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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 05-May-2026 00:03:39 JST Paul Cantrell

   RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116516909073441719

   Calling all techies! Light a fire under these assholes. Give their office a ring.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 05-May-2026 00:16:15 JST Paul Cantrell

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     In addition to the obvious travesty here of turning curriculum into marketing material for a specific industry (and an investment bubble at that!), there’s a larger principle here:

     It’s a terrible idea to let politicians set curricular mandates. Even the well-meaning ones crash and burn. This sets off that alarm bell for me.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 05-May-2026 00:17:24 JST Paul Cantrell

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     To be fair, the text is article is quoting could be a whole lot worse. It’s money to “support research activities to develop educational curricula, instructional material, teacher professional development, and evaluation methods.”

     Developing materials is a •lot• better than having politicians just shoving a curricular mandate down educators’ throats — though “evaluation methods” likely means it’s heading that way, developing a test that teachers have to to teach to.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 05-May-2026 00:18:43 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Teaching students to critically evaluate technology and its uses (including but not limited to LLMs) is a Good Thing Actually™ in my book. If this initiative weren’t stuffed full of OpenAI + Google + Microsoft money, I’d be a lot warmer to it.

     As it stands, I’m placing my bet on “following the money tells you how this story will end.”

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 05-May-2026 00:20:44 JST Paul Cantrell

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     On that note: the American Federation of Teachers is currently bed with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic.

     if you are a union educator, let them know how you feel about that. Loudly.

     Just because they’re a union doesn’t mean they get a pass.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 05-May-2026 03:08:47 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱

     @rjblaskiewicz
     I can really only recommend the first half of that.

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     Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 (rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-May-2026 03:08:49 JST Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱

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     @inthehands Legislator contacted. Am now going to start day drinking.