@drjdo.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, digital divide, media literacy, thriving with Dystonia and EDS
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Well-written and informative. To sum-AI does not belong in educational spaces.
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Well-written and informative. To sum-AI does not belong in educational spaces.
Meghan Kelly/ R Kelly…
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Meghan Kelly/ R Kelly…
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The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
But sure-let’s just keep forcing into school curriculum.
the most popular smartphone maker in history literally had to stop using "AI" because it would constantly just make things up and had zero contextual "understanding" of what it was doing
October 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
But sure-let’s just keep forcing into school curriculum.
October 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Why would @nbcnews.com deliberately state that the turnout today for #NoKings was “thousands,” rather than millions?
October 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Why would @nbcnews.com deliberately state that the turnout today for #NoKings was “thousands,” rather than millions?
#Tech is advancing beyond the basic understanding of the general user. As it does so, it promotes an evolving #DigitalDivide. This is by design, so skilled users have greater access to power and capital.
October 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
#Tech is advancing beyond the basic understanding of the general user. As it does so, it promotes an evolving #DigitalDivide. This is by design, so skilled users have greater access to power and capital.
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So grieved for Black elders in this moment in this country right now.
October 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
So grieved for Black elders in this moment in this country right now.
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Please share and boost! Tomaquag Museum (one of my favorite museum/visits of all time) had over $2mil in approved Fed grants halted and are facing layoffs and stalled work that will affect so much of their mission. They’re asking for donations and we can step up to help.
mailchi.mp/tomaquagmuse...
mailchi.mp/tomaquagmuse...
February 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Please share and boost! Tomaquag Museum (one of my favorite museum/visits of all time) had over $2mil in approved Fed grants halted and are facing layoffs and stalled work that will affect so much of their mission. They’re asking for donations and we can step up to help.
mailchi.mp/tomaquagmuse...
mailchi.mp/tomaquagmuse...
Proud from my hometown. Spent a lot of time in that museum-definitely go if you visit #RhodeIsland
“There’s no US history without Indigenous people’s history,” Tomaquag Museum executive director Lorén Spears said on the #RIReport podcast.
www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/18/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/18/m...
For Indigenous people, Thanksgiving represents a day of mourning - The Boston Globe
“There’s no US history without Indigenous people’s history,” says Tomaquag Museum executive director Lorén Spears.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Proud from my hometown. Spent a lot of time in that museum-definitely go if you visit #RhodeIsland
Nazi playbook.
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.
America’s children deserve better than this.
America’s children deserve better than this.
October 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Nazi playbook.
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Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.
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One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.
October 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.
I am on the recovery side of #Covid thanks to #Paxlovid. The delay in approving the latest vax seriously affected my health. #Anti-vaxxers are the bottom feeders for intellect, and #JFKjr really wants citizens to die.
September 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I am on the recovery side of #Covid thanks to #Paxlovid. The delay in approving the latest vax seriously affected my health. #Anti-vaxxers are the bottom feeders for intellect, and #JFKjr really wants citizens to die.
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K-12 teachers using AI to produce lesson plans that may be riddled with errors is a terrible next step from what’s been happening for the last two decades, which is a turn away from subject content expertise to tech expertise and a constant chasing of pedagogical fads.
Now think about what it’s doing to our children that some teachers are relying on it to develop lesson plans that no one is fact- or bias-checking.
September 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Actual science here. Not bullet points out of context. “Solved Autism.” 🤯
They will “solve” cancer next by denying MRIs, CT scans, and ultrasounds,etc.
re: If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist.
They will “solve” cancer next by denying MRIs, CT scans, and ultrasounds,etc.
re: If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist.
AUTISM and TYLENOL
A study of 2.5 million children showed a small association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—but this finding DISAPPEARED when full siblings were compared.
“Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism…”
Full article:
A study of 2.5 million children showed a small association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—but this finding DISAPPEARED when full siblings were compared.
“Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism…”
Full article:
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Actual science here. Not bullet points out of context. “Solved Autism.” 🤯
They will “solve” cancer next by denying MRIs, CT scans, and ultrasounds,etc.
re: If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist.
They will “solve” cancer next by denying MRIs, CT scans, and ultrasounds,etc.
re: If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist.
“It lacks the humility to acknowledge uncertainty.” Up to 48% of the time, models are hallucinating. WHY is there an insistence on integrating in schools?!
#OpenAI #ChatGPT #DigitalDivide
#OpenAI #ChatGPT #DigitalDivide
“'Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty,' the researchers wrote in the paper. 'Such ‘hallucinations’ persist even in state-of-the-art systems and undermine trust.'”
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
“It lacks the humility to acknowledge uncertainty.” Up to 48% of the time, models are hallucinating. WHY is there an insistence on integrating in schools?!
#OpenAI #ChatGPT #DigitalDivide
#OpenAI #ChatGPT #DigitalDivide
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Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there
September 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
September 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
Abhorrent.
Not enough people are talking about the blatant, consistent targeting of Black people, and especially Black excellence, and especially Black women.
From major cities with Black mayors, including LA, DC, Chicago, NYC & Baltimore; to Tish James to Lisa Cook to General Charles Brown (and much more).
From major cities with Black mayors, including LA, DC, Chicago, NYC & Baltimore; to Tish James to Lisa Cook to General Charles Brown (and much more).
Long before she joined the Fed, Lisa Cook stood out in a field dominated by white men. She talked about how her experience with racism informed her approach to economics.
Now, she is Trump’s latest target in his effort to exert more control over the central bank.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...
Now, she is Trump’s latest target in his effort to exert more control over the central bank.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...
August 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Abhorrent.
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37 Russian drones entered Ukrainian airspace just now.
August 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
37 Russian drones entered Ukrainian airspace just now.
So it hurts the very people who still don’t have access to high speed internet. To this dictatorship, as long as the people who look and sound like them have access, it’s a success.
Another Starlink outage just as the Trump regime is making states re-do their broadband expansion plans to move $$ away fr fiber builds to lining Elon’s pockets with tax dollars for satellite Internet
And they call it they’re calling it the “benefit of the bargain” with a straight face 🙄
And they call it they’re calling it the “benefit of the bargain” with a straight face 🙄
Starlink back up after brief outage in US, Downdetector shows reut.rs/45UsJhP
August 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
So it hurts the very people who still don’t have access to high speed internet. To this dictatorship, as long as the people who look and sound like them have access, it’s a success.
You know how kids beg for a puppy? “I’ll walk him” “I’ll feed him”. Any kid would have been better than Trump.
August 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
You know how kids beg for a puppy? “I’ll walk him” “I’ll feed him”. Any kid would have been better than Trump.