walruslifestyle @walruslifestyle@octodon.social
manic pixie dream walrus
the thing about grade inflation is that as adjunct faculty I don't feel free to give any grade. international students' visas depend on their GPA, and I'm not about to put someone's visa status at risk in this climate. seniors and graduate students have jobs lined up and failure to receive credit for a class could put their career trajectory at risk, which I'm also not about to do in this climate.
I hope the general population, as they receive the flood of #GDPR notices from the various companies data-mining them, I hope everyone keeps in mind that companies could have been cool the whole time, but were not. There is no self-regulation.
google assistant should make people's facebook posts for them
the only story set in NYC i want to see or watch is the one where everyone who works on Wall Street is exiled
after making billions of dollars fanning tech addiction, we seek a technology solution to the problem of tech addiction, which we feel should net us a considerable profit
mastalab's new black theme ๐ฏ
my phone battery goes from 100% to 15% in a day and from 15% to 5% in ten minutes
THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES RELEASED THEIR JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION COSTS ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค ๐ค
46% of 80 million Canadian dollars go to Elsevier. F*cking A.
Link to article & data: http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/carl-members-release-journal-subscription-cost-data/
The #InternetOfShit has expanded to require smartlocks & a required app to use the bathroom.๐
i've seen this multiple times now where the issue is traceable to the tenured faculty or the administration, but an adjunct takes the fall for it, functioning as a scapegoat. students feel heard, tenured faculty/admin have "addressed" the issue but...the conditions that created it in the first place remain unchanged. that looks classist to me.
on the one hand, there's obviously a power imbalance between students and teachers, and it's legitimate to seek mechanisms through which students can correct injustices. however, there is a large power imbalance between adjuncts and tenured faculty, and it's the tenured faculty who usually take action on student evaluations, which impacts adjuncts but not the tenured faculty. so if the injustice is not the adjunct's fault but the tenured faculty's...what then?
@walruslifestyle imo it's not an imposition, it's a recording, like a diary or mind-map but formal enough to be independently executable. deploying code as services is where the imposition begins imo
hot take: student evaluations of teachers at the university level are actively harmful to teachers, pedagogy, and the students themselves and therefore should be abolished. they do not serve a productive purpose in a climate where the vast majority of teachers are adjunct and not tenured professors.
among other things, code is by its nature an imposition of your way of thinking about some part of the world onto another person. why would you want to do that?
qualitative data analysis >>> quantitative data analysis
in the future, metadata about which metadata leaks containing metadata about which data leaks contain your data will leak
"Of the 146.6 million individuals affected by the breach:
145.5 million had Social Security numbers exposed.
99 million had address information exposed.
27.3 million had gender information exposed.
20.3 million had phone numbers exposed.
17.6 million had driver's license numbers exposed.
1.8 million had email addresses exposed.
209,000 had credit card numbers exposed.
97,500 had Tax Identification numbers exposed.
27,000 had the state of their driver's license exposed."
it's teacher appreciation day so please remember your teachers (i) have spent most of the quarter/semester having to pee really bad while trying to teach you something
check out my startup Borrow.ly it's like Airbnb but for books!
