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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 2h

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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social · 6h

🎉 Happy Book Birthday to @meganclendenan.bsky.social!🎉

📚 JUST IN CASE, illustrated by @cicchese-art.bsky.social, published by @charlesbridge.bsky.social, is here! 📖✨

Find it here: buff.ly/wokPQHw

#kidlit #12x12PB

Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 3h

taxpayer funded experiment on our children without any informed consent

Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · 10h

“A recent report from the Center for Democracy and Technology found four main risks that increase as schools adopt AI more widely: cyber attacks, bullying, technology malfunctions and troubling interactions with chatbots.”

CDT: Growing AI Use in Schools Brings Benefits and New Risks

A recent report from the Center for Democracy and Technology found four main risks that increase as schools adopt AI more widely: cyber attacks, bullying, technology malfunctions and troubling interactions with chatbots.

www.govtech.com

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 5h

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John Schu @mrschureads.bsky.social · 6h

Happy book birthday to @isabellakung.bsky.social's Nunu and the Sea!

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 5h

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lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 10h

it’s that time of year again 🍂🍃

four simplistic drawings of a fluffy white dog rolling around in red, yellow, and orange leaves while exclaiming “leaf, leaf”

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 7h

This is where I wish the freaking ethics codes would hold up in our professions.

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 7h

leave it to me to leave out the most important word in the sentence

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 7h

**doesn't necessarily bare out

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 8h

“Copyright growing pains” is one hell of a euphemism for the biggest IP theft in history

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 7h

Anytime there is a X is universal, I'm usually thinking it's a convenient narrative for the person saying it and that it necessarily bares out across time, place, & different cultural groups.

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 8h

I think Dunbar's number is just too media-friendly a concept. Reduces complexity.

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 8h

That's terrifying

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 13h

Look what NM is doing. Childcare workers should be paid living wages. This should be an investment for the entire community, like public schools. Note: The governor is a woman (therefore more likely to be aware of how much of an issue childcare is)

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 13h

What?!

And this is orders of magnitude more complicated if you have a nonspeaking child as both my kids were when they were preschool aged.

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 14h

It's really stressful as a working parent when a) there isn't a lot of childcare available & b) you're not certain of the quality. My kid was bit by a dog at their first childcare (later another child was hurt much worse. I don't think there were consequence.) The second place was wonderful.

The Maine Monitor @themainemonitor.org · 14h

Between January 2021 and July 2024, #Maine cited 60 child care providers for failing to tell the state or parents within the required timeframe — or at all — about a range of violations, including rough handling, unsupervised children and cruel discipline, according to reports. Read for free below:

Some Maine daycares stay quiet about abuse and neglect

Two cases show the difficulty of holding daycares accountable when they are responsible for reporting themselves.

themainemonitor.org

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 17h

It doesn't mask the scent at all... it just makes it grosser somehow.

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 17h

The juxtaposition of artifical (or not) flowers or sweet food smells with rank trash smell is 1000000x worse.

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 1d

"Just freaking let go! Argh."

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 1d

"Stop using the force spiky thing!"

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 1d

yikes!

Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 1d

In 2013 with Shelby County v. Holder -- I was pissed off about this and students were like, "what's going on?" and then I realize how not in their world the particulars of the Voting Right Act are... too taken for granted, like all other rights.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 1d

In my head the fish are saying, "What the hell is with this urchin!"

Great Southern Reef Foundation @greatsouthernreef.bsky.social · 1d

In Jess Nguyen’s urchin tethering study, one striking result was the effect of predator diversity.

“Finding that reefs with more predator species had faster urchin predation really showed the importance of predator diversity, not just abundance”

Learn more: greatsouthernreef.com/urchin-preda...

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 1d

I still don't understand scented garbage bags. Why is that a thing?

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 1d

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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 1d

🪶 In the Ojibwe language, the word for chickadee is gijigijigaaneshiinh. To hear it pronounced (it sounds really cool) visit ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/m...

Photo of a Black-capped Chickadee by Chad Hordewel. A speech bubble from the bird's mouth says "Hi, I'm gijigijigaaneshiinh"

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 1d

The Party is in PDX today. Naked Bikers and all.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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Meghan Wilson Duff @mwduff.bsky.social · 1d

"A vehicle and rescue line beats a blob every time."