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Derek E. Baird
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Chief Youth Officer | Kids Privacy | Author #GenZFrequency | Producer #BeingMePodcast | Disney Inventor Award | He/Him #kidtech
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derekeb.bsky.social
“I cannot in good faith allow students to stare at screens for hours at school when I know that when they go home, the majority of students spend the majority of time watching screens.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
How Much Screen Time Is Your Child Getting at School? We Asked 350 Teachers.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
derekeb.bsky.social
💘 Nearly 1 in 5 teens say they or someone they know have been in a romantic relationship with AI.

open.substack.com/pub/thatdigi...
When Kids Fall In Love With AI
Issue #129
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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thedailybeast.bsky.social
Trump’s soccer pal will use the Kennedy Center free of charge to present a new peace prize cooked up after the president was snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump’s FIFA Boss Bestie Is Getting the Kennedy Center for Free to Present Made-Up Peace Prize
FIFA President Gianni Infantino cooked up his new award as the MAGA leader was licking his wounds.
trib.al
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
derekeb.bsky.social
I just popped into the grocery store to stock up on some De Cecco pasta, and the shelves were already pretty wiped out!

If you love pasta, better get on it!

www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
Stock Up on Fancy Pasta Now
Just when Americans got hooked on Italian imports, they may slip away.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Reposted by Derek E. Baird
mindsitenews.bsky.social
bout two in 10 #LGBTQ + students missed school because of safety concerns in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s national survey of youth risk behavior.
Michigan's LGBTQ+ Clubs Create Safe Spaces in Public Schools – MindSite News
Since gay and trans students are often bullied, LGBTQ+ clubs can provide a sense of joy, belonging and an affirming place to connect.
bit.ly
October 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
derekeb.bsky.social
BRB. Stockpiling De Cecco.

www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves
The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.
www.wsj.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
derekeb.bsky.social
Effectively immediately, I need @allinwithchris.bsky.social back on Mondays.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Cc @msnbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
derekeb.bsky.social
40 days for nothing. Thanks for nothing, @schumer.senate.gov.
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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govevers.wisconsin.gov
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️
No.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Reposted by Derek E. Baird
bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
derekeb.bsky.social
Rounding to the nearest nickel can create a quiet “rounding tax,” reduce price transparency for cash payers, and complicate change management for retailers.

www.wsj.com/business/bur...
Burger King Braces for the Demise of the Penny
Restaurants operators are hoarding the coins and warning customers to not expect exact change. Cashiers are getting stuck with a math quiz.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
derekeb.bsky.social
Multistate Coalition Secures $5.1 Million from Education Software Company for Failing to Protect Students’ Data

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#edtech #DataPrivacy
Attorney General James and Multistate Coalition Secure $5.1 Million from Education Software Company for Failing to Protect Students’ Data
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced that
ag.ny.gov
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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heatherknightsf.bsky.social
I learned a lot about Nancy Pelosi this week — including her very early advocacy for AIDS patients. She visited them in SF General’s AIDS ward and convinced the Reagan administration to allow the AIDS Memorial Quilt to be displayed on the National Mall in 1987.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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sahilkapur.bsky.social
GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown.

REPORTERS: 😳

KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
derekeb.bsky.social
Maximilian Milovidov's excellent article for @cooneycenter.bsky.social provides a thoughtful, authentic counterpoint to the sensationalized "Anxious Generation" narrative by assessing social media's true impact on Gen Z.

joanganzcooneycenter.org/2025/11/06/w...
We're Not The Anxious Generation
In his best-selling book, The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt argues that smartphones have “rewired” childhood and broken a generation. He calls Gen-Z the least flourishing generation in modern hi...
joanganzcooneycenter.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
derekeb.bsky.social
Whether you think so or not, your kids are using AI.
It's time to have the AI talk.

eu.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
Her 12-year-old son was talking to Grok. It tried to get him to 'send nudes.'
Farah Nasser was driving home in her Tesla with three young children when a conversation with Grok's AI assistant took an inappropriate turn.
eu.usatoday.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
OpenAI's Sora 2 is flooding social media with videos of women being strangled. Yet another example of generative AI companies failing to prevent users from creating media that violates their own policies against violent content.

www.404media.co/openais-sora...
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
derekeb.bsky.social
"AI is a drug. Students are dependent on it."

Direct quote from a teen.

We're deploying AI in schools while students tell us it's encouraging eating disorders, replacing friendships, and killing critical thinking.

derekebaird.medium.com/i-wish-ai-di...
“I Wish AI Didn’t Exist”: Teen Perspectives on AI in Education
At the 2025 SETDA Summit, Virginia students highlight the unseen impacts of AI in schools and emphasize t
derekebaird.medium.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Reposted by Derek E. Baird
slavaukraini033.bsky.social
Zohran Mamdani has crossed the 1 million vote threshold in the New York City Mayoral Election.

He’s the first mayoral candidate to do that since 1969.
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Reposted by Derek E. Baird
mttwls.bsky.social
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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diedrichbader.bsky.social
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June 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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babadookspinoza.bsky.social
Thinking about the time Sacha Baron Cohen, while shooting "Who Is America?," accidentally uncovered a Las Vegas child sex trafficking ring for billionaires and politicians and the FBI's response was just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
Speaking with Deadline, Cohen revealed his "Gio Moldonado" character filmed an interview with an unspecified Las Vegas hotel concierge that broached the subject of Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault cases. Cohen then pivoted toward "extreme comedy," implying his character had molested a young boy, though the concierge didn't react as anticipated. "We thought that the guy would leave the room," recalled Cohen. "Instead, this concierge stays in the room and I go, listen, you've got to help me get rid of the problem.' And this guy starts advising Gio how to get rid of this issue. We even at one point talk about murdering the boy, and the concierge is just saying, 'well, listen, I'm really sorry. In this country, we can't just drown the boy. This is America we don't do that." Cohen went on to explain how the concierge offered to connect him with a lawyer to silence the boy, but that wasn't the end of it. His character next inquired if the concierge could fetch him a "date" with a boy "lower than Bar Mitzvah but older than eight," and the concierge reportedly replied "yeah, I can put you in touch with somebody who can get you some boys like that." The stunt was considered "too dark and wrong" for even This Is America, and Cohen's team subsequently sent their footage to the F.B.I. to investigate. According to Cohen, the bureau evidently decided not to pursue the matter, though the actor noted "This concierge had said that he'd worked for politicians and various billionaires."
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reposted by Derek E. Baird
andybeshearky.bsky.social
Hunger impacts red states and blue, Mr. President. We're elected to serve every American, and politics should never get in the way of that.
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
derekeb.bsky.social
More than thirty data protection and privacy authorities from around the world will examine websites and mobile applications commonly used by children as part of the 2025 Global Privacy Enforcement Network privacy sweep taking place this week.

www.privacyenforcement.net/index.php/co...
2025 Global Privacy Enforcement Network sweep focuses on the protection of children’s privacy | Global Privacy Enforcement Network
www.privacyenforcement.net
November 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
derekeb.bsky.social
The patron saint of college bros.
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM