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Same Words, Different Worlds
The interpretation gap is bigger than the media bubble.
Jun 8
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Jerry W Washington, Ed.D.
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The Friday Binding — The Word That Built the Record
Five picks on how a single word sorts the room — from the FITREP to the strike
Jun 5
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Jerry W Washington, Ed.D.
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What Do You Mean? — Use
Three different jobs hide inside "I use AI." Tell them apart before you hand the work over.
Jun 3
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Jerry W Washington, Ed.D.
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The Word That Sorts Without Saying
A Note from the Authors
Published on The Unstated
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Jun 2
Ronny Chieng, Heisenberg, and the Speech the Card Couldn't Hold
He told Harvard to destroy AI. The card going around Facebook kept three words and lost the speech.
Jun 1
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Jerry W Washington, Ed.D.
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May 2026
The Friday Binding — What stays human at work
Five reads on AI at work, the Pope's warning, and why most rollouts fail for reasons that have nothing to do with the technology.
May 29
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Jerry W Washington, Ed.D.
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What Do You Mean? — Dignity
Walking the three floors the Pope left standing, with three writers who have been working the same problem
May 27
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Jerry W Washington, Ed.D.
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The Word Is Dignity
One word. Four floors. Then the Bishop of Rome refused to stand on the one that suited him.
May 25
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Jerry W Washington, Ed.D.
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The Friday Binding — Issue #004: When the magnet word splinters
Five reads on the AI fight, one pick per lens. The receipts for Monday's essay.
May 22
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Jerry W Washington, Ed.D.
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What Do You Mean, "The Honor System"?
Princeton ran on it for 133 years. Generative AI collapsed the condition the code rested on. Then Princeton put the watchers back.
May 20
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Jerry W Washington, Ed.D.
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The Word in the Middle of the AI Fight
A councilman's house, a viral post, and the argument hiding under a word.
May 18
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Jerry W Washington, Ed.D.
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"Slavery is over. Jim Crow is dead." — The Week Wesley Hunt Said It
How a sixty-second House floor speech moved slavery and Jim Crow into the past tense, in the same week the Supreme Court moved them into the present.
May 14
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Jerry W Washington, Ed.D.
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