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Lori
@lorojoro.bsky.social
Building worlds in code, classrooms & quiet resistance.

Educator 🧑🏻‍🏫 Researcher 👩‍💻 Graphic Designer 🎨
Endlessly Curious 🤯 Baby Programmer ⌨️
Writer ✍🏻 Musician 🎹 Video Gamer 🎮 Board Gamer 🎲
Good food matters 🥘🥖☕🍫 Lover of Banned Books 📖
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Forgot I had posted this to my research blog (where I sometimes remember to put notes as I read articles in my field of leadership and organizational theory). Good one on #teaching

#edchat
so ... legal Micky / Minnie realistic porn in .... 3.... 2..... 1.....?

How else is this going to end? lol
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users

(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
yeah....
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Alternating between doomscrolling and playing The Outer Worlds 2 to hide from it all.

What's your coping strategy for today?
November 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Been thinking about this piece for a whole week

medium.com/@carmitage/i...
We live in a fascist nation. What now?
Once they win elections, it’s already too late.
medium.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I think about this nearly every day. We saw a better world, in many ways, and then threw it in the trash because money.

It's why I loved NK Jemisin's award-winning novella, Emergency Skin (2019) - it'll ruin the story if I tell you why.
Give it a read.
Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?
October 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@sarahpinsker.bsky.social I didn't realize you were on Bluesky till just now when I replied (too much) to your horror thread. :)

I LOVE "Wind Will Rove" - I recommend it to people all the time, especially teachers and musicians. ♥️

I read A Song for A New Day in 2020 just before Covid hit.
🤯🤯🤯
October 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Halloween 2002.
Our neighbor/coworker knocks on the door. He's playing this game called "Halo" on his XBox and he doesn't want to play the scary bits by himself. Would we come down and play co-op?

😂Helps to know this man is 6'4" and 350 lbs.

The "meet the Flood" level changed me forever. 😱😨🙀
October 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Someone in an employee chat asked about favorite horror games so I've been walking memory lane a bit.

I don't play many straight-up horror games, but I would list
* Dead Space 1 - my personal scariest game
* Bioshock - still holds up
* SOMA (I need to finish it)

Saw someone play Amnesia - scary!
October 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Good gem I found in my Freire folder:
October 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Reposted by Lori
The arts are empowering, that is why they try to remove them.
October 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I think AI and classrooms are going to be a tough mix.

Any teachers out there in my feed? How's it feeling right now re: AI in your educational spaces?

medium.com/cross-cut-in...
Plug In, Drop Out: AI and the Collapse of Learning
Generative AI promises innovation, but in classrooms it’s short-circuiting learning and accelerating disengagement.
medium.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Super excited to see this new deck builder is designed by James Portnow (creator of Extra Credits on YouTube)

Cyberpunk Legends: Into the Night
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cyb...
Cyberpunk Legends: Into the Night
Return to the world of Cyberpunk, discover the history of Night City in this strategic story driven co-op card game.
www.kickstarter.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Reposted by Lori
We The People!!
✊🏽 ✊🏻 ✊🏿 ✊🏾
October 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Many Young Adults Barely Literate, Yet Earned a High School Diploma

25% functional illiteracy among 18-24yo. Holy wow that’s bad

www.the74million.org/article/many...
Many Young Adults Barely Literate, Yet Earned a High School Diploma
Functionally illiterate high school graduates may have been passed through the school system without gaining needed skills.
www.the74million.org
October 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Curious if MAGA knows that "God Bless America" was written by someone not born in America who arrived here without any authorization whatsoever and yet, through the woke policies of the time, was allowed to stay and to become a naturalized citizen. So very "open borders."
October 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is super really bad. If you had to provide age verification docs to Discord, you really need to read this.

Also this is evidence that requiring uploads of age verification data in order to access adult content is only going to get people’s government IDs posted by hackers. Not good. +
New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
You’re gonna need to use Reader mode or an ad blocker to make this site palatable, but holy hell is this dystopian.

I think I’m done with internet for today.

futurism.com/artificial-i...
Lazy Parents Are Giving Their Toddlers ChatGPT on Voice Mode to Keep Them Entertained for Hours
Children are easily enamored by ChatGPT and other AI chatbots that can keep a conversation going, many parents are discovering.
futurism.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I had the most incredible convo with one of my students yesterday evening (he is a high school history teacher) and those individual moments of hope shine very brightly in the darkness of US decline.

He's seen huge engagement among his students by organizing history content around themes +
October 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Latest from me - I think we are not in a good place within education (in the US at least) for AI to show up and do its massive disruptive thing.

(If you aren't a Medium member, I always post the gift link right below my subtitle and keywords.)

medium.com/cross-cut-in...
Plug In, Drop Out: AI and the Collapse of Learning
Generative AI promises innovation, but in classrooms it’s short-circuiting learning and accelerating disengagement.
medium.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Breaking from @karinfischer.bsky.social @chronicle.com: A federal judge hands the AAUP a major victory in a lawsuit against the Trump administration, calling the case “perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court.” #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Students and Scholars Faced Deportation for Pro-Palestinian Activism. A Judge Says That Was Illegal.
Judge William G. Young ruled that international students and other noncitizens “unequivocally” have the same free-speech rights as Americans.
www.chronicle.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Is it just me, or are adults asking you really really basic questions all the time? Stuff they would know if they thought for 2 seconds or bothered to check documentation?

Im not going to enjoy life in the coming world where everyone is functionally illiterate and no one learns anything.
September 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Um what?
It’s patriotic not to update your home or buy new furniture? Make it make sense.
Trump: ‘We will be imposing a 50% Tariff on all Kitchen Cabinets, Bathroom Vanities, and associated products, starting October 1st, 2025. Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture. The reason for this is the large scale “FLOODING” of these products
September 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Current admin is just living America’s ugly racist personality to its fullest in front of us. The rot goes deep and has never been addressed.
Stop being shocked and start calling all of this what it is: authoritarianism as the handmaiden of US’s white supremacy and racism, usually in Jesus’ name.
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Need to read more Fanon
September 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM