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StubHub is charging people different amounts for the exact same ticket @nbcnews.com did a test; for the same exact ticket, one person was presented with $72 in fees, while another was charged $134 StubHub said yep, we're testing that www.nbcnews.com/business/con...

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For the same ticket on StubHub, different prices for different people

NBC News volunteers saw eight different prices for the exact same Harry Styles ticket on StubHub. The company said it’s running random price experiments.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 13h

i wrote this in 2014 and it somehow seems like maybe relevant this week? www.huffpost.com/entry/note-t...

several women whose complaints prompted inquiries tell HuffPost that their cases were compromised by campus authorities' mistakes in note-taking.

In at least five cases reported on by The Huffington Post, the young women who reported sexual assault say a lack of documentation or discrepancies between their accounts of events and what was recorded by campus police and other school investigators.

"I would think on a college campus, there would be a proper appreciation for taking notes," said Lisa Maatz, director of public policy and government relations at the American Association of University Women.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 23h

If Jane Doe originally told Cornell Police that the incident at the frat was consensual - as the local DA (an elected official) says - then why did Cornell Police issue a campus wide alert in 2024 that she reported being sexually assaulted and coerced into taking drugs?

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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A student journalist's email to the campus spokesperson made the school administrator feel it is was harmful to her safety: capitolfax.com/2026/09/14/s...

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A survey of elementary school principals finds 38% said their K-5 students spend more than 2 hours a day on screens Additionally, while the vast majority of teachers and parents were worried the amount of time students spend on screens, principals were even more likely to be concerned

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

the former Republican governor of Kentucky was just arrested on the set of a Christmas movie starring the actress who played Winnie on "The Wonder Years" the warrant for his arrest stems from a child support case his adopted son has taken against him www.courier-journal.com/story/news/p...

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'He was very cordial': Farm owner recounts Matt Bevin movie set arrest

Dozens of extras were at a Kentucky farm to film a Christmas movie. Among them was ex-Gov. Matt Bevin, authorities say, who was arrested at the scene.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How many news cycles did we have about Biden and “Corn Pop” b/c no one believed that story?

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

i'll never forget that the Varsity Blues scandal was how i learned Mossimo -- the generic clothing line that Target sold in the early 2000s -- was named after an actual person

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Last month, the Carroll ISD school board (in Southlake, Texas) unanimously passed an AI/screen time policy similar to -- if not stricter -- than the one Zohran announced last week for NYC schools It shows how bipartisan this push is, if you understand the background of the Southlake...

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A huge new NBC News poll finds solid majority of Americans do not want data centers built near them, and that they believe AI will do "more harm than good" in K12 education www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

NEW: While everyone focused on NYC's ban on AI in schools, LA also quietly banned AI tools for all students, and DC public schools laid out new restrictions on screen time It's all b/c parents organizing and pushing them to do it. And more cities are going to follow www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

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How parent activists pushed schools to restrict AI and screen time — and won

New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., announced changes this week in response to a growing grassroots movement against technology in schools.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

NEW: Los Angeles Unified now bars all students, up through 12th grade, from accessing gen AI platforms on school-issued devices This was first revealed in a school board committee meeting, and now a district spox has confirmed to me

The inaugural meeting of the Generative AI Ad Hoc Committee was held today, continuing the District’s work to develop recommendations for guardrails and procedures for the use of generative AI by students. The committee will bring its policy recommendations to the Board for consideration at the end of the school year.
Previously, LAUSD students aged 13 and older who completed required Digital Citizenship instruction and acknowledged the Responsible Use Policy could access approved generative AI tools. Since the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year, the District practice has been to restrict student access to generative AI platforms while the District reviews instructional use and safeguards.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

so, students learn better from humans rather than the bots?? big if true! (it is true) www.edtechinnovationhub.com/news/stanfor...

New Stanford research finds AI tutoring currently has the strongest evidence when it supports human tutors rather than replacing them

AI tutoring is moving into schools faster than research can establish what works, and the strongest evidence so far favors using artificial intelligence to support human tutors rather than replace them, according to a new Stanford University research review.

The National Student Support Accelerator and AI Hub for Education at Stanford’s SCALE Initiative examined research on high-impact tutoring and emerging AI-enabled models, alongside interviews with tutoring providers, platform developers and researchers.

Published in August 2026, AI Tutoring is Not a Monolith: What We Actually Know separates AI tutoring into different models according to how much human involvement they retain.

Its central finding is clear: live, human-led tutoring remains the model backed by the strongest evidence. AI can help tutors work more effectively, but fully automated tutoring has not yet built a comparable evidence base.

The term “AI tutor” can cover very different experiences, from an AI system quietly helping a human tutor during a live session to a student working alone with software. The researchers argue that those models should not be treated as interchangeable.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What does “fighting wokeness” mean? Apparently, under the Trump admin, it’s cutting funding to help poor communities keep raw sewage out of their yards www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

$In Lowndes County, Alabama, where inadequate plumbing leaves yards damp with raw sewage, children risk contracting parasites if they play barefoot outside. In Brunswick, Georgia, where downwind breezes from industrial facilities smell like ammonia and coat homes with dust, residents worry the air they breathe isn’t safe. And in the 300-person village of Huslia, Alaska, where a river threatens to wash away homes, tribal members who relocated to higher ground lack running water. Congress promised to help fix these problems — and hundreds of similar ones across the country — when lawmakers four years ago dedicated unprecedented funding to help cash-strapped regions plagued by environmental issues. The funding prioritized marginalized communities where deep-seated issues ranging from racism to poverty have contributed to problems with industrial pollution and failing infrastructure, while also helping areas hit hard by climate change and extreme weather. But at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the Environmental Protection Agency gutted the $2.8 billion grant program created to provide residents relief. After Trump issued an executive order to rid the government of what he called “radical and wasteful” diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, the EPA said that the grants no longer aligned with the agency’s priorities and referred to them as examples of runaway government spending. The EPA had started releasing tens of millions of dollars in grants, but once the program ended, many groups wound up receiving only fractions of their allocated sums or none at all. Now, more than a year later, communities are struggling to find new funding as environmental crises have been left to fester, in the worst cases threatening the health and homes of some of the most vulnerable Americans. Predominately Black neighborhoods in Illinois and Texas that sit next to industries pumping out harmful pollutants have gone without robust air monitoring. In Oregon, a …$

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

about those former nba players entering the wnba draft... courtesy of @andrewgreif.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/sports/wnba/...

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

why is this (the highlighted part) controversial? fireworks absolutely suck; they kill people, injure people, start fires that kill people and destroy homes, pollute the air, and scare the shit out of dogs. they're also boring to look at.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

NEW: Parents in New Mexico are fighting against a state-mandated AI tool being used for dyslexia screeners and tutoring for K-2 students But what's unique in NM is that even some school districts are saying they're also concerned -- and refusing to use it www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

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Meet Amira, an AI reading tutor alarming some parents and school leaders in New Mexico

Literacy software powered by AI has captured hundreds of thousands of recordings of New Mexico students. Now the state faces questions about children’s data.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This doesn't seem to get much attention ever but it is so bizarre to see the federal government announce in a press release it is going to investigate something, and issue a press release bashing the "radical left" and essentially saying from the outset what the investigation will conclude

According to news reports, “MyGenderDolls” will be available to Minnesota educators for use in classrooms with students as young as four years old this fall. The dolls – developed via a taxpayer-funded University of Minnesota program – feature removable, interchangeable internal and external genitalia, gender-neutral names, and clothing (including undergarments) for both sexes.

The use of sexually explicit dolls to introduce young students to highly sensitive subject matters, with potential mental health implications for some children, undermines parents’ authority over their children’s safety and well-being. PPRA guarantees parents the right to opt their children out of surveys that elicit certain sensitive information about students or their families, and to review related instructional materials.

“While Governor Walz and the radical left continue to funnel taxpayer dollars to perverted ideologies that can harm children, the Trump Administration is fighting to protect children’s innocence and defend parents’ role as the first and primary decision-makers in their child’s education,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “No four-year-old should be exposed to such material – especially without a parent’s knowledge or consent. ED will enforce the law to its fullest extent, putting parents and families firmly in the driver’s seat of their child’s education.”

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Before The Odyssey, staring Tom Holland, Jon Bernthal, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, I saw trailers for Spider-Man starring Tom Jon and Zendaya, and Dune, staring Rob and Zendaya www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/... l

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How a handful of actors came to dominate Hollywood

“The Odyssey” stars Zendaya, Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland are booked, busy and in every blockbuster you are seeing this year.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026

THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Trump's local attorney in Iowa argued in court today that the president doesn't need to present any evidence to support his claim that a pre-election poll from the Des Moines Register was fraudulent -- he's allowed to just say it is and sue over it iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/07/10/j...

In arguing against dismissal, Ostergren said he had no obligation at this point in the proceedings to show evidence supporting the president’s claim that the poll was fabricated or rigged in some fashion. “The law is that all we have to do is put the defendants on notice as to why they are being sued,” Ostergren said.

In response, Judge Beattie asked Ostergren whether he still has some obligation to articulate the specific elements of the legal claims being made.

Ostergren rejected that position and said that after discovery takes place and evidence is gathered, the defendants can argue for summary judgment in their favor but until then, the case should be allowed to proceed.

“Do you believe that is even the case when there is an issue with First Amendment import?” Beattie asked Ostergren. “It seems like there’d be a massive chilling effect if any case is allowed get past the motion-to-dismiss phase for a defendant of this nature.”

Ostergren argued the First Amendment does not protect against fraud and said it will be impossible to determine to what extent that exception to the First Amendment applies in the case at hand until the discovery process produces documents and evidence.

“We need to know how the poll was conducted and whether a poll was conducted,” Ostergren said. “We take it just on a simple assertion from the defendants that this was actually calling people and asking their views. What was the process when these flawed numbers were being considered and vetted? … What decisions were made about going ahead in the face of information that were so utterly implausible that it defies belief, that it could be anything other than deliberate misconduct? … These are all things we have to know.”

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

“I wasn’t playing girls’ soccer because I couldn’t handle it on the boys team — I was playing girls’ soccer because that’s where my friends were and that’s where I felt comfortable, and that’s where I belong.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup... via @joyurcaba.bsky.social

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For trans student-athletes, the Supreme Court’s ruling is just the latest blow

Amid a drumbeat of state and federal policies restricting transgender rights, the court’s decision left some trans athletes and their advocates angry and afraid.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

since she also performs there, isn’t this basically like getting married at work?

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Important reporting, careful and beautiful writing, and devastating details about what’s at stake for those losing Medicaid support and with the Trump admin abandoning the right of disabled Americans to live at home

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

with Roblox being sued by multiple states and families over safety issues with kids, the platform is now rolling out features they say can detect through a camera how old kids are. @angelayang.bsky.social got a demo --> www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

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How old are you really? Inside Roblox’s new campaign to verify user ages

“Not everyone is going to be happy all the time,” the platform’s head of safety product policy told NBC News, saying Roblox believes its safety updates are worth the turbulence.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I rooted for the Spurs bc I watched one of their players (Harrison Barnes) play ball in hs in Ames, Iowa, where I went to college -- but it's hard to not be happy for a team led by a guy turning down $100m, FaceTiming Make-a-Wish kids and bringing his rescue dogs to MSG

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 12/06/2026

FBI special agents searched an office of a progressive organization in Ohio as part of a Justice Department investigation into its voter registration efforts, three people familiar with the matter tell NBC News.

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Ohio progressive group raided by FBI accuses Trump’s DOJ of intimidation

The Justice Department investigation is focused on the group’s voter registration efforts, and is part of the administration’s ongoing effort to pursue allegations of voter fraud.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“Bass said Raman had not done enough to reduce homeless encampments near schools or to address other problems throughout the city…” Narrator: Bass is the current mayor, not Raman. So the current mayor is now just taking the talking points of the defeated right-wing reality tv villain? Weird.

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Karen Bass slams Nithya Raman over homeless encampments in LA mayoral race

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s campaign slammed her rival, the progressive candidate Nithya Raman, quickly Sunday after Raman was projected to advance to a runoff election for the mayoral position.…

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

you can buy the "villain" of Toy Story 5 and connect with Jessie, Buzz, Woody and the Tech Trio "by texting them using emojis and preset messages"

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

An internal presentation from Google, in 2018, noted that AI and machine learning was a growing interest for schools, and Google could move into those spaces to stay at top of the ed tech space Last week, I sat in on an AI training for teachers at Google HQ >> www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

NEW: I went to Google's HQ to watch an AI training for K-12 educators In one session, they walked through how to persuade skeptical teachers to give AI a shot -- or at least prevent them from talking for 15 min about how AI is bad www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

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Inside Google’s AI training for teachers

The technology giant flew 70 educators to its California headquarters to learn about its AI products — and how to persuade skeptical colleagues to use them.

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Inside Google’s AI training for teachers

The technology giant flew 70 educators to its California headquarters to learn about its AI products — and how to persuade skeptical colleagues to use them.

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Imagine being so rich you could afford $100K tickets to the NBA finals and you dress like you’re going to your niece’s baptism

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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

hi @nytimes.com - I actually first reported on these documents in January: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-... It is not correct, as you say in your story today, that the WSJ first reported on them. (first screenshot from NYT, second screenshot from my Jan story on NBC)

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