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Rushkoff also begins with a reflection on the use of social media by schools. He wonders why is it so easy for people to lose sight of the design and purpose behind these platforms? He argues that other than teaching media, social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc) should never be used by schools. Use blogs or a space you manage yourself and your story – something that I have touched upon in the past – but to feed the ad algorithms is the wrong approach.

Source: 🎧 Automated, Embedded, and… Objective? (Team Human) – Read Write Collect

The web was designed so that everybody was supposed to have their own website, at its own address.

It’s not impossible that we could still complete the unfinished business that’s left over from the web’s earliest days. And I have to imagine it’ll be kind of fun and well worth the effort to at least give it a try.

Source: The Missing Building Blocks of the Web – Anil Dash – Medium

Standardized tests more accurately measure economics than academics – poor kids generally fail and rich kids pass. They’re culturally biased, poorly put together, unscientifically graded and demonstrate a gobsmacking conflict of interest.

Source: The Lone Voice of Dissent Against Standardized Testing | gadflyonthewallblog

“Demanding that Autistics who are upset by one bite of her book must go on to consume the whole thing before being permitted to have an opinion is the demand of a bully who knows they are requiring vulnerable people to traumatize themselves with her words.”

Source: THINKING PERSON’S GUIDE TO AUTISM: Autism Uncensored: A Dangerous and Spirit-Crushing Book

‘Ellenby admits that what she is doing with her Tackle and Drag therapy is exactly what ABA therapists do if the 40-hour work week of ABA therapy isn’t making a dent in a child’s behavior. She told Zack’s doctor about the Elmo show, after the fact, and he explained that: “as a last resort, in a controlled way and only after years of therapy, a licensed behavioral clinician might have physically restrained Zack to force him to confront his fears, had he not responded to more gradual methods.”’

Source: THINKING PERSON’S GUIDE TO AUTISM: Autism Uncensored: A Dangerous and Spirit-Crushing Book

I believe the author fully intended to say “autism feels like…” because she believes that autism is not a word to describe the structure and function of her son’s brain, but rather a punishment inflicted on her. Like many martyr parents, she has co-opted her son’s identity and cast herself in the role of victim. Autism is not a neurotype; autism is what was done to her. And in between sessions with her hair shirt, she makes it clear that she thinks she is better than this: “I am a well-educated woman. I am an accomplished civil rights attorney. I am a woman who spends hours every night on her hands and knees scraping feces off walls.”

Source: THINKING PERSON’S GUIDE TO AUTISM: Autism Uncensored: A Dangerous and Spirit-Crushing Book

“That so many of the monsters out of this nightmare have been rehabilitated by their revulsion at Donald Trump did not elude Sinan Antoon, either.”

Iraq War 15th Anniversary: 1 Million Dead, No One Held Accountable

“Local media is the bedrock of internet surveillance — the kind of work that we do in terms of scouring the web looking for early signs of something taking place in a community”

As towns lose their newspapers, disease detectives are left to fly blind

“Oddly Leichtman can’t be bothered to explain why the cable industry has become so dominant: a total refusal by the nation’s phone companies to upgrade their networks at any real scale.”

The Cable Industry Is Quietly Securing A Massive Monopoly Over American Broadband | Techdirt

“First, identify any third party services where you use Facebook login. If possible, migrate those accounts to a separate login unconnected from Facebook.”

Dark Patterns when Deleting an Account on Facebook