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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 20h

ICYMI. The attack on US public schools -- on US schools -- has reached new levels.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 18h

"It's interesting that if you say the Constitution creates a separation of powers systems in which there are no kings, they think you hate America.” (David Noll)

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 10h

1) Incorporate LLM in your public school\
2) LLM is tweaked to avoid "liberal" bias of being pro-public school
3) LLM instructs students to withdraw from public school

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 16h

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 12h

www.bradenton.com/news/local/e...

‘Over my dead body.’ Manatee schools prepare to battle charter takeover plans

A Miami-based charter charter is looking to take advantage of Manatee County’s public school campuses for “co-location.”

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 14h

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Moms for Liberty CEO and Co-Founder Tina Descovich Verbally Attacks the Bucks County Beacon at Harrisburg-Area Event - Bucks County Beacon

Our crime? Journalism.

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 14h

Jersey Jazzman: Debunking David Brooks on Education jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/debu...

Debunking David Brooks on Education

Let's give Jack Ciattarelli a break for a bit and talk about NY Times columnist David Brooks (link to gifted article). When Democrats are ...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 14h

Rural lessons for resisting authoritarianism coloradonewsline.com/2025/10/10/r...

Rural lessons for resisting authoritarianism | Colorado Newsline

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster himself. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” After 20 years of organizin...

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Wendy Siegelman @wendysiegelman.bsky.social · 19h

I recently reported that Ex Cambridge Analytica exec Brittany Kaiser is now CEO of AlphaTON capital, a firm with multiple links to Russia

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AlphaTON's recent SEC filing shows a major investor is Yat Siu the founder of Hong Kong based gaming company Animoca

AlphaTON Capital list of Selling Shareholders from recent SEC filing (see link in the next post)

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼 @nancyflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

Writing problems are thinking problems. A major portion of thinking takes place before placing of words on page. To outsource that to a machine that doesn’t think is recipe for bad writing--worse, for product that cannot be used as assessmnt of the student curmudgucation.substack.com/p/no-ai-shou...

No, AI Should Not Write Your Outline

When folks go casting about for some use for AI in schools, the two items that frequently come up are brainstorming and outlining.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 1d

I find it bleak that ChatGPT now has more users than Wikipedia. Many people would rather be spoon-fed information by a machine than read and research for themselves. Tech isn't just making us dumber. Worse than that: it's killing curiosity itself and the desire to learn.

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Sybil Schwartzbach, LMT @greathands4you.bsky.social · 1d

"The opposite of love is not hatred,but indifference, and silence and inaction only benefit the oppressor."
~ Elie Wiesel
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d

Trump announces 1,000,000% tariff on inflatable frog suits.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Gene Bryant @genebryant.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump Education Department is facilitating movement of public school students to church schools, while pushing God on those who remain behind. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

www.propublica.org

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coopmike48 @coopmike48.bsky.social · 1d

No, AI Should Not Write Your Outline
open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...

No, AI Should Not Write Your Outline

When folks go casting about for some use for AI in schools, the two items that frequently come up are brainstorming and outlining.

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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the inconvenient success of Mississippi educationwars.substack.com/p/the-inconv...

The Inconvenient Success of Mississippi

It's not just education reform skeptics who are giving the Mississippi Miracle the side eye

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 1d

Should Students Get Help From AI, Or From Bob?
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Should Students Get Help From AI, Or From Bob?

There are a variety if “guides” out there to try to provide some sort of structure and sense to the question, “Should a student use AI on this assignment?” None of them are very useful.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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The 74 @the74.bsky.social · 1d

Matthew Lane, facing federal prison time for hacking the ed tech giant, was a real-world introvert and an online cybercrime attention-seeker www.the74million.org/article/the-...

PowerSchool Teen Hacker Was a ‘Sophisticated’ Cybercriminal, Prosecutors Say

Matthew Lane, facing federal prison time for hacking the ed tech giant, was a real-world introvert and an online cybercrime attention-seeker.

www.the74million.org

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