Today’s threads (a thread)
Inside: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides; Hey look at this; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/16/flexibility-in-the-margins/
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Catch me in #Miami! I’ll be at Books and Books in Coral Gables on Jan 22 at 8PM:
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I’m Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by #WilWheaton! Pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover. There’s also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback:
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American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides: A common core, but no commons.
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Hey look at this
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Among Linguists, the #WordOfTheYear Is More of a Vibe
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The #FTC Just Blocked Four Mergers in a Month. Here’s How Its Latest Win Fits Into the Broader Campaign to Revive #Antitrust
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The charges against #Binance
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#20yrsago Developing nations shouldn’t respect US #copyright unless farm subsidies end
#20yrsago Self-parking #Prius
#20yrsago #Disney selling off #CelebrationFlorida
#15yrsago #Zimbabwean $100 trillion note
#15yrsago UK MPs to hide their expenses from #FreedomOfInformation requests
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#10yrsago Building a fully open, transparent laptop
#10yrsago Why the sum of all positive integers is -1/12
#10yrsago #NSA harvests 200M of SMSes every day with untargeted, global “#Dishfire” program
#10yrsago Congress calls on Schneier to give it answers that the NSA won’t https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/today_i_briefed.html
#10yrsago How to have a healthy relationship with technology
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#10yrsago What’s the most profitable price for an ebook?
#10yrsago #CopyrightTroll dodging disbarment by resigning from the bar?
#10yrsago The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, a graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg
#10yrsago Leaked: environmental chapter of the secret #TransPacificPartnership treaty
#10yrsago #BoothBabes are bad for business
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#10yrsago Blackphone: a privacy-oriented, high-end, unlocked phone
#10yrsago #HEADWATER: NSA program for sabotaging #Huawei routers over the Internet https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/01/headwater_nsa_e.html
#10yrsago Judge rules TSA #NoFly procedures unconstitutional
#10yrsago Dirty secrets of America’s most notorious #PatentTroll
#10yrsago UK consultation on #OrphanWorks
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#5yrsago Even the rightsholders think Europe’s #Article13 is a mess, call for an immediate halt in negotiations
#5yrsago AOC’s debut speech on the Congressional floor: “It is not normal to shut down the government when we don’t get what we want.”
#5yrsago Vermont official fact-checks mobile carriers’ coverage maps, proves they’re lying like crazy
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