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Daniel Ethier

@dethier1958.bsky.social
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I'm a retired middle school math teacher and cross country coach. Before teaching, I worked as a software engineer. I am interested in computers, math, science, history, and politics. I enjoy running, amateur astronomy, drone photography, and programming.

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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Looks like Mars. Well, except for the skyscrapers.
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I'm glad I taught middle school. Most kids had this figured out by then.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/07/2026
Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in elections in the past two years, which experts say may violate state election law. ProPublica and @texastribune.org linked him to a home in suburban Dallas since February.
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Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I look forward to your analysis. Trying to make sense of how this was so close.
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
My house has never burned down. I've never had to use that insurance. I must not be a real person.
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Someone should remake the classic movie ...
Donald Trump as the Creature from the Black Lagoon, emerging from the reflecting pool in Washington DC.
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
And if the trend continues, someday they'll finish before they start!
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
For the same reason a bank robber doesn't get to keep the money.
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Yeah, but probably not as old as I am!
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This isn't really new. The Chevy Volt was doing this 20 years ago. I owned a couple of those. Did about 97% of my driving on electricity.
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Can we send Trump?
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Rosette Nebula, which is to the left of Orion. This is a total of about 16 hours of imaging over 7 sessions spread over about 2 weeks. The second image uses different processing to enhance the oxygen (the blue). #astronomy
A ring of reddish nebula set against a field of stars.A ring of nebula, the outer part reddish and the inner part bluish, set against a field of stars.
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Ha ha! I use my dad's library card to check out things for him all the time. It's a terminal with a screen. No ID. Ever.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI, researchers and amateurs all gave it their best shot
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First Proof is AI's toughest math test yet. The results are mixed
Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI, researchers and amateurs all gave it their best shot
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
And the Minnesota Vikings.
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
And also early voting. So if they only try to mess with voting on election day, they'll mess with more Republican voters. If they start with early voting, they need to keep this up for weeks, and there will be time to stop them.
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Not to mention that rhetoric is protected by the 1st amendment, whether Homan likes tge rhetoric or not.
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WIRED @wired.com · 29/01/2026
WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere. www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...
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ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed
WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.
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mathewi @mathewingram.com · 29/01/2026
Social media and teen mental health: There is no smoking gun In this week’s Torment Nexus, I wrote about the rush to blame social media use for teen mental-health problems despite the fact that the vast majority of research shows little or no correlation between those two things
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Social media and teen mental health: There is no smoking gun
In this week’s Torment Nexus, I wrote about the rush to blame social media use for teen mental-health problems despite the fact that the vast majority of research shows little or no correlation between those two things
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
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Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 21/01/2026
Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn’t Hold Up For years now, we've been repeatedly pointing out that the "social media is destroying kids" narrative, popularized by Jonathan Haidt and others, has been built on a foundation of shaky, often contradictory research. We've…
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Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn’t Hold Up
For years now, we've been repeatedly pointing out that the "social media is destroying kids" narrative, popularized by Jonathan Haidt and others, has been built on a foundation of shaky, often contradictory research. We've noted that the actual data is far more nuanced than the moral panic suggests, and that policy responses built on that panic might end up…
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
He’s certainly not in Minnesota. Probably not in a blue state. And does anyone know where he is?
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Bethan @bethan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
From @404media.co, “ICE has told lawmakers the app, called Mobile Fortify, provides a “definitive” determination of someone’s immigration status, and should be trusted over a birth certificate. “ www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
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ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
That wasn’t a Hail Mary. That was an entire rosary!
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I read that book. Very interesting!
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
So basically gas.
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Well, the Republican house members have already sort of quiet quit their jobs, but they are still getting paid. But everything else you said is spot on.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13/01/2026
The stated reason for ICE agents being in Minnesota is because of the ongoing fraud claims around daycare and other services. The two prosecutors leading those investigations have now resigned in the wake of Renee Good’s shooting. Even the internal supposed logic of this deployment is falling apart
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Law enforcement always thinks there’s some puppet master organizing large protests and if they just find those people the protests will just stop. They cannot fathom that large numbers of people can organize themselves against this stuff.
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
When it affects their investments, that’s the line.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/01/2026
In this clip from a longer interview, she says while she was in detention, agents called Renee Good a “lesbian b*tch.” This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to. 2/2
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
What a fun game!
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Should be fun!
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
So basically the same as every Republican governor when Biden or Obama was president.
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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Deliberate errors - This isn't about learning through failure or productive failure or productive struggle or any of those failing approaches that let kids flail. It's more a possible extension of retrieval practice with hints of interleaving. paulkirschner173727.substack.com/p/learning-b...
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Learning by getting it wrong (on purpose)
Deliberate errors
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Unbelievable!
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 29/12/2025
A core source for the article that prompted Trump’s tirade against Somalis now calls the story “bullshit” and claims he was misquoted.
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Key source says story that prompted Trump tirade against Somalis is erroneous
The writers of a City Journal story alleging a connection between Minnesota fraud and al-Shabab say they stand by their story.
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
We wouldn’t have gotten to the moon at all without a bunch of German immigrants, von Braun and company.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
ICE raids appear to be 100% responsible for the current housing crunch in south Texas. Indeed, they have brought residential construction to an end.
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South Texas homebuilders say ICE arrests have slowed work
More than 380 people attended an impromptu meeting that industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley hosted to draw attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.
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Amanda Frost @amandafrost.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Dog That Didn't Bark: Eligibility To Serve In Congress And The Original Understanding Of The Citizenship Clause
President Donald J. Trump's 2025 Executive Order restricting birthright citizenship has prompted new interest in the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment'
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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mathewi @mathewingram.com · 18/12/2025
We should help teens with social media not ban them from it Blaming social media for teen mental health issues obscures the real issues, and solutions like Australia's could make things worse
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We should help teens with social media not ban them from it
Blaming social media for teen mental health issues obscures the real issues, and solutions like Australia's could make things worse
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 16/12/2025
School districts are rushing to adopt "one chatbot per child" models, but decades of research shows learning is fundamentally social. Here’s why isolating students with AI tutors may undermine the classroom interactions that actually support brain development. buff.ly/gv76wEl
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The ‘one chatbot per child’ model for AI in classrooms conflicts with what research shows: Learning is a social process
AI tutors are often held up as an ideal, but prioritizing individualized teaching can detract from the benefits of learning in social environments.
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Factoring out 6.7 helps a ton.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 07/12/2025
Girls typically stick to the classic math formulas while boys wing it with shortcuts — and researchers say that difference may help explain why men still dominate high-stakes tests and #STEM. buff.ly/Gu59lvr
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Girls and boys solve math problems differently – with similar short-term results but different long-term outcomes
The reasons are not yet fully understood, but researchers consider societal influences that encourage greater compliance among girls as a potential cause.
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Sign me up!
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Daniel Ethier @dethier1958.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The Pacman Nebula. This is about 20 hours of imaging over 4 nights. It is about 9500 light years away from us and about 25 light years in diameter. #astronomy
Irregular red nebula fills the center of the image, with a black horizontal ragged scar-like area below center of the nebula. The nebula is set against a dense field of stars.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
If we want to talk affordability, you know what would really help? Re-jiggering how we pay for college. There's a lot to learn from my native Australia, which has an incredibly fair and efficient system of income-based repayment.
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