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Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Talk to me nice...

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The Alliance for Interdisciplinary Innovation in Computing Educ @aiiceinnovates.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Join us: tomorrow, Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 5:00 pm ET! 📣 AiiCE Lecture Series 2025-2026 Shaping the Future of CS: A Discussion on K-12 Policy and Advocacy 🔗 duke.is/K12Policy #AiiCEinnovates

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The Alliance for Interdisciplinary Innovation in Computing Educ @aiiceinnovates.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

📣 Shaping the Future of CS: K-12 Policy & Advocacy 📅 Nov 18 | 🕔 5 pm ET 🔗 duke.is/K12Policy Join AiiCE Steering Committee member Shaina Glass + AiiCE affiliates Sofía DeJesús, Rudy Escobar, & David Lockett for a powerful conversation on #CSEd policy. #AiiCEinnovates #CSTA @csteachersorg.bsky.social

Flyer for the AiiCE Lecture Series 2025–2026 event titled "Shaping the Future of CS: A Discussion on K–12 Policy and Advocacy." The flyer features headshots of the moderator and panelists. Moderator Shaina Glass, representing the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), and panelists Sofía De Jesús, Rudy Escobar, and David Lockett, all AiiCE affiliates. Event details include the date, Tuesday, November 18, 2025, time, 5:00 PM ET, and a registration link: https://duke.is/K12Policy.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I stopped going to movie theaters years ago. But Pedro has made me go back twice in as many months now. And I really really love the 8 am matinees.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This is an unequivocal stance, which is rare to see in recent years, let alone in recent months. I am in full agreement. This is not normal.

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Katie Freund @katiedigc.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

To dispute the hype around Gen AI in education, @alexhanna.bsky.social recommends leaning in to the notion of skilled labour and focusing on process over product. Students writing essays is not to keep the world in supply of essays- it's about the processes around writing and critical thinking.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Do not stand by and watch people being kidnapped by masked men and women refusing to identify themselves and with no warrants. They come for all of us eventually when we do so.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Most people get FOMO. I am a loyal JOMO-ist. The Joy of Missing Out is unparalleled.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

For an eye opening, albeit bleak experience, I highly encourage you connect to a foreign vpn and search for US news. This is not a democracy.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Why is computer science and coding still necessary? Because artificial intelligence is incapable of creating anything new. It repurposes, badly. So if we stop coding and teaching CS, we’re saying we already wrote all we needed to write and there’s nothing new to be done/found/created.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 01/07/2025

If a sitting president can openly muse about arresting and disappearing someone who is likely to become mayor of the country's largest city, while also getting the funding for a massive secret police, it'd be hard to find sufficient evidence to qualify that country as a democracy.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

AI agents are programmed to be as bad as they are. When someone says they are "surprised" the models blackmail, I question whether they understand that AI is programmed by humans. It is the humans behind that behavior. fortune.com/2025/06/23/a...

fortune.com

Leading AI models show up to 96% blackmail rate when their goals or existence is threatened, an Anthropic study says

Anthropic emphasized that the tests were set up to force the model to act in certain ways by limiting its choices.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Today the GOP justices on the Supreme Court endorsed migrants being sold into slavery. They'll claim otherwise, but that's the reality — today's decision permits Trump to send people from countries around the world to any global hellhole that accepts a U.S. financial incentive.

NPR

Migrants Captured In Libya Say They End Up Sold As Slaves
March 21, 2018 6:27 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
By Ruth Sherlock, Lama Al-Arian

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Someone responded to one of my linkedin posts that they never developed the ability to summarize so AI was a game changer for them. First, that’s not a great admission for a professional to make. Second, if you guessed they were an AI company founder, you’re right. Blocked and deleted. 0 patience.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

My favorite TV show has a line that says "Cut off the head, and the body will flounder." (Supernatural, Leviathans story line, don't judge) If anyone is wondering why the Harvard target, this is the reasoning. They think to topple higher education, they just have to topple Harvard.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Thank you, Netflix for saving Sesame Street. Now please do the right thing and keep that program free for all families. Do not put it behind the paywall.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

We really messed up using the word intelligence in artificial intelligence. The thing isn’t intelligent at all. It’s all algorithms and decisions are made by the instructions in the algorithm. I need people to understand there is 0 actual intelligence or thinking involved.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Timothy Barnes and I will be at multiple conferences for our #CMUCSAcademy project this summer, so come joins us! We will BOTH be at #WeTeach_CS in Austin June 9-10. Then I'll head to the #CSforAtlanta InnovateCS Summit June 17-18 while Tim will head to #EdCon 2025 in Chicago June 16-18. (1/2)

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 is hiring a new podcast producer! Unfortunately Christie is leaving us for greener pastures, but we'd love to have you work with us! @emilymbender.bsky.social www.dair-institute.org/careers/

dair-institute.org

Careers

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Please read the doctor visit summaries thoroughly. Many are no longer asking if they can use AI transcribers so I haven't been able to opt out. I've had to correct my medical record twice recently because the AI misheard medication names, so my prescriptions and instructions were incorrect.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I love when millionaires and billionaires tell me I need to budget my salary better while making all parts of my life more expensive so they can get richer.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Reviews when not anonymous: Comments about my mastery of language and ways to improve. Reviews when anonymous: Glowing, focused on content, not a single grammatical comment in sight. Mind you, I'm an editor (with over 20 years of experience) and native speaker of both English and Spanish.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I said goodbye to my duo streak today. I also canceled and deleted the app. Humans first.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/04/2025

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Unpopular opinion: CS education is needed but not because I want people to get jobs in STEM fields. I think it is beneficial for developing critical thinking skills, which is lacking in our society because we keep finding ways to skip the hard work.

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The Alliance for Interdisciplinary Innovation in Computing Educ @aiiceinnovates.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Are you attending @weteachcs.bsky.social Summit? Join AiiCE Affiliates @thenerdygeek.bsky.social and @rudstemcs.bsky.social on June 9 at 12:45 pm for their session: CS and Multilingual Learners: Curriculum, Professional Development, and Community Engagement. #AiiCEinnovates

WeTeach_CS Summit session: Sofia De Jesus, M.S. and Rudy Escobar CS and Multilingual Learners: Curriculum, Professional Development, and Community Engagement. Image credit: WeTeach_CS

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

We are not heading for a crisis, we’re in it. They have taken over media, universities, the legal system… and they are sending innocent people to concentration camps.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Kilmar Abrego García is not a terrorist or gang member or affiliated with gangs. If they can lie about him, they can lie about any of us. And they are testing whether we sit here and let it happen so they can do it again.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Playing it safe and being quiet in this moment isn’t the right move. Be authentically you. Because the narrative about you will belong to others otherwise.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Kilmar Obrego García could be any single one of us. There is no justice left in this country. This is not a democracy.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Show up to legislative sessions, school board meetings, and anything and everything you can. Stay informed, because everything happening is affecting or will affect you. And if you didn’t do the required reading pre-election, do it now (project 2025). There’s no excuse for “I didn’t see it coming.”

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Was it a need? No. But I needed it anyway.

Duolingo plushie in a coffin. 1000 BC - 2025 AD. We are finally free is written above window to plushie.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Turning down opportunities because of organizations aligning themselves with those doing harm is a form of protest. Nobody is entitled to my voice, experience, and expertise. Will someone else do the work? Yes. But it won’t be me.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The problem with going along to get along is that now we’re the oppressors. If we allow the abuse to continue, we’re aligning with the abusers. We’re now the “but they were so nice” people who slowly became the monsters. I refuse to comply. And I will continue to refuse.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It’s been 4 months since we’ve cleared the backlog of Fresh AI Hell and it is all logged back up. Join @alexhanna.bsky.social and me as we try to clear it in our next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream: Monday, April 7, noon Pacific www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

twitch.tv

dair_institute - Twitch

Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Some AI scientists are trying to train a machine so it learns how humans learn. And I want to hold their hand when I tell them this: it’s a machine. It does not actually understand. It’s much like a rock that will move if the human moves it, but it cannot move on its own.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Today is Trans Visibility Day. Nobody should be persecuted for existing. I hope our trans community gets to feel completely safe being authentically them soon. And I hope this country learns to care for others rather than always attack those that don’t fit a made up mold.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Literacy is the "competence of knowledge in a specified area." One thing I've been exhausted by is the fact that most of those spouting the marvels of genAI do not meet the most basic level of competence. Using ChatGPT or any of the others doesn't mean you are literate in genAI, let alone AI.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The whiplash caused by this authoritarian government is exhausting.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Join me at #CSTA2025 in Cleveland, OH July 8-11! I’ll be speaking on policy and the power of words in CS!

Speaker card for Sofia De Jesus for CSTA 2025, July 8-11 in Cleveland, Ohio

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I have to say the boycotts are doing wonders for my savings account.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Spanish is my main language. I will speak it anywhere and everywhere. I will answer my family’s calls in Spanish because that’s our language, even out in public. You shouldn’t care because it has exactly nothing to do with you. Let people live.

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We are living through the worst depression and it is and has been completely avoidable. Billionaires taking from those they deem of lesser worth is nothing new. I will never understand how some can convince themselves that these men are somehow “good.”

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Patricia Saenz-Armstrong @psaenz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

#Bluesky, you know what to do. Here’s the feedback form enddei.ed.gov

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Sofía De Jesús @thenerdygeek.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I spent years silenced by these people. I left scared and stayed that way for many, many years. I felt so alone and so misunderstood that I left my island at age 20 to start somewhere they couldn't touch me. And now there's a documentary on HBOMax. El minuto heroico. Yo también dejé el Opus Dei.

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