Wes Fryer, Ph.D.

11/03/2025

Listening to and watching Mike Caulfield explain the use of his “AI superprompt for his deep background toolbox” this morning before school:
https://youtu.be/FtTe5sSVVF0?si=mxT6JKyoc8gyOhQH

Learn more about this by attending today’s Media Education Lab webinar at noon Eastern / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am PT:
“Fact Checking with AI Superprompts”
https://mediaeducationlab.com/events/fact-checking-ai-superprompts

11/03/2025

11/01/2025

If you are interested in understanding why the Trump administration’s use of “kinetic lethal force” in the Caribbean (and now elsewhere) against suspected criminals, drug traffickers, and narco-terrorists is ILLEGAL and in contravention of both US domestic law and international law (under the UN Charter,) I recommend listening to this latest [PODCAST] from Angry Planet. It features an interview with retired Army JAG / former judge advocate and current law, professor Dan Maurer.
https://pca.st/episode/af745d0a-ba71-4ab9-985a-07e6301582eb

You can also see my video on this topic, “Why I Protested at the No Kings 2” march and rally on 18 Oct 2025, on either YouTube or Substack:

https://youtu.be/P7LHFi8BcQ8

https://resistandheal.substack.com/p/why-i-protested-at-the-no-kings-2?r=4unjx&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=audio-player

If you’re interested in continuing to learn with me about our tumultuous political times, that require both collective action and widespread nonviolent protest, my advocacy links are on:
https://wesfryer.com/advocacy/

I believe one of the important role roles we can each play in our work and struggle to create more equitable, just and humane communities and nations (and a better planet) is to serve as FILTERS for each other for TRUSTED MEDIA VOICES. You can link to many of my own “trusted voices” / media channels I recommend on:
https://www.resistandheal.com/trusted-voices

11/01/2025

Here's a lightly edited version of my Facebook Live video (with subtitles) from last Friday, "Why I Protested at the 'No Kings 2' Rally: A Call for Justice and Constitutional Values." It's 8 minutes long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7LHFi8BcQ8

I also posted this on the "Resist and Heal" Substack:
https://resistandheal.substack.com/p/why-i-protested-at-the-no-kings-2

More links to join me in advocacy for human rights and representative democracy are on:
https://wesfryer.com/advocacy/

I edited this video using my new favorite video editor, Descript:
https://www.descript.com/

Join Wes Fryer in Charlotte, North Carolina, as he explains his motivations for protesting at the No Kings 2 Rally on October 18th. As a graduate of the Air ...

10/30/2025

Woo hoo - Next day publishing for the EdTech Situation Room Podcast! All referenced links and show notes... plus the links we didn't have time to discuss!

Check out our Episode 362: Browsers Gone Agentic

https://edtechsr.substack.com/p/edtechsr-ep-362-browsers-gone-agentic

Description: Welcome to episode 362 (“Browsers Gone Agentic”) of the EdTech Situation Room from Wednesday, October 29, 2025, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) unpack the fast-moving world of agentic AI browsers—Atlas, Comet, and an open-source “BrowserOS”—including why they’re built atop Chromium, where they currently feel clunky in real workflows, and how prompt-injection and data-exfiltration risks translate to concrete school safeguards (sandboxing/air-gapping, limiting LMS credentials, and policy updates). We review TechCrunch’s warning on “glaring” browser-agent risks, Perplexity’s Comet prompt-injection mitigations, and real-world demos that show why an agent could plausibly log into an LMS and complete assignments—raising new academic-integrity and supervision questions for districts. Beyond the browser, we explore creator-tool shifts—Adobe + Google AI model integrations, YouTube Shorts/Studio nudges, and Meta’s AI editing tools in Instagram Stories—and how educators can balance creative possibilities with a rising tide of AI “slop.” We also dig into media-literacy lessons from “Grokipedia” vs. Wikipedia: edit histories, transparency, bias, and why source-checking remains a must-teach habit. Rounding out the hour, Jason spotlights a readable primer on quantum computing’s looming “Q-Day” encryption risk—and why starting the transition to quantum-safe practices belongs on IT roadmaps now. Wes also shares how our new Substack-first post-production workflow (YouTube → Substack with full link lists) is keeping the back catalog current and easier to find.

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10/30/2025

I love music and in many ways, I’m constantly listening to “a playlist in my mind.”

Last night at our team debrief for the “No Kings 2” protest, rally and march in Charlotte on Oct 18th, I learned about the playlist of music which was shared both before, and after the program and march. Check it out, and subscribe to the new Substack for Indivisible Charlotte!

https://open.substack.com/pub/indivisibleclt/p/music-from-no-kings-2-clt?r=4unjx&utm_medium=ios

Together, we can and will “resist and heal! Maintain HOPE! Our communities are filled with so many good neighbors who have love, kindness, and courage in their hearts.

Be inspired by these songs. I know I am.

10/27/2025

Check out my new blog post, "Podcasting with Substack"
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/10/26/podcasting-with-substack/

10/26/2025

We are in a bad spot politically as well as economically. A lot of people in the USA are about to feel the loss of SNAP funds (food stamps) and it ain’t going to be pretty.

As she often does, Heather Cox Richardson provides some much needed historical as well as contemporary political perspectives in this post. She is right: “What are we doing?!?!”

https://substack.com//note/c-170300690?r=4unjx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

The “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement is a textbook example of gaslighting. While claiming to improve our economy, country, and standard of living, it is doing exactly the opposite. MAGA is ruining our economy, destroying our position in the world as a respected, leading nation, ignoring Constitutional precedents for respect of Miranda rights and the rule of law via the abduction of citizens by masked, unbadged officials, etc.
I hope as citizens in the United States, we are permitted to have free and fair elections in the months ahead. I am personally pessimistic about this prospect. Unfortunately, I think things will continue to get worse before they get better.

In the midst of these difficult times, we must maintain our hope and our faith in our neighbors and fellow citizens. We must build community, both online and in person, and find ways to help others who are most impacted / hurt by these unfortunate decisions of our present government. Find links to multiple organizations that are helping in the Charlotte, North Carolina area on:
https://nokingsclt.com

Find links to multiple “trusted voices” to whom I am listening and who I recommend following on:
https://www.resistandheal.com/trusted-voices

Continue to learn and resist with me on my “Resist and Heal” Substack and in other spaces linked on the advocacy page of my website:
https://resistandheal.substack.com

https://wesfryer.com/advocacy/

10/22/2025

Please join Jason Neiffer and Wes Fryer, Ph.D. for Episode 361 tonight at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 7pm MT / 6pm PT! On YouTube Live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfwSgFJ_BVU

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10/22/2025

Smarter answers, regardless of the chatbot you choose

10/21/2025

As scripture verses go, this is possibly “the ultimate prepper passage in the Bible:”

““Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them. If he comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭12‬:‭35‬-‭38‬ ‭NRSV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/2016/luk.12.35-38.NRSV

via Have Your Lamps Lit - Pray As You Go
https://prayasyougo.org/prayer/have-your-lamps-lit-2902

I understand these verses to mean we do not know the day and time of the LORD‘s return, and we should live our lives every day in the same way: Loving others and serving others fully. We should be ready at any moment for Jesus Christ to return to earth in bodily form. We should always be prepared.



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