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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 6h

As they say, great minds think alike :)

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)

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Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 6h

It would be hard for me to pick two people whose opinions about education I care less about

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 10h

"These findings suggest that introducing an AI tutor may displace engagement with existing learning activities without improving academic performance" --The Effects of Course-Integrated AI Tutoring on Student Performance and Engagement edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1598

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The Effects of Course-Integrated AI Tutoring on Student Performance and Engagement: A Randomized University Trial

We evaluate access to a course-integrated generative AI (GenAI) tutor in a randomized controlled trial involving 2,379 undergraduate students and 30 instructors across multiple disciplines in a large ...

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 11h

This is important info for all teachers who use AI to modify student materials -----AI-Powered Instruction Needs Precision. Right Now, It’s Not Even Close www.the74million.org/article/ai-p...

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AI-Powered Instruction Needs Precision. Right Now, It’s Not Even Close

Minnich: A study tested whether 4 large language models could accurately measure the difficulty of 1,807 passages. The results were all over the map.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16h

Texas high school shut down a production of "Little Shop of Horrors" after a girl was cast as Seymour. School cited Senate Bill 12, best known for its anti-drag provisions...but the law has twice been ruled unconstitutional. From @hesherman.bsky.social: hesherman1.substack.com/p/little-sho...

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“Little Shop of Horrors” Closed for Business at South Grand Prairie High in Texas

Suddenly, Seymour is Silenced by an Unconstitutional Law

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

ah, the return of merit

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 15h

What if Political Polarization Is Not the Disease but the Cure? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

Törnberg makes the case that claims of objectivity and neutrality are themselves problematic. “Conceptual choices are not politically neutral,” he wrote. “Casting authoritarian threats as mutual breaches of etiquette is not simply a misdiagnosis: It is an abdication of responsibility.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13/10/2026

The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Some of the escalations we're seeing, including the attack on Ilhan Omar's home (I will not pretend this act was "investigatory"), are desperate acts. But we must remember that desperate people can be very dangerous. A domestic abuse victim, for example, is in the most danger when trying to leave.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is ultimately what teacher professionalism means in practice: appropriately aligning ends and means.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say

Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026

question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What a wild end to the Jaguars game

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

More politicos should do this kind of acknowledgment of past mistakes

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Trump Is Begging to Be Impeached www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...

Impeachment might be inconvenient to Democratic leaders and it might carry some political risk, but it is simply not tenable to allow the president to run roughshod over the rule of law and the constitutional order without meaningful, constitutional pushback. As flawed as it is, impeachment is the tool we have for that particular job.

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Victor Wembanyama wants to set the NBA’s moral standard. It can be a burden www.nytimes.com/athletic/766...

Victor Wembanyama, basketball’s resident extraterrestrial, flashed his virtue again. When asked last week whether he would be interested in an endorsement deal with a sports betting or prediction market company, he said no the way he swats a layup: clean, emphatic and without apology.

“Absolutely not,” he said. “I will never do that. Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This Texas /Oklahoma game is crazy

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...

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Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst

A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...

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