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Autumm
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Is a liminal space

Just a protean girl living in an immutable world. You know what they say: The more something changes...

She/They

Higher ed: instructional design, edtech, faculty dev, digital citizenship, etc.

Always kind and sometimes nice
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linkletter.org
I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back!

linkletter.org/update-33-th...
Update #33: The lawsuit is over! | Stand Against Proctorio's SLAPP!
linkletter.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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modernistwitch.myatproto.social
just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters
estibass.com esti @estibass.com · Jun 25
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
Zohran standing amidst a crowd in winter clothing
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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teamcanadaforever.bsky.social
When the ICE agent is Canadian… 🇨🇦

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
October 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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ypsilibrary.org
WE'RE FREAKING OUT! 🌈💫
Screenshot of a tweet from Jonathan Edward Durham (@thisone0verhere) that reads "Attention! This is not a drill! Reading rainbow is coming back! And Mychal the librarian is hosting! Happy day!" The tweet includes a quoted post from Mychal Threets announcing that after nearly 20 years, Reading Rainbow is returning with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and new books, encouraging people to follow the rainbow with book and rainbow emojis.
October 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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koutropoulos.bsky.social
While browsing a particular social network, I saw an announcement for a cfp whereby AI will be the first author with humans being second authors. It will be over reviewed, but the AI will be take first stab at review and if it passes it goes to human reviewers.
1/2
October 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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smtuffy.bsky.social
The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny
October 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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leaton01.bsky.social
if you want to understand what's going on in higher ed with the current administration, I think this provides some useful & insightful framing: youtu.be/FQwhGOhZRyE?...
What Trump is Doing to Universities
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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August 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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thetattooedprof.bsky.social
This is Kafka-esque
Evans' arrest touched off a dispute between Old Orchard Beach officials and ICE. Police Chief Elise Chard has said the department was notified by federal officials that Evans was legally permitted to work in the country, and that the town submitted information via the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify program prior to Evans’ employment. Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin then accused the town of “reckless reliance” on the department's E-Verify program.
August 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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harmonygritz.bsky.social
They're gonna have to shut down the entire Department of Labor to improve these stats
August 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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civicsoftech.bsky.social
For the CoT blog, @autumm.org writes about the meaning of Open Education in a world of AI.

www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/from-ac...
From Access to Equity: Open Education in the Age of AI — Civics of Technology
Lots Happening at Civics of Tech! CONFERENCE! Our fourth virtual conference schedule is out! Head over to our conference page to preview the schedule and register for the conference. TEC...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
July 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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aaup.org
AAUP President Todd Wolfson’s statement on the forced resignation of University of Virginia President James Ryan:
Statement on the Departure of University of Virginia President James Ryan
The National AAUP stands with the University of Virginia Chapter of the AAUP, the Virginia AAUP Conference, and the University of Virginia Faculty Senate in condemning the Department of Justice’s assa...
www.aaup.org
July 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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civicsoftech.bsky.social
Today's blog: Natalie Milman investigates the erasure of the U.S. National Educational Technology Plans

www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/deleted...
Deleted by Design? The Politics of Erasing Educational Technology Access and History — Civics of Technology
Dr. Milman examines the politics of deleting ed tech research from government databases and offers actions to ensure we have access to the history of the field.
www.civicsoftechnology.org
July 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
I spent months on this video about people worshiping ChatGPT, please watch and leave a comment and share if you can!! My YouTube channel is still so small that I lose money making these videos rn 😭. Every little bit helps!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCy...
ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
www.youtube.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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propublica.org
1/ Elon Musk wanted Texas legislators to create new crimes so people who fly drones or interfere with operations at SpaceX can be arrested. And he wanted to change who controlled the highway and public beach near SpaceX’s site so he can launch his rockets according to his timeline.

He got them all.
Table titled "Bills Musk companies took a stand on during the 2025 Texas legislative session." It shows how 2 Texas House and 2 Texas Senate Bills that SpaceX supported all passed. These bills urge Congress to make spaceports eligible for tax-exempt private activity bonds, ban/criminalize drones over spaceports, give the Texas Space Commission power to close highways/gulf beaches near SpaceX's launch site, and define spaceports as critical infrastructure. At the bottom of the graphic are the logos of ProPublica, Texas Tribune, and KUT News.
July 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
McMorrow: What Trump has done is weaponize us against each other, when everybody needs hospitals, good schools, and health care.

It has become this battle for scarcity, when we’re the wealthiest country in the world. We should not be fighting each other for our basic needs.
July 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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mlobelart.bsky.social
One of my favorite works by Frida Kahlo is one of her least well known: this image of a red, white & blue window display made during her visit to Detroit in 1932. I take this mysterious work as a critique of patriotic imagery, the foreground elements juxtaposed with the empty, abandoned space behind
Painting of a window display, with American patriotic elements including image of George Washington and eagle, in front of empty space behind them
July 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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elnorterecuerda.bsky.social
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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charlottegarden.bsky.social
According to this article, Penn also agreed to ban trans women from competing in women's sports programs at all, and from using women's locker rooms. Just shameful.
daveweigel.bsky.social Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Jul 1
Penn cut a deal with Trump, will scrub Lia Thomas's record: "UPenn will restore to female athletes all individual UPenn Division I swimming records, titles, or similar recognitions which were misappropriated by male athletes allowed to compete in female categories." www.foxnews.com/sports/upenn...
UPenn agrees to follow Trump's mandate on protecting women's sports, Education Department says
The Trump administration secured a UPenn agreement to protect women's sports, requiring biology-based definitions and record restoration.
www.foxnews.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Many students realize that “AI” use in academia leads to deskilling. Here is some of what they say themselves: www.voxweb.nl/en/they-are-...
They are not using AI: 'Avoiding it is actually really easy' - Vox magazine
It’s not easy for students or scientists to completely avoid AI. Some still try. They worry about AI’s energy consumption or have ethical concerns. ‘I want to communicate with real people.’
www.voxweb.nl
June 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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warren.senate.gov
BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.

No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
June 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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esqueer.net
Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.
June 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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linkletter.org
The Markup analyzed millions of dollars worth of Turnitin purchases and asked teachers: is it worth it? themarkup.org/artificial-i...
California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – The Markup
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.
themarkup.org
June 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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charleswlogan.bsky.social
Tomorrow begins Exploring the Ethics of AI, a three-day professional development that I'm leading for local teachers. We'll be grounding our learning about and against AI with a little history :)
A slide with the title "A very brief history of AI and educational technology". The year 1956 appears in the upper-right corner. Below the year is a screenshot of the proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. Next to the screenshot proposal is a photograph of seven white men who helped organize the conference. Below the photograph is an excerpt from the proposal that reads, "Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it." A slide titled "A very brief history of AI and educational technology". The year 1985 is in the upper-left corner. Below the year are the words, "Joseph Weizenbaum's interview in The Tech". On the slide's right side is an excerpt from Weizenbaum's interview. A slide with the title "A very brifef history of AI and educational technology". The slide has four images of books. The books are: "Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom" by Larry Cuban; "The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child" by Morgan G. Ames"; "Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education" by Justin Reich"; and "Access Is Capture: How EdTech Reproduces Racial Inequality" by Roderic Crooks. Beneath the book covers is a quote from Roderic Crooks that reads, "Part of what makes access to technology so appealing is that it offers a way to address inequality among minoritized peoples without having to identify or name the racism and structural oppression that shape the life chances of all people." A slide titled "A very brief history of AI and educational technology". The year 2024 appears in the top-left corner. Beneath the year are the words "Tech bros come for education (again)". In the slide's center is a screenshot of the book "Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)" by Salman Khan. On the slide's right side is a tweet by Palmer Luckey that raeds, "What will happen in broader academia when clear scientific consensus is that AI-assisted education delivers better outcomes than 3.8M teachers currently do?". The tweet is retweeted by Elon Musk with the words, "That is already possible."
June 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
WAYNE, Mich. (AP) — Michigan police chief says church staff stopped man armed with handgun and long gun, averting a potential mass shooting.
June 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM