….recommending stiffer sentences for hate speech related offenses and taking a new approach to combating hate speech by classifying it as discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Author: Kieran
” First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.”
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Bell (2023) The Dean of Shandong
Header image: ﻼF photograph The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University (Daniel A. Bell, 2023)https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247120/the-dean-of-shandong “Surely a full life involves serving the public in some capacity” “Confucius himself was asked for one saying that would destroy the state, and he responded “if a ruler is deficient and no one contradicted […]
“Two minutes experience teach an eager man more than two weeks teach an indifferent one.”
Michael Sacasas (2024): How to make sense of techno-optimist manifestos, the Open Ai/Altman affair, EA/e-acc movements, and the general sense of cultural stagnation
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Google knowledge panels
“[E]ntities whose information is included in knowledge panels are self-authoritative…”
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May you be adequate
“Adequate” is the goal
Bruce Maxwell (2023):
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Bread at the hardware store
Header image: You Were On My Mind, by Thomas Lerooy (2014) “First the man takes the drink, then the drink takes the man.” Bread at the hardware store Looking back it’s a little bit clearer His folks never had it to give So he grew up without, ~ Feelin real small within And learned best […]
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All models are wrong…
World maps
Short BCIT course in Jan 2024
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John O’Donohue
Background and favourite excerpts
I am Thermi but you might be Thermi too.
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FIPA For Teachers
Privacy, access to information, and technological safety materials for educators in primary schools.
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The Heart of It, by Oliver Jeffers
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Gratitude
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Doug Stowe
Doug Stowe was recognized as an Arkansas Living Treasure in 2009 for his woodworking and role in craft education.
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Protected: Update 15: Christmas 2023
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“Chinese exceptionalism and American exceptionalism are quite similar with one key difference : Americans think everyone SHOULD be like them, And Chinese think NO ONE can be like them” “We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike power” – E.O. Wilson, No man is an Island, intire of it selfe; every man is a piece […]
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Kindle clippings
WORDS susurration: whispering, murmuring, or rustling. chary: cautiously or suspiciously reluctant to do something. termagant: a harsh-tempered or overbearing woman. Banyan Day peroration: the concluding part of a speech, typically intended to inspire enthusiasm in the audience. Scandalise a sail: To reduce sail in gaff-rigged craft by hauling up the tack and lowering the peak […]
u/ArtfuIhacker UBC and IKEA partner in “Light up your Life!” student programs. Fictitious sources announced today that, as part of the new Strategic Harm Avoidance Mechanism (SHAM) campaign promoting anti-racism on campus, UBC has partnered with IKEA to “leverage and synergize student visibility for remote invigilation through Proctorio”. The exciting offer, billed as the more […]
…and Linguistic Racism
My first solo publication
60 minutes away from becoming a Canadian citizen
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George Grant
Recalling Pinar’s (2019) Moving Images of Eternity: George Grant’s Critique of Time, Teaching, and Technology
Prep for the citizenship test
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Student Machine Shop Course
In which I learn of lathe and mill
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Protected: Update 14: Graduation 2023
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Self-identification: On Irishness
Am I still Irish?
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FYI: Britain and Ireland
Map of “these islands”
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Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy?
Shoshana Zuboff (2022)
Casa Forde Menu
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AI, AI, and chicken nuggets
More speed, less velocity.
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2023 Virtual SoTL Summit
My presentation about “Metaphors for Teaching”
“That argument is now and has been for a century the rationale for education technology.”
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Stephenson (1999) Cryptonomicon
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Header image: KF in Dall-E “In schools, we create artificial learning environments for our children that they know to be contrived and undeserving of their full attention and engagement. Without the opportunity to learn through the hands, the world remains abstract, and distant, and the passions for learning will not be engaged.” (Crawford, p. 11) […]
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More on Maslow
Header image: KF in Dall-E The readings below are listed in chronological order. Heavy Head, R. (2007) How First Nations Helped Develop a Keystone of Modern Psychology. Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Online 3-10-18. ╬ Cross, T. (2007). Through Indigenous Eyes: Rethinking Theory and Practice. Keynote Address. ╬ Blackstock, C. (2011). The Emergence of the […]
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Northrop Frye (1984) The Scholar in Society
Header image: KF in Dall-E [1984] The Scholar in Society: Northrop Frye in Conversation https://www.nfb.ca/film/scholar_in_society/ KF: Not do you agree with this but why do you agree/disagree (what do you think?)
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Möbius musings
In which I go on and on and ɐup ou ɐup ou ɐup ou and on about Möbius strips
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Averted Vision
There is something very interesting to this idea that I can’t yet articulate…
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Using my Right to Be Forgotten
Google did another thing for me.
That’s like 5/6 things now.
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The Fear, by Ger Hough
“You Were On My Mind,”
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Tutt (2014) The Revisability Principle
Header image: KF in Dall-E the principle that an individual’s identity should always remain, to some significant extent, revisable; that no person should be tied forever to her identity at a particular moment in the distant past, and that to the extent individuals must forever account for who they were long ago, their individual freedom […]
Header image: KF in Dall-E flyer to amplify the voice of a certain professional ethics perspective on the moral or ethical dimensions of teaching that all too often falls by the wayside in teacher education Chapter 11: Professional Autonomy v Academic Freedom ACADEMIC FREEDOM (cites Petrina 2007) KF: Gradgrindian: From Thomas Gradgrind, a character in […]
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Header image: KF in Dall-E https://escholarship.org/uc/item/91d9k96z#main ╬╬ (Apr 2019) ‘Reasserting white power’: behind the psychosis that gave rise to blackface https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/01/reasserting-white-power-behind-the-psychosis-that-gave-rise-to-blackface In his 2006 book Black Like You, Strausbaugh traces the roots of blackface minstrelsy to New York’s Bowery Theatre and young Irish performers darkening their skin in comic imitations of blacks on plantations. The […]
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Susser (2022) Data and The Good
Header image: KF in Dall-E https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/index Unless we construct new “sociotechnical imaginaries,” new understandings of the goals and aspirations digital technologies should aim to achieve, the most surveillance studies and privacy scholars can hope to accomplish is a less unjust version of the technology industry’s own vision for the future. Except, perhaps, for some tech […]