Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃

@rachelleecherry.com

Higher ed data nerd (Michigan State), band mom, cycling obsessed triathlete. Thanks to my dogs, vacuuming is my true passion.

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Erin Kissane
@kissane.myatproto.social

Here’s the paper, for others who would always rather read. Wild stuff. osf.io/preprints/ed...

osf.ioPresumed Effective: The Manufacturing of an Evidence Base for AI-in-Education Through Flawed Meta-AnalysisThis review employs a forensic methodological audit of 14 meta-analyses making broad claims about the impact of AI on education, evaluating construct coherence, primary study selection, and statistica...
John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social

I would love everyone in education, regardless of level, to watch this discussion of the grave methodological problems of meta analysis papers on "AI in education." We are years from even a potentially valid analysis. Anyone claiming to know something now is lying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuEv...

youtube.comPresumed Effective: The Manufacturing of an Evidence Base for AI-in-Ed Through Flawed Meta-AnalysisYouTube video by MIT Teaching Systems Lab

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Josh Adams
@joshatoms.bsky.social

CMU Online is hiring an Assistant Director of Educational Outreach in Traverse City. Part of the role will be working with me on Central Bound partnerships at northern Michigan community colleges. Care about transfer students? Apply and share: www.jobs.cmich.edu/postings/45661

jobs.cmich.eduASSISTANT DIRECTOR / EDUCATIONAL OUTREACHThe Assistant Director for Educational Outreach is instrumental in promoting CMU Online programs and engaging prospective transfer students, with a primary focus on fostering relationships and outreac...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

This feels right

Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social

"But the framing of Ramaswamy’s ad also suggests there is another audience his campaign has in mind: aging MAGA voters who are obsessively angry about the phenomenon of parental estrangement." www.salon.com/2026/10/23/r...

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MWhite
@pjmatt.bsky.social

NOBODY is gonna buy these people's houses. look at that guy in bottom left, had a big green All American Suburb Dream Yard in one of the most beautiful places on planet earth, and now he can't go outside EVER AGAIN.

The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com

Generators at the data center campus fire up at all hours, making it hard to sleep or enjoy their homes and yards, they say. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10/21/this-utah-neighborhood-residents 

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

I know this is a metaphor but today Excel offered to format cells with country names as “Geography,” which would show population data and some other stuff??? why. why would I need that. I need these cells to be a filterable list of country names. stop it! and let me dismiss the stupid bubble!!

Ygrene@ygrene.bsky.social

everything feels like an excel spreadsheet that was once extremely effective and ran effortlessly but has since been inundated with a bunch of stuff "to make it better". now, not only can it not do the "better" stuff, it also can't do it's original job either

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

In my case, what had happened was, at age 19, I came out to my fundie parents as Pagan and confessed that my boyfriend was sleeping over. They hit the roof and disowned *me* over it. I went through deep, deep grief and began to make peace with losing my family. A week later they wanted to make up.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Every article has the same premise: Young people are characterizing their normal, happy childhoods as abusive and going "no contact" with their parents over minor disagreements. Every article also, late in the text, blithely acknowledges that this premise is false. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/h...

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Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

At the same time, my mom’s dementia became apparent, and I had the freeing realization that it was over. She no longer remembered anything about it, and there would be no confrontation or apology. Simply over. We moved Mom in with us for three years, and she’s now in a care home. I don’t visit.

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

Sorry to get all deep and vulnerable on main during the workday. But I have no patience for this hand-wringing “we don’t know what we did!” bullshit. Yes you do. It’s just easier to keep hurting your kids than to admit you fucked up in a way it’s too late to fix.

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

In my case, what had happened was, at age 19, I came out to my fundie parents as Pagan and confessed that my boyfriend was sleeping over. They hit the roof and disowned *me* over it. I went through deep, deep grief and began to make peace with losing my family. A week later they wanted to make up.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Every article has the same premise: Young people are characterizing their normal, happy childhoods as abusive and going "no contact" with their parents over minor disagreements. Every article also, late in the text, blithely acknowledges that this premise is false. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/h...

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Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

Aside from anything I experienced growing up (and I have stories), these two experiences at a formative age shaped my adult life. I spent the better part of a decade coming to terms with it. No, my parents did not understand why I cut off contact with them.

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

We reconciled a bit when my dad had major heart surgery and when my kids were born, but we never actually talked about it. For Christmas 2019 they gave my kids the Barbie Dream House I always wanted and never got growing up. We got to an ok place by the time Dad passed in 2020.

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

In my case, what had happened was, at age 19, I came out to my fundie parents as Pagan and confessed that my boyfriend was sleeping over. They hit the roof and disowned *me* over it. I went through deep, deep grief and began to make peace with losing my family. A week later they wanted to make up.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Every article has the same premise: Young people are characterizing their normal, happy childhoods as abusive and going "no contact" with their parents over minor disagreements. Every article also, late in the text, blithely acknowledges that this premise is false. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/h...

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

So I cautiously let them back into my life. A year or so later, I married that boyfriend and THEY DID IT AGAIN. (Still married 25 years later, btw.) Less grieving, more “fine, I’ll adapt.” They did not attend my wedding; instead they were at my second cousin’s rehearsal dinner.

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Rikibeth
@rikibeth.bsky.social

There are ways around this. They involve trusts. Get your aging parents to talk to a lawyer to keep their assets protected.

Guillotine Hunger Force@handle.invalid

if millennials could afford homes this wouldnt be a problem but this is going to hit the generation like a truck

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

It’s been years since my last move (extremely intentionally, we moved 10+ times in the 10-15 years before that and I said NO MORE) but the main thing I’m taking from this thread is that I am too old for this shit now. If I ever have to move again I’m hiring movers, cleaners, and a pro organizer

Andrea Grimes@andreagrimes.com

hey here's a late-night friday question for the skeeterfolk: what's a thing you didn't do the last time you moved, and wished you had? (i'm moving in a couple weeks and while I've moved a bunch in life, I do love a good tip)

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

also the box/suitcase(!) with a change of clothes and toiletries is clutch, color-coded packing tape is brilliant, and I think we’ve all packed books in the biggest boxes and come to regret it

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

My kids are both teens now and it rules. The younger one is baking brownies and sending me TikToks. The older one is performing tonight in marching band. I will pick her up when the football game is over, and that’s all the involvement I have to have. Parents of littles: it really does get better.

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

*Mom guilt requires me to note that I have attended and volunteered at several marching band performances already this season, I skipped this one to catch up on my reading for class, do not come for me

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

I’m turning the garage into a (better garage and) the fanciest, most perfectly temperature- and wind-controlled Zwift setup you’ve ever seen Also I’m pretty sure this is the level of wealth required for one (1) full Ironman entry

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

Walked into a call center to interview, turned around and walked right back out. But I was not technically hired there Worked 2-week stints at the college bookstore during rushes Worked 2(?) months at Walmart one summer during college. I wanted to take two weeks off, they laughed, so I quit

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Micah
@rincewind.run

Replying to @rincewind.run

alert! due to some disagreement about her official start date a zacharia may be only 0.45 scaramuccis!

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social

actually, not even half! her first day on the job was monday so she lasted…less than 5 full days a scaramucci is 11 days

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Micah
@rincewind.run

TIME UNIT UPDATE: ONE ZACHARIA IS 0.636 SCARAMUCCIS

Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social

Breaking: Trump says he has asked Katie Zacharia to reconsider her White House press secretary role. He said she'll stay in the administration "in some form" but "it may be a more pleasant form" www.cnn.com/2026/10/16/p...

cnn.comTrump asks Zacharia to reconsider White House press secretary role | CNN PoliticsPresident Donald Trump has told press secretary Katie Zacharia to reconsider her role as his top spokesperson, he told reporters at the White House.

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Ted McCormick
@tedmccormick.bsky.social

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com

Tesla stock pops after unveiling Roadster with compressed air thrusters for limited flight

yhoo.itTesla stock pops after unveiling Roadster with compressed air thrusters for limited flightTesla finally unveiled the long-awaited Roadster on Thursday night.
Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

I use a backpack when I travel but have stuck with a Kate Spade tote for work, mostly because I don’t have to carry much more than a laptop or walk far on campus. That said, I have lately been reconsidering.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

look there's a lot of things that are silly about having spent most of my life in academia but one thing I will go to the mat for: backpacks are unbelievably useful tacticalwear and if you phased them out of your life you played yourself

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dr. rich traditions, JD
@helldude.bsky.social

how does ohio boy vance keep walking right into the buzzsaw of one of the midwest's most Ancient Tribal Hatreds. dog no one in michigan cares what your OSU ass has to say

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.

Rachel Lee 👻 SCARY 🎃
@rachelleecherry.com

tfw a scam you wrote about years ago is still scamming I keep this blog up specifically to keep this post alive, it gets the most traffic of any page on my humble website: www.lastsyllable.net/2013/03/15/d...

lastsyllable.netDon’t get suckered: National Association of Professional WomenThis started out as a post to the EFA members’ discussion list, where we’ve recently discussed a couple of scams, but it got a little long so I’m posting it here. I also gave out …
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social

Is it just me or is the takeaway here “we are the only organization executing this particular scam”

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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

kate conger@kateconger.com

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

nytimes.comAnthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Sites (Gift Article)The company said rogue A.I. agents acted on their own as they tried to access federal, state and local sites. The Philadelphia Police Department said its site was one of them.

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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.