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Cory Doctorow
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Faced with remote learning, educators had to figure out what to do about high-stakes testing: a pedagogically bankrupt adversarial practice of measuring students' educational outcomes by testing their performance in
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
#Iowa's HSB 272 ("An Act relating to tax collection and penalties, tax permits and loans made by state-chartered banks") is the kind of bureaucratic maneuver Woody Guthrie's meant with, "Some
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
"Re-opening" isn't about saving ordinary workers and earners. You can't save someone by infecting them with a deadly disease. In a world without contact-tracing, therapeutics, tests, PPE, santizing products, etc,
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
#RightToRepair has never been more urgent. There's a reason farmers have been on the front lines of R2R: they have pressing deadlines ("make hay while the sun shines") and are
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Feminist Therapist
FeMNisTherapist
If we start with our shared values, we can find a place of mutual respect with space for our differences. A major difference between the US and other countries is
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Cory Doctorow
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Students at the Australian National University and other Australian educational institutions have signed up with US "invigilation" companies that produce anti-cheating spyware for students' computers. Students and faculty are furious.ht
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Jim Justice's 2016 campaign for Governor of West Virginia made a simple pitch: Justice is the richest man in WV, a billionaire, and therefore he is better than everyone else
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
High-stakes tests are garbage, pedagogically bankrupt assessment tools that act as a form of empirical facewash for "meritocracy."1/ They primarily serve as a way for wealthy parents to buy good
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Gray Connolly
GrayConnolly
Small thread here as "But Secularism" is in the news and Australia has always been a pluralist not a secular nation. We share the British Crown & most of our
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
#Pluralistic is my mutli-channel publishing effort - a project to push the limits of #POSSE (post own site, share everywhere) that allows me to maintain control over my work while
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve describes the process by which oppressive technology is normalized and distributed through all levels of society. The more privilege someone has, the harder it is
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
When schools switched to distance learning amid the lockdown, it represented a chance to rethink education and ed-tech, from lessons to schedules to evaluation. For the most part, we have
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Despite the (ill-informed) assurances of people who should know better, there is no way to run a secret, anonymous, secure ballot over the internet. It's a science fantasy, like faster-than-light
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
One of the most profound latent political statements in internet history was the decision to make "user-agent" the technical term for a web-browser - implying that the browser should work
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
The Qanon phenomenon is many things: for one thing, it's a grift. Q's top spokesgargoyles earn small fortunes in ad revenue, crowdfunding and merchandise.https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/15/out-here-everything-hurts/#q1/ But it's
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
The central claim behind Comcast's long holy war against #NetNeutrality is that without "network management" (slowing down your connection to the sites you like unless they pay bribes to
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