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Jon Becker

@jonbecker.bsky.social
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Education professor. School Law. Ed tech. Politics of Ed. #RVA #GoDuke #LetsGoVCU (Jon is not AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check output.)

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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 6h
I don't understand this. The ball was going to hit off the wall and ne a double (maybe triple) and score one run. That's exactly what the umpires decided. How did this play cost them the game?
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Taking in a little HS girls volleyball
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I will be attending a faculty meeting tomorrow about reorganization.
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
FWIW
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I took this pic from the homecoming parade for you
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In case you've been waiting all day to watch my daughter run with a huge flag...
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Look at this shit
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now I am reading the Time article about the interview. Here's the part about the AI conversation. And, note, Time offers me a chatbot that says "Ask me anything". Who wants that? Seriously.
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's your midterm ad, Democrats.
But if I spoke to the American people, and if I got a fair press on, which I never would, I would like to have data centers. It doesn't mean I want them right next to my house, but certainly I like them in my county. They show a data center, and I go up right next to a guy's house, and I wouldn't necessarily like that.
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LOL, who did this?
Eric Schmitt reading Basketball for Dummies with Caitlin Clark laughing behind him.
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is from the Department of Energy, aka the agency that shares an abbreviation with Erectile Dysfunction
I can't even...
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wut the...?!?
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fun!
Was the 2020 presidential election rigged?
No. Official certified results show Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 presidential election.
⁃ Electoral College: Biden 306, Donald J. Trump 232 (270 needed to win) ⁃ States certified their results; Congress certified the Electoral College count on January 6, 2021
Federal reviews after the election did not find evidence that vote totals were manipulated or that a foreign government changed the outcome,
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#PairedTexts
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some personal news: our power lines are (finally) being buried.
Workers in neon vests with big shovelsWorkers with neon vests and big shovels
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Big intra-family football game today. My squad won 😬
Duke 62 - William & Mary 7
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🤷‍♂️
Rawstory: Trump appears to be loudly booed at football gameNY Post: Trump met with roaring cheers ar football game
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No YOU are reliving your childhood by playing youth sports vicariously through your child.
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
LOLsob
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have a Zoom meeting in 5 minutes. I need my laptop which is in my backpack. What am I supposed to do?
Mandy the tuxedo cat sitting on my backpack
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I made this for today:
Distracted boyfriend meme with school districts now looking at The Polis instead of The Market
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Today, I watched a 19.5 point favorite (William & Mary) lose by 25 (to Fordham).
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No complaints
My ugly feet hanging off the end of a recliner in the shallow end of a pool with a kids water area in front
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The walkback on AI here has been fascinating to watch.
Randi Weingarten: How things have changed - the public wants our kids to learn first... learn to think, before using AI.
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New FBI Director just dropped
NY Post article: Sick Florida mom arrested after husband finds video of her performing sex acts with family dog: cops
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The ads I am served within that article...
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Some personal news: I am now known as Professional
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Partly answered here
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New fantasy football team name. I wonder how it will go over in the league...
Disgruntled Lesbians
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just did a Google News search for "alpha schools". Look at the first result, @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
update:
Slide: AI and Education: What's Old is New Again
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You might want to block this account into oblivion.
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
how about teaching in this fit?
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
ESPN's daytime women's tennis studio team. 🤔
2 blonde women in short skirts
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sorry, but this is very odd behavior. "I don't know a thing about AI and I don't want to" and yet he's confident opining repeatedly about it?
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Bluesky, the sports app ( @dennycarter.bsky.social , 2025)
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
How neighborhood kids advertise in 2026.
AI slop advertising a limeade stand
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Let the long weekend begin
Wet black bird: FUCK IT. I'm going home.
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Opened an article in Science Direct and was automatically fed this AI reading assistant. Do. Not. Want.
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hard to believe this guy might have some issues
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Steve Belichick is supposedly out on "medical leave"
Lawyers hired to conduct the investigation are also questioning people about whether defensive coordinator Steve Belichick used drugs on the job or provided drugs to at least one player — and, separately, about whether a member of UNC’s recruiting staff had a sexual relationship with a player, people familiar with the investigation told WRAL. They also asked about possible sexual relationships between assistant coaches and recruiting staff, the people said.
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Dafuq?
what is the first secular institution of higher education in the United States?

AI Overview: The [University of Virginia](stateparks.gov - wait, let me use correct url from snippet), founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819, is widely recognized as the first institution of higher education in the United States deliberately conceived and established as purely secular, with no official church affiliation or required religious worship.(Note: While Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia Academy/College of Philadelphia—now the University of Pennsylvania—was an earlier non-sectarian or multi-denominational predecessor founded in 1740, the University of Virginia was the first explicitly and entirely secular university structured independent of any religious denomination from its origin.)
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As far as I can tell, not a single mainstream news outlet has reported on the Ariely story in the last 48 hours.
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When I signed up for a pickleball league that starts on 9/1 (tonight!), this was NOT what I expected.
97 degrees
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I mean, it's basically a bullseye...
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Advertisements on Coach K Court. Everything sucks now.
Edward Jones ads on both sides of the basketball court in Cameron Indoor Arena.
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Did the NY Post mean for the headline to be like this?
The world's best tennis players say something mysterious is going on with their balls
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What more do you want than this? Why do you need some very specific magic words from El-Sayed?
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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
People seem to want El-Sayed to literally throw Piker into a dumpster. This seems perfectly sufficient to me.
Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed put some distance between himself and his ally, progressive Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, after the latter faced intense criticism for suggesting that American Jewish support for Israel could lead someone to “take action” against Jews in the U.S.

“My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own daughters. Antisemitism is a scourge, and we need to address it in all its forms. And I stand against any rhetoric that puts the community at risk,” El-Sayed said in a statement. “But I want to be crystal clear, nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople. And while politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we’re going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools, and healthcare.”
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