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[anon34399329]

Watch: time-lapse of a student with ADHD watching a math video versus watching Star Wars

If you have kerb cutouts and level floors and flat entries to buildings (instead of a step, or a flight of stairs), then people in wheelchairs can actually navigate the space, when they couldn’t before. And so can people with canes and crutches and walking frames. And prams, and trolleys, and children on those little tricycles with handles, and scooters. And people who have no difficulty walking are encouraged to cross at one point without needing a law about it and police enforcement, and that…

[KathyPartdeux]

Today in transphobia (Part 1)

I can’t be there, but spread the word. ETA: Torches = Flashlights. I don’t think Transgender Action Block want a bunch of people turning up with tiki torches.

[anon67050589]

You never know!

[Sally_Mahoney]

You can finish these crime novels in a single day

A book should be as long as it needs to be to tell you its story.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Researchers trained AI with r/AmITheAsshole. Ask it your moral questions!

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that AI is fictional as most people understand it, and especially as AI experts and researchers understand it. Anything resembling AI as we popularly or scholarly understand the term is at least twenty years away, and always has been. What the Marketing Division in the Syrius Cybernetics Corporation everywhere call “AI” is actually Machine Learning at best, which is basically just shoving Bayesian inference, Pattern Recognition, all of the data, and a s…

[anon15383236]

A book by Trader Joe himself

When I started to work at TJ’s ( I spent 11 years there) some 18 years ago there were still a handful of managerial types who’d worked with Joe in the old days. The story I got from them–not fact checked by me–is that Joe and his partners disagreed over the chain’s future. Joe wanted to remain regional, with thirty-some stores, and the others were hot to expand expand expand. In the end they bought him out and he went on to other ventures. These old-timers all had great respect for Joe. They pa…

[KathyPartdeux]

Follow-up

Purplecat:

Private prison operator GEO Group must pay inmates minimum wage for work,…

“This multi-billion dollar corporation illegally exploited the people it detains to line its own pockets,” the Washington Attorney General said

[Purplecat]

Virginia gentleman doesn't need to know what Critical Race Theory is, he knows he is voting against it

There’s no need to complicate a perfectly good shibboleth. Indeed, one who does so risks shattering the simple purity of ‘us’ and ‘them’ into a confusing plurality of intermediate positions; and who wants that?

[anon67050589]

I love it when posters here bring their real-life expertise to bear on a topic:

Billionaire amateur architect of windowless dorm says artificial windows are better -- they can be set to be "cheerful" or "romantic"

Because centuries of building sciences, psychology, and history tells us that it is an absolutely terrible idea that will kill people in the long run. We don’t let the rich kill college kids for sport yet. Density is great. I say this as someone who made a custom print of a diagram of Kowloon Walled City as one of the pieces for my library. This isn’t a good way to provide density. The windowless deathtrap is almost a half mile away from the bulk of the campus, including crossing large parkin…

[Sally_Mahoney]

The blonde, white Capitol rioter who bragged her race and status would keep her from prison is sentenced to 60 days in prison

It sure does seem like they’ve given her a pro forma sentence just so they could avoid validating her entirely accurate assumption that they’d likely let her walk. The courts are still not quite willing to let the quiet part be said out loud yet.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Amusing ourselves to death, a spot-on future prediction from 1985

"What problem does the information solve?” just my opinion, but while the answer ( at those events ) will range from the one he gave to “making lots of money” i think other hats in the ring are curiosity and human connection. or as huxley said via the op: amusement. or as orwell said via the op: fear look at why people are “here” on boing boing: trading in information and i think it’s a mixture of all of those things: status in having information faster, curiosity about the world, discussio…

[LurksNoMore]

After posting video depicting violent murder of Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Paul A. Gosar to be ejected from congressional committees

Gosar the Barbaric will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the third reconciliation of the last of the McConnell sycophants, they chose a new form for him: that of a violent racist! Many Greenes and Boeberts knew what it was to be censured in the depths of the committee that day, I can tell you!

[anon15383236]

A restaurant profits from anti-masker 1-star review in the most devilish way

perhaps boingboing could offer up the t-shirts as one of their endless Pre-Black Friday deals

[Sally_Mahoney]

Student creates an incredibly detailed "cheat sheet" for final exam

Teacher here. Allowing students to bring in a “cheat sheet” is one of the dirtiest tricks that we pull. If we said, “review the material and take detailed notes,” we’d be widely ignored, but if we say they can bring in a cheat sheet, students produce masterpieces like this.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Watch: Matt Gaetz says he will "take power" after 2022 election

I’ve seen enough Batman stuff to know these kinds of supervillain team-ups never last. Sooner or later the Penguin gets a little too greedy or Catwoman makes the Riddler jealous just before Joker stabs everyone else in the back.

[smulder]

How exactly did Dubstep die

Not with a bang but a wubwub.

[Sally_Mahoney]

In "demeaning" competition, teachers scramble to scoop up dollar bills for school supplies

In this country it’s important to humiliate teachers, because they’re doing something they love for the betterment of people around them, rather than contributing directly to the production of commodities to enrich private owners.

[Immutable_Mike]

Florida man and woman find 80,000 bees behind their bathroom wall

And though the bees were rather small, they had to count them all. Now they know how many bees it takes to fill their bathroom wall.

[ChuckV]

Cruise ships experiencing COVID outbreaks despite 'safety protocols'

I can’t believe this is actually news this week. LISTEN UP– I worked at a major cruise line for a number of years. As long as the pandemic is going on, DO NOT BOARD A CRUISE SHIP. Multiple times different cruises lines have tried to re-open, and every time there was a Covid outbreak. At the beginning, they shut down one of our ships, cleaned it top to bottom, started the next cruise, and there was IMMEDIATELY another outbreak. This was early on, of course, so maybe they missed some things, but…

[anon67050589]

Let’s get this to “Great Post” level!

On calling women "females" (and why you shouldn't)

Iron Man was a Fe-Male. Pass it on.