OldGreyTroll

So now I get to decide if Xtwit is worth $1/year. And my answer is “No.”

“Because he’s following his principles, he is literally now subsisting on bread and water,”

And my first thought was “NOW he has principles?”

Fear the Weapons of Math Instruction!

Am I the only one old enough to remember when “Brand X” was the obviously substandard brand that all the name brands compared themselves to?

@0uterzenith I have spent the last couple of days banging on this in anticipation of moving from Evernote. Both Obsidian and Joplin look like they would work for you. I’ve decided on Joplin for a number of reasons that are important to me.

1. It syncs natively through Dropbox.
2. It has clients for Windows, Linux, and iOS so all my devices can access it through Dropbox. Obsidian requires a subscription to support iOS.
3. It imports the Evernote .ENEX folder export files natively and pretty cleanly.

I found a web browser extension called “MarkdownLoad” that lets you capture all or part of a web page and save it to a markdown file (.MD) that you can then import into either. Solves the one issue I was really worried about in moving from Evernote.

@DevCat This seems to be an application of Clarke’s First Law:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur C. Clarke

If I read a book to inform myself, put my notes in a database, and then write articles, it is called “research”. If I write a computer program to read a book to put the notes in my database, it is called “copyright infringement”. Is the problem that there just isn’t a meatware component? Or is it that the OpenAI computer isn’t going a good enough job of following the “three references” rule to avoid plagiarism?

I view the protest as a shot across the bow. The warning about how much impact the changes are going to cause if Reddit doesn’t back off. Reddit management has gone with “damn the torpedoes; full speed ahead”. It is the next round that is going to indicate whether mods and users are really ready to bail.

1 - Tenure just got thrown out.

To implement these reforms, the superintendent is requiring every employee in the 29 schools, from the janitor to the principal, to reapply for their job.

2 - No libraries.

Miles has said that librarians will likely be eliminated—because, in his view, their job consists only of “checking out books,”

3 - Fire Brigade method of staffing.

“He seems to be taking an approach that’s based on the idea of equity, the idea of finding the strongest educators in the entire district and moving them to the campuses that have the greatest number of students with unmet needs.”

4 - Big Brother comes to the classroom. Not mentioned was the additional staffing to watch monitors and “disciplinary enforcers” needed to remove poorly behaving students and watch them in the separate room.

a strict disciplinary regime enforced by cameras in every classroom.