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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 14h

Baseball: the most masochistic sport?

Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 16h

I get really upset about the framing of grading as something that takes time away from teachers’ “free time”/ability to go for a run/etc. Giving feedback to students should be a big part of why you want to do this job!

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 1d

Man I dunno going to the NLCS on such a brutal E-1 feels like it will awaken John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness

John Carpenter’s shrouded Prince of Darkness emerges from a doorway

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 2d

2025

Dialogue on Mother from Alien: WHAT ARE MY CHANCES? / DOES NOT COMPUTE

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 2d

godDAMMIT what are they DOING

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 2d

The best part about walking your dog during a Dodgers postseason game in LA is that you can check in on the game through the windows of your neighbors’ houses

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 4d

I got nervous there at the end but just nervous enough to make life fun!!

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 4d

God I love the Dodgers

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 5d

I know everyone is feeling something similar right now, but it is SO bizarre to have to flip from watching videos of military troops beating citizens to, like, washing dishes and grading papers

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 5d

this got me

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 6d

Both films are about daughters who have to find a way to be who they are inside despite what their fathers think they want for them.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 6d

The Hours and Candyman are on constant rotation for me. So perfect.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 6d

That movie has some GENUINELY scary scenes. The seance really messed me up.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 6d

It’s all for you!

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 6d

Totally in the realm of possibility!

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 6d

Once again pondering what scary movie to ambush my kid(s?) with this October … we always do a classic monster movie but I’d love to push the 12yo just a little more. He’s done Poltergeist and Jaws and Evil Dead II and Terminator (not horror but totally horror adjacent) …

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 7d

WHO did it, CNN? Actice voice, please.

CNN @cnn.com · 7d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 7d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 7d

I know the school I teach at my not be a great test case (private, in LA) but when I told the kids today that I’d seen One Battle After Another and loved it, MANY of them said they had also either just seen it or were seeing it this weekend. Seems like a good sign for the youth and for the movies!

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 7d

the best

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 7d

maybe part of it is that they know the youth are more susceptible to unnecessarily buying merch and to attending overpriced concerts at any cost?

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 8d

Got momentarily sad in the shower this morning thinking about how incredible Philip Seymour Hoffman would have been as a member of the Christmas Adventurers Club

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 8d

Finally saw ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Holy shit what a
MOTION PICTURE.

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 9d

Postseason Kiké is not disappointing!! Also I absolutely love that Halloween season and baseball postseason happen at the same time, it’s all of my favorite things

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