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Cory Doctorow

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Reality - especially epidemiology - has a distinct leftist bias, which almost makes you feel sorry for right-wing ideologues like @mayoroflasvegas Carolyn Goodman, who says that every business in town

Dr Caitlin Green

caitlinrgreen

A 7th-century Anglo-Saxon glass drinking horn, from Rainham, London: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=87164&partId=1 A 6th-century glass drinking horn from Rommersheim grav

Bear Braumoeller

Prof_BearB

So here's a fun little story that I came across while prepping my models syllabus for the fall. It's a story about humility, most of all, but it's also a

Las Plumas de Sīmurgh

PlumasDeSimurgh

If there's a piece of art worth knowing from Ancient #Mesopotamia, at least for us, is the so-called Queen's Lyre, currently at @britishmuseum Do you want to know all of

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Things are very dire. The world is aflame. Our political will is in tatters. But despite all this, there are leverage points, where a small intervention can have gigantic consequences.

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

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

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

I remember when we stopped calling police weapons "nonlethal" and switched to "less lethal" - I thought it was a victory for anti-authoritarian realism, ditching a polite euphemism for a

Météo-France

meteofrance

#HistoireMétéo La météorologie est une science mais elle fût et reste aujourd'hui encore étroitement liée à des histoires, des croyances populaires, d'innombrables dictons météo pour codifier les caprices du ciel,

rae paoletta🍍

PAYOLETTER

i love BATS can i show you guys a bat i have been thinking about for DAYS okay so this is the Honduran white bat, also known as the Caribbean

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

In his magesterial, longrunning series of papers explaining why Uber is not, and never will be, a viable business, transportation analyst Hubert Horan calls the business a "bezzle."http://horanaviation.com/Uber.html 1/ Bezzle

Jeremy Kamil 🇺🇦

macroliter

Ok, just to hedge a bit, there is a plausible albeit low likelihood scenario in which the next big wave is driven by a derivative of Omicron. But this exception

Daniel Villar-Onrubia

villaronrubia

The last couple of days, and the weeks leading to #OER20, have been pretty intense but very enjoyable, despite the tough times and changing plans. It has been fantastic to

tushar

hisreputations

Taylor Swift songs that have 100 beats per minute and can be used to keep rhythm while administering CPR: 1. Fearless2. All you had to do was stay3. Clean 4.

URSULA Edelheid (no, that's not my real name)

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1/ Ursula K. Le Guin started publishing in the 1960s when the hype for #Tolkien’s #TheLordOfTheRings was at its peak. She is also the source of one of the most

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Last summer, I did an interview with the Singularity Blog podcast (my last interview was all the way back in 2012). As is my wont, I got to talking about

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The Australian National University is insisting that students install "invigilation" software that monitors their computer use to prevent cheating during tests.This is incredibly worrisome.https://www.woroni.com.au/news/analysis-the-issues-