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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I did not care for her dunking on and bullying of local educators for struggling in a difficult situation, all the while saying little about larger structural issues both in the school system and in housing policy more broadly.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Zero mention of housing policy and zoning, both of which are the main drivers of segregation. Just focusing on schools ignores larger forces, and it also asks school districts to correct for issues that politicians and policy makers make.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 20/09/2026

Nikole Hannah-Jones’s story has been a compelling one to follow, and as a Black parent and an educator, I am simultaneously moved and disappointed. Hannah-Jones writes about race and power, but she devotes much of her article to individual shortcomings to systemic issues.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

She works at Howard, so one hopes she has a high opinion of it and its staff.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That's not what it's about though. She deliberately choose a bad public school (neighborhood school) over trying for better public schools.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It also seems like she overestimated how smart her kid really is. She'll do fine in a good school, but she is not the level of smart to teach herself or do a bunch of enrichment in her own time.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is a strain of people who think that a smart/engaged kid can excel anywhere, and I think that is partly correct, but she underestimated the challenges some of these schools have. There are levels to how bad a school can be. Turns out her kids was not on track to excel at that school.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That's the irony. She actually does that pretty effectively professionally. But in her personal life she had no actual plan. She thought sending her one child to this school would magically fix it. You have to kind of admire the audacity. Our one child will fix it all.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/12/2025

"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My school did semesters. I broadly enjoyed college.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

What's unpleasant about it besides the cost?

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Émile Darkheim @rntropy.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I think the one exception to this is colleges. As @mtsw.bsky.social has noted, for many Americans college is the one and only time in their life when they live in a dense walkable setting.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 18/12/2025

“The average American can no more imagine the texture, habits, and routines of everyday life in a walkable urban community than they can imagine completely cutting meat out of their diet. Maybe less so.” @ad-mastro.bsky.social

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

What's the pitch for a loss leader that harms your brand?

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A lot of money to be made selling to illiterate execs.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I'm sorry why even pay for Qualtrics? Just ask random people at your company what they think.

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Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Text reads: About synthetic panels
Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels.

Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey.

Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.

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Discussion
The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002)
of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The fact that Chomsky is friends with Epstein and Bannon and engages in genocide denialism does not speak highly of him. The fact that Chomsky and Bannon are friends also points to the whole Eyes White Shut nature of those with cultural power. In the end nothing really matters for them.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

What nuance and context is there about a guy befriending a sex trafficker?

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I love how she is a supposed journalist trying to weasel her way around questions like a PR person.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I hope she talks better than she writes.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Hey, have some respect. She is the writer of her generation. She can write so many words. When mere mortals like us try to write, we use few words to get our point across, but when Olivia writes she uses as many as she can possibly get away with.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

It's a proper clanker mess out there.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I think everyone but the federal government has admitted that the economy is not doing well and in some industries and areas it is doing quite bad.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Ideas are generally the easy part of everything. And even when ideas are critical, it's the people who can do that have better ideas.

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Nobly guarding the bannisters

Grey cat wedged between two painted bannisters half way up the stairs. Gazing into the distance. Paws crossed.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Editing in particular helps a lot. The big mistake people make with prompting is that they just wing it, hoping to kind of work their way through it with follow-ups. But starting with a good, well-edited prompt where you have thought through the potential results will set you up a lot better.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I am thinking specifically of a product brief that explains what you are doing and why. You go over requirements, often with bullet points. Any kind of good, structured writing will help a lot, though. The process of editing helps a lot, too, as you want to think through the prompt.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

To an extent, but a good prompt is closer to a well-written brief than a college essay.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I had my worst writing impulses beaten out of me by a freshman journalism professor and never looked back.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

She is young and overtly sexual but in no way hot. Her hotness, as it were, is almost entirely defined by horny old men. We don't need to be gaslit about her attractiveness.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

She looks like Yassified Squidward. And you could use her face as a cheese grater in a pinch. I don't like to comment on people's looks, but this has got to stop. Old editors and politicians find her hot because she is young and has no morals, but let's pace ourselves here.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Neither one has a journalism degree, so it should not be shocking that they don't understand journalism ethics or how to write properly. This bloated, self-indulgent writing would be beaten out of you by any journalism professor. It almost takes talent to write as poorly as Nuzzi does.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Surely it would be known within bodybuilding and athlete communities?

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Well, I'm not going to fall for this scam because I'm not literate. Wait a minute

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

What kind of drug addicts bought this book? I want a full Epstein-style list of these perverts.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I don't know anything about this man, but I do know he knows o-line play.

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Patrick Thornton @pwthornton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This is wild, but we also need to admit that Calibri is a shit font that Microsoft created -- and even they have disowned it. It is not a woke font. It is just jank. Pure unadulterated jank.

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