One of the deadliest mass shootings in the country’s history bore the stamp of online extremism.
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🎧 The Daily: The Family That Profited From the Opioid Crisis | New York Times
The Sacklers, one of the richest families in America, gained much of their wealth from sales of the powerful painkiller OxyContin. Will they now pay a price?
👓 An Alternative to the Corporate Web | Cathie LeBlanc
Cathie LeBlanc (Desert of My Real Life: Media, Technology, and Education)I’ve written about why I think we need the IndieWeb before. I’m going to the Popular Culture Association Conference in April and will present about this there as part of the Internet Culture track. I’ve been talking to friends about what they might want to know about the IndieWeb as a way of getting a sense of what to present about. I realized that I have additional thoughts about the importance of the IndieWeb community so that’s what this post is about. Once the presentation is complete, I’ll make the slide deck available as a supplement to this post.
A great article and good overview, particularly within the broader context of several of her recent pieces on the broader topic.
I have heard some who think that POSSE is difficult and only worthwhile for the additional reach. I hope that one day when we’ve got some better readers and discovery options people will flock to more IndieWeb-centric solutions. If enough eventually do, then the silos may be forced to open up to be able to continue competing.
👓 Three teaching habits that support active learning | Robert Talbert
Teaching is behavior and behavior is founded on habits. How can teachers build good teaching habits for active learning?
👓 Economics is uncovering its gender problem | The Economist
The dismal science has a dismal record
👓 Majority of bitcoin trading is a hoax, new study finds | CNBC
Ninety-five percent of spot bitcoin trading volume is faked by unregulated exchanges, according to a new study.
One would think it should be hard to fake bitcoin trading…
Why the HBO host is wrong that public shaming encourages public accountability
New research explains how the shapes of neurons can be classified using mathematical methods from the field of algebraic topology. Neuroscientists can now start building a formal catalogue for all the types of cells in the brain. Onto this catalogue of cells, they can systematically map the function and role in disease of each type of neuron in the brain.
Neil Mather (doubleloop)At yesterday’s HWC London, I thought I’d have a start at getting things set up such that I can publish to my website from within spacemacs (AKA Emacs with lots of customisations). Why post from spacemacs? I use spacemacs a lot – for all of my coding, and for all of my personal organisation wit...
👓 Openbook | A social network for a better tomorrow.
A social network for a better tomorrow. Honest, personal, privacy-friendly and ethically sustained.
Looks interesting, but I’m not sure what they’re really building this on. One would expect it to have the most open web standards around though, wouldn’t one?
I’m number 6427 on their waitlist to see what it looks like.
A while back I answered a question on Quora: Can people actually keep up with note-taking in Mathematics lectures with LaTeX . There, I explained…
This is awesome though I’ve also heard of cases in which students use shared Google docs to collaboratively take notes like this as well.
Most companies encrypt passwords to prevent them from being stolen in the event of a data breach or used for nefarious purposes by company employees.
👓 The Science of Drawing and Memory | Edutopia
Want students to remember something? Ask them to draw it.
👓 Scientists rise up against statistical significance | Nature
Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.