Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social)

@jamellebouie.net Oct 11, 2026, 6:01 PMReposted by @larryferlazzo.bsky.social

question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 3:59 AM

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:14 PM

What a wild end to the Jaguars game

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:51 AMReposted by @larryferlazzo.bsky.social

A Look Back: New Research Shows That “Student Voice” Matters larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/10/11/a...

@adamserwer.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 1:45 PMReposted by @larryferlazzo.bsky.social

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:50 PM

More politicos should do this kind of acknowledgment of past mistakes

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:01 AM

Trump Is Begging to Be Impeached www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...

Impeachment might be inconvenient to Democratic leaders and it might carry some political risk, but it is simply not tenable to allow the president to run roughshod over the rule of law and the constitutional order without meaningful, constitutional pushback. As flawed as it is, impeachment is the tool we have for that particular job.

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:56 AM

Ed Tech Digest larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/10/11/e...

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:54 AM

Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/10/11/c...

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:51 AM

A Look Back: New Research Shows That “Student Voice” Matters larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/10/11/a...

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:31 AM

Victor Wembanyama wants to set the NBA’s moral standard. It can be a burden www.nytimes.com/athletic/766...

Victor Wembanyama, basketball’s resident extraterrestrial, flashed his virtue again. When asked last week whether he would be interested in an endorsement deal with a sports betting or prediction market company, he said no the way he swats a layup: clean, emphatic and without apology.

“Absolutely not,” he said. “I will never do that. Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 11:19 PM

This Texas /Oklahoma game is crazy

@adamserwer.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 2:19 PMReposted by @larryferlazzo.bsky.social

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

@sailorrooscout.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:00 PMReposted by @larryferlazzo.bsky.social

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

@urocklive1.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:34 AMReposted by @larryferlazzo.bsky.social

Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam.

In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not."

www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:31 AM

This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/10/10/t...

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:28 AM

The Best Resources For Learning About The Student Protests In France larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/10/10/t...

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:23 AM

This Is Extraordinarily Excellent Advice On How To Use AI For Written Translation To Non-English-Speaking Parents/Guardians larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/10/10/t...

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 1:46 AM

On a remote Greek island, empty classrooms signal a crisis across Europe
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@edweekopinion.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 1:01 AMReposted by @larryferlazzo.bsky.social

“Extra credit does more harm than good.”

Educators share their thoughts on the practice. @larryferlazzo.bsky.social

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 1:13 AM

Google Unveils An AI Game-Creating Tool That MIGHT Be Useful To ELLs, But It’s Certainly Not A “Game-Changer” larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/10/09/g...