ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

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Microsoft #Teams doesn't have an archive mode, which makes it extremely ill-suited for use in HE. When the new term for Introduction to Underwater Basket Weaving 101 starts, things that are not meaningful to the new term, like student uploads, are trashed. Nobody retains access to those resources.

A certain amount of access to resources will always be ephemeral. Student's library cards expire on graduation and paper handouts always tended to be destined for the recycle bin. But this is next level. I still own many of the books assigned in my undergrad and have a lot of the handouts from Sonology and still sometimes re-read them.

If students have mostly stopped taking notes and their handouts systemically vanish, what do they have left after graduation but memories and friend networks? Personally, my memory is crap without reminders, like text.

Some argue that the friend networks were always the important part of undergraduate education, but if that's true why not just make it a social club? We're undermining our own value by making our resources so disposable that they automatically erase themselves.

Other platforms, like Big Blue Button are actually designed for education. A properly designed collaboration space would be integrated with #Moodle.

I am very happy this #NatureClimateChange comment on the possible futures of the #IPCC is out - written by Shin Asayama, @kdepryck, Mike Hulme et al. I had a chance to be a co-author myself and particularly want to highlight the focus on #responsibility in the third pathway.

Find the paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01780-8

@librarychic @murderbotbot @marthawells

"There’s more: “The bond company that used to own me made a lot of its gigantic piles of currency by data mining its customers. That’s recording everything everyone says & then going through it for information that could be sold.” This is where Martha Wells’ Murderbot functions as an archeology of our dystopian present in which our own lives are strip-mined to serve the ends of abusive people"
https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/martha-wells/murderbot-diaries-emotion-meaning-legacy

#Books #SFF #Review #ScienceFiction

“Trump glided into the White House buoyed by an understandable sense of his own impunity. Despite the years-long tax schemes, chronicled by the Times, and the claims of sexual assault made by more than two dozen women, there has always somehow been a reason not to prosecute Donald Trump. He has enjoyed the amnesty of wealth his entire life.”

Jelani Cobb

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/11/donald-trump-and-the-pardon-debate

Elon Musk Blames Anti-Defamation League for Destroying Website He Ruined Himself https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-blames-anti-defamation-league-twitter-advertisting-revenue-antisemitism-1234818503/ #freespeech #socialmedia #Twitter #hatespeech #racism

Scientists pinpoint moment humanity almost went extinct 😨
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/scientists-say-they-have-pinpointed-the-moment-humanity-almost-went-extinct-1.6548340

* humanity almost wiped out 900,000 yrs ago
* global population dwindled to 1,280 reproducing individuals
* population stayed this small for about 117,000 yrs

Did our ancestors nearly die out?
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj9484

Genomic inference of severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abq7487

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck

#humanity #extinction #genomics #PopulationBottleneck

https://reason.com/2023/09/05/police-tore-up-his-protest-sign-now-they-owe-him-50000/

"Last year, Delaware police prevented 54-year-old Jonathan Guessford from holding a sign warning drivers about a speed trap and wrongfully cited him for "improper hand signal" after he flipped off the officers who seized and tore up his sign."

"As Guessford drove away after the encounter, he flipped off the officers, leading them to eventually cite him for "improper hand signal" under a statute governing hand signals for nonmotorized vehicles like bicycles. However, body camera footage showed that officers knew that the citation was incongruous and would likely be dropped."

"Guessford filed a lawsuit against the officers in February, alleging that they violated his First Amendment rights by destroying his sign and issuing an improper citation. Last week, the officers settled the lawsuit, agreeing to give Guessford a $50,000 payout."

I love whales.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

So I just finished putting closures on the last 20 bracelets, and am getting ready to shape them on a bracelet mandrel, but I thought I'd take a snapshot to show you what I'm doing when not combing the internet for news.

#handmade #crafting #jewelrymaking

People are talking about whether, if McConnell resigns, Beshear would try to fill the vacancy with a Dem, despite a KY law saying he'd have to pick from 3 Republicans. What if he just doesn't appoint anyone, like McConnell kept the vacant SCt seat open? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/01/kentucky-governor-beshear-mcconnell/

Understanding the RICO Charges in Atlanta

A Sweeping Indictment Seeks to Criminalize Protest Itself

https://crimethinc.com/AtlantaRICO

In indiscriminately lumping together scores of arrestees, many of whom have ostensibly never met, into a fabricated conspiracy case, the prosecution is attempting to criminalize protest itself. This case should be of interest to anyone who is concerned about civil liberties such as the freedom to protest, the freedom to advocate against police brutality and authoritarianism, and the freedom to advocate for preserving the environment.

The indictment does not seem to indicate that prosecutors have any previously unreleased information at their disposal indicating the existence of a conspiracy, in the sense that the word is ordinarily employed. Rather, they have brought new charges against those whose names they already had as the result of previous arrests, and are now clumsily endeavoring to frame them as participants in a cohesive criminal enterprise.

#StopCopCity 🏴

Reference:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/sport/fide-bans-transgender-women-chess-spt-intl/index.html

What should I dream about? I will abide by the results of this poll.

#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt

Gonna go with "They bought tickets and drove in?"

#TransRights

“The Cop City Vote coalition strongly condemns these anti-democratic charges,” said the press release. “We will not be intimidated by power-hungry strongmen, whether in City Hall or the Attorney General’s office. [Georgia Attorney General] Chris Carr may try to use his prosecutors and power to build his gubernatorial campaign and silence free speech, but his threats will not silence our commitment to standing up for our future, our community, and our city.”

#StopCopCity

https://atlpresscollective.com/2023/09/05/georgia-attorney-general-brings-rico-indictments-against-61-activists/

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

Proud Boy Gets 22 Years!

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 election, capping the case with the stiffest punishment that has been handed down yet for the U.S. Capitol attack
#AureFreePress #News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #BREAKING #BreakingNews

https://news.yahoo.com/former-proud-boys-leader-enrique-104133358.html