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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI companies made an imaginary friend who you talk to all day and are addicted to and now they can pitch big clients on "hey we got all these people on the hook and can push them to buy your product or vote for your guy and they'll trust the message because it's coming from their friend"

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the Heroic Protector Fantasy is rarely of real use to women, it's just wish fulfillment about male posturing and it frequently exacerbates violence it's also much easier to imagine yourself kicking the ass of an obviously villainous stranger than to to actually intervene where you have influence

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh my goodness, it CAN be done!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"ThErE aRe A lOt Of SkIlLs ThAt DoN't MaTtEr" translation: there are skills that he doesn't recognize the value of

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great bit here from Bodies of Learning worth quoting at length: "It is as if school teaching deliberately sets out to attempt to colonise virgin territory in the brain (that doesn't actually exist), and to treat embodied feelings, motivations and experiences with suspicion."

In the light of these revelations, it looks odd, then, to devise a system of education that seems hell-bent on ignoring, and hence weakening, the connective tissue that links body and mind. It is as if school teaching deliberately sets out to attempt to colonise virgin territory in the brain (that doesn't actually exist), and to treat embodied feelings, motivations and experiences with suspicion.

It is perfectly valid to want to encourage children to extend their horizons beyond those of their particular families and cultures, but the way to do that, from an embodied perspective, is to grow outwards from that personal experience, not to neglect it and, by implication, denigrate it. Knowledge learned without a meaningful context is harder to engage with, and risks being left emotionally ungrounded, unanchored and harder to access.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the most accurate and helpful information during this ordeal has come from paper printouts in arial font and random passengers conveying hearsay

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Books to Prisoners (Seattle) @bookstoprisoners.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The last few years have been very difficult for the fight to keep books in jails and prisons, as a "drugs on paper" narrative gained traction and enabled waves of facilities to eliminate access to free, physical books and push $$$$$ tablets. This victory for readers is so needed and so valuable.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

anyway it is actually very fun to have kids deeply interested in the world around them and the people who live in it

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

we're choosing a worse world *and it's not even cheaper*

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026

"I wrote the piece and Claude found the links relevant to my claims" is, even without the AI, such an admission of poor thinking and argumentation. your claims should emerge from the evidence!

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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026

And by the way, from our scoop, we also discovered that Anthropic is also using human reviewers to read conversations.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." - Campbell's Law

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

you can, if your library has books or subscriptions, have research labs for humanities courses, the way STEM courses have labs you can make communal spaces for writing you can emphasize process over productivity the choice to learn is always the student’s; that’s life. but you can make it easier

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My father sat me down and began to explain. He started to talk about the Japanese internment camps, how people who had nothing to do with anything became imprisoned. It was the first time it dawned on me how race worked, how conditional our safety was. 4/

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Might extinct you and your kind. But I can touch type and properly clean a cast iron skillet. I will rebuild.

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

you have an incredibly dangerous knowledge gap. Immature or naive or impersonal work is still WORK. Generative AI is a dice roll, built on plagiarizing stolen work of people who came before it. These are not equal things!

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Several of the activities Ben reports here would appear to be violations of child labor law in some states. The curriculum is cruelty. These students are being trained to expect cruelty, to engage in cruelty, & to regard cruelty as rationality, as the normal functioning of a “meritocratic” society.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There is robust academic literature about how selective groups -- cults, gangs, franternities -- make use of “shame and stigma” rituals that include deliberately demeaning initiations so as to enhance commitment to the in-group and its norms. I believe Alpha School is doing this.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just a reminder that kitchens started out as large rooms for an entire staff of servants to prepare meals, and then the Frankfurt kitchen turned that into a one-woman job, hidden away, so all men had to see was a woman emerging with a cooked meal, and then the open concept floor plan made that ugly.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

of all the things it’s important for students first encountering early modern history to know about early modern history, the limitations of generative AI is not one of them if it comes up, it can only be as a more or less necessary distraction, like an old projector or an order to shelter in place

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

AI has made spellcheck / grammar check absolutely worthless on MS Word. I’ll finish a document and then be recommended a dozen completely hallucinated corrections while missing a few fairly common typos

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Take lots of walks with your kids is a very solid parenting plan. If your teen isn't talking to you it may be that you need to shut up and really listen. I say this as a mom of 2 successful young adults: the teen years were actually fine. We took walks and I let them talk.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I’m crying. I asked him to send me a screenshot so I could use it in class and it literally says “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”

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Cocaine is one of the most widely abused illicit substances in the world, with an estimated 41 million adults reporting lifetime use in the United States alone (Gangu et al., 2022).
It has well-documented cardiovascular effects, including hypertension, tachycardia,
and vasoconstriction,
and these
have long been associated with acute ischemic events affecting the heart and brain. A less recognized capability is the drug's capacity to precipitate ischemia of the spinal cord, a resulting complication that is both debilitating and repeatedly underdiagnosed. Cocaine-induced acute spinal cord ischemia (ASCI) can result in immediate and permanent paralysis, complete loss of sensation below the level of injury, and autonomic dysfunction affecting bladder and bowel function. This kind of injury is devastating enough to leave patients dependent on lifelong rehabilitative care.

Cocaine is a bad, bad drug that a lot of people use. In the United States about 41 million adults have used cocaine at once. Cocaine is bad for your heart.
Can cause big problems. It can make your heart beat fast and your blood pressure go up. This can cause problems with your heart and brain.. Cocaine can also cause problems with your spinal cord. This can lead to bad injuries that can leave you paralyzed. You might not be able to feel anything below the injury. You might have problems with your bladder and bowel. This kind of injury is very serious. Can require a lot of care for the rest of your life.
A lot of doctors and people do not know about …

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The gig is up in the very first sentence of the Supreme Court's per curiam opinion on the Trump ballroom (emphasis added): "In October 2025, the *federal government* started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House." They've collapsed the legislative branch into the unitary executive.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hey I'm not actually done talking about Dolly Parton. 🧵 Specifically I want to talk about her album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs, released in 1980 (not the soundtrack to the film 9 to 5, that's a different thing). The whole album is about work, with most of the songs focused on a different type of worker.

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Krimshaw @krimshaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am not an academic but as someone in the management workforce, I can tell you my HR counterparts lauded "entrepreneurship" as a means to replace salaried Millennials with hourly contractors without 401Ks. AI is now presented the same way.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Tom is right, nowhere else do we have an "odd belief" in co-constructed democratic rule-making that involves the people who are most closely impacted. It's just an arbitrary system developed for education to subvert the headmaster's authority. 🙄

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

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Andrew Engelson @andyengelson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

History will not look kindly on what King County allowed to happen at Boeing Field. @girmayzahilay.bsky.social

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Of course it's hard to read! You wandered into a debate where the strangers all know each other and are arguing! You have to listen and figure out what they're discussing and what the stakes are and who these people and places and things and ideas are and how the relate! So you look them up.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

when i had a health insurance coverage gap and couldn't afford it for a few months, the cravings boomeranged. they came back like i had quit drinking months ago instead of years. this happened immediately and persisted for weeks. without my social supports, i would've relapsed.

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Steven Cochrane-Diamond @stvncockdiamond.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Probably obvious, but this also true for public school districts that are giving all students access to Gemini, and requiring teachers to assign lessons and keep grade books in Google Classroom.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I don’t know what has happened to me but I’ve turned into a slug.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Least surprising thing ever to see a number of the more influential “Science of Learning & Direct Instruction Only™️” advocates signed the Cofnas defense letter. 😒

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/08/2026

This is giving "we need kids' nimble little fingers" vibes.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

FYI I mute replies that you can’t say “race science”; this discussion happens often and never goes anywhere. Historians of science and of race have shown why preserving “science” as a term denoting only truth or good method obscures how racism in fact developed. This is no time to forget that.

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fig @sunteafig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If we make this world better for children, we'll make it better for everyone

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dependency is the goal.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

seems like the real problem here is that education is predicated on a desire to learn but run like a toll booth for the job market that's not a tech issue

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

They didn't like Aaron Swartz's goals (making scientific knowledge more accessible to the public) and they do like the LLM companies' goals (permanently crushing the labor market for knowledge workers)

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David Kronig @davekronig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Disabled folks have been telling y'all that the dismantling of public health & food safety is part of the eugenics plan. The skyrocketing foodborne illnesses are a feature, not a bug. Most people will recover. The ones who don't are the disabled, immunocompromised, elderly. The undesirables.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

no one who anyone listens to is saying that though. What we are saying is that the industry is a fucking shell game propped up by funny money and people should go to prison for the crimes being committed to keep the hype train going.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 19/08/2026

As U.S. military operations expand on Guam, residents face longstanding contamination risks; more than 1,200 people in Yigo were warned not to drink from a local well after dieldrin was detected.

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As US Continues Military Operations on Guam, Residents’ Health Suffers

Last year, the government informed residents that their drinking water was contaminated with toxic chemicals.

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SquidTips - Aj/Alex/He🏍 🦑🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @squidtips.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yesterday I got a behind-the-curtain look at the Seattle Police Departments 'Real Time Crime Center', and I can now confidently say that Seattle surveillance system is ripe for the same type of abuses we are seeing across this county I'll share more specifics soon, follow @ourseattle.bsky.social

The photo is of Aj in front of'Community Not Cameras and the Transit Riders Union Seattle, giving a speech about the tour of the Seattle Police Departments Real Time Crime Center.

The headline reads: Coalition calls Seattle’s surveillance cameras ‘structurally dangerous’

AJ Randall, cybersecurity engineer, addresses the media Monday afternoon at Seattle City Hall. (Kevin Clark / The Seattle Times)

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

There *is* an urgent need for evidence-based reform in schools...just not what has been accepted and promoted as "evidence-based" practice.

Ironically, however, the current machinery of schooling and the judgements that underpin it are often deeply inconsistent with research evidence and detrimental to some students' learning. The curriculum assumption that all students in a grade are about equally ready for the same learning is not supported by evidence. Assessing all students against the same learning expectations regardless of where they are in their learning and assigning A to E grades flies in the face of what is known from research about how to engage and motivate students and build self-confidence as learners. There is an urgent need for evidence-based reform of the machinery of schooling.

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Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Remember how you used to just know everyone’s phone number? Then cell phones came out and you could barely recite your own number? That’s what AI’s endgame is but for every aspect of your life.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

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