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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Melissa Reynolds @melkatrey.bsky.social · 17h

I just keep coming back to this, the most obvious lacunae in every conversation about “incorporating AI” into our classrooms: no one—literally NO ONE—can explain how it improves the work of learning & knowledge-making. There is, in fact, overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

This whole thread.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 15h

This is fantastic -- thank you!

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 16h

@mcsardo.bsky.social and I were just talking about developing a classroom activity where students are given the profile of a migrant or would-be migrant and asked to figure out what their path to legal status would look like, how much it would cost, and whether it would even be possible.

Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 17h

Neither Democrats nor Republicans grasp how needlessly difficult the current legal process is even for the supposedly simplest, uncontested case of spousal immigration.

Once people learn it takes years and thousands of dollars, they're far more open to easing the process.

doi.org/10.1017/XPS....

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 17h

It's just so beautiful when the invisible hand of unregulated markets efficiently allocates capital in socially beneficial directions like innovating a revolutionary new product: the ✨ protection racket ✨

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 17h

Extremely cool that the FCC's total disinterest in enforcing and strengthening consumer protection and data privacy has not only unleashed a new influx of spammy robocalls but also created a new niche for equally scammy firms to capitalize on this by promising to "erase" your data.

Ad for a service that claims to erase your data using the recent increase in robocalls as a hook

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1d

Parsing the Prop 33/Prop 34 "revenge" rent control/health care spending ballot initiative rabbit hole last election took up like two entire hours of my life. I tried to explain it to my grad students (for some reason) and they looked at me like I was insane.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 2d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.” ⚓️

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1d

As does a California ballot with one box. Usually filling one of these out involves four separate voter guides, the California Secretary of State's election information booklet, and a laptop to Google the positions of obscure local water district supervisor candidates.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1d

Vote by mail rules 🗳️📬

Ballot return envelope for California's redistricting special election

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1d

Vedauwoo

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1d

Tragedy

Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1d

I can't explain it, but every time I read or write "narrow bank," I am reminded of when my then 2yo came home from daycare announcing she had got to pet a "skinny pig."

A Guinea pig?
No, she insisted, a skinny pig.
What did it look like?
Long, skinny, furry.

Eventually determined it was a ferret.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1d

This seems straightforwardly correct, with the proviso that while choosing two means you can't have the third, foregoing one does not automatically get you the other two. One can absolutely build a financial system that encompasses credit rationing/bailouts/financial crises simultaneously.

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

Up at Alphaville, I look at the constant expansion of the regulatory perimeter and present a new "notebook trilemma" www.ft.com/content/7c3a...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

reminded of this old CLJ article:

churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the...

The Advent Logic of Class Treason

Travis Lacy celebrates the theological legacy of Johann Baptist Metz.

churchlifejournal.nd.edu

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1d

@wired.com's reporting on technology and politics has been so good that I took out a paid subscription, but their relentless advertising for Amazon and hyping of Prime "deals" undermines their journalistic credibility considerably.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 5d

michael?
peter.

Page from fox in socks by dr seuss. Drawing of weird little four legged bugs with faces.
Text reads:
What do you know about tweetle beetles?
Well
When tweetle beetles fight, it's called
a tweetle beetle battle.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 2d

If you (normal person) have heard of them, it was probably as a vocab term you memorized for a test in 9th grade Civics and then promptly forgot, and now that they're central to our descent into authoritarianism, you're not getting a lot of clues from the terms themselves.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 2d

It's certainly not the biggest problem and I don't have a ready solution, but I don't think it *helps* our current state of affairs that suddenly acutely relevant terms like "due process" and "habeas petition" are so unevocative of what they refer to.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 2d

Truly impressive efficiency gains from AI! It's really inspiring to see so much human labor freed up for valuable and productive ends 😇

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

As companies increasingly turn to A.I. to sift through thousands of job applications, candidates are concealing instructions for chatbots within their résumés in hopes of moving to the top of the pile. The tactic has become so common that companies are updating their software to catch it.

Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Are Trying to Trick It.

In an escalating cat-and-mouse game, job hunters are trying to fool A.I. into moving their applications to the top of the pile with embedded instructions.

nyti.ms

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