ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

The only good autoplaying video is no autoplaying video

I was invited by #Meta via a third party to join a roundtable about #AI fairness. There was a generous honorarium. They were asking me to sign an NDA. I said I wouldn't do it unless I could publicly declare my participation, the $ involved, and continue to criticise Meta based on public info. They ghosted me ...

#fundingmatters

Education as Privilege Laundering: The most powerful contemporary magic is to transform money into “merit."

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/07/10/education-privilege-laundering-opinion

#HigherEd

Fleetwood MacGyver

#BandsAboutTVShows
#HashtagGames

#BandsAboutTVShows #HashTagGames

Breaking Bad Company

Am I the only one who thinks "customization" in a job application cover letter (or letter of reference) should be at the beginning of the letter, not the end? To me, this seems obvious, but there seems to be a template out there that puts it at the end. @academicchatter @sociology

I know Meta is awful but it is worth thinking about how bad an org culture has to be to launch Threads with no alt text. Surely it has to be illegal to discriminate against disabled people like that
#accessibility #threads #meta

You know that metaphor about how a frog in a pot on the stove doesn't know it's heating up and doesn't jump out until it's too late?

The pot has started boiling.

#climatecrisis

Comparing and contrasting app privacy policies for Threads, Bluesky, Twitter and Mastodon:

I believe Elon Musk’s superpower is that he is really good at convincing smart people to do work for him where he takes the majority of the credit and financial rewards.

The Twitter debacle is because he drank his own kool aid about being a tech genius and purchased it on impulse with no exit plan.

Those who say "Without tests, we wouldn't know how kids (or teachers) are doing" just reveal their ignorance about the existence and relative benefits of using alternative forms of assessment.
But such statements make me wonder if I, too, sometimes make a statement ("X is necessary") when I really should be asking a question ("Are there alternatives to X?").

"The higher inflation so far mainly reflects higher profits and import prices, with profits accounting for 45 percent of price rises since the start of 2022. That’s according to our new paper, which breaks down inflation, as measured by the consumption deflator, into labor costs, import costs, taxes, and profits. Import costs accounted for about 40 percent of inflation, while labor costs accounted for 25 percent. Taxes had a slightly deflationary impact."

https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/06/26/europes-inflation-outlook-depends-on-how-corporate-profits-absorb-wage-gains

Caucasity will be the death of us all.

Well this sucks.

Vanderbilt turns over transgender patient records to state in attorney general probe

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2023/06/20/vanderbilt-university-m-turns-over-transgender-patient-medical-records-to-tennessee-attorney-general/70338356007/

#Trans #Health #News #TN #TVAC #Tennessee

Thank you to @msmagazine@bird.makeup and RepresentWomen for including #GlassWalls in your weekend reading list!
https://msmagazine.com/2023/06/16/women-politics-representation-state-legislators-black-women-student-loan-payments/

Laws restricting the teaching of controversy have a chilling effect – and interfere with #holocaust education:

“Many educators have been shying away from sensitive issues…As a result, research shows, students may be deprived of vital lessons such as the global persistence of crimes against humanity and the factors that give rise to genocides.”

https://theconversation.com/im-an-educator-and-grandson-of-holocaust-survivors-and-i-see-public-schools-failing-to-give-students-the-historical-knowledge-they-need-to-keep-our-democracy-strong-203868

#histodons #history #education #Florida

A good, quick overview of the #Reddit clusterf*ck: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/17/2175983/-Reddit-s-CEO-is-now-taking-his-cues-from-Elon-Musk-working-to-destroy-another-social-network

Thanks to Quip for donating $50,000 in support of LGBTQ communities.