ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

Looks like @schock book was shouting at me from across the bookstore.

In a survey, the same share of men and women (11%) asked for a raise as a response to inflation but men were more likely than women to receive a raise (59% vs 52%). And the women earned less to begin with: 1/2 made <$50K vs 1/3 of men.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/men-were-more-likely-to-get-raises-in-2022.html

Sen. ChuckSchumer can put the PRESS Act in the Senate’s end of year package and be remembered as someone who cared about press freedom at a time when it's so massively under attack.

US residents need to contact their senators, pronto. This bill has already been passed in the House.

It may be the last chance for the foreseeable future to get this done.

https://freedom.press/news/urgent-tell-sen-schumer-to-pass-the-press-act-and-stop-the-government-from-spying-on-journalists/

I'm excited the Center for Open Science's free virtual Unconference on Open Scholarship Practices in Education Research is back, March 9-10, 2023. This is a great conference for folks who want to connect with others in education research and anyone who teaches open science.

If you're interested in participating, they're accepting submissions for unconference sessions, lightning talks, and workshops until January 13, 2023. https://www.cos.io/unconference

#Education #EducationResearch #OpenScience

I’m just a journal editor standing in front of potential reviewers begging you to please open up emailed review requests and press the button to either accept or decline in a timely fashion. This helps move the review process along more quickly which is particularly important for early career researchers.

#AcademicToots #AcademicPublishing

@Walmart@twitter.com 2. According to @NRFnews@twitter.com, the retail trade association that represents @Walmart@twitter.com, "shrink" — an industry term for inventory losses from theft, damage, or other causes, DECLINED between 2019 and 2021

1. The CEO of @Walmart@twitter.com, Doug McMillon, claims that lenient prosecution of shoplifters may force him to raise prices or close stores.

The data do not back him up.

https://popular.info/p/walmart-claims-low-prices-require

The #Fediverse and #Mastodon are experiencing some recent growing pains. There is a risk that developments could lead to the network fracturing into walled gardens of individual communities that are isolated from each other. There are also people who want to assert centralized control over the network. These dangers are described and a bold solution is proposed here:

https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_proposal.pdf

Join the conversation by following @ufoi

#UFoI #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastodonAdmin

As we watch Elon Musk slide into rightwing radicalization in real time, I’m reminded of this 1941 piece by Dorothy Thompson.
“Who goes Nazi?”

In short: it is the people who love money and status and power that are at risk.
Those who resist the urge are the people who have a solid family life; a job they love for the work, not the money; a moral framework based on pluralism and equal access to opportunity.
Worth a read. #nazi #Twitter #liberal

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

AI's aren't sentient. They can't "steal."

Programmers and institutions select the data with which to train the model. They take art and writing from artists and authors without credit or payment. The software then remixes and mimics what it is given.

Displacing agency by attributing intent to the AI is exactly how people and institutions erase human action in the creation of technology. It also leads to further perceptions of technology as acultural, unbiased, and, in essence, magical.

When an individual steals a few thousand dollars in merch, major retailers demand they get sent to jail

But when retail execs steal millions in wages from employees no one says the execs should go to jail

The worst that happens is the company pays back the money + a fine

Hearing #gratitude from students is 💯. I subbed portfolios for exams this semester and I’m never giving an exam again.

I’m reading short notes and whole reflective essays showing appreciation for seeing / hearing / #learning about people like them who are responsible for our so much of our #history but missing from our standard texts.

Also, students who just completed an intro course are vowing to learn more! 🤩 #histodons #teaching #CivicEducation

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The site I write for, like almost every news site from the NYT on down includes a twitter button for sharing.

I'd like to see a mastodon button that anyone can put on their websites to replace the twitter button that is readily available

Google’s Quest to Digitize Troops’ Tissue Samples
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#Google had a confidential plan to turn the collection—slivers of skin, #tumor biopsies & slices of organs from #veterans—into an immense archive that could help create tools to aid the diagnosis & treatment of #cancer & other #diseases. And it would seek first, exclusive dibs to do so.

“The chief concern,” Google’s liaison in the #military warned, “is keeping this out of the press.”

#privacy #ethics #DOD #Health
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-human-tissue-jpc-military?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

2022 Press Freedom Rank
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2 Denmark
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11 NZ
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16 Germany
19 Canada
24 UK
26 France
32 Spain
38 Taiwan
42 US
43 S Korea
58 Italy
71 Japan
86 Israel
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119 Qatar
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129 Nigeria
138 UAE
149 Turkey
150 India
155 Russia
168 Egypt
175 China
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180 N Korea
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