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JaymesRS

@ JaymesRS @literature.cafe

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  • Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout

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  • That was what I was referring to. I was being a bit hyperbolic, but a year in national service (beyond just the military) to do community service and gain skills in general not a new proposal. Pete Buttigieg suggested it after HS as part of his candidacy during the 2020 democratic primary.

  • Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout

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  • That's fair. In my district your insurance is covered if you qualify for assistance, but intentional damage isn't included in insurance.

    In my school we will still replace the Chromebook though (barring admin or district saying otherwise), and the financial impact will be fought by others at the district level. It's above my pay grade.

  • Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout

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  • Yes they are. These 9th graders are feral though. That realization would require forethought.

    Some of these kids should have been sent out to cut trail for a year between HS and Middle School.

  • Donald Trump blames air traffic control problems on Pete Buttigieg

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  • Sadly I fully expect to hear that parroted from family soon.

  • Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony

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  • Great set of books! Love them.

  • Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony

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  • The rise of authoritarianism and nationalism is happening in multiple countries like Hungary, Russia, China, and the U.S. Parties like AfD have grown in strength in the last 20 years, thanks in part to the ability of social media companies to prioritize "engagement" to enable them to make more money over societal health.

  • Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony

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  • Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

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  • To be fair, I don't know that we don't block coursera as well but the block I specifically saw was for a course hero. And some of the blocks that we have on are for security reasons over reliability reasons. We have to be hyper cautious about the students leaking any potentially PHI and some of the Google sign in setups are less secure than others.

  • Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

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  • That's been my go to since they started. There is/was a challenge using them when we evaluated them a while back with forcing safe search reliability if I recall the reason.

  • Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

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  • Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

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  • Thanks for the tip

  • Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

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  • That is exactly what is happening. They type in the search query on their Chromebook (for example, "why do dry erase markers float", the results page flashes for a second and then the "this page is blocked" screen comes up saying they were blocked from Reddit, et al. Without them clicking on any search results.

    And 2 kids can do the exact same search at the same time and get blocked for different sites or only one will get blocked.

  • Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

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  • I work in an education setting and in the last month, Google started preloading the contents of other sites directly on the search page. It is wreaking havoc when combined with our blocking tools because kids will do a Google search for something innocuous and the page will immediately get blocked because it tried to load a result from Reddit or coursehero or something else we have blocked.

    It's incredibly frustrating.

  • Musk stepping back from government work amid plummeting Tesla sales

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  • Real rugged manly men go solo cave snorkeling though. Gotta prove how tough they are.

  • Musk stepping back from government work amid plummeting Tesla sales

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  • He should pick up a hobby like solo cave snorkeling.

  • Nick Frost disables comments on Harry Potter post after backlash to HBO casting

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  • Clayton Bigsby walked so Severus Snape could run.

  • Nick Frost disables comments on Harry Potter post after backlash to HBO casting

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  • If Rowling is too toxic, probably best to avoid the Eddings too. Feist's Riftwar instead perhaps

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  • I remember when she was popular learning that that she was like 10 years younger than me, so 35-ish.