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The little word "is" has its tragedies Why your performance reviews, personality tests, and generational training modules are running on a grammatical bug philosophy diagnosed a century ago, and why L&D keeps missing it.

The little word "is" has its tragedies
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Anthropic Said Its New AI Is "Too Dangerous." Five Newsrooms Heard Five Different Warnings. The same two words landed in Axios, VentureBeat, Platformer, Gizmodo, and Euronews — and came out meaning five incompatible things. Here's how to read a headline like this without getting played.

Anthropic Said Its New AI Is "Too Dangerous." Five Newsrooms Heard Five Different Warnings.
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I Asked an AI to Fact-Check a DEI Meme. Then the AI Had to get Fact-Checked. What happens when a word loses its meaning and the question that brings it back

I Asked an AI to Fact-Check a DEI Meme. Then the AI Had to get Fact-Checked.
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Jerry W Washington, Ed.D. (@jerrywwashingtonedd) We are in interesting times, folks.

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Pinned Terms — Ep. 002: READY? Deadlines have a talent: they turn one word into a stamp of approval. “Ready.” Everyone says it. Everyone means something else.

Pinned Terms — Ep. 002: READY?
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Pinned Terms — Ep. 001: "ALIGNED" In high-stakes work, “aligned” is a friendly word that can hide five different agreements. That’s how teams leave a meeting smiling… and reopen the same decision two days later.

Pinned Terms — Ep. 001: "ALIGNED"
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“What Do You Mean?” as Cognitive Infrastructure Start Here and Contract with Readers

Media literacy move I wish we taught like CPR:

“What’s the claim? What’s the evidence? What would change your mind?”

You don’t have to argue. You can audit the structure.

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What Do You Mean? | What Time Binds | Jerry W Washington, Ed.D. | Substack Practical essays and tools for asking “What do you mean?” with a taxonomy, scripts, and real-world examples you can use at work, online, and at home. Click to read What Time Binds, by Jerry W Washingt...

Same words, different meanings. I’m writing a free series on asking “What do you mean?” as cognitive infrastructure—tools (taxonomy + repair) for conversations under pressure. Start here: www.what-time-binds.com/s/what-do-yo...
What word keeps colliding in your world? #MediaLiteracy

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