Being able to read isn’t just about being able to sound out words and literally understand a meaning of each one. It is also about being able to use context clues to obtain meaning from a text and make sense of its message.
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jash @defaultprof.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
At $1,000/hr, nonstop 24/7/365, it would take ~114 years to make a billion dollars. That would mean 114,000 years to make a trillion dollars. This thief is 54 years old.
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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.
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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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jash @defaultprof.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Bear Down
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...
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Penn State Faculty Vote in Favor of Unionizing
Penn State faculty have voted to unionize in what was Pennsylvania's largest public sector organizing election in nearly 50 years. Organizers said on
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jash @defaultprof.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The recs in this framework are great, but we do not need GenAI to do them. They have been core to the work of the ELA classroom for many decades. This framework assumes the tech is inevitable, admits it is unwanted, and glosses over the ethical, environmental, etc. concerns. Disappointing.
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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Gotta say, having been in the initial convening on which this framework was to be based, these recs feel way out of step with the serious concerns folks were voicing about AI's commercial capture of education, teacher deskilling, short-circuiting of reading/writing processes, environmental costs.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.
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Dr. Zil Roars (Paul H. White, Ph.D.) @drzilwhite.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
As I said with my concert song today, you can see how quickly folks can move things when wanting to hold onto/gain power, usually at the cost for someone else, compared to doing things to help all folks or those lower in status.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Ypsilanti Township's board of trustees voted to put a moratorium on water for data centers. Los Alamos and UoM are set to break ground on an AI/ nuclear weapons data center on Monday
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Community Votes to Deny Water to Nuclear Weapons Data Center
America’s nuclear scientists plan to break ground on an AI data center next week, but the Township where it’s being constructed just put a 365 day hold on providing it with water.
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jash @defaultprof.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Hey, that’s me
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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir repeating a central myth behind speculative whiteness: white, western culture produces the high-tech future; other cultures regress into the past.
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Speculative Whiteness
Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films a...
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I am writing a talk in which I begin working out a positive philosophy of humanistic education for the left aiming at social freedom and human flourishing through gentleness (ethics), the ability to give an account of oneself (epistemology), and the cultivation of sensibility (aesthetics)
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
descriptively, lit studies is not a matter of virtues or ethics. normatively, i increasingly believe it ought to be part of our task pedagogically, in the classroom, to think in terms of the good life and human flourishing and to consider how close reading and cultivate associated virtues
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 20/03/2026
movements don’t need heroes. history should never be built or taught around great men, or women. the collective is why change happens—that is what should be celebrated.
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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
One of Marathon's best tricks? It dodges the "Blorko" problem that doomed Concord and Highguard. www.eurogamer.net/marathon-bun...
An image from Marathon's launch trailer, showing Thief looking surprised as she explores an area. Cropped.
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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
What’s most annoying about this is it assumes economic insecurity is a product of individual “skills gaps” as opposed to a structural condition of our political/economic systems. So now Ss are trapped in a system obsessed with job prep at a time when every company is gutting their future jobs.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Just saw a post dunking on semicolon placement as an outdated form of knowledge, and it’s honestly dispiriting at times trying to communicate how language works to people who don’t think the world exists as anything more than keys on a keyboard.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
There's a fundamental attribution error here: does AI actually "do" research? It's an automated pattern-recognition, algorithm-drivem machine learning tool. It can't think, and anything it produces resembling "research" is in spite of, rather than because of, the way it's constructed.
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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This game is about to release into Early Access TODAY and I have a spare giveaway key. I'll post it into the replies for anyone to grab once this post reaches 500 reposts
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/02/2026
We’re constantly asking Black athletes to step up for social justice and advance society and we have to start holding white athletes to the same standard.
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Grace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
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jash @defaultprof.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Varieties of literary experience never end, and I appreciate every day I learn something, someone new. What a gift.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The reason these failures are so predictable, of course, is that real educators know how hard the work really is. Whenever you see some founder claiming to have solved the problem using technology, you can immediately know they fall somewhere between naive to outright frauds.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I would have hoped by now that some dude would have written an op Ed about how straight women’s reaction to Bad Bunny - a man at peace with himself, emoting publicly + queer culture - underscores that the Manosphere bros are performing heterosexuality for other men and have no idea what women like.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
An important enabling structure that is helping slop makes its way into institutional life is several decades of built in bullshit bureaucratic bloat that is not meaningfully attached to advancing institutional goal but nonetheless has to be ground out week after week. It’s a natural home for slop.
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jash @defaultprof.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
This has brought up many questions for me, namely the role - and necessity - of interdisciplinary work at the HS level, both for students and teachers. Also, how are teachers trained and developed in “disciplinary practices”? Great article.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I truly do not understand why members of the press continue this charade of doing pressers with him. And how every member of the press doesn't walk out after that. Like - the government needs the news to govern. There's power - you can withhold attention
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jash @defaultprof.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The best thing about this is that it starts bad and gets infinitely worse the further you get - just like GenAI! Brilliant. Had me rolling.
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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
ai generated podcasts hosted by playstation characters are a great idea, and let me, a definitely real person, tell you why www.polygon.com/playstation-...
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Why AI-generated PlayStation podcasts are a good thing
Guest column by Someone Who Is Definitely a Real Person
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jash @defaultprof.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
If you see this, post a character that starts with A.
Aloy, from Horizon Forbidden West, draws a bow in a snowy landscape.
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jash @defaultprof.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
That’s all Trump was willing to spend?
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jash @defaultprof.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I’ve seen the Judge Biery order going around, and I am so happy that it is what it is, but I am also now very interested in the grammar of the Bible.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
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