“We treat students, faculty and staff of all backgrounds with dignity. Different experiences and perspectives in our community matter, so we check in regularly, seeking input from all. We blend classroom rigor with meaningful out-of-class support in ways that have helped to make UT a national model.”
Empty words apparently, and referenced in an email I (an alum) sent protesting police presence and actions on campus.
@mia@mia I loved this essay Mia — thanks for sharing it! Now I need to figure out how to adapt my “discomfort bubble” to include a bit of happiness :-)
If a blind student wants to do a CS undergrad specifically to work in assistive technology, what schools would be particularly good for that? (Feel free to boost for reach.)
“Where are my pants?” he said.
“We took them from you,” Dahl said.
“Why?” Corey said.
“Because we need to talk to you,” Dahl said.
“You could do that without taking my pants,” Corey said.
“In a perfect world, yes,” Dahl said.”
Finally finding some time to enjoy Redshirts by @scalzi
There's a village in England named Breedon on the Hill. "Breedon" is a combination of two words—the Celtic “Bre" (which means "hill”) and the Old English "dun" (which means "hill"). So the name of the village is “Hill Hill on the Hill.”
If you missed last week’s total solar eclipse, you’ll have seven opportunities over the next decade to bask in the shadow of the path of totality. You just might have to travel to get there. Live Science tells us what to know, from where to go, how long each will last, and more. https://flip.it/eKUvzt#Science#Eclipse#Sun#Moon#Earth
With Meta moving Threads — slowly but surely — into the Fediverse, @quillmatiq wanted to see if the Threads experience could be improved on Mastodon. He says what he discovered "went above and beyond" his expectations.
How so? As far as I can tell it’s a human at Flipboard posting an article to a nicely federated Mastodon account. Isn’t this why we’re here (to see interesting human sourced ideas)?
I'm leaving academia to "help people who are working to save democracy, and by extension freedom of expression, in part by helping journalism perform its most essential role."
I learned from James Burke’s wonderful “Connections” TV series and books:
“The key prerequisite to the successful exercise of this newfound empowerment will be to learn to think across disciplines." (writing on massive access to data).
He also quotes Norbert Wiener: “... the most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the disciplines"
