Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Pancakes or flapjacks. What are they called?
#polls #pollsters #pollsandpublicopinion #pollsarefun

The situation regarding IT management in many schools is well-captured by the hypothetical (and sarcastic) Putt’s Law. According to Archibald Putt, “Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand” (Putt, 2006, p. 7). Further, Putt articulated a corollary, “Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence inversion” (p. 7). While these words are intended to be humorously cynical observations, they do describe the current state of IT management in schools:

• Technology professionals configure IT systems for students and teachers, but they are unfamiliar with emerging technology-rich pedagogy. In Putt’s terms, IT professionals are managing devices for purposes they do not understand.

• Educators complain about the IT systems in schools, but they don’t understand the complexity of managing IT systems, the potential conflicts and threats to the operation of enterprise IT, and general chaos that can result when enterprise networks are not tightly controlled. In Putt’s terms, educators seek to manage IT they do not understand.

• School leaders make budget and personnel decisions that impose unrealistic limits on IT professionals and they advocate for practices beyond the capacity of the available IT or are contrary to the professional tendencies of the teachers.

Reference

Putt, A. (2006). Putt’s law & the successful technocrat: How to win in the information age. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Elon Musk Is Still Silencing the Journalists He Banned From Twitter

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-twitter-banned-journalists/

#uspol
#BlackMastodon
#socialmedia

Jamon Jordan is the official historian of Detroit

"There is no legitimate excuse for those of us in and around the city of Detroit to be unaware of the stories of Detroit’s Black History.

And there is no logical reason for those that know this history not to shout it from the rooftops.

So here I am, shouting."

Jordan's excellent summary of some imp moments in Black history in Detroit, "I'm shouting from the rooftops about Detroit's black history" is here:
https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2021/02/20/detroit-black-history-jamon-jordan/4495485001/
#BlackFriday

Today I present you the MAGESTIC Taiwan Blue Magpie!

While beautiful, they are not afraid of people and they have strong nest defense behavior. According to locals, it is not uncommon for them to swoop down onto humans from trees and peck their heads!

📷 Danny Khoo Photography, 2018

#birds #bird #photography #photos #photo #nature #amazing #taiwan #bluemagpie #headpeckers!

Opinion:

Adam #Schiff: My Fellow Members of the #January6thCommittee and I Don’t Want You to Forget About ‘the #Republican Congressmen’

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/opinion/adam-schiff-jan-6-committee-report-referrals.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Merry Christmas!

@BlackAzizAnansi
Elon Musk is growing a social network. Just not the one he expected. #TwitterMigration
https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/twitter-owner-elon-musk-driving-user-growth-mastodon-rcna62832

“The Supreme Court justice and the lawyer who worked to help Trump try to overturn the election have a remarkable relationship that dates back more than three decades and that began years before Eastman served as Thomas’s clerk and before Thomas joined the bench.” #scotus #LawFedi
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/12/23/john-eastman-clarence-thomas-clerk/

For a year and a half I have been advocating for the passage of federal legislation that would regulate the prison telecom industry and the prices these corporations can charge families with incarcerated loved ones. It was an uphill climb and especially as we got closer to the end of the 117th Congress, but it passed the Senate on 12/21 and passed the House on 12/22.
May this bill be a step towards greater phone justice for families that have incarcerated loved ones.

A huge deal: Electoral Count Act reform has made it into the omnibus! But don't overlook this key point: By supporting ECA reform, Senate Republicans are essentially admitting that just about everything the 1/6 committee documented about Trump's coup is true.

New piece from me:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/20/electoral-count-act-reform-omnibus-trump-2024/

Misogny and internalized misogny in a conversation.

Rudy Giuliani tried calling these Republicans aka the usual suspects on Jan 6:

Marsha Blackburn
Tommy Tuberville
Lindsey Graham
Josh Hawley
Bill Hagerty
Jim Jordan
Ted Cruz

Steve Bannon is busy railing against the Electoral Reform Act just in case you don't think that it's a good bill.

Winter is upon us 😎
Hoping for snow tomorrow❄️

#WNC
#NorthCarolina
#landscapephotography
#photography

Is this #cawthorn #creep going to be let off the hook for his #crimes?
#insurrection
#stochasticterrorist
#January6th
#WNC
#NorthCarolina
#politics
#JusticeMatters

Adam Schiff: My Fellow Members of the Jan. 6 Committee and I Don’t Want You to Forget About ‘the Republican Congressmen’
🎁https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/opinion/adam-schiff-jan-6-committee-report-referrals.html?unlocked_article_code=BBEi4BjKPkwsRA7ZkS9V63BjW5pY982uQ9hIQkc9Hg65GGhRsTApPK9vTKXKGDjmr6PctE6hIykxxWNMQuEkCtFeRNC6O8hhKEFuZM_9UdMxfhRM8LrkjQHMlX3GI8GuPZWVOa2dKQ-3Kzn3_CcyH_Cke1gqfU7iiTzl2vTn9qOu2xp3aeRUykqYps_Ybwq_tEj-bBxtfkZNIsHTDybQm42CRAJ6z5NY44VO6zIKT4KfZr7n6feObkd6Yr91WDb6OvZ99iJL0soz4FKjD3SHIQwBFWT2YmHR4x3m1nUH25n5GCs9T8DX5q9mDYCgU5vBwlBdnnhCiJ-yHFGaYcwcQixKQqoL7lhmpgX2Vb-3NRELpMNBkK0&smid=share-url

EXCLUSIVE: TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists

ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/

"ByteDance, the parent … of … TikTok, found that employees tracked multiple journalists covering the company … in an attempt to identify whether they had been in the same locales as ByteDance employees."

#tech #politics #surveillance

If you're curious about why I'm finally getting more active here on Mast, here's my piece from earlier this week about my Twitter suspension and its fallout: The upsides (and downsides) of angering one of the world's richest men https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/aaron-rupar-twitter-suspension-elon-musk