Rory Sutherland: How internet Paywalls are making us all dumber (more)

Sarah Jeong says Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It? (more)

National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism (/ˈnɑːtsɪzəm, ˈnæ-/[1]), is the ideology and set of practices associated with the 20th-century German Nazi Party, Nazi Germany, and other far-right groups. Usually characterized as a form of Fascism that incorporates scientific Racism and antisemitism, Nazism's development was influenced by German nationalism (especially Pan-Germanism), the Völkisch movement and the anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary groups that emerged during the Weimar Republic after Germany's defeat in First World War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism (more)

believer in Nazism

A reactionary is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the status quo ante, the previous political state of society, which they believe possessed characteristics (discipline, respect for authority, etc.) that are negatively absent from the contemporary status quo of a society. As an adjective, the word reactionary describes points of view and policies meant to restore the status quo ante. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary (more)

Conservatism is a political and social philosophy that promotes retaining traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization. By some definitions, conservatives have variously sought to preserve institutions including religion, monarchy, parliamentary government, property rights and the social hierarchy, emphasizing stability and continuity, while the more extreme elements called reactionaries (Reactionary) oppose modernism and seek a return to "the way things were." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism (more)

being uncomfortable with change (more)

Genocide of the Jews by the Nazis

aka Big Blue (more)

Google programmer fired for writing sexist memo.

Reinventing High School (Stacy Teicher Khadaroo) (more)

Test, evaluation

Standardized Test you need to score well on for College Admission. (more)

Test (Assessment) adminstered to students over a large geographic (state, federal) area to "ensure" a consistent measurement of school/student success/Failure. (more)

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a U.S. education initiative (Educating Kids) that follows the principles of standards-based Education Reform. The initiative is sponsored by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). Announced on June 1, 2009,[1] the initiative's stated purpose is to "provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them.".. States were given an incentive to adopt the Common Core Standards through the possibility of competitive federal Race To The Top grants. U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the Race to the Top competitive grants on July 24, 2009, as a motivator for education reform. To be eligible, states had to adopt "internationally benchmarked standards and Assessments that prepare students for success in college and the work place."[14] Though states could adopt other college- and career-ready standards and still be eligible, they were awarded extra points in their Race to the Top applications if they adopted the Common Core standards by August 2, 2010. Forty-one states made the promise in their application... Development of the Common Core Standards was funded by the governors and state schools chiefs, with additional support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Pearson Publishing Company, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, and others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_core_state_standards_initiative (more)

BootCamp for Learning Programming with f2f lessons. (VoTech) (more)

A subtype of Systems Thinking? Model-ling? (more)

A book by the KLF. ISBN:0571338089 (more)

Pirate Utopias were defined by anarchist writer Peter Lamborn Wilson, who coined the term in his 1995 book Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes as secret islands once used for supply purposes by pirates. Wilson's concept is largely based on speculation, although he admits to adding a bit of fantasy to the idea.[1] In Wilson's view, these pirate enclaves were early forms of autonomous proto-Anarchist societies in that they operated beyond the reach of governments and embraced unrestricted freedom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_utopia (more)

Tristan Harris was previously a Design Ethicist at Google and left to lead Time Well Spent, a non-profit movement to align technology with our humanity. http://www.tristanharris.com/ (more)