Algot (Still)
It certainly seems that some people want students to come out at the end of their school years with a "skill".
The further a person goes in academics, the more limited their scope is "supposed" to be.
Being a polymath (a generalist) is not currently given much support, though at one time a "liberal arts" degree was desirable.
Too much focus may also "blind" us to opportunities which surround us.
D. Joe
"I was blessed with a lack of focus"
<3 that
that's going into the motto collection.
D. Joe
@GinnyMcQueen thus does Poe's Law oft rear its ugly head.
D. Joe
@craigmaloney @cwebber @nightpool
I like the gradations of the ethical code hosting criteria for engaging these kinds of discussions. So much more room for "partial credit"
https://www.fsf.org/news/gnu-releases-ethical-evaluations-of-code-hosting-services
would like to see more of this sort of thing.
D. Joe
@bob or they'll specialize into niches
Algot (Still)
Being a junior high (and then 'middle school") teacher was my good fortune. I spent 36 years sharing my experience with eager learners.
Science was my subject, but I was, in truth, a generalist. Every assignment had links to all the other stuff in the kids' lives. We dealt with reading, writing, math and history. We were regularly dismantling and making, before it became STEM.
I was blessed with a lack of focus. https://mastodon.cloud/media/s7SThLx4rHAVWkQloNQ
D. Joe
oh, right. I remember doing that. Unfortunately, don't have easy access to my pw management at the moment.
D. Joe
https://mstdn.nl/users/nosnieuwsbot/remote_follow ok so how do I use this URL in Tusky or the web client
matt π΄
1996: do you have email?
1997: do you have icq?
1998: do you have paltalk?
1999: do you have aim?
2000: do you have msn messenger?
2001: do you have yahoo messenger?
2003: do you have skype?
2004: do you have myspace?
2005: do you have facebook?
2007: do you have twitter?
2008: do you have instagram?
2010: do you have kik?
2011: do you have google talk?
2012: do you have facebook? (again)
2015: do you have discord?
2020: do you have email?
2025: do you have a telephone?
2030: do you have any water?
ultimape ππ© π
"By forcing reporters to optimize every story for clicks, not giving them time to check or contextualize their reporting, and requiring them to race to publish follow-on articles on every topic, the clickbait economics of online media encourage carelessness and drama. This is particularly true for technical topics outside the reporterβs area of expertise."
http://idlewords.com/2017/09/anatomy_of_a_moral_panic.htm
D. Joe
@dartigen "Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours"
https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours https://mstdn.io/media/jLyGDYYylERbLtEZSh4
Dartigen the Eternally Tired
But I know other people who are heavily dependent on Amazon or eBay (or affiliated companies) for low-cost goods, sometimes essentials.
I've also been told before at employment seminars and workshops that not having social media profiles - or not having conventional ones - can be very negative for job searching. (And negative for small businesses.)
Broadly, the thread's point stands: avoiding these companies is *hard* and inconvenient as.
D. Joe
@tek I bet it was a good day.
Sydney Falk, An Oversensitive SJW Type
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