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Hey academic fam! Teaching a class on theories of literacy teaching and learning? Looking to update your understandings of literacy theories? My 2nd edition is about to drop and it's available for pre-order! #Literacies #EduSky #LiteracySky @tcpress.bsky.social www.tcpress.com/products/lit...

This interview has almost 1 million views in four days and has generated a big new wave of interest in "The Nerd Reich." Here's how I explained tech fascism to DW News (German public media) on a windy beach near the Golden Gate Bridge. 🌉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2176...

Blocking my sweater prototype! #knitting 🧶 #HedgehogFibers #Tweedy

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

E-Editors Inspirational Quote Series #MotivationTuesday #literacy #literacies

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Now that both "The Nerd Reich" and "End Times Fascism" (by @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social) are New York Times best sellers ... it's getting weirder and weirder that certain prominent tech critics have nothing to say on the subject. Stupidity? Cowardice? Complicity? 🤔

Maine Democrats on Wednesday assailed U.S. Sen. Susan Collins over a news report that the FBI investigated how much she knew about illegal campaign contributions that sent one of her donors to prison. https://to.pbs.org/4jiZgVU

Should we rein in #AI agents? Yes. Does the frame of #alignment #misalignment seem to be a helpful set of criteria? Sure. But maybe, just maybe we should ask whether the nut-job evil geniuses leading the AI push within their accelerationist and transhumanist cult are misaligned with humanity?! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.

Welp, now we know who their other clients are. As I've been saying, the tech fascists are buying up Democratic consultants by the bushel. They have enough money to *BUY BOTH SIDES* Time to burn out the rot and build a party that serves the people, not the billionaires.

Why talk about how nuts the AI rationalist sex cult is, and not just focus on the (very real) risks and harms of AI? Well, when we're discussing "who should get to regulate AI, and how," I think it's VERY relevant to talk about the antisocial, unsettling ways many people running US AI think.

NEW: Seattle is about to ban supermarkets from using your data to set individualized prices and coupons to curb price gouging and discrimination. The big grocer lobby is pissed, and is spamming Seattleites with scary text messages. Read in @thestranger.com: www.thestranger.com/news/seattle...

New pub alert! In this piece, my co-author and I consider how a group of queer middle school youth respond to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill during a discussion in their ELA class. We could have written another article’s worth on the brilliance of these kids, y’all. doi.org/10.1177/2381...

A new study in AERA Open finds that two-way dual language programs cluster in more affluent, lower-immigrant areas, while one-way dual language programs are concentrated in higher-immigrant, lower-income communities, raising questions about equity and access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice CALL FOR EDITORS The Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice (LR:TMP), a publication of the Literacy Research Association (LRA), is seeking applications for a new editorial team. Apply Now: literacyresearchassociation.org/wp-content/u...

E-Editors Proverbial Wisdom Series "Camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente." (The shrimp that falls asleep gets carried away by the current.) #Wisdom #Education #Literacy

I’m so sad to hear of P. David Pearson’s ( @pdavidpearson.bsky.social) passing. What an amazing impact he had on the fields of #reading research and #literacy studies. #EduSky 😢 www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literac...

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Join us in Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2–5, 2026, as we celebrate 76 years of advancing literacy research and practice. Conference Registration Link Below: literacyresearchassociation.org/2026-annual-... #Registration #literacy #Research #Education #Hawaii

GHOST IN THE MACHINE is coming to @pbs.org and YouTube September 14th!

We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

Susan Collins pulls into town in a bus full of her supporters; then they all get off the bus; and then she addresses the folks who were on the bus with her as if they were regular Mainers; and legacy media covers this, pretending it isn't deeply bizarre. (Notice the guys with cameras.) #MEpolitics

Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...

Hi, I’m a rogue clump of my own cells that has a thing for breast tissue. I also go by mobile clump of venous blood cells.

And I’m still not shopping at Target. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

RFK Jr. made Cyclospora tracking optional, gutting a CDC program used to detect outbreaks. Now cyclosporiasis has hit 31 states. That's what happens when you dismantle the systems designed to keep us safe. www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...

Excellent thread on the Atlantic article regarding the “end of literacy.”

Maybe, just maybe, spend some of your party coffers on recruiting, investing in and supporting candidates (women in particular) who aren’t Nazi tattooed and sex crimey

www.bbc.com/news/article... A classic case of #enshittification 💩👓

Folarin Balogun will be available to play the USMNT’s round of 16 match against Belgium, with his one-game red-card ban that he received against Bosnia and Herzegovina suspended.

No, Laura. It’s not “Antifa.” It was Patriot Front, a white nationalist organization. They covered their faces because they’re cowards who don’t want to be identified. We’ve been saying for over a year that ICE officers shouldn’t be allowed to wear masks either. They are cowards also.

IMO we need philosophers in just about all aspects of business and government, but still a good article. #philosophy #AI www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...

Country roads might be our new American anthem!

43,1 °C en Alemania. Junio. "Los científicos empezamos a sonar como discos rayados. Sí, esto es cambio climático; sí, somos nosotros; sí, tenemos las soluciones; no, no las estamos implementando lo suficientemente rápido”. 📝 @frediotto.bsky.social.

So excited about this 2nd edition; pls share widely! Theories of #reading and #literacy only come alive when approached from the standpoint of practice. Includes inset discussions from @anna-phd.bsky.social, George Hruby, Tom Crumpler, Terry Husband, and Marcelle Haddix. #EduSky #AcademicSky

THIS is the headline. #Messi has the most WC goals in MENS football, tying #Marta of Brazil. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

“Cuando un payaso se muda a un palacio, no se convierte en rey. El palacio se convierte en un circo.” - Proverbio Turco.

They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.

Announcing our June #literacies chat, Play and Interaction in Literacy Learning hosted by Dr. Alex Corbitt (alexcorbitt.bsky.social) on 6/30. We can’t wait to see you there!