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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 8h

"'Creative' workers were a problem in a system where every human component was supposed to be interchangeable. Creating learners who could grow independently was simply not part of the plan." k5create.blogspot.com/2026/10/gemi...

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Gemini's favorite tale from CREATE

A blog about elementary school maker spaces.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For many school administrators, makerspaces are the next shiny thing to implement on their campuses. Rather than starting with the Constructivism philosophy of Piaget and the Constructionism philosophy of Seymour Papert... k5create.blogspot.com

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Tales From CREATE

A blog about elementary school maker spaces.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

k5create.blogspot.com

Tales From CREATE

A blog about elementary school maker spaces.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Studies say” on social media means little unless the poster has not only read the studies but is also intellectually equipped to analyze scientific studies.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“AI entities should have no "right to privacy" or proprietary secrecy. Independent regulatory bodies should be able to examine models down to the ones and zeroes” substack.com/@markloundy/...

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Don’t leave home without it. Happy Constitution Day.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

About a year ago, I posted this image without comment. A member of the public complained to my then employer, the Cupertino Union School District, trying to get me fired. The CUSD HR department pressured me to take it down. Since I was a year before retirement, I did. Here it is again.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Technology panics are cyclical. This is from 10 years ago.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“The goal of the experiment is to find out how well the recently upgraded version of ChatGPT Voice Mode can conduct extended, individualized oral defenses of student research papers.” —Peter Paccone ppaccone.medium.com/the-use-of-c...

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The Use of ChatGPT Voice Mode to Determine Whether Students Actually Understand and “Own” the…

How the extraordinary advances in ChatGPT Voice Mode since July 2026 have made extended, individualized oral defenses of student work…

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you’re celebrating Meta’s settlement of its lawsuit, you need to consider that all it did was purchase the authority to regulate itself. All of the structural changes in the world to mitigate its harm against minors will do nothing if their processes can be trivially sidestepped.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When Jerry Lewis died, I was struck by the near absence of anybody saying positive things about him. Apparently, he was just an awful person to those around him. That, instead of his legacy of comic genius, was what people talked about. This is a post about Dolly Parton.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Critical literacy is knowing that Doris Miller was a Black man and a hero of Pearl Harbor. Extra points for knowing that a Ford class aircraft carrier has been named after him and that the Trump administration is trying to name it after Trump instead.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It’s “homed” in, not “honed” in. share.google/x4SPfiSfvs2m...

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The Grammarphobia Blog: Hone truths

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I said this seven years ago. It applies even more in a post-AI world. School should be about creating the people that we want to live beside. It should not be serving a primary purpose of creating corporate workers.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’m looking at you, @Apple. This is just wrong. I consider it to be a severe invasion of my privacy. Devices should not send screenshot signals.

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Surveillance monger Flock doesn't just mislead people when it's pushing communities to install its invasive cameras and software. In many cases, the ACLU explains, it lies through its corporate teeth even to city governments. www.aclu.org/news/pr... Tell your local government not to use Flock.

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Flock Lied About its ALPR technology. What Else Has It Lied About?

ACLU documents how surveillance camera company Flock has lied to local officials about its operations

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is not a “hot take.” It’s a rather easily digestible 8,000+ words. If you see yourself as a part of a democratic society, they are words that you need to read. hybridhorizons.substack.com/p/post-agi-a...

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Leon Furze on the AI cheating panic. "Conflating the oral School Assessed Coursework (SAC) Outcome in Unit 4 VCE English with “exams” and then posing AI as a threat is a rhetorical sleight of hand that does both the school and the students a disservice." #EduSky leonfurze.com/2026/06/15/e...

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Exams Are Not the Answer: Part One

Coursework is not an exam, and AI is not an excuse for running all assessment under exam conditions. Part one of this two-parter explores how the media is getting in the way of productive conversation...

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"But there is an unspoken convenant between the reader and the author that the work, in the generally accepted meaning, belongs to the person behind the byline." Authorship and the AI Workflow When the human in the loop blurs into the machine markloundy.substack.com/p/authorship...

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Authorship and the AI Workflow

When the human in the loop blurs into the machine

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

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Authorship and the AI Workflow

When the human in the loop blurs into the machine

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

From Chief Strategist at Google, Neil Hoyne: "Google and Google DeepMind just released their latest AI model that runs on your laptop. Not a data center. Not a subscription with a meter running in the background. Your machine, as in the one in front of you right now." blog.google/innovation-a...

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Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model

An overview of Gemma 4 12B, a model designed to bring high-performance multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop.

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Huge, important beat that's been basically shuttered with all the cuts at the tabs =>

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“What determines outcomes is increasingly not how you prompt but whether you are inside the gating coalition, the higher rate-limit tier, the supported language, the approved jurisdiction; that requires a vocabulary for access, not usage.” —Carlo Iacono open.substack.com/pub/hybridho...

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The Day AI Stopped Being Software

Anthropic's Code w/ Claude didn't launch a new model. It quietly ended the era we have all been arguing about.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

“Self-governance was supposed to be a placeholder. The labs themselves described it as a placeholder. The placeholder is hardening.” —Carlo Iacono open.substack.com/pub/hybridho...

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OpenAI and Anthropic Have Already Admitted They Shouldn't Govern AI

The Admission Is Doing the Governing.

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Surveillance and data-manipulation giant Palantir was a CIA-funded creation and has become one of the planet's most powerfully evil companies. It is vital that the general public understand the danger -- and then work to root it out of our lives.

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Purge Palantir: The Campaign Against Peter Thiel's Spy Firm

And how I got permanently banned from X

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hypothesis: The people using “(whatever) tax in the comments” are the same ones who would have been in the forefront of the “six-seven” users in middle school.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The latest faux “cool kids” SM useage: “(whatever) tax in comments.”

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"If I follow your work and you are using generative AI non-transparently, your betrayal of me is in suspension, pending my discovery of it. Maybe I’ll never find out. But the disingenuousness remains. The qualities that I might admire in you, aren’t even yours." k5create.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-a...

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

No Kings march, San Jose, California

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 28/03/2026

“Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors ‘to keep out of the newspapers anything which…tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly.’” - William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 405

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I’ll be there. See if you can find me.

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50501 San Jose — Abolish ICE @50501sanjose.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Join us in San Jose on March 28th at St. James Park from 12 to 2pm for our No Kings protest & march! More flyers, volunteer form, local events, trainings: linktr.ee/sanjose50501 On 3/28, we’re doing a donation drive with help from @batmanofsanjose.bsky.social, BASH, & SJPJC We need volunteers! 🧵

No Kings

Power belongs to the people

50501 San Jose

Saturday, March 28
Protest + March

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
St. James Park
180 N. First Street
San Jose, CA 95113

QR code to: https://linktr.ee/sanjose50501

Logos:
Indivisible San Jose
OCI - Orchard City Indivisible
CA WFP
SIREN - Services, Immigrant Rights & Education Network
Silicon Valley Rising
BASH
Santa Clara County Democratic Party
Silicon Valley Democratic Club
San Jose Peace and Justice Center
CSO San Jose
Food Not Bombs San Jose
DSA SV
SURJ - Showing up for racial justice Santa Clara County
SVYD - Silicon Valley Young Democrats
ACLU Northern California Santa Clara County Chapter
Local 521 SEIU Stronger together
South Bay Labor Council AFL CIO

Community Donations Request

50501 San Jose
Saturday March 28
St. James Park

50501 San Jose
See next post for the items list.

Volunteers Needed

50501 San Jose
Saturday March 28
St. James Park

50501 San Jose
See next post for volunteer form.

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Mark Loundy @markloundy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

TEACHING CS & AI: WHERE TO START? National AI Literacy Day MARCH 26, 2026 4:30PM-5:30PM PDT #EduSky bit.ly/aiforca-reg

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SVR ❌👑🤡 @svr.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

As part of the #NoKings3 protests on March 28, the miles-long chain along El Camino Real from Palo Alto to Sunnyvale (through Mountain View and Los Altos) will be back, from 2 to 4 PM! Spread the word! #NoKings #Resist @50501sanjose.bsky.social @cleverresistance.bsky.social

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 19/03/2026

1/ Today, we overwhelmingly voted to authorize a STRIKE as we fight for a fair contract with @propublica.org.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.

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US Mint takes down video of meeting criticizing proposed Trump 24K gold coin

A coin advisory committee called the design for the America 250 coin something only produced by "kings or dictators."

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

So when are Republican lawmakers going to admit this president is endangering not just the U.S. but the entire globe and stop him before he does even more damage?

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Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job

The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

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