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?

Updated: Touch da fishy?

@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.

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.

This exactly. Employers will put pressure on all wages with the simple “I can pay a 16 year old $8 an hour to do the same thing. So I CAN’T give you more.”

The whole point of swearing on the bible was to get God to be involved in enforcing the oath. So your disbelief may negate this aspect. On the gripping hand, you also swear in front of a government representative to get the gubmint involved in enforcing the oath. And if it is in their interest to enforce the oath; they will. With guns if necessary.

Are they calling it “Jesse Watters Down the News”?

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.

At this point I am going into Reddit to figure out which of my subscriptions I want to find a different way to access. So either I am finding a similar magazine in kbin or I’m moving the source to my RSS aggregator (Feedly).

Interestingly, as I bounce in to do a look/see, I’m seeing a whole lot less interesting content. So the moderator “revolt” is having a big effect for me.

Using Firefox on a Windows 11 box in kbin.social: Next to my username is a bulleted list icon. Hovering on that pulls up a list:

• Subscribed

• Moderated

• Favorites

• All

Selecting Subscribed brings me to //kbin.social/sub. This seems to be what you want.

That is supposed to be “feed the old troll donuts”