Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-06-06

The Tyranny Of Time – NOEMAAround the world, people were angry about time. Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens on Twitter: “https://t.co/tYGr9IyjkS” / TwitterSo very nice. Surveillance city: NYPD can use more than 15,000 cameras to track people using facial recognition in Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn | Amnesty International The Scrappy-Doo Wikipedia mysteryThe Wikipedia entry […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-05-30

Robin Wigglesworth on Twitter: “IF:(elasticwaistsales>zippersales) THEN:[buygrowthstocks] IF:(zippersales>elasticwaistsales) THEN:[buyvaluestocks]” / Twitter LSU on Twitter: “@lizzie_theriott We are so sorry about the error at graduation. We had issues with the closed captioning software. We have taken down the live stream links and are correcting the names now. We will post the corrected videos ASAP to https:Going the […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-05-23

Taiwan’s ‘Butcher Princess’ Is Fed Up With All the Sexism and StalkersThe heightened visibility also comes with real-life risk. A couple years ago, Zhang tried live-streaming at her stand to help increase sales. The pork industry rallied behind her, she quickly became one of the most popular Taiwanese livestreamers, and sales skyrocketed. But she was […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-05-16

Data & Society — The Constant BossIn The Constant Boss, author Aiha Nguyen—Data & Society’s Labor Futures Program Director—chronicles the crucial yet underrepresented perspectives of workers in the debate about workplace surveillance and data privacy, especially (primarily) low-wage and hourly workers who are subject to workplace surveillance and algorithmic management. Dan Harmon Making First Blockchain […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-05-02

OERxDomains21 Guideconference guide – A thing worth checking out for many reasons. Hat’s of to Michael Branson Smith for the js work. What is journalism? Chapter Five: Why Bother?Interesting topic and display. The Isolator: A 1925 Helmet Designed to Eliminate Distractions & Increase Productivity (Created by SciFi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback) | Open CultureSomething to use […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-04-18

Tom Liam Lynch, Ed.D. on Twitter: “For #WorldBookDay & #ShakespearesBirthday, let’s have some computational fun! ?? Here’s a chart showing word frequencies of TIME, FEAR, NIGHT, & SPEAK in 1 of Shakespeare’s plays. Tell me via comments whiNice little example using dataviz in English in a creative way. Sun Sonification in Spooky Sounds from Across […]

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Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-04-04

People add by default even when subtraction makes more sense | Science NewsProbably over-simplified but worth thinking about in a number of educational scenarios. “When people try to make something better … they don’t think that they can remove or subtract unless they are somehow prompted to do so,” says behavioral scientist Gabrielle Adams, also […]

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